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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1902
Page
6
In Batacy New York readers learn how a Hatnula type round silo is constructed from a circular stake matrix and overlapping half inch planks. The method details bands, spacing, ventilation, and finishing with inside flooring and outside cladding for durable ensilage.
Professor I D Roberts advises Country Gentleman readers on arranging a vegetable garden. He recommends a garden three to four times as long as wide, laid out in sixteen rows of plants. To economize labor, extend length to three to six times width, with most work done by a horse and appropriate helpers. One far-row could feature blackberries, another raspberries, and a portion of currants.
Thomas slag or basic slag from the Thomas process is a lime rich byproduct from steelmaking. It contains about 15 percent free lime and 40 percent lime in compounds, with phosphoric acid ranging 10 to 20 percent and about 80 percent of that acid assumed available. It is a valuable phosphatic fertilizer, especially for acid soils and organic matter rich lands, best when finely ground. Usage suggests 600 to 1000 pounds per acre, avoid mixing with ammonium sulfate due to lime-driven ammonia loss, and do not blend well with muriate of potash or nitrate of soda.
Guidance on planning a mixed vegetable garden with rows for berries and strawberries, early and late crops, and weed control plus a note on using horse tillage. Also a described design for light wooden gates in barns to handle stock safely, with hinge and latch details and eight examples used for secure nighttime closure.
A road is often built to cover the shortest distance between fixed points. Some routes go over a hill or through a valley rather than around it, making a halfway path not always longer than a moderately curved route. The perceived length difference between straight and lightly curved roads is smaller than expected.
An Ohio farmer urges careful seed quality and soil management for oats and clover. He notes oats draw more plant food than wheat, drought hurts clover, and favorable moisture is key. Deep sowing, rolling, and thorough weed control prevent lodging and improve yields. Continuous selection of clean, plump seed prevents deterioration and sustains profits.
A correspondent in the Ohlo Farmer describes a five row corn marker with runners 114 or 2 feet long 6 inches wide and 2 inches thick. Two to three inch boards form the top with handles on each side and a driver walking the last mark to guide the marker while a single horse pulls via a rope from each outside runner.
The article outlines seed testing between plates with moistened flannel kept warm, noting A S Hitchcock on germination timing. Most garden seeds sprout within days, but grass seeds may take up to three weeks and certain tree seeds longer.
Farmers should keep potatoes in earth banks until late April then move to a dark space and, a week before planting, spread them to sunlight to strengthen the buds. Cornell findings show sun exposure aids growth, with green manures or a red clover cover crop recommended where soils allow. If weeds appear, turn, sow, and weed again to build soil and future yields.
An advertisement extols the dangers of short lunches and indigestion from rushed meals. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as cures for stomach and digestive ailments, featuring a testimonial from Willis Seaman of Washingtonville and offering free medical guidance literature from Dr. R V Pierce in Buffalo NY.
Caroline county warns all persons and bodies corporate or politic engaged in business or occupying any house or place for any license to be obtained or renewed before the first day of May under penalties of law The notice lists license fees based on stock of trade ranges from 12 60 for under 1000 to 125 00 for 40 000 plus
County Commissioners of Caroline County invite sealed proposals for repairing and maintaining public roads and bridges in each district for one year. Proposals due by 2 pm March 1, 1902, with condition details, bid per mile, and bond requirements. Full contract terms outlined. right to reject bids reserved. Readable through Denton office after March 25, 1902. CHAS. H. WHITBY, Clerk.
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