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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1902
Page
7
A concise guide discusses up-to-date practices in soil cultivation and crop yields across horticulture, viticulture, and floriculture. It outlines methods to improve soil health, optimize irrigation, and increase productivity for farmers and gardeners.
S. W. Gibson from Eaton County Michigan describes long running tests at Iowa Agricultural College Ames on corn varieties. He notes deep versus shallow cultivation effects, sorghum and rape forage yields, and pasture use of marsh and swamp lands. He argues for drainage costs and grassing of springy land to improve farming profitability.
A Farmers' Review query on quick ways to restore soil fertility notes humus loss from improper cropping. Options include barnyard manure to supply mature organic matter, cow peas where they grow, and salts like bone meal phosphate and nitrate of soda. Each case varies by location soil type past cropping and future crops.
The writer recalls fifty years past when Western New York colonists surveyed Michigan and found a third of the land waste due to marshes. He notes thirty years of experience with marsh and swamp land and claims ownership of over one hundred acres of such land.
Edson Gaylord of Floyd County Iowa argues that placing apple trees to face the sun on a line in February prevents sun scald. He notes sun injury worsens on trees seven to twenty years old and that younger trees resist damage, while older trees better shield each other.
In Champaign County Illinois potatoes are not more profitable than corn and few farmers grow them for market. Rich soil and deep fall plowing yield best results. Planting should start early in spring and thorough after culture is essential. Quoted from L Spencer of Champaign County.
A full grown elephant can bear a load of three tons on its back. The fact highlights the animal's extraordinary strength and capacity for heavy lifting.
The Farmers' Review names apples pears cherries and long lived stone fruits like peach and plum as easy farm fruits. It highlights gooseberries currants blackberries raspberries strawberries huckleberries and barberries as productive with proper care. It urges learning from experienced growers and improving plant physiology and culture, promotes planting proven varieties, and notes fruit growing pays well though few households raise all they could. J. W. Griesemer, Tazewell County Illinois.
Dr. A C True notes Louisiana leads in irrigation canal construction and pumping plant spending over arid states. Rice irrigation raises land value from 5 10 to 350 100 dollars an acre, signaling a possible shift to export status. Frank Bond and George H Keeney assist gulf coast and Atlantic coast projects while Missouri Wisconsin New Jersey efforts grow. The 1901 drought heightened local interest in water supply for humid lands.
Experiments at the Utah station show skim milk with grain yields the best hog growth across growth stages. The milk and grain mix outperforms milk alone or grain alone in gains and health, especially for younger hogs. Proportions of three pounds skim milk to one grain optimize returns. pasture improves results for milk or grain alone.
The London Mail recounts the Moray earldom’s tangled descent from the regent to the fifteenth Earl of Moray and the peculiar line of succession. It notes the legacy of Mary Queen and the House of Stuart, highlighting feuds, murders, and the Earl’s later decline to a living of modest means and ill fortune.
Lord Rosebery spoke of a Boer war settlement by chance travelers at a neutral inn. The anecdote recalls Napoleon I and Bismarck’s Sedan era meeting. Bismarck, unwashed, rode toward Sedan and eyed the emperor’s revolver. Napoleon grew pale fearing possible murder in captivity.
In London the number of young bridesgrooms increases with about four under twenty one in every hundred grooms. Roughly sixteen girls under twenty one per hundred are marrying. The trend highlights changing age patterns in marriages.
A Laughlin letter from Prince Albert Saskatchewan to Dr. C Z Field in Chase Michigan praises land, crops, and livestock here as better than Lake County. He reports mild winter, log shanties, begun breaking ground, and plans to marry and start real business next summer. He urges applying through Canadian government agents.
At a Pennsylvania Society meeting Augustus Thoms and the Missouri society president sat nearby when a guest asked why the menu called the dinner an annual festival. Thomas replied that two Philadelphia men prepared the cards and that any Philadelphia man who attends an event lasting past 9 PM views it as a festival.
In New York at the archbishop residence Baron Zdzislaw Besteck of Austria wed Mrs. Mary Ross Hummell, widow who had left this city for Manhattan months ago. Her late husband Valen tine Hummel died a week ago and divorce actions were pending. Hummell was from near New Cumberland, a member of a prominent local family.
Mrs J C Bowers of Juno Indiana describes kidney trouble progressing to diabetes with weight loss and extreme thirst. She credits Dodd’s Kidney Pills after two doctors and various remedies failed, claiming seven boxes removed all symptoms.
A Chicago News item shows a guest impatiently asking a waiter how long he has worked there. The reply is about a week, prompting the guest to joke that his order was given to another waiter.
Catarrh said to be widespread and incurable by local treatments until recently. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co claims to treat constitutionally by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Offers $1000 to prove failure to cure. circulated via testimonials and circulars. Sold by druggists. Joe Hall's Family Pills also advertised.
A reflective line noting that love loses its heat once it has burned to the margins of indifference, exposing a cool, exhausted tenderness beneath. The statement contrasts intense emotion with the chill of emotional detachment.
A nurse at a New York Children's Home promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children. The patent remedy claims to cure feverishness teething disorders stomach troubles and destroy worms. Advertises 25 cents with free sample from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
Mrs J Kang of Des Moines vows she has found a harmless inexpensive remedy for the tobacco habit. Her method cured her husband and hundreds of others. The prescription and instructions are sent free for a stamp to pay postage.
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