Suggestions on Raising Cabbage From USDA Guidance
United States Department of Agriculture garden specialists advise selecting rich soil and rotted manure before planting cabbage. Start indoors or seed from warm areas, rotate crops, and fertilize with ten pounds of fertilizer per 100 feet of row while avoiding diseased plots. Protect seedlings from cutworms as they grow.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Jersey Wakefield
Charleston Wakefeld
All Seasons
Copenhagen
South Atlantic
Acre
Selecting Immune Crops After Dodder Infestation Warned
A USDA report details a Pennsylvania field of eggplant ruined by hazel dodder, a parasite not previously seen on cultivated plants. It advises using immune crops such as corn, soybeans, velvet beans, cowpeas, and small grains on land with dodder seeds, and cautions against truck crops on such land.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Families in Union county NM Grow Yearlong Gardens
Women in Union county New Mexico pressed for gardens large enough to feed families year round with surplus for canning and drying. USDA notes many new crops tested like Swiss chard Chinese cabbage asparagus celery and fruits such as ever bearing strawberries rhubarb garden lemons plus grapes peaches plums apples and apricots planted. Despite dry conditions the effort yielded many successes though some failures from moisture and care shortages. Canning output ranged from 25 000 to 50 000 quarts last year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Union County
New Mexico
Proper horse collars for busy farming season
Farmers should inspect horse collar stock and ensure good fitting collars for every horse intended for work. Sore shoulders and necks arise from ill fitting collars or improper adjustments, so fit and adjust carefully.
Plant bush beans with spaced seeds in rows
Plant bush beans using one to two seeds every four inches. Set rows about 20 to 24 inches apart for proper spacing and growth.
Breeding Stock Care Tips for Hatchable Eggs
Guidance on feeding and exercise for breeding stock to produce hatchable eggs. It recommends Mberally feed and free exercise, plus meat and bone supplement alongside grain seeds in litter.
Get Most Dollars from Proper Poultry Care and Timing
The piece stresses maximizing income through thorough care including breeding, feeding, and vigilant detail management. It concludes that success hinges on marketing at the optimal moment to command the highest price.
Geese Prove Most Profitable on Farm
Geese are touted as the most profitable fowl for farm output with emphasis on grazing and swimming facilities to maximize returns.
Cut Out Wastes on Farm to Increase Profits
The guidance states that reducing small waste is a path to higher earnings for farmers, emphasizing efficiency and thrift in farm management.
Red Paint Indian Explorations Continue in Maine
In Maine researchers push ongoing explorations of the Red Paint Indians linked to early graves around Orland and Waterville. With 18 Red Paint cemeteries and about 400 graves studied, archaeology experts note red ochre use, spear tools, chipped arrowheads, and possible ancient writing, placing the culture among North America’s oldest.
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Maine
Orland
Hancock County
Ernest O. Sugden
Mr. Sugden
C. C. Willoughby
Peabody Museum
Harvard University
Lake Alamoosook
Sugden
Warren K. Moorehead
Department of Archaology
Phillips-Andover Academy
Moorehead
Algonkin
Esquimaux
A. H. Bridges
Waterville
Gov. Milliken
Winston
North America
Mr. Bridges
Mt. Katahdin
Penobscot Valley
Androscoggin River
John T. Kelliher
Sebasticook
Ingersoll and Beecher Discuss a Globe
Scored on Ingersoll, his social talents earned him many friends who regretted his published opinions. In Beecher's study he admires a globe with delicate raised figures of the heavens and asks, Who made it. The reply: Nobody, of course, that happened.
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Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll
Beecher
Boston Transcript
Thinkers and Talkers Balance of Thought and Language
The passage notes three groups: men with strong thought but poor language struggle to rise. those with language but limited ideas reach only modest levels. a rare few combine both, using expressive power to create, making the world listen when they speak and think when they write.
Trials of a Housewife Sought Relief From Female Ailments
A collection of testimonials tout Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for bearing-down pains backache nervousness and fatigue. Women from Providence Fayette Bloomington and Illinois credit the product with restoring strength and daily functioning. The adv advocates sending for a private text book on ailments peculiar to women.
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Providence, R. I
Lydia
Herbert L. Cassen
Meni Court
Providence
R. I
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Fayette
Chester A. Ball
Illinois
Broomington
Sil
J. A. McQuitty
Walnut St
Bloomington
Cassen
United States
Red Cross Ball Blue and office platforms teased
A humorous clash of lines on laundry and politics. The dialogue riffs on ball blue cleaning ads, a wife’s silence, and a candidate running on the lecture platform, all framed as witty exchanges from a newspaper page.
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Pinkham
Blackman
Blackman Stock Remedy Co., Chattascoga, Tenness
Wethert
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