Kitchen Gardens for Farms Big and Small
W R Beattie notes home vegetable gardens are common on northern and eastern farms, often cared for by women, with flowers and medicinal plants in the enclosure. A half acre can yield $100 worth of vegetables, far more than typical farm crops, and fresh home produce avoids market exposure. Proximity to the house is important, and gardeners sometimes relocate every five to six years. Also features a note on guinea pigs as lawn mowers, praising English use over American methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. RR. Beattie
Bureau of Plant Industry
New England
United States
America
Eingland
Live Stock Notes on humane treatment of horses and feeding
Practical guidance for horse care from pulse rates to humane driving. Emphasizes calm handling, avoiding blows, and proper feeding. Advises open barn air, use of oats and barley, cautious carrot feeding, appropriate ration control, and checking hired help behavior to prevent fear in horses. Recommends immediate watering after work and staged hydration to prevent suffering.
Simple Chick Water Fountain for Young Birds
An easy to build fountain keeps a steady water supply for young chickens. In an hour a boy with a saw and nail can complete it using two boards, one six inches square and the other six by twelve, formed into a right angle with an old milk bottle attached for dispensing water.
Feeding Chickens With Tin Bottle Waterer Device
A simple contraption uses strips of tin to let a bottle slip in and out, with the can end supporting the bottle mouth and a small amount of water kept in the neck to keep the receptacle full. It should be kept in a cool shady spot for chicks to access easily.
Real Parcels Post Wasted Energy Ties Town to Country
A Country Gentleman reader criticizes the current parcel post system for excessive energy use in distributing farm goods. The article cites price gaps of 40 to 50 percent between grower and consumer and even 300 percent in some cases. It highlights inefficient retail distribution with multiple milk wagons on the same routes and many vehicles moving small shipments. The rural free delivery wagon carries small loads back to town, raising questions about value and taxpayer cost.
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Post Office
Blake farmhouse fit for small city lots
In growing towns land is clear and houses must fit tight spaces. City house plans suit moderate means but when moved to a farm they disrupt harmony. A farmhouse should have city comforts without resembling a city house in design.
Tasteful farm homes and chick cake recipe
The piece extols tasteful farm houses blending with surroundings and cautions that comfort matters more than modernity. It notes farmhouses should suit their location for lasting value and enjoyment. It also offers a chick feed cake recipe using cornmeal wheat bran flour sour milk soda and salt for growing chicks.
Farm Philosophy for Education and Agriculture
The text emphasizes education as the path to better agriculture and urges advancing all interests that aid education. It frames farming progress as an individual problem with benefits to state nation and world and advises planting trees well away from the house to let sunshine in.
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Denton Journal
Bdward Melvin
Benj. H. Johnson
Melvin & Johnson
Tountain
Sturmer
Sturmer Jeweler
Easton, MD
Bolgiano
J. Bolgiano & Son
Pratt, Light and Ellicott Sts
Baltimore
Blake Farmhouse
Ae Pe Sp. AE
Maryland Agricultural College College Park
Maryland
School OF Technology
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington
Arlington
Beltsville
Mt.Clare
Sparrows Point
Agricultural College
R. W. Silvester
Pres
College Park
STROU
E. A. Strout Company
Strout Acle Farms
E. A. Strout
Boston
New York
Pittsburg
Company Ofpitygeiohte
John
Barnhart
Denton, MD
Whiteleyaburg Road
Greensboro
R. R. Shull Greenstoro
Bliss
Smith Good
Denton
Doane
Herbert J. Cox
Washington St
Easton
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Chas. H. Redden
Denton, Maryland
A. E. Cooper
Nisi
Jacob Ghingher
Miller
Lewis
Circuit Court
Caroline County
Equity
Circuit Court For
Henry R. Lewis
J. Kemp Stevens
Orphans’ Court
Mary Virginia Stevens
Bruce G. Stevens
William D. Unler
Ridgely
Chas
G Seward
Am Ridgely
James Temple
EK. T Orme
Anderson Town
E. T. Orme
Andersontown, Md
A.w.shorts
Vermont
Scribner’s Magazine
Fifth Ave
New York City
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
W. A. West
torMy
F.j.wright
Frank L. Roberts
H. Lay Beaven
Washington & Dover Sts
Tinks
Duttons
Hat Ming
Flac Watch
Thomas O’connell
Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware
TpHos
F. Garey
Lexington ST
Baltimore, Md
John W. Masten
DE Ryland Oralerentues
Tite Savings Department OF
the Peoples , National Bank of
Atbert G. Towsas
Henry T. Notte
Tos. F. Johnson
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Concord Bargain House
W. W. Dukes
Concord, Maryland
James T. Cooper
J. Virgil Moore
Cooper & Moore
Undertakers
Cooper
Moore
Eckte’s College of
Pennsylvania
A. P. Hignutt
Federalabuirg, Md
T. H. Evans & Company, Fruit and Propacs Commission
Mancuanrs
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