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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
6
Readable portions discuss soil cultivation and yields in viticulture. The text references methods and general guidance for improving grape growing outcomes. Specifics are limited by fragmentary OCR, but emphasis remains on cultivation practices and expected productivity.
An observer from Wyandotte recounts trials with cow peas on five to ten acres, noting higher yields when sown in rows with thorough cultivation. He reports quick emergence, strong overall yields, better cow health and milk, and sees potential soil improvements and feed value when dried. He compares Whippoorwill and Clay varieties, with harvests and costs detailed.
The Vermont Experiment Station warns clover seed on the market is often impure and may contaminate farms. A survey found red clover samples averaging 1.8 percent impurity and all clover averaging 3.2 percent. Even small weed seeds can spoil a whole crop.
A polemic contrasts the hog with man noting the hogs economic value and omnivorous nature. It argues humans corrupt the animal through filth while praising the hogs clean bedding and keen scenting ability. The piece laments misused cruelty and defends the hog as misunderstood.
The true pad worm, Heloiothis rhexide, appears in southern tobacco regions and not yet dated north of Maryland. The greenish moth's larva targets buds as the plant tops, with outbreaks in August causing significant damage before pupation in the ground.
An Pennsylvania grower notes a hail storm left green blemishes on apples that were struck, while remaining fruit colors elsewhere. A cherry grower cites market profits from sweet varieties, but sour types yield reliable crops. Evaporation quality and price considerations shape which apples are suitable for processing.
Experiments at New Hampshire Agricultural College test pumpkins apples bran milk and corn meal in hog rations. Eighteen pigs in six lots show corn meal boosts gains. raw pumpkins with corn meal yield the highest value and lowest cost per pound of gain. Cooking pumpkins offers no feeding advantage. apples and bran prove economically weak.
Ohio Experiment Station notes the wire worm, a brown snapping beetle, differs from the white grub. It favors lower damp lands and clay patches, especially black soil areas, with infestation linked to soil depth. Fall or winter plowing on soda lands may reduce future damage, though no method guarantees full protection.
Estimates show farmers lose tens of millions yearly to smuts. Many crops suffer invisible, stunted heads buried in sheaths, leading farmers to misjudge the problem. The dipping process to eradicate smut is well known and should be universally applied.
An editorial attacks fear of the Boston Board of Health bacteriological lab in the Sudbury Street building. It argues the facility is safe, properly protected, and compares it to a normal office, noting germ stocks are sealed, destroyed by fire, and animals are kept secure during incubation.
A newly patented device combines a carriage lamp with a foot warmer to provide continuous warmth for vehicle occupants at low cost. The lamp is mounted beneath the vehicle with a reservoir below rearward, feeding a wick through a curved tube to a bull's eye glass lens, and a vertical tube above the flame leads to a warming chamber for heat directed toward the feet.
A Canadian inventor presents a cheap simple seeder using a cloth shoulder sack with a funnel gate at the lower corner and a distributing tube with deflecting fingers. By swinging the tube from side to side in a slanted position the grain is spread over a wide area, enabling rapid and even sowing compared with hand methods.
At Clark University Angelo Mosso argues physical education boosts brain power and that children should start reading and writing after nine. He notes muscular fatigue mirrors intellectual fatigue with nerve cells tending to rest every ten seconds and suggests more mobile animals show higher intelligence under similar conditions.
The Shansi coal region in China is described as enormous and highly uniform in bed thickness. Estimates claim anthracite deposits alone reach 630 million tons with potential for long railroad tunnels to load ore directly from mines for distant transport. Professor Drake of Tientsin reported on the area following Baron von Richthofen’s earlier examination.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that Pacific coast redwoods are largely owned by private lumber interests. It supported buying and preserving a public park in the Santa Cruz mountains over 25 000 acres to safeguard the primeval redwood forest.
Professor Bailey reports in astronomy that a variable star in Messier 3 brightens by more than a magnitude in thirty minutes, more than two and a half times its initial brightness. Several others vary rapidly with half a day between maxima, gaining light faster than they fade, challenging the idea that such stars are suns like our sun.
Isaac Brock of McKennan County Texas, aged 111, credits Peruna with his health and longevity. He notes catarrh as the root of many ailments and calls Peruna the best remedy, saying it meets his needs and body care for old age. The Peruna Medicine Co. offers a free book on catarrh.
The excerpt urges decorating with holly pine and fir and mis teltoe. It encourages mingling with Christmas throngs and feeling the crowd’s gay elation. It emphasizes reading a Christmas story singing a song and recalling Christ's birth for everyone.
Several patents issued to Minnesota residents include Benjamin Frank Mildred of Minn noted for a crank wheel mechanism for raising or lowering grates and a fuel-feeding hopper by Paul L. Crowe of Duluth. Alfred and C. Thompson of Fort Ransom N D receive a trip lock for starting explosive engines. Charles B Ulrich of Duluth and Paul Swenson of Hopkins are credited for a device for preventing cribbing by horses and a lifting device for invalids. Lothrop and Johnson patent attorneys, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg St Paul.
Old fashioned Christmas jumbles are expensive, simple ones, when well made, are good. Mix suet or lard substitute with butter, soda in water, molasses, coffee, cinnamon, ginger, and flour to form a soft dough. Roll, cut, and bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Snaps may use the same dough without soda.
A playful dialogue binds Precise Speech and Brown as they joke about sleep talk. Town mentions the habit of talking in others sleep, adding a twist to the exchange with clever wordplay.
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