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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1883
Page
3
Fragmentary poem notes describe a neighbor glimpsed across a street as the speaker longs to approach. The piece contrasts restrained longing with bold desire, weighing envy and admiration against restraint while imagining the scene's effect on the speaker and the broader world.
A farming note warns that hens roaming in April injure young grass and garden shoots, destroying a third of the mowing crop per acre. It urges yarding to prevent neighbor disputes and costly notices, detailing a simple 5 foot fence with posts and guards to deter hens and protect strawberries, vines, shrubs, and turnips.
Secretary G Randall reports members of the South Haven and Casco Pomological Society in Michigan doubt bacteria cause peach yellows, favoring eradication of affected trees. Speakers discuss pruning, removing diseased brush, and avoiding contamination while noting some healthy trees survive after removal of diseased stock. Foreseeable safety measures include carbolic acid on tools and cautious handling to prevent sale of diseased fruit. A local suit in Erie Pennsylvania cites a Sunday streetcar incident.
A Farmers' Home Journal note reports Mr. Sanborm's trial showing 960 extra pounds of hay per acre in three years when manure is deeply ploughed under versus surface application. Deep under- manuring sustains moisture, taps natural soil fertility, and improves drought resistance, while roots and plant growth depend on green, succulent matter fermented underground at peak condition.
T B Tery of Summit County Ohio shares practical squash culture tips. He favors warm light soils not cold clay and advises shallow spring plowing to six inches, rotted manure worked in, and surface feeding since roots stay near topsoil. For profit, apply about forty wagonloads of good cotton manure per acre, with benefits lasting years.
Mr Edmund Hersey argues fresh barn manure blended with soil aids rapid decomposition and soil chemistry, while overapplication of phosphate, potash, nitrogen, and carbon leads to leaching and mineral loss as water and air interact in the surface layer.
A northern Illinois dairy farm experiments with artificial souring to arrest spoilage and control cream processing. Only Mr Brown reportedly adopts the method, which uses a cold bath and staged warming to create daily churns. The system involves multiple steps from cream can handling to warm vats and precise temperatures, with historical notes on related spinning frame usage and overstocked markets.
The Erie Railway company provides engineers in passenger service with a box of accident response appliances and an instructional pamphlet on treating injured persons. County records show several land transfers from the 7th to the 10th inst. including Richard Butcher to Louis Hey and multiple Burk and Wyman transactions with values ranging from 1 to 5 thousand dollars.
The board met at four o clock with all members present except Murphy and Holstein. Haggett moved adoption of the committee plan for No. 4 School Building to be rebuilt under city engineer Walter Scott and supervised by Mayani Haggett. a sealed-proposal advertisement was ordered. A warrant for 10 dollars to Col. ELA Suitis of Fredonia for drafting a plan was authorized.
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