Sweet potatoes grow farther north than thought
Experiments by the agriculture department show sweet potatoes will thrive as far north as Michigan. Planting ridges should be three to five feet apart with vines about fourteen inches apart. After vines cover ground, little cultivation is needed. Northern crops dig vines before frost. southern crops remain in ground until use. Proper curing temp is 80 to 85 degrees with 45 to 55 degrees afterward.
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Department of Agriculture
Florida
Texas
Beekeeping Tips and Misleading Book Titles End London Chronicle
A London Chronicle piece offers beekeeping guidance from hive arrangement to honey handling and shed design, highlighting six to ten feet spacing and workbenches for cleanliness. It also notes misnamed book titles like Stuskin and Henry James works miscatalogued as religious texts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuskin
Henry James
Sir Edward Harmilton
Shorthouse
John Inglesant
London Chronicle
Be Wise Swick to Farm
A transcripted excerpt from the New York Independent extols farm life for youth, arguing sciences and modernization transformed farming. It celebrates farm boys and girls as part of a new age where production and machinery reduce labor while preserving opportunity, space, and fresh air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Independent
New Farm Children
Sciences
Agricultural College
Wild Mustard Menace Harms Wheat Fields and Yields
An article describes wild mustard as a prolific, indefatigable weed harming crops. It notes control via copper sulfate and iron sulfate sprays, recommending 15 to 20 pulleys per acre and use of a watering cart. The weed chokes growth and complicates harvesting in wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acre
Creek an Ideal Farm Hand
A wide awake farmer dammed a creek to power a 25 horsepower turbine with a 1700 foot line to the farm. He wired electricity through the buildings to light heat cook wash and iron, run fans an ice cream freezer and a vacuum milking machine. He uses power for milking, cream separator, churn, water, tools, and workshop equipment, proving up to date methods pay off.
Mule as a Labor Investment Across Ages
The text explains a mule reaches two years ready for substantial work and profitable labor beyond feed costs, continues gaining value each year, and peaks at four to five years old when it commands the top of its age class market.
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Maryland
School OF Technology
Bath
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
Arlington
Beltsville
Mt. Clare
Sparrows Point
The
Agricultural College
RW. Silvester
College Park
A Certain Gare Potato Bug Tip
A young man asks how to kill potato bugs and an old lady replies that they should smoke cloarettes to eradicate them. The exchange features quirky dialogue and rustic humor.
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Gare
Manure To Dollars A Farm News Note On Saving Manure
Manure has value beyond fertilizer as humus helps retain soil moisture and unlocks plant nutrients. Spreading manure now boosts immediate crop results and long term farm profitability, with the uproader tool praised for effective field application.
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Denton Journal
Howard Melvin
H. Jonson Melvin & Johnson
Huin
Sturmer
Sturmer Jeweler
Easton, MD
Bliss
Smith Good
Denton
ET Orme
Andierson Town
E. T. Orme
Andersontown, Md
Doan
T. Moore
Third St
Duffey’s
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan’s
BouGrano
Bolgiano
J. Bolgiano & Son
Pratt, Light and Ellicott Sts
Baltimore, Md
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
Theffaryland Agricultural College
Nene
E. A. Strout
Strout
Hetine Hlatite
Reese
Boston
Prilebarg
Philadelphia Scagge
John
Barnhart
Chas. H. Redden
Denton, Maryland
Feed and Sale Stables
Esquipages
A. E. Cooper
Nisi
Jacob Ghingher
Miller
Lewis
Circuit Court
Caroline County
Equity
Henry R. Lewis
J. Kemp Stevens
Kemp Stevens
A.w.shorts
Vermont
New England
Scribner’s Magazine
Fifth Ave
New York City
W. A. West
J. Wright
Frank L. Roberts
H. Lageaves Cor
Washington & Dover Sts
Herry
Rapalby
Orphans’ Court
Mary Virginia Stevens
Bruce G. Stevens
William D. Ubler
Mary Virginian
Stevens
Thomas O'Connell
Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware
Whiteleyaburg Road
E . A R. Shul
Greensboro
Ridgely
Chas
G. Seward
James
Tle
Winscow
Mullion
Pennsylvania
Champion Cleaned
A. F. Hignutt
Federalsburg
Mad
Rues
F. Garey
Attorney-at-Law
E. Lexington ST
Jon W. Masten
Iyontracta and
DENTO
Savings Department OF the Peoples
National
Bank of Denton
Albert G. Towers
Huxary T. Nuttle
Tuos
F. Janxson
Cashier
Concord Bargain House
W. W. Dukes
Concord, Maryland
James T. Coopier
J. Virgil, Moore
Cooper & Moorh
Undertakers
Deai
Jmnay
Clay
Dca
AWS
Cooper
Kckie’s College of Embalming
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit and Produce Commission
MOG Light
Baltimore, Ma
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