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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1917
Page
3
A guide for small plots to yield multiple crops through the season. It covers soil preparation with manure, planting depth, transplanting, successive sowing, fall crops, and irrigation. Practical tips emphasize efficient space use, soil conditioning, and careful timing for best harvests.
Cornell University agricultural tests show that top dressing a timothy sod with balanced fertilizer increases hay yield and yields a notable corn gain after plowing the sod. The study credits the practice with payback through hay profits and a corn rise near the national average, emphasizing proper stand, timing, and fertilizer composition.
U S Department of Agriculture specialists say uniform home baked bread could replace pricier foods, offering economy and nutrition. A moderate worker can use about three quarters of a pound daily in any form, with Farmers Bulletin 507 detailing home bread making, biscuit, rolls, and recipes using rice or potatoes with flour, plus a score card to judge quality.
Ray Purinton at West Bowdoin is selling young pigs and shoats. Most everybody is expected to have a garden this year. Millions of Americans can aid allies by planting gardens in cities and counties, releasing food for the war effort.
100 head of rejected war horses to be sold by private sale. Weighed 1000 to 1400 pounds each, acclimated and broke for immediate use. Apply to Patric Manager, Stock Yards, Yarmouth Junction, Maine.
Lice by day and mites by night plague poultry in insanitary houses. Mites hide in roost crevices and building cracks. spray and sanitation are needed. Remove hiding places, treat floors, install spray equipment, and use wood-preserver blends like anthracene oil with zinc chloride for long-lasting repelling power. Cost about $1 per gallon, doubled by dilution.
A medical man asserts that on a farm a few hours of rest usually suffices for nature to overcome illnesses that would be serious in the city. He adds that new physical troubles persist when rest is not aided by simple well known remedies.
Wallace Ham returns from the University of Maine while City Marshal tours upper Kennebec. Bath dealers offer bargain cigars as stocks sell three for 25 and six for a quarter. The Y M C A extends privileges to Army and Navy men in Bath. The schooner Nat Meader arrives with 350 tons of coal for Bath Iron Works. Roy Jackson wounded in trenches, admitted to an English hospital. The steamer Islander moves between Augusta and Boothbay Harbor after work in Bath. A court awards 20 to administrator in a Lewiston wrongful death suit. Billy the store tiger cat grows to 15 pounds after special diet at Hallet pharmacy.
The market shows Porto Rican sugar pines at 60 cents apiece. The Bath mer chants note price increases for flags have jumped 300 percent and scarce supplies. The local scene includes ship activity and potatos, oil, and engine work on vessels like the Sam C Mengel and Selwyn Eddy. Funeral for Mrs Alfred D Stetson, with services on Washington St, Brunswick.
A jumble of local items reports the Seguin towing the barge Tulpehocken after noon, coal shipments by the four masted schooner Robert P Murphy from Norfolk to Para, and a wedding in the aldermanic chamber between Harry Trask and Grace Eaton.
Full moon last Sunday and snow on Sunday morning set Bath’s pace. Draft registration nears for young men as local civic life continues. Walter Hadley of Sullivan visited relatives while Capt W O Elliott toured town. The Bath lumber and shipping scene remains busy with the M C R R freight shed full of furniture and Tug Pejepscot preparing to resume pulp work. Grace Church installs a new organ, replacing the old, with services moved to the Parish House. Memorial Day plans are laid by Commander Coombs with Hon E B W Larrabee slated as orator. Albert Blair buys 71 Richardson and aims for improvements as Bath keeps rolling.
The W. S. Given Co. of Bowdoinham advertises seed potatoes for sale offering Mill’s Pride and Green Mountain varieties with quick price writing for customers.
Mrs. M. A. McDonald of 8 Huge St Bath credits Dean's Kidney Pills with relieving a sore back dizziness and irregular kidney action after using about a box and a half. The ad promotes the product price 60 cents and lists FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY as the manufacturer.
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