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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
7
A historical note explains late summer to early autumn as suitable for tedding and budding fruit trees including apples plums and roses. It details knife methods bud placement wrapping with yarn and care checks to ensure bud growth the next spring and emphasizes stock vigor and bud health as success factors.
The article describes curtain front house designs using a hinged frame to admit sun, removable interior fixtures for cleaning, and roost and drop board placement. It also gives guidance on starting a modest sheep flock, health cues for pulse rates in various animals, raspberry propagation, and spring preparation for crops.
A record from eleven acres near Reading shows high yields in intensive cultivation including 3,615 bunches of radishes 1,000 heads of lettuce 1,800 boxes of strawberries 6000 stalks of celery and other produce totals across multiple crops highlighting efficiency and scale.
Farmers in the Middle West should sow wheat early to obtain eight to ten inches of growth and a fine dust mulch that conserves moisture. Early sowing yields a stronger spring growth and at least a week earlier maturity. if both early and late crops survive winter, early sowing typically outyield s. Next fall adjust timing to improve the following year's crop.
A British engineer condemns divining rod advertising as unjust to hydrogeologists and artesian engineers. He notes the twig method shows water no more reliably than guesswork, while geology and physical geography yield hundreds of water finds across Great Britain with high success under favorable conditions.
The facility claims the world’s largest duck farm and incubator with a capacity of 11 440 duck eggs or 14 080 hen eggs. The egg incubator is a hot house built from pine boards with a corrugated roof. Egg trays hold 130 deck or 160 hem eggs, arranged in four end-to-end trays per side, two tiers high, totaling eighty eight trays.
Test results from a West Virginia station show soils respond better to stable manure alone than to stable manure with sodium nitrate. In many cases humus decay, not latent plant foods, drives soil needs, so farmers should prioritize organic matter to balance plant food elements.
Count Zeppelin's giant airship Touraux explodes during a repair amid Alpine storm and Benzine ignition. Four crew members are burned. Zeppelin escapes injury as the burning craft drifts away, wreckage spreading near the village. The accident ends his hopes of meeting the German government 24 hour commission.
The New York Board of Estimates and Mayor McClellan approve a 34 story municipal skyscraper costing 7 million dollars to rise at Park Row Center and Danse Streets. The exterior features French Renaissance design with steel and stone. The structure will be 349 feet to the roof and a 210 foot tower figure will crown the clock face measuring 25 feet.
A tour by French leather workers visits American factories while Boston Hebrew painters reform their union. San Francisco Building Trades forms an athletic association and Mexico City carpenters join an A F of L affiliate. Chicago sees rising union buttons among car men. New Orleans longshoremen sign a five year pact with stevedores. A seceded Brotherhood renames itself and plans a railway workers home on 500 acres near Fort Scott. St Paul union plans a label exhibit with last year’s success. New York City health board inspections shift to labor department control in October. International Brotherhood of Bookbinders to meet in Cedar Rapids in June 1910. Cleveland ironstone miners seek 12 oclock Saturday stop, risking unrest after decades without a general strike.
A dense, garbled list recounts dates and names from English, American, and world history. It mentions William II, Bartholomew Columbus, early explorations, wars, politicians, and events tied to London, Montreal, Minden, Saratoga, and other places, interspersed with misread dates and typos.
Echterdingen near Stuttgart greeted Count Zeppelin as his 522 mile air journey neared completion. A motor overheated causing the airship to land on a plateau. 200 men on ropes were dragged as the balloon rose briefly and disappeared. Germany plans new airships and funds are opened in Berlin Bremen Stuttgart and other towns.
M Matecot, a French aeronaut, introduces a hybrid craft mixing balloon buoyancy with a triangular plane main wing. The device spans 62 feet, features a 420 square foot surface, bamboo and aluminum, a central cockpit, and a 28 horsepower walnut propeller assembly. A cigar shaped balloon, 100 feet by 28 feet, provides added safety and lift.
Reports recount a 64-year-old William Williams murdered to stop a 12-year-old marriage in Maryland, details of a Seattle businessman T Crum accidentally killing Alfred Moody in Virginia City, Minnesota founder Henry Jones’s death in Minneapolis, a Third Street fire in St Paul, and Switzerland's national referendum approving absinthe prohibition.
Instructions describe摆 turning the victim head down, rolling on a barrel, then pressing the arms to expel water. Lay on back, raise arms, press to force air out, repeating 18 times a minute. Attempt artificial respiration, use a stimulant, and seek a physician as soon as possible.
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