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Newspaper
Baxter Springs News
Location
Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
6
A long list of farm advice covers chick provisioning and grit, seed corn selection, planting methods, road upkeep, and animal care. It urges cleanliness in hog quarters, milking hygiene, and careful breeding, plus disciplined use of tools and pests control to raise yields and profits.
The article outlines potato farming advantages in certain U S regions with sandy loam soils and moisture retention. It stresses using clover sod to improve soil, discarding culls for seed, and cutting seed potatoes into quarters to boost yields by about 25 to 30 percent. It notes careful timing and pest management to minimize crop damage.
Instructions describe using a hand saw back to cut tin when tin snips are unavailable. Two straight-edged pieces are clamped, nailed, and the saw is driven between them to shear tin. The setup uses a flat tin on the pieces and pry pressure to guide the blade. Old Catholic Motto appears at end noting unity liberty charity.
The Ohio Farmer reports Balt as a certain slug or snail remedy but warns discretion to avoid harming plants. It notes ordinary air lime can kill slugs safely, and explains that slugs feed at night, so dust the lower foliage lightly with air stacked lime to dissolve and reveal their remnants by morning.
A tablet on a New York building marks the place where Wall Morris Robinson, a Canadian, established a life insurance business in the United States, noting its origin amid the common rise of life insurances in major cities.
Cincinnati builds a concrete dyke along the roadway to protect farm lands and the riverbank. Spanning over a mile, the project costs more than $100,000 and features 45 degree slopes rising 15 to 35 feet. Workers lay six foot wide strips, filling gaps as surfaces harden.
An advertisement touts Lewis' Single Binder hand-made cigars wrapped in foil to stay fresh and offers a superior smoking experience with old well-cured tobaccos. It notes the higher price reflects better tobacco and warns buyers to avoid imitations, urging shoppers to ask dealers for the Lewis Single Binder.
A dialogue notes missing green apples in the pantry. Samuel identifies them among Jamaica ginger stored in the medicine chest, as reported in Lippincott's.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure painful swollen feet and prevent shoe discomfort. It claims the product makes new shoes fit more easily and promotes sample free. The ad directs readers to write A. B. Olmsted in LeRoy New York and warns against substitutes while joking about a surgeon ready to slash any bill.
The article traces farm mechanization from wooden mold-board plows to chilled steel shares and riding cultivators. It notes rising use of steam and gasoline engines for plowing and advancing adoption of barrows, wheat drills, corn planters, and potato planters, signaling agriculture shifting to a business basis.
An old berry patch after cleaning can be replanted with melons or potatoes. Sow cow peas or clover to restore soil fertility. Planting an orchard on thin soil is possible if fertility is stored up for the trees to bear fruit.
Experiments at several experiment stations show that an acre of rape grazed by pigs saves 1500 to 2500 pounds of grain, with some reports higher. At current grain prices, one acre fed to pigs would be worth about $20 this spring and summer. Production costs for the rape and harvest are lower than most crops on the farm.
Remarkable olive trees show a curlegs growth pattern as trunks divide near the root after many years. The original tree splits into several units, sometimes six or seven, spreading up to 33 feet apart from the initial trunk.
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