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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
6
An installment of up-to-date guidance on soil cultivation covering horticulture viticulture and floriculture. It outlines practical tips for improving yields and maintaining healthy gardens, with emphasis on soil preparation watering and pest management.
The article discusses whether to remove first strawberry runners and the impact of summer pruning on root vigor. It criticizes horticultural society notice gaps and weighs hedge choices, favoring wire fences over barberry hedges. It then details grape vine soil, spacing, hole size, row alignment, root development, winter protection, and stake training for two years.
Farmers' Review stenographic report cites Kellogg, Adams, Chappell, Tarrant and Loope on Northwestern Greening storage. Critics say it does not keep well for some, while others report good keepers in cooler conditions. Loope notes fruit quality varies by region and advises selecting green toward keeping. Coe recalls a harsh 1898 Omaha apple exhibit.
The Northwestern Greening is praised for long keeping and resisting bruising. Careful handling and moisture are key to preservation, with farmers noting 1,400 bushels sold at 95 per barrel. Plant on orchard edges for good air and robust growth. Kellogg credits proper care for success.
Orchard grass Dactylis glomerata is common across Europe and Asia Minor, found in Africa and India, and now extensively cultivated in the U S east of the Mississippi. It thrives in shade or sun, prefers loamy sand soils, withstands heavy grazing and trampling, but dislikes heavy wet soils, and provides nutritious, robust regrowth after mowing.
Consul Griffin from Matamoros notes a shift in Mexico's haciendas toward cattle farming with better care and more imported purebred stock from the United States. He observes a decline in Spanish Mexican types and reports that crossbreeding northern blood with local cows yields large healthy offspring with compact muscle and improved growth.
A clock regulated by Hertzian waves was shown at the late Royal Society conversazione. It was suggested that all London clocks could be controlled by wireless telegraphy with a receiver on each clock matching the central transmitting clock.
A Minnesota Experiment Station bulletin on feeding dairy cows explains that with proper diet and good care the average farmer's cow can move from unprofitable to profitable. Dual purpose cows can yield fair milk profits and calf value, though not as dairy-specialized cows.
Prof H W Mumford of the Michigan agricultural station says uniform pricing for wool affects growers who produce mixed grades. Dealers must average values, risking underpay unless producers learn to assess fleeces, while commission buyers push uniform prices to secure safe average costs.
Peach yellows is a highly contagious, incurable disease. Infected trees must be uprooted and burned on site to prevent spread. Detectable in late summer and fall by symptoms such as prematurely colored and mottled fruit, premature bud unfolding, and abnormal bud development in trunks and branches.
The Cussunify with botanical name Plectranthus Coppini is presented as an edible tuber from the Soudan. M Maxime Cornu highlights its resemblance to the potato and notes it can be grown in a truly tropical climate.
Variation of Temperature notes a dramatic diurnal range reported by M. Zichy, with Urga registering 30.2 degrees at 5 a.m. and 105.8 degrees by noon, suggesting perhaps the greatest diurnal temperature range on record.
The piece cites Ainslee's Magazine stating Irish immigrants are industrious and pivotal to American growth. It notes their rail and public works contributions, rising to diverse roles from street sweeps to financiers, and their unmatched political organization and loyalty. It also highlights farming success in the North Atlantic region and the community’s enduring solidarity.
A London physician contests the belief that late dinners injure health. He argues that abstaining from night meals causes thinness and weakness due to continued tissue activity and waste after digestion. Nourishment should be continuous through sleep to avoid sleeplessness and excessive wasting.
In Washington the Comanche chief Quanah Parker rejects a plan to discard six of his wives and keep one. He questions the policy through an interpreter and bluntly replies You tell them. The exchange highlights cultural clash and Parker’s stubborn stance.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports the donkey Dick, long a ghetto favorite owned by Mrs. Mary Toomey, was killed instantly when struck by a Calumet and Chicago Terminal train near the Sixteenth street crossing. Dick had courted danger for years and was infamous for hating policemen and brass buttons.
Contents of Willard's hotel in Washington are to be sold at auction. The historic building will be torn down this summer to make way for a new two million dollar structure with modern conveniences, expected to become one of the finest hotels in the world.
The Trust Problem to a thoughtful mind is a serious issue, creeping upon society like stomach disorders. The ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the reliable remedy for such ailments.
A young wife asks Terri Bly if she misses her husband as their neighbor, the older matron, responds that she does not mind. At breakfast she places a newspaper rap in his chair in his absence, and forgets he is away.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder claimed to cure swollen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions. It urges shaking into shoes at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free sample offered by Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York.
On the first and third Tuesdays of May and August the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Homeseeker's excursion tickets to southern states. One fare plus $2 round trip with 11 to 60 day sale windows and 21 day return limit. New wide vestibuled train from Chicago to Fort Worth via Chicago and Waco with through Pullman cars and free reclining chairs. Contact Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad or Co. L. Stone G T A Chicago.
A lighthearted cryptic line notes that a single swallow of whisky may be harmless but two or three can cause a fall. The saying reflects caution about drinking and balance.
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