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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1909
Page
4
Tennessee experiments show soybeans outyield cowpeas for hay and grain, maturing earlier and tolerating frost. Soybeans stand upright, plant in drills for easy cultivation, but do not climb on corn like cowpeas. Vines dry better with portable air frames. one-half bushel seed per row, one and a half broadcast.
The Farmers' Educational and Co operative Union of America claims 1,500,000 members across 24 states. It seeks to rush elevator construction for the 1909 wheat crop, establish standard prices for farm products, and eliminate middlemen by using local business agents and direct sales to consumers. The union runs banks, some cooperative stores, and has fraternal ties to the American Federation of Labor.
The trend of wheat production moves west with favorable weather boosting semiarid areas. Eastern Montana, western North Dakota, western South Dakota, western Nebraska, western Kansas and eastern Colorado could add 5 to 10 million bushels, aided by moisture in winter wheat regions and dry-ground readiness for spring wheat. Beet sugar factories spread across the states, led by Colorado with sixteen plants. California and Michigan follow, while many states have smaller or single operations. Crown gall disease found in six percent of New York nursery stock prompts caution in orchard planting and stock inspection.
Observers note astonishing wheat output west of the Missouri, with fields at small stations like New Salem and Glen Villa yielding vast tonnages. Grain comes from farms twelve to thirty-five miles away, water irrigation and dry farming boosting yields in eastern Montana, while the region remains largely unknown to the broader trade.
The Japanese farmer is overall well off and content with living standards comparable to peers in other nations and better than some.
A McClure's Magazine piece explains that horses, though deemed stupid, can be trained to perform arithmetic like tasks through endless repetition and mechanical signals. The animal acts as a blank responder, following blind habits while the audience interprets the pawing or card positions as answers.
In a corner grocery store Aunt Abner Jarvis recounts a county fair fortune tale. A veiled fortune teller predicted a large party at his house within a month and a calamity soon after. Two weeks later his wife’s 287 pound Aunt Jane visited and broke their spare bed on the first night.
Had Forty Homes relates how Volton the painter, a bohemian in Paris, rented many small furnished rooms across the city to avoid acquaintances, owning forty apartments and dying in Rue de Dunkerque near several of them. A separate note recounts a curious receipt from the Seven Years’ War in which a Llanoverian captain acknowledges fifty blows from a lieutenant for defaming a regiment, signed in proper form with gratitude.
A traveler recalls a six foot crocodile caught on the Ganges and stubbornly resisting bullets until finally dispatched with axes. The tale contrasts with a Sunday school moment where children, studying the flee into Egypt, mishear a Bible scene as a “flea” in a lecture.
A fragmentary dialogue notes a woman offering to sing a soothing tune to her morose husband. The husband retorts that it would spare neighbors from apologies. A separate line mentions Maud and Henry and a kiss as an awkward departure.
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