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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1900
Page
5
Job ad seeking an honest, active man to deliver and collect for a well established manufacturing wholesale house in Indiana. Pays $90 a year with secure pay, honesty valued over experience. References available from any bank in any city. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Eemenouacers third floor 334 Dearborn Street cage.
Article argues rice farming is highly profitable with yields of 30 to 50 bushels and prices up to 2 dollars per bushel. It highlights Gulf coast lands and Texas prairie provisions, requiring level land and irrigation. It notes large rice potential, need for water control, and that domestic production lags consumption by about seven million bushels annually.
All about the farm describes plant shelter strategies to shield transplanted vegetables from sun and wind. It notes neighbors’ use of foliage, twigs, shingles as improvised barriers, but acknowledges these methods are troublesome and imperfect, hinting at a better approach requiring initial effort.
Emil O. Peterson describes a 10-foot shade frame that protects plants, claiming 99 percent save rate and broad satisfaction. Frames use two 10-foot laths, two 3-foot cross-pieces, and four 14-inch legs with tow sacking strips fastened to hooks for quick adjustment and removal.
The piece contrasts England and Scotland livestock densities with American practices. It notes high export of feed while muttering, and claims every bushel of grain sold drains soil fertility. It argues feeding grain to livestock would cut soil loss and raise farmer profits.
Instructions for raspberry care emphasize not pinching, allowing canes to grow tail and slim to bend and net break. Maintain eight to twelve canes per hill on rich ground, fewer on poor soil. Cultivate shallowly until ripening, cover from November 5 to 15 unless later feasible, lift after frost, and tie to stakes evenly. Cut back to convenient picking height.
W H Jordan of Geneva Experiment Station NY notes daisies thrive where soil is stony and refuse to die. They persist in certain regions and, if cut early and well cured, can nearly match other hay types in value and usefulness.
The egg plant flea beetle targets leaves and infests strawberries and potatoes. It is not well known although spreading from New Jersey to Georgia and is very difficult to control.
The guidance instructs that shrubs received from the nursery should be planted in the ground permanently when possible. If immediate planting is not feasible, they should be unpacked promptly and carefully heeled into a cool, fairly dry place such as a cellar that does not freeze.
A damaged OCR text snippet describes cutting from the right side when pruning root ends and preparing trees for planting. The fragment ends mid guidance, offering no clear event, date, or identifiable names.
An old advertisement urging use of Foley's Honey and Tar after exposure or at early signs of a cold. Claims the remedy never fails to stop a cold if taken in time, attributed to O S Coffin & Co.
Miners at Leavenworth return to work after a six week strike settling at 84 cents per ton. Eight hours constitute a day’s work, a victory for the workers signaling improved conditions and pay.
This season finds mothers alarmed by croup and the One Minute Cough Cure touted as a rapid remedy. The advertisement claims children readily take it, presenting a timely relief option for anxious parents amid common respiratory illness.
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