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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1907
Page
6
A grower explains a low cost method to mark straight celery rows using two cotton lines and stakes. The technique rotates line positions after each row to maintain alignment, with measuring ticks at row ends and in the middle. Lines stay laid out to avoid wind displacement and are replaced every two years.
George H. Failyer of the Bureau of Soils explains surface tillage to conserve moisture. A loose dry soil layer three to four inches protects moisture, with harrows and spike tooth or disk tools used for early weed control and mulch. He favors larger teams and efficient tools for thorough cultivation without excessive labor.
A good implement for soil mulch in tall corn, though draft is heavier. Double cultivators or two row cultivators preferred except in special cases. Single cultivators useful for tall crops or small areas like truck farming but less capable for general field work.
A farmer details his home composting method using kitchen scraps leaves and manure to create rich soil. He sprinkles lime soap suds and uses bone ashes to cut odor and boost fertilizing value. He equates the heap to one load of manure saving money. He also notes onions as a profitable money crop for careful growers with variable prices but solid profit.
The first cutting of alfalfa contains more protein than subsequent cuts. Hay is richest in this constituent when cut at the beginning of bloom, with quality remaining high from first bloom to half bloom according to Farming.
The American Cultivator urges farmers to begin planting crops suited to the season while continuing to work the land. Grow varieties the family prefers and devote garden space to the most profitable crops, ensuring the land remains fully occupied and productive.
A swine grower advises marketing swine at an early age to reduce costs. He notes the first hundred pounds are cheap, but the second hundred costs 30 percent more and the third is nearly double the initial price.
The 1867 Fort Pitt foundry cast two twenty inch guns for the monitor Puritan. Captain W C Wise proposed Satan and Lucifer as names, provoking church protest in Pittsburg. Wise argued such names echoed historic voyages of Jupiter Vulcan and others while signifying destructive power in war. Clergy persuasion ultimately blocked the christening. Army and Navy Journal.
Excerpts describe Paris gang life among groups like the Montparnre and Courtille factions, with battles across the city and youths drawn from slums. Separate notes recount nurses wary of cancer cases, avoiding engagement rather than infection fears.
The Rural New Yorker describes a hay barrack a small outdoor shelter in the eastern states. Four posts support a square sauire roof that can be raised or lowered to shed rain. Hay is pitched into the barrack as into a stack and then covered when stored.
A Striand Magazine note discusses the history of a tiny England midge that visits arums. It states that during arum blooming, the midges seem intoxicated within the bloom as observed by cutting open the narrow neck and viewing the lower portion where many insects lie in heaps, overwhelmed by arum pollen.
A maid teases a young debutante about rejecting suitors while the debutante counters that accepting offers can be even more fun. The light exchange captures flirtatious social teasing in Chicago.
A fragmentary quotation shows a character questioning what remains after schemes and self denial. The dialogue hints at pursuit of minions and a plan to spend money in New York after Chicago records. The text reads as a clipped excerpt from a larger interplay.
Three simple checks guide proper Bordeaux mixture preparation. A bright knife blade held in the mix should copper plate if lime is insufficient. A light test should form a thin pebble on the surface when blown across. A ferrocyanide test in water should cause no color change if lime is adequate.
Cucumber growing hinges on heat moisture and humus rich soil. Fresh rough land benefits from sixty tons of well rotted manure per acre priced at one dollar per ton. Plant late after ground warms and weather stabilizes, use good seed, avoid frosts and pests. Thin to three or four plants per hill.
A promotional notice extols Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for female weaknesses with symptoms like headaches dizziness and pelvic displace ment. It claims a forty year record of relief and strength and notes the bottle lists all ingredients with medical endorsements and no alcohol. It also advertises Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as the original Little Liver Pills.
On the day of sale cash payment required. Title papers to be provided at the purchaser's expense. HARVEY L. COOPER named as Assignee. Joan W. Clark serves as Auctioneer.
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