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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1902
Page
3
An old health ad warns that overwork harms kidneys, causing heart issues and body pains. It promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy, claiming broad cures and urging readers to request a free sample bottle and pamphlet by mail from Kilmer and Co in Binghamton New York.
Despondent over ill health, retired farmer William W. Mott of Neola killed himself with a pistol in his room beside the kitchen. His wife and daughter heard the gunfire and found him dead. a note asked forgiveness and bid a farewell. Once well off, he had suffered paralysis of the lower limbs the past two years. Born in Pottawattamie County forty years ago.
A weed is a plant out of place and signals field disorder on farms. A cook's skill shows in whether the bottom crust of pumpkin or custard pies is safe to eat, reflecting attention to detail and quality.
The male grosbeak shares incubation duties with the female, a family task not typically undertaken by the male head of the bird house.
A Minnesota farmer complains corn never lets a man rest while the piece notes popular poultry breeds White Leghorns White Plymouth Rocks White Wyandottes and Light Brahmas and comments on Angus cattle value. It warns against uncured hay in big barns and suggests stack covers repay themselves. It quips a rainy afternoon tasks for hired help and muses on barn-building folly.
A thrifty growth of weeds on a farm not only points to careless farming but also suggests large possibilities in crop production if the soil were properly cared for.
The dewberry is more productive easier to care for and winter protected than the black berry with fruit as fine. Brisket remains one of the best and least expensive cuts on a real animal. When baked with a stuffing used for poultry and game it makes a delicious dish.
Farmers grow financially steadier and cautious about credit. Pay small debts promptly, maintain fences, and avoid running for office. House cats match rat and mouse needs, sometimes exceeding them. An active demand for young stock will rise this summer and fall to use grasses, hay, forage, and corn.
A reader praises a Colorado blue spruce as the most beautiful evergreen for a home door yard, claiming planting one yields lasting satisfaction and regret would be unlikely.
It advises not shaving the lawn too close after mid June. Set the mower cutter bar higher and leave some grass growth to shield roots from intense midsummer sun.
The home market for small fruits yields nearly a third more dollars than foreign markets. The champion butter cow is a Minnesota Holstein producing 584 pounds of milk in seven days and 29 pounds 57.10 ounces of butter, a world record in dairy.
It notes farmers riskily trading sugar for nutmeg to obtain one dollar’s value. The speaker suggests such farmers are easy marks, willing to swap twenty pounds of sugar for ten pounds of nutmegs to save money. The remark highlights opportunistic behavior and gullibility among rural buyers.
Court backed view notes that keeping hens for eggs yields more and better eggs without roosters. It adds that uncured clover in a barn heats and can burn if exposed to air, but if air is kept away it becomes a palatable nutritious dairy ration akin to ensilage.
The cellar can become a useful, clean, comfortable space by plastering walls cementing floors and increasing lighting. Many cellars are neglected and end up as deathtraps instead of practical rooms.
The public school grounds mirror the home surroundings of local residents. A school that is beautifully kept both inside and out inspires neater, nicer homes in the surrounding community.
As we note it, the English sparrow will on an average hatch three broods during the season, and the first brood hatc ed will raise one brood of their own. This is a frightful rate of propagation and easily explains how, in spite of all their enemies, these pests increase in number as they do.
In the door yard an elm tree serves as a favorite nesting site. Over four years the crotch has been occupied in rotation by bluejays, robins, catbirds and mourning doves. This year a grosbeak sought the spot but failed to secure it.
The passage notes widespread farm concerns including quack grass, squirreltail, burdock, squash bugs and aphids, borers, cankerworms, chicken mites and flies. It also mentions efforts to cure self sucking cows, sick hogs, and weak calves, reflecting common agricultural troubles.
The text notes that even with improved highways allow high speed, laws cap speeds for public safety, making driving feel like only twenty miles per hour, akin to a fast mail train.
A young friend begins a project to establish a future herd by purchasing three registered Polled Angus heifers and a bull. With proper care, he aims to build a profitable herd within ten years, taking pride in the growing cattle operation.
A Minnesota man asserts four pounds of rape sown with early millet yields renewed growth after millet harvest and provides ample sheep pasture until frost. Curing millet with rape may pose trouble and the practice invites scrutiny of its effectiveness and practicality.
The greatest loss from the season's floods in the Mississippi valley is not crops or bridges but the erosion of fertile sod over millions of acres. Farmers have sacrificed large portions of their land as floodwaters carried soil away in solution to the ocean, diminishing future yields.
Experiments by the Connecticut Department of Agriculture show Sumatra tobacco can be grown under cover in the state at 25 cents per pound with a yield of 1000 pounds per acre. Valued at 1.25 dollars per pound in the market, the crop promises a handsome profit and may extend beyond Connecticut.
The writer tends a little over half an acre garden where seeds are sown and land is kept weed free with a Planet Junior cultivator. They praise its adaptability and utility, claiming it preferable to employing the best man with a hoe.
An observed robin on a lawn digs for earthworms while a nearby cock sparrow with a family follows. The sparrow snatches a worm just unearthed and carries it to its young, yet the robin does not object to the interference.
A wood pasture gate uses fence rails of straight black walnut cut over fifty years ago when timber sold for 15 dollars per thousand feet. The old stumps have since been dug out and sold for more than the tree would bring at its time of slaughter.
The writer denounces excessive sentiment for animals while ignoring that meat requires animal slaughter. They argue humans must subdue nature with sometimes harsh methods, noting many natural processes seem cruel yet are part of creation. They insist kindness should guide but not negate necessary, forceful actions.
Article argues that after mortgage payoff and saving, households should improve their homes through painting cleaning and landscaping. It criticizes showy mansions misaligned with modest means and urges pleasing exteriors and orderly surroundings. Emphasizes that American women set fashion in attire and homes.
Sorghum as forage is increasingly popular as a farm crop. Stock eagerly eat it even if mildewed. Best results come from sowing in late May, thick seeding, cutting late in fall. Heap into 500–600 pound field cocks and store until winter use. Keeps juices and succulence, valued as silage substitute.
An orchard column warns that the borer is the most feared pest of apple trees. The grub burrows under the bark near the roots, girdling the tree and killing it before symptoms appear. Even healthy trees can be doomed if inspectors miss the damage.
A Pennsylvania reader asks how to handle a large black squash bug that began destroying squash vines last year. The insects feed on the leaf undersides, hindering spraying. Three remedies will be tested this season: hellebore powder, london purple, and paris green, with results reported later.
The article discusses whether using small seed potatoes to plant will yield only small potatoes. It notes that selecting the smallest seed over generations risks diminishing the variety, while using culls from a good crop likely won’t show a marked difference in the first harvest. This year a small walnut to hen’s egg sized seed was planted beside seed from the best potatoes, same variety, with results to be reported.
A botanist recounts a failed day seeking unusual flowers, chasing a four leaf clover. He follows a boy guide, crosses a leaky boat, avoids snakes, slips in mud, and ends back home empty handed, mocking the idea that luck helps finds.
A terse remark notes the ease of threatening a bull from a window, framing the act as a metaphor for risk without direct confrontation. The line suggests urban bravado and the limits of safety when facing real aggression.
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