Best Time For Planting Plums And Propagation Tips
A bulletin from Iowa State College outlines plum propagation by budding or root grafting, with budding preferred at the end of the growing season. It stresses using compatible stock and scion, native American stocks like Miner, and that spring is generally best for planting. Fall planting can work in moisture-rich seasons if done early, but dry falls risk severe winter damage.
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Iowa State College
Lawa
Iowa
FoE of the Potato Early Blight Description
The early blight or leaf spot disease of potatoes and related plants appears in July in the northern United States and Canada. It targets leaves on vigorous plants after flowering, spreading rapidly as tubers form, but it does not attack tubers or cause rot.
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United States
Canad
BEAN CULTURE IN IOWA HOMESTEAD ADVICE
Instructions for growing beans for green state use or snap shorts from the Iowa Homestead. Rich soil yields better crops while light sandy soil bears earlier. Early crops fetch best prices, beans are tender and should be planted only after the ground is quite warm.
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Iowa Homestead
Beans Instruct On Planting And Harvesting For Best Yields
The article advises planting beans in rows eighteen inches apart with drills four inches apart or hills about one foot apart, seeds two inches deep. Planting should occur by corn planting time, with stirring as soon as up and shallow cultivations until blossoms appear. After flowering, cultivation ends to prevent knocking off blossoms. Avoid working when wet or dusty, continue successional plantings to mid July for fresh pods, and note improved stringless varieties cost more but yield better pod quality.
Useful Summer Spray for Diseases and Insects
Kansas University entomology recommends a combined spray for peaches apples and potatoes. Mix lime six pounds sulfur four pounds boil an hour, strain into water barrel and add arsenate of lead two pounds. Apply as blossoms fall and through fruit development to prevent scab and wormy fruit and to improve appearance.
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Department of Entomology
University of Kansas
Time to Mow and Save Your Strength on the Farm
In a practical farming note Faru Jourgal advises daily mowing under cover, leaving two inches of stubble, and raking scatterings each day. Keep mower knives sharp, store horse rake away from sun and dew, and finish fields at night to avoid rain. The essay emphasizes moisture harms hay quality and the value of steady work with horses.
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Timothy
Faru Jourgal
Millet as a Catch Crop and Forage Plant
Millet serves as a quick maturing catch crop or to replace destroyed crops. Varieties include fox tail, German, Hungarian, broom millet and more. Best on humus-rich, well-drained soils. sow after warm ground, with more seed for pasture use. broadcast or drill depending on soil.
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America
Broom Corp
Ulere
Kansas
General Faria Interest Sparks Farm Education Note
An odd editorial urges confidence in blifred men and highlights Kansas State Agricultural College creating a farm mechanics department after forty eight years. It frames farm home value for children, stresses energy reinvestment, and questions profit percentages for business and farm enterprises.
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Kansas State Agricultural College
Nervine Restorative for La Grippe Aftereffects
Mrs Alvin H Locks of Seabrook reports lingering La Grippe symptoms with head and eye pains and nerve unrest. She credits Dr Miles Nervine and Restorative Nervine with curing her and notes many friends experienced the same. The ad urges continued use to restore nerve strength and offers a money back guarantee.
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LaGrippe
Miles
Alvin H. Locks
Seabrook
N. HH
Miles Medical CO
Elkhart
Ind
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