Bill Nye on Farming
Poor old "Bill Nye is dead. After tickling America first, and the people of the four quarters of the world, in a lesser degree, he has gone where jokes are not allowed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1896
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Sheep Directors' Board
A MEETING of the Board of Sheep Directors for the Wagga district was held at the secretary's office on Friday last. Present —Messrs. G. P. Wilson (in the chair), E. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Meeting of Sheep Directors
A meeting of the Sheep Directors for the Wagga district was held at the Secretary's office on Friday. Present: Messrs C. P. Wilson (chairman), E. A. Stinson, J. G. Fletcher,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Binalong Farmers' and Settlers' Association
FOLLOWING is a report of a meeting held on Saturday night:— A petition for the re-appraisement of special areas was read and adopted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stray Cattle
Geo. Mitchell proceeded against another batch of persons for allowing cattle, their respective property, to stray in contravention of bye-law 180 of the Borough. Defendants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Government Dairy Farm
WHEN the Premier was making his tour through the Northern districts of the colony during the fecess, he was greatly impressed with the capabilities of that country for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer and Company, Victoria House, Sydney
MR. Seymour, who is representing the above firm, will be paying his customary visit to Wagga on Wednesday, 27th inst., and will have on view, at the Commercial Hotel, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Conference on Rust in Wheat
THE conference of intercolonial delegates on the suject of rust in wheat was (the Age says) resumed on Friday in the board room of the Lands department, Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scene in the Commons. the Farmers' Relief Bill. London, May 22
THE Farmers' Rating Relief Bill, introduced by Mr. Henry Chaplin, the President of the Local Government Board, the object of which is to relieve the British farmer from some of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmers' and Settlers' Association
A MEETING in connection with the Wagga branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association is announced to take place at the Australian Hotel on Thursday evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relief for Farmers. Scenes in the Commons. Radical and Irish Obstruction. London May 22
Owing to the organised opposition brought to bear by a few of the Radical section acting in concert with members representing Irish constituencies against the Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral Notes
At the Melbourne Markets on Tuesday only 16,000 fat sheep were yarded. A large proportion consisted of good add prime erosebredti with a scarcity of choice merinoes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Correspondence. We do wit necessarily endress the opinion of our correspondents. the Farmers and Settlers' Association. (To the Editor of the Wagga Advertiser.)
SIR,—In your issue of the 26th inafe. I observe a notice catling a meeting of the above association presumably for the purpose of considering the abnormal values placed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal. Colonel. White's Dairy. London, May 26
AMONG the documents found by the Boers after the engagement at Doornkop is a diary that was kept by Colonel the Hon. H. F. White, late chief of the Matabele police,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers and Settlers' Association
ADVANTAGE was taken of the presence in town on Thursday of so large a number of persons interested in land mailers by the executive of the Wagga brunch of the above…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cultivating the Maize Crop ("Thistledown," in the Australasian.)
THE Americans are the most skilful maize-growers in the world, and in cultivating this crop they use an implement called a "lister." The listing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meeting of Farmers
A largely attended meeting of the Wagga Farmers' and Settlers' Association was held on Thursday evening in the large shop attached to the Australian Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rust in Wheat Conference. Recommendations to Farmers
The Rust in Wheat Conference which sat in Melbourne during last week has made a series of recommodations, and through no unfailing means are known to prevent rust…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Correspondence. We do not necessarily endorse the opinion of our correspondents. the Farmers' and Settlers' Association. (To the Editor of the Wagga Advertiser.)
SIR,—In perusing your issue of Saturday last I was surprised to read an anonymous letter bearing the false nom de plume, "Farmer." The person who inspired it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat-Growing Maxims
Someone has been at the trouble of condensing a great deal of information about wheat-growing into very small compass, and somebody else has set it…
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