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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1898
Page
4
The article describes assembling a support jack and pin method to position and finish a shock, then tying with a pole and rope contrivance. A husking bench aids processing, while practical loading from the wagon rear is noted. Mentioned are fodder handling, a hulking bench, and advice on corn harvest and stock feeding.
In a Goebi China tale a husband and wife quarrel over dinner. They invite kin and the village patriarch, who seizes the chopsticks and declares the pair divorced. The scene underscores a moral about impulses and moral conduct.
The article notes wheat remains central to small farm rotations, especially in New Jersey where wheat yields 18 to 30 bushels per acre after potatoes. It describes manure and fertilizer practices, rotation benefits for wheat, potatoes, and grass, and contrasts with western New York methods emphasizing early plowing, rolling, harrowing, and phosphate use.
Waldo F. Brown extols the Early Richmond cherry as highly prizeworthy in canning. He notes it as a sure crop, ripening after strawberries and yielding four years out of five, with trees not long lived requiring replanting every six to eight years. A Rural New Yorker image shows a velvet bean, described as vigorous with eye catching blossoms but odor disliked by many. A Georgia correspondent sent the photograph.
A Florida bulletin describes velvet bean pods as thick and leathery with three to five large beans and vines up to twenty feet. The text also recounts control of palsy through practice, citing an artist and Kansas City veteran “Peg Leg” Smith who steadies to hit a bullseye before firing at a shooting gallery.
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