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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1907
Page
6
A Michigan citizen cites Motor News on poor country roads hurting farmers and city buyers. Bad roads push harvests to market early, enabling speculators to hoard goods and raise winter prices, while cost of living rises for urban workers. The piece argues better roads would ease prices and discontent.
Missouri advances a broad good roads push. A Chillicothe convention reports gravel roads at about 1700 dollars per mile and urges use of skilled engineers and adequate funding. The State Board of Agriculture plans further conventions as the campaign intensifies nationwide.
Earle af Michigan reports in seventeen months the department built fifty-two miles of stone road and thirty-three miles of gravel or clay gravel road making ninety and one fourth miles. Total road value reached $163,177 with $61,825 paid for completed roads and $877,082 pending. The longest stretch runs from Tansing to the Agricultural College.
New Road Cement experiments in England show mortar like cement in road building makes the roadway more durable and nearly dustless. Motor News notes the added phase to the ongoing clash between horsemen and motorists. A smooth sharpantine surface would aid motorists but harm horses, so motorists hope to crowd out horse traffic with motor vehicles.
Professor Holden, noted western corn expert, tours New England and New York meetings detailing seed selection methods and broader farm practices. He promotes on farm cattle feeds, deeper soil drainage, thorough pulverization, and early August sowing to boost alfalfa and dent corn yields while stressing seed germination tests to pick productive ears and discard poor ones.
A feature on thousand headed kale, its 27 year cultivation in the Willa mette valley, its winter use for dairy cows on the Pacific coast, and conditions for growing. It describes plant form, yield potential of thirty to forty tons per acre, soil preferences, and plowing timing notes by W J Spillman.
An investigator asserts concrete posts could be produced for 14 cents each but notes the price is achievable only when producing large quantities.
Missouri farmer J C Wing argues for dragging roads after rain to build a hard smooth surface. He cites a personal road dragged two years with a thick shell resisting water and frost, contrasting with impassable roads that absorbed water. A hard earth road should be hard smooth and convex and improve with continued dragging.
In Georgetown Tennessee Mrs. Fannie Connor says pneumonia severely damaged her lung and caused persistent coughing until her husband bought Dr King’s New Discovery. She credits it as the only real cough and lung restorer, with Evans Drug Co guaranteeing the remedy and offering a trial bottle free.
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