New Style Spray Strainer By Professor Stewart Improves Sediment Free Flow
A Pennsylvania State College professor J P Stewart develops a spray strainer that prevents sediment clogging in Bordeaux and Home sulfur sprays. The design redirects the sediment away from the faucet, ensuring a steady upward flow. Base attachment possible at the faucet. leftover solution can be boiled and reused for next batch.
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J. P. Stewart
Pennsylvania State College
Cost Of Raising Currants On Orchard Land
A writer in the American Agriculturist reports labor costs for currants at about $15 per acre last year. Initial cultivation was costly due to quack grass, with 50 field cultivations in six months on 13 acres. Now one man and one horse suffice, with precise time records allocated to each field.
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American Agriculturist
West
Alexander
Hilton
Cherry culture limits across the Pacific coast and midwest
The text notes restrictions on cherry culture due to distance to markets and climate. Cherries thrive in limited Pacific coast zones but do not adapt well beyond certain latitudes. It highlights New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Michigan Nebraska and Kansas as notably well located for cherry growing.
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Pacific Coast
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Nebraska
Kansas
Crown Galls Treatment for Knives in Orchard Care
The article advises a practical remedy for crown galls using a shoemaker's knife for clean cuts. It instructs to follow tunnels, locate and destroy grubs, remove dead bark, and leave a smooth cut. Buried moist dirt helps prevent rapid bark drying, and disinfecting the knife with weak carbolic acid helps prevent spread between trees.
Caring for Fruit Gardens and Trees
Instructions for pruning red and black cap raspberries and fruit trees. Remove old cones and limit new growth, pinch leading buds, and manage side shoots. Mulch, weed, and keep soil mellow. Water deeply, roots receive moisture, and use horse cultivator for neat rows.
Plum Clusters Promote Brown Rat Development
Plums hanging in touching clusters foster brown rat development in susceptible varieties. Spores wash down by rain and lodged spores between touching plums grow. If any plum in a cluster is diseased it should be removed at once to prevent rot spreading to adjacent plums.
Strawberry field tips for fruiting and pest control
The article offers practical guidance for fruit growers including keeping strawberries clean of grass and preventing nipped limbs with a muzzle on horses. It covers bed timing, fertilization with ground bone and wood ash, pruning shoots, pest control with dusts and sprays, and harvest handling for best market quality.
The Roads of Destiny and a Poet's Return Home
David, a shepherd-poet in Vernoy, pursues poetry at the expense of his marriage to Yvonne. After counseling from notary M. Papineau and scholar M. Bril, he is urged to choose a practical life over verse. He returns to his flock with renewed resolve, but finds Yvonne’s absence and a restless village awaiting.
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David
Yvonne
Vernoy
Verboy
Navid
Dreux
Pere Gruneiu
Pere Gruneau
M. Papineau
Mignot
Monsieur Bril
Georges Bril
Paris
Monsieur Bri
Papneau
Monsieur Mignot
Monsigneur Bril
Monsignor Mignot
Veroy
Gadding- Much
Dandelion and Sorrel Dishes Highlight Hedges Delicacies
A historic guide praises wild greens such as dandelion and sorrel as healthful ingredients for salads soups and relishes. It details preparation steps for dandelion salad with olive oil lemon juice and spices and offers sorrel spinach blends and a watercress potato sauce as flavorful options.
Favorite Mince Meat Recipe from Historical Menu
Three pounds beef off the round one and a half pounds kidney suet two heaping milk pans chopped apples three pounds raisins two pounds currants one pound citron one pound lemon and orange peel mixed juice and rind of six lemons one quart molasses one quart boiled cider three cups brown sugar four tablespoons cinnamon one tablespoon cloves one tablespoon mace one tablespoon allspice one glass jelly mix all together and cook until it boils then add one pint brandy bottle and meal
Rhubarb Fritters From Simple Drop Batter
Beat two eggs with milk then mix in flour sugar salt and baking powder. Stir in chopped rhubarb melted butter and enough milk to make thick batter. Fry in small cakes until browned and serve with butter and maple sugar.
Frozen Fruit Pudding Recipe Fragment
A fragment lists ingredients for a frozen dessert pudding with rich whipped cream milk and peaches. The note mentions one pint portions and peaches as a main element.
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Strather
Y, Nelson
Rhubarb
Frittere