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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1891
Page
4
A Rural New Yorker feature describes a milking aid using a hickory stick with a notched end and adjustable rings to hold a cow’s tail away from the pail and milker’s face, enabling cleaner milking and fly control. A New York farmer touts a rope restraining device fixed near the stanchion to prevent kicking, noting easy release by pulling a pin.
A Georgia agricultural bulletin states hogs fed on turnips cabbages sweet potatoes or chufas rarely if ever contract cholera. Sleeping in dirty beds kills as many or more hogs than cholera. It urges plenty of pure water frequent food changes and clean stalls to promote health and thrift of farm stock.
Notes condensed from a Massachusetts Horticultural Society talk by Professor Maynard advise arsenites as the best insecticide and Paris green risks. Foliage injury varies by fruit type variety and leaf age. Paris green safe only with lime at one to fifty to two hundred gallons. Wet conditions heighten damage. drying liquor reduces injury. Application time of day deemed unimportant.
Thorough soil preparation and early cultivation before and after corn emergence clear fields of weeds. Frequent shallow cultivation in early season aids growth and soil moisture. Best tested varieties include Flints like Landreth's Extra Early and Pride of Dakota, Dents such as Loveland's and Dakota King. All harvest by September 12.
The article notes quack grass and Canada thistle can usually be eradicated in one season by thorough plowing in rich soil, warns partial suppression worsens the problem, and cites errors in farming practice. It then advertises Twenty Year Tontine policies from The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. with cash returns of 120 to 176 percent and mentions a sample policy case maturing in 1891.
DUNNOCK'S Dextos announces its October 10 1891 return with a large, attractive Denton stock of dry goods. Calicoes, prints, dress goods, woolens, flannels, and undergarments offered at prices claimed lower than competitors and city rates. The ad invites customers to inspect quantities and new lines, promising goods will sell themselves.
Mutrouarn Planters of Washington county Maryland and multiple insurers and banks including Stock-Etna Life Hartford Conn Agricultural Watertown N Y Continental New York Farmers York Pa Fire Association Philadelphia Glens Falls New York Hartford Conn Pennsylvania Fire Philadelphia Phonus Connecticut Ferntax-Coomercial Union London Liverpool London and Globe Liverpool Royal Liverpool appear in the roster of insurers and financial firms listed together in a historical notice.
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