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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1916
Page
12
The article outlines growing two to three crops in a 25 by 70 foot area to feed a small family, proper soil preparation with rotted manure and commercial fertilizers, drainage, and the importance of near house plots for easy care. It also covers seed quality, sowing oats by drill, and saving manure for fertilizer value.
E F PHIPPLIPS from the Bureau of Entomology references a mayoral casting vote in school board tie situations. The mayor, ex officio, will have the casting vote in event of ties.
A new set of flag regulations governs use of the State House and public buildings flags. It outlines half staff display after presidential or gubernatorial deaths, funeral salutes, and daily rules from sunrise to sunset with specific hoisting procedures and Memorial Day timing.
Farmers face high potash and phosphate costs making manure more valuable. By careful handling and full use of on farm livestock waste, nitrogen phosphorus and potash are returned to soils, reducing fertilizer dependence. Proper feeding and losses must be accounted for as manure nutrients cycle from feed to animal to field.
Oats thrive after cultivated crops with minimal plowing. Disk harrow seed beds compacted below with two to three inches of loose surface soil yield quicker, better stands than spring plowing. Early sowing benefits seed beds made by disking and harrowing, offering faster preparation and steady emergence.
Real estate transfers recorded last week include Nettie M Front to Delia Gearrey in Richmond Wyombay Holding Co to Victor J Ring in Richmond Fred H Ward to Reed Davis in Bath Charles F Staples to Ella S Higgins in Bowdoinham Joannah F Gould to Orra V Dolloff et al in Bath Edith M Stewart to J Everett Mayo in West Bath City of Bath to New Haven Iron and Steel Co in Bath New Haven Iron & Steel Co to Fred H Ward in Bath Albert H Shaw to Central Maine Power Co in Bath Allen A McDonald to Angus M MacDonald in Bath Ada Hodgkins et al to Jennie S Jack in Bath Albert H Shaw to Watson Frye Co in Bath George M Kimball to Fred H Ward in Bath Ira W Lewis to T Everett Cromwell in Georgetown W D Hutchins Co to Oscar Swanson in Bowdoin Victor J Ring to Mary L Ring in Richmond Arthur C Shea et al to James H Harris in West Bath
Scott R. Frye spends the week in Boston at the automobile show. Mrs. John McKeiver visits Portland with her brother Thomas Pratt. Milton Reed of Exeter tours his river interests. Arthur Luce has gained seven pounds since his Fairfield Sanitarium stay. Mrs. Joseph C. Footer seeks a Tremont Street rooming house lease to run with Franklin House. Marsh A. Haraden attends H. J. Stone funeral in Gardiner. Kennebec Steamship Corp. offices and ships fly half mast in memory.
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