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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
6
Lord Caraven faces a stark choice as moneylender Arley Ransome pressures him to marry his daughter Hildred for Ravensmere. The Hollies villa scene reveals the daughter’s grave, poised dignity and the nobleman’s reluctant, uneasy consideration of a marriage for title and wealth.
Lord Caraven refuses to love Hildred Ransome and agrees to a calculated marriage for status. Arley Ransome pushes the match as a way to secure wealth and titles, despite his daughter’s feelings or prospects. The scene closes with Caraven accepting wealth and title while vowing never to love.
The excerpt traces women’s social standing from late Rome to 15th century Europe. It notes women largely confined to private life, public spectatorship of fashions, and rare cultural presence. It contrasts public days introduced by Francis I, poor urban living, and medieval restraint with glimpses of aristocratic displays and restricted mobility.
The speaker asks what to do with a poem. The editor suggests getting Corbett to read it to Fitzsimmons. It is claimed Fitzsimmons wants to make the latter fight again.
An advisory column covers practical methods in horticulture, viticulture, and floriculture. It outlines updated guidance on soil preparation, crop selection, irrigation, fertilization, pruning, and disease management to improve yields for farmers and gardeners.
Indiana Experiment Station assistant agronomist J H Skinner summarizes rape cultivation to farmers. The bulletin advises sowing in warm, weed-free seed beds, drilling or broadcasting seed, 20 to 24 inch rows, and staged sowings every ten days to two weeks for continuous pasture and crop integration. It notes benefits for lambs and pigs and guidance on grazing times and proximity to barns.
Clovers provide high protein forage but vary with climate and soil. Red clover thrives where moisture is ample. Mammoth clover suits moist land. Alsike tolerates wet soils. White clover is low growing and mainly aids lawns and bluegrass pastures.
In Ireland crimson clover an erect annual growing to four feet bears scarlet flowers in elongated heads. Once praised as a soil renovator, it has recently fallen from favor in the north while proving useful in some southern localities. The shamrock reference links to pasture plants.
Illinois Experiment Station reports oat smut averaged 14 percent across sixty counties. With hot water or formalin seed treatment, losses of about $5 million or $46 per forty acre oat field can be prevented. The hot water method uses 132 to 137 F for five minutes, then cooling, with immediate sowing.
H L Dean of Illinois urges thorough ground culture for fruit success. He advocates soil preparation before planting and frequent cultivation during growth and fruiting to prevent drop and improve yields. He notes cultivated orchards outperform those kept to grass and recommends judicious fertilizing for weaker trees.
S Hoxie notes remarkable Holstein Friesland records for the first two weeks of April 1901. Thirty-two reports record yields with eight cows averaging 20 pounds 1.9 ounces of butter at 80 percent fat. Full-age cows average 18 pounds 10.8 ounces, four-year-olds 17 pounds 12.6 ounces, three-year-olds 14 pounds 12 ounces, two-year-olds 12 pounds 9.4 ounces, with the seven highest two-year-olds at 14 pounds 15.2 ounces.
Wisconsin property owners unite to drive German carp from Fox Lake waters and target the Niagara River as part of a planned war on the invasive fish. The carp are blamed for harming game fish populations.
By means of the dairy cow we are enabled to make use of the great yields of grass which grows so luxuriantly wherever sunshine and moisture are right. Green grass money used has made many a people rich.
The article argues for six to eight acres of well managed hog pasture on farms to raise breeding stock profitably. It stresses diverse, green forage over dry lot feeding, rotation of pasture, mowing overgrowth, and balancing crops high in protein with carbohydrate rich plants to support growth and breeding.
A Colorado bulletin reports alfalfa silage tests. Whole alfalfa had a 10.7 percent weight loss with top spoilage, while bottom and middle silage was good and eaten by cattle. Cut alfalfa silage lost about 10 percent of dry matter with 2 inches top spoilage and 0.5 inch on sides.
A good wash for trees is inexpensive and effective against borers and insects. A one pound can of concentrated lye dissolved in two to three gallons of water makes a strong tree wash, or mix pine tar half pint, carbolic acid half pint, and soft soap two gallons. Apply with a whitewash brush or rag swab to trunks and large limbs two to three times in spring and early summer.
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