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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
3
A long, mixed-tact column from 1802 discusses farm prices, crop profits, orchard and prune cultivation, the impact of floods, and practical agricultural tips. It covers rose culture, potato and prune markets, the advantages of scientific farming, and methods to combat apple tree borers with seasonal trunk treatments.
A regional note argues that stock counts and land area years decide farming success. It recalls eight dozen yearling calves recently pastured but thin and poor, valued under $15 each. A neighbor’s five yearlings fetch about $40 per head, while another plans seventy five acres of corn with one team, illustrating efficient farming ideas.
The text promotes northern and central Minnesota and Wisconsin timbered areas as attractive for poor men seeking farms. It notes abundant rainfall, cheap lumber, grasses like timothy and clover, land prices from 10 to 25 dollars per acre, nearby markets, and long fuel supplies, highlighting hard work but compensations for aspiring farmers.
A Washburn county correspondent notes thousands of acres of cut off pine land in Washburn County Wisconsin can be bought and cleared for under 15 dollars an acre. The letter questions how stumps will be dealt with but suggests that grazing or reclamation may occur in a few years if tame grasses grow.
A cheese was taken from the hoop last September and cured in cold storage at about 42 degrees. The method markedly enhances flavor and quality, opening a new field for American cheese makers and likely to spark demand. The cheese becomes soft, rich and mild, avoiding the old rancid bite.
A comparison notes English wheat planting with dibbles for holes six inches apart, followed by sowing by hand, yielding forty bushels per acre, and a North Dakota farmer using six horses on a sixteen foot drill to sow forty acres daily. It contrasts careful English hoeing and hand harvesting with historical poverty, describing pauperism fifty years ago.
A reflection on a prudent farmer who leverages natural resources to improve bogs, forests, hills, and streams. He irrigates lands, sustains purebred livestock, and seeds carefully, achieving smart success without large acreage. The text contrasts him with grandiose big farmers who own hundreds of acres.
The summer farmers Institute offers social and educational value with two daily sessions. Topics cover seasonal, practical farming, clover potential in Wisconsin, and cautions about buffalo grass and dairy feeding. It highlights clover benefits for shorthorn farming and warns against dairy cows fed excessive corn fodder.
York state grows more onions than any other state with 93 acres yielding 2,177,271 bushels valued at 1,086,042 dollars. The piece discusses garden beans, frost, weather impacts on fruit, gopher sport, a lady friend’s marriage gaps, crows, hawks, and food prices in a tightly observed rural column.
Dwight Darrington describes Peru's apes as invaluable in his eastern Peru plantation near the Ucayali river. He keeps 40 apes in a large cage to harvest nuts, with native foremen directing the work while music and careful training guide the apes. The piece notes strict discipline, occasional ape attacks, and the high incomes enabled by ape labor, alongside a brief mention of South African reform school graduations and military honors.
A humorous exchange from the New York Weekly regards a depositor who left blank checks with his wife while he went on business. The wife then used them for shopping as the joke reveals the wife’s anticipated spending and the bank’s reactions.
In the canton of Zurich the official school report for 1899 and 1900 states that 108 297 children were medically examined and that ear conditions were found in about 117 per thousand of pupils.
Uncle Bill narrates hobos at a riverbank convent ion village where six wanderers share names like Dunty Jim and Tinker Peter. They draft mock resolutions praising King Edward, demanding royal maintenance, and portraying work as a taboo among the Royal Hobos in a humorous local-colonial scene.
A fragmentary humorous piece cites a Hobos banquet and chant about royal hobos, a quip that Roosevelt should entertain them, and Uncle Bill’s remarks. It shifts to London Chronicle comments on mispronunciations, noting common errors like Gibraltaer and Febuary, plus debates on Berkshire and Derby pronunciation.
Harper's Weekly notes Prussia orders noncombustible passenger cars on 30 000 miles of railway with chemically treated floors nonflammable walls and fireproof seats to reduce travel risk. Authors urge U S adoption. The piece also mocks Vienna's late night fines and curfews as a contrast.
A Philadelphia Press snippet notes a debate between sermon length and appearance as a woman defends wearing a new bonnet to church. The exchange highlights social expectations of dress influencing churchgoing perceptions.
A rapid mosaic of 1900s notes includes estimates of U S house members marriages, Boston Marine Society support for life saving crews, royal curiosities about bullfighting and horse racing, Portuguese marriage law, Charles F Adams speaking at Chicago, Dr Henry Lummis's 77th birthday, immigration from Scandinavia to Manitoba and Minnesota, Chicago policing rewards, Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman diaries, George Gould polo standing, Brazil’s Alves presidency, Chicago women backing a high school lunchroom, St Louis moral city push, Vanderbilt building memorial at Newport, medal and decorative orders for London, Ferris wheel finance and duties, Tennessee pension rolls, British Consul remarks, diamond cutting espionage, state sanitarium funding, and Dr A Donaldson Smith’s transcontinental trek.
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