Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 117. The Cherry (continued)—Marketing Onions—Storing—Disadvantages R. Holding—Shrinkage-Sprouting—Drive. dation — Burying — Lo[?] — [?] Weeding — Fattening Hoge — Season— Feed Stuffs—The Pens
The Mountaineer · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 4
The cherry currant grows stiff, upright, rigid, and brittle, and it is a poor bearer. 'The Fay is a splendid bearer, but the branches top over easily to as to toil the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 118. Fowls—Silver Laced Wyandottes— Eggs—Plumage—Colors—Double—Purpose Cows—Shortorns—Dev[?]— Inspect Pest—Methods of Destroying—Bods of Sprays
The Mountaineer · Friday 12 January 1900 · page 6
An Excellent Bree of Fowls: The great popularity attained by the Silver-Laced Wyandots in so short a time is without a parallel, inasmuch there are few breeds…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 119. Insect Poets (continued)—The [?] General Berer—Corn-Ear Worm—Other [?] Worms—Corn crops—Butter and Quality [?] —Goats' Milk—Currants—The Co[?] Currant—Cown—Dairying Observations— The Heifer Calf
The Mountaineer · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 4
Insect Pests: The gourd borer is another difficult pest to contend against. If, however, the first crop is planted so as to matore early, the crop removed as soon as possible,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 120. Milking Cows—Cutting and Grinding Feed—Bipening Cream—The Buttermaker—The Acid Test—Value of Grasses—Maturity and Variety—Parti- cular Grasses—Highest and lowest value —The Food of Vegetables—in earth and sir—Constituents of sod and atmosphere —Piants'p were of seiection—Water
The Mountaineer · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 3
The one advantage in allowing a cow to eat while she is being milked is that she is less liable to hold up her milk. To some extent habit has something to do with this,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Origin A[?]ficles. No. 121. Batter Meters—Dr. Gerber's Invention—Various sixes of machines— Electricity—Paris Green Spray—Insect Pests—Lime—Bordesux Mixture—
The Mountaineer · Friday 2 February 1900 · page 4
Batter Meters: The importance to than connected with dairying pursuits, whether for the sale of milk or its manufacture into batter or cheese, of a ready method for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles
The Mountaineer · Friday 9 February 1900 · page 4
No. 122. New Milk Treatment—Oxy[?] and Carbonic Acid—Ripening of G[?] Temperature — Acidity — Uniformity [?] Granulated Butter — Method of Making —[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 123. Hot in Potato Crops—Casses— Onion-Growers — Prevalent Evills—Pot Plants—Compost—Pots—Bulbs—Aftok Porting—Ashes—Flowering—Mulching— Watering Garden Plants — Crscked! Tomatoes—Bad Drainage—Stable Manure
The Mountaineer · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4
Rot in Potato Grope: Rot in potato crops very often arises from the neglect to destrey the potato tope as soon as the crop 4s harvested. Potato rot is a fungoid diseaes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 124. Gain in Churn—What it means— churning Tempersture—Starters—Apple Trees in Pots—Piums, Cherries, Pears— Jadoo Fibre—Milk Fever in Cows— Treatment—Fead—Salt—Epsom Salts— Camphoretted Oil
The Mountaineer · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 4
Gain in Churn: These words sometimes occur in dairying pursuits and more particularly in creamery reports; in such cases in buying milk or cream on the butter-fat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Naturalist. Sheep
The Mountaineer · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 3
A traveller in Greece found three shepherds with flocks of six or seven hundred each, all mingled together, but the sheep would answer to their names when called by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 128. Strawberry Culture—Selection of varieties—Low prices—The Royal Sovereign— Characteristics — Borax — Use in Butter — What It Is — Various Uses— Beneficial and Injurious—Bitter [?]— Boracic Acid—Farm Gossip—Fowls and Turnipe—Hint to Breeders—Churning —Wood Ashes
The Mountaineer · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 4
Profitable Strawberry Culture: We have previously dealt with the cultivation of strawberries, but very much more remains to be written respecting this popular fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Katoomba Police Court. Wednesday, March 7, 1900. Before Messrs J. F. Tabrett, H. E. Vaughan, and H. R. Goyder, J'sP. Cattle Straying
The Mountaineer · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 1
C. A. WIASON wan charged by the inspector of nuisances with allowing a bull to stray. Defendant pleaded guilty and was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles
The Mountaineer · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 4
No. 125. Feeding of Calves — Sterilised Milk-Skim Milk—Sweet and Sour Milk—Whole Milk—Over-feeding—Cornmeal —Flaxseed Meal—Growing Violets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 127. Packing Fruit—Uniform Package —Wooden Cases — Market Values— Sterilised Milk and Cream—Tine-Uses Butter-Making — Separting — Starter Theory—The Creamery and Cattle Feeding —Uses of Creamery—Grazier and Feeder
The Mountaineer · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 4
Pacing Fruit. There are several points in connection with the packing of fruit which should be studied by producers if they wish to improve values in the fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 128. Smut in Grain—Barley—Oats—Jensen's Hot Water Method—Sleeping—Two Vessels—Baskets—Sockets—How Steeped—Green Vegetables—Mc[?] as Food for Horses—A High-priced Plant—An Early Grown Rose—A Strange Horse—Chestnut Tree—Large Onions
The Mountaineer · Friday 23 March 1900 · page 4
To Prevent Smut in Grain; It is said that a very effective treatment both for barley and oats is Jensen's hot water method, which consists in steeping the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Original Articles. No. 120. Salt as a Fertiliser—Cheap and Valuable—Quantity—Time to apply— General Benefits of Salt—Different kinds of Soil—Salt Dressing—Rye—Potatoes— Nitrate if Soda—Queen Bes—Large Onions
The Mountaineer · Friday 30 March 1900 · page 4
Salt as a Fertilizer: Fertilizing the soil is a matter which attracts much attention at present time, and one cannot learn too much about this valuable aid to successful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden Original Articles
The Mountaineer · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 4
No. 130. Australian Butter in the English market—Depreciation in quality and price—An interesting letter-Comparisons of Danish and Victorian Batter of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool for Winter Wear
The Mountaineer · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 4
Woollen underwear is, of course, the nicest and most comfortable to wear in winter time, but the initial expense is rather more than we can cheerfully afford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 131. Weeds on Lawn—Sand—Garden Flowers—Plants in Pots — Planta in Gardens—Vegetables—Chickens—How to House—Perches—Faulty Chickens— An Ostrich Farm—Competition with Africa—A Green Rose. WEEDS
The Mountaineer · Thursday 12 April 1900 · page 3
Unsightly Weeds in Lawns show themselves and become very pronounced at some seasons. They are particularly troublesome upon new turf the first year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Cake Op Flowers and Plants in Winter
The Mountaineer · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 6
A few words with regard to plants in the home. Many people appear to be most unfortunate with them, and seem quite unable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm and Garden Fruit Culture
The Mountaineer · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 4
Rains do much to cleanse fruit trees and bashes of the aphis, and it should be the grower's duty to keep them clean the rest of the season. Copious washings with…
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