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Experimental Plots: Harvesting an experiment - a student standing in a field of harvested mangel-wurzels [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P445 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: Mangel-wurzels are a variety of beet, with a root larger than that of the garden beet; cultivated as a food for cattle. 'Mangel-wurzels' written on back of print

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Experimental Plots: Harvesting an experiment - staff member weighing a sack of produce on a large set of scales [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P444 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: In the foreground stand two large sacks of produce. The scales used look similar to the scales kept in the Exhibition Room of the University Archives.

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Experimental Plots: Man (staff member?) standing in the field [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P460 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900

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Experimental Plots: Millet [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P461 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: Sign reads 'Millets Test of Varieties'

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Experimental Plots: Pumpkins and squashes [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P452 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900

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Experimental Plots: Row of grass [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P454 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: Appears to be a close-up image of P453 (handle of spade and nature of grass).

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Experimental Plots: Showing (L to R) Tobacco Curing Shed, Seeds and Fertiliser Shed, Plots Office with fence along Dairy (Science) Road at rear [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P435 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: Paddock opposite the oval (building R4 to the right of the photo). The experimental plots area extended from corner of Dairy Lane and Entrance Avenue down to the front gate with an equivalent are...

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Experimental Plots: Staked tomatoes - looking toward Richmond [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P655 Date qualifier: c. Date range: 1st January 1928 Notes: Front drive in background.

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Experimental Plots: Staked tomatoes - looking towards Richmond [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P654 Date qualifier: year only Date range: Between 1st January 1924 and 31st December 1924 Notes: Part of the vegetable garden and orchard in background.‘Early tomatoes’ written on back of print.

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Experimental Plots: Student examining plants [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P451 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: Sign reads 'Natal Red Top'. This may be Red Natal grass, an introduced species from Africa and now considered a weed. Previously known as Rhynchelytrum repens, now Melinis repens. See Farmer's Bu...

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Experimental Plots: Tomatoes trellised for the early crop [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P1506 Date qualifier: n.d. Notes: Lower block on northern side of Horticulture with Richmond township in distance. Young orchard in mid-ground; College Drive at far right..

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Experimental Plots: Trial plots with field peas [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P447 Date qualifier: month and year only Date range: Between 1st October 1924 and 31st October 1924 Notes: 'Trials Field Peas' written on back of print.

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Experimental Plots: Two students lying in a plot of South African Pigeon Grass [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P446 Date qualifier: earlier than Date range: 31st December 1915 Notes: Plant label reads 'Setaria nigrirostis' but should read Setaria nigrirostris. See Farmers' Bulletin No 96 (AI-62780), p. 81, 1915, photo of plants growing at HAC (Peter Lister 26/4/2016).

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Experimental Plots: Vetch variety trial [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P1497 Date qualifier: month and year only Date range: Between 1st October 1924 and 31st January 1924

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Experimental Plots: Weighing a crop of turnips in comparative experiments at the College Farm [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P443 Date qualifier: year only Date range: Between 1st January 1903 and 31st December 1903 Notes: Harvesting an experimental crop - a student in a field weighing a sack of turnips, and recording the yield. A mule (?) is harnessed to the scales.'Weighing crop in comparative experiments at Hawk...

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Experimental Plots: Well-dressed man leading his horse and inspecting the grass garden [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P453 Date qualifier: decade of Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: Note the Dairy Buildings in background.See P454 for a close up of the grass (and handle of spade).

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Experimental crop

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P1759 Date qualifier: c. Date range: 1st January 1900 Notes: The height of the crop is indicated by a vertical rule set up by the experimentalist (?) standing nearbySee also prints P458 and P459

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Experimental plots - showing dairy expert's residence, dairy, milking shed, silos, sawmill, piggeries in the background [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P159 Date qualifier: later than Date range: Between 1st January 1892 and 31st December 1897 Notes: Experimental plots extended from the corner of Dairy (Science) Lane & entrance avenue down to front gate, equivalent area on other side of drive.Notes in the HAC Journal indicate the saw-mill was...

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Experimental store and tobacco curing house [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Item Type: ImagesRecord Number: P67 Date qualifier: year only Date range: Between 1st January 1894 and 31st December 1894 Notes: The experimental store and tobacco house were built near Stable Square and destroyed by fire in April 1896. The new experimental store was erected on the experiment plots; a new tobacco curing ho...

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Experimental Plots: Harvesting an experiment - a student standing in a field of harvested mangel-wurzels [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Harvesting an experiment - staff member weighing a sack of produce on a large set of scales [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Man (staff member?) standing in the field [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Millet [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Pumpkins and squashes [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Row of grass [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Showing (L to R) Tobacco Curing Shed, Seeds and Fertiliser Shed, Plots Office with fence along Dairy (Science) Road at rear [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Staked tomatoes - looking toward Richmond [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Staked tomatoes - looking towards Richmond [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Student examining plants [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Tomatoes trellised for the early crop [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Trial plots with field peas [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Two students lying in a plot of South African Pigeon Grass [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Vetch variety trial [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Weighing a crop of turnips in comparative experiments at the College Farm [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental Plots: Well-dressed man leading his horse and inspecting the grass garden [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

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Experimental plots - showing dairy expert's residence, dairy, milking shed, silos, sawmill, piggeries in the background [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

Experimental store and tobacco curing house [Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC)]

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