Mississippi farmers embrace diverse crops and dairy boom
Gen Stephen D Lee reports Mississippi farmers shifting away from sole cotton and corn focus. Creameries multiply from Starkville to cities like New Orleans and Memphis, boosting dairy products. Despite cotton’s continued role, stock raising, grass-fed cattle, and varieties such as Bermuda Johnson and Japan clover lift profits and prove southern agriculture can compete with Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan.
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Cost of Cotton Costs Landlords and Rentals in Georgia
The Coweta Advertiser outlines costs of growing cotton per acre in Georgia, detailing expenses for guano seed planting plowing and hoeing labor, labor daily rates, and ginning. It contrasts farmer and tenant costs, estimates per acre totals of 9.35 and bale costs of 28.05, and includes futures prices projecting profits or losses per bale.
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Rotation plan for maximizing crops and soil fertility
An agricultural expert argues for choosing rotations that allow the most crops in the shortest time. Some plants enrich soil, though not always the easiest on poor ground. Rye can be sown in November and plowed under by May, followed by cowpeas, then plowed again in July or August, with a final sowing to yield by frost.
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Senator Brown Critiqued On Prohibition View
The article cites Senator Joe Brown joining ile croakers on the prohibition question. It notes his remark that prohibition may have sober benefits yet argues his stance is wrong in this instance. The piece endorses Brown’s judgment but disagrees with his prohibition assessment.
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Heredity and social reform in the era’s debate
A fragmented column discusses hereditary crime, drunkenness as a disease, and the potential impact on jails and almshouses. It praises Vanderbilt philanthropy while noting the family’s wealth could benefit humanity. The piece also includes stock remedies for animals, a pig-turtle incident, and notes on pinewood oil production and byproducts.
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Planting shade trees by proper methods from Harper’s April issue
An April Harper’s Monthly guide outlines how to plant shade or fruit trees with a three foot diameter hole two feet deep, use clean loam, avoid decaying manure, and set the tree at its original depth. It advises light tamping, watering to settle soil, mulching with manure, staking in a triangle, and careful irrigation during growth. It also notes a tale from Meriden about three young men shocking two women with salt and spoon as a prank.
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How To Raise Watermalons A4 1
Step by step planting guide for watermelons from Iome and Farm with soil prep, manuring, hill spacing, seed thinning, and hoeing methods. Encourages reader feedback and notes the paper as a farmer resource.
Enterprising Hatlam firm advertises trusted agency
An Indianapolis style notice praises Hatlam Hamrick & Co as an enterprising reliable house ready to stock top goods and secure sought after agencies. It touts carrying Dr King's New Discovery for consumption with a positive guarantee and invites trials to prove its claims for throat and lung ailments.
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