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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1886
Page
4
A correspondent seeks affordable price for seed meal while noting the full seed's value as manure. The article argues against selling cotton seed, detailing that whole seed yields about 28 cents per bushel as fertilizer, oil content adds value, and meal proves far more effective than seed alone.
Scribner's Monthly urges farmers to cherish land and direct farm life. It celebrates the bond with soil, animals, and seasons, urging cling to the farm, cultivate wide fruit trees, and invest in orchards. The piece cites L C Greene of Lone Cath planting hundreds of trees and predicting fruit income surpassing cotton. It also shares household tips on milk, salt, sewing, irons, tea, and sage tea use.
There is debate over whether peas injure corn when planted together. Observations suggest peas may benefit soil by deep taproots and soil loosening, while corn thrives on surface nutrients. Between row planting may protect soil and shade corn. Also notes on bran feeding and Gen. John B. Gor ron's governor bid. A shepherd finding silver ore in Peru led to Cerro de Pasco mines worth millions.
Edward Shepard of Burrisbur Illinois credits Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with curing a eight year leg sore that doctors warned would need bone scraping or amputation. He used three bottles of Electric Bitters and sever boxes of Arnica Salve, resulting in a sound leg. Prices: Electric Bitters fifty cents per bottle and Arnica Salve twenty five cents per box.
A fragment from a Chicago report covers salt preservation of eggs, frog farming profits from marshy lands and insect control, grain rust cures, straw use by stock farmers, and poultry housing. It includes Rev Sam Jones’s remarks on prohibition and moralizing humor, with audience reactions and jokes about ministers, pine knots, and tangled language.
An old advertorial page touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best cure for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers and various eruptions with a 95 cent price per box sold by Hallam Hamrick & Co. It also contains miscellaneous notes on advertising, German generals in 1886, a Kansas girl saving children for a scholarship, and historical curiosities about pails, ghosts, and early U S coinage.
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