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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1916
Page
3
The article outlines cabbage pest control from stumpfoot caused by hog manure to the green worm. It advises adding fresh dirt into heads on a rainy day, cautions about arsenicals, and details harvesting timing from late October to early November. It also explains how to recover damaged heads, cure stumps in the field, and handle cabbages gently to avoid waste.
The naturalist Thorou lived for over a year at Emerson’s home and tended a small garden with rare apples and grapes. Neighbors showed lively interest and the Concord grape originator Ephraim Bull even led a Massachusetts Horticultural Society committee to view the poet’s orchard. The committee chair quipped about the soil producing poor specimens of fine varieties.
County Gentleman reports rising demand for Chinese cabbage as growers shift focus to this vegetable. Plant late July in manure-enriched soil, transplant seedlings or sow in rows eighteen inches apart, with careful cultivation and thorough mulching. Heads grow ten to twelve inches long, three to four inches wide and are ideal for salads. Pack in baskets with dark green wax paper to attract buyers.
The article argues a dry mash system is convenient and profitable for poultry. Chickens fed via open hoppers and vessels receive milk, grain, mash, and scraps with no water in winter to maximize milk intake. Feeders adjust proportions so birds eat to their appetite, following a 25 10 50 ratio of grain mash milk.
Guidance from the Office of Extension Work notes six reasons jars break during processing. Overpacking expands foods like corn peas and sweet potatoes. avoid filling jars to the top. Do not place cold jars in hot water or vice versa. transfer jars promptly. If a wire bail top cracks, the bail is too tight. In steam canning, avoid excess water above the rack. Keep jars from cold drafts after canning. Ensure proper bail tension to prevent glass breakage.
A newly married man asks how to address his wife’s mother. Joe recalls that within a year of marriage he simply called her Grandma, explaining the informal approach to in‑law etiquette in a clubside exchange.
At Orena and Aroostook Farm Maine the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station reports last year’s potato trials using 1500 pounds of fertilizer per acre with 4 percent nitrogen and varying potash. Yields ranged from 116 to 120 barrels per acre with no potash or differing potash levels, showing some profit without potash and prompting continued multi-year tests including oats and salt addition to see potash soil availability and future yields.
Four hundred eight farmers entered the 1915 Indiana five acre corn contest. The average yield was 66.1 bushels per acre with an average cost of 14.81 dollars, or 21.1 cents per bushel. Contestants came from 22 counties and yields were calculated on air dried basis at 15.5 percent moisture.
A five year old, playing outside, runs to greet Miss C and says her mother is not at home. Miss C apologizes, and the child then asks for money in a brief, curious exchange reported by the Christian Register.
In Knox County the farming profile shows dairying and steer keeping as prosperous segments, with most households cultivating corn, potatoes, and grain on small plots. Observations mention enhanced fertilization, early peas, declining potato acreage due to high fertilizer costs, rising hay values, and mixed results for butter and beef prices.
Commissioner W. T. Guptill releases a 30 page Maine list of breeders including Ayrshires Guernseys Holsteins Jersey Shorthorn Maine State Jersey Devon Aberdeen Brown Swiss and Dutch Belted cattle plus 58 sheep and 15 horse breeders. At Augusta on June 21 officers from dairy and livestock groups scheduled December 4–8 meetings and formed an arrangements committee with C. S. Pope J. H. Blanchard and E. A. Rogers. Multiple agricultural industry items follow from seed planting to fruit canning and a Maine Fruit Growers Exchange election naming W. H. Conant as president and officers reporting 15–35 percent savings on sprayed materials.
A farmer, C. A. Miller, argues there is no union and every farmer should join the union to gain power to dictate terms and control the price of farm produce.
A farmer should order nursery stock instead of cutting trees from the bush. Forest seedlings struggle in new soil and often die by midsummer. Seedlings, though small, are older than they appear when you count their annual rings.
Sagadahoc reports show farmers mainly grow potatoes and hay as many young men leave farms. Few homesteads remain unoccupied and no boys or girls agricultural clubs exist. Farmers favor rural schools, while funding is lower than some years. Manure replaces fertilizers for many fields. potato acreage fell due to wet spring and low potash. dairy output remains steady with creameries enforcing new payment law. butterfat sells 36 to 38 cents. Poultry fairs well. eggs sold in Boston. R I Reds and Barred Rocks popular. orchards bloom. 1915 apple crop sold at a loss. no Farmers Union branch in town.
The department assists farmers in marketing crops through knowledge of markets demand supply and forecasts. It uses organizations to reach farmers, creating a communication center via the Office of Markets and Rural Organization and telegraphic and press channels to distribute information and guidance.
A fragment describes a venomous Javanese snake with an umbrella like head. It notes the snake makes a peculiar noise with a nimble tongue and that a minor bite is fatal.
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