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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1869
Page
4
An essay urges farmers to beautify their homes with simple, affordable improvements. It stresses painting and planting evergreen spruces, maples, roses, and vines around old farmhouses to create cheerful, lasting change. The piece argues improved homes boost family morale, neighbor respect, and community admiration, paving the way for ongoing reform.
Instructions describe boiling corn on the ear for fifteen minutes, sun-drying, then packing in tins with slight headroom and a pinhole vent. Tins go in a kettle with water to one inch from top and boiled about an hour, vent opened afterward. corn preserves keep sweet. Also mentions Vermont farmers growing poppy for opium and references Barratt's Hair Restorative and a public shenefactan.
At Oneida Community a mulching experiment on Franconia and Philadelphia strawberry rows doubled fruit in Franconia plots and increased berry size in Philadelphia. Buckwheat straw or coarse grass protected soil, retained moisture, and reduced drought. Guidelines cover placement per crop and caution on depth, plus measurements for calculating bushels from bin volume.
A quoted agricultural rule explains measuring corn in the crib by finding cubic inches per ear. Divide by 2815 cubic inches per bushel for shelled corn. Level the grain, measure length breadth and depth, multiply, subtract one fourth, giving bushels per ear. Add a ball bushel per hundred for strict accuracy.
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