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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1905
Page
13
The article reviews droughts and pests, urging crop rotation as the key fix for poor corn stands and worm damage. It notes hay yields on prairie soil, windbreaks on orchards, and cooperative beef shares as farmer responses. It warns against long-term corn rotation and stresses timely marketing of perishables. It also laments musty oysters and tainted eggs as consumer concerns.
The article warns field mice threaten stored seed corn and advises strategies to guard against mice and frost. It suggests keeping poultry numbers balanced, covering tender plants with earth, composting leaves for mulch, and avoiding burning leaves as mulch preserves soil humus and improves spring grass.
The author argues that without horses the English sparrow and house flies would decline, as the sparrow feeds on horse droppings and flies breed in manure around barns. The author nevertheless says motor vehicles will not force humans to give up horses.
Observers praise Scandinavian settlers for promoting church and school, high farming standards, thrift, and prosperity. They are cited as embodying the best in government, education, religion, and modern civilization, representing a premier immigrant group.
The article praises maca roni wheat nearing the value of traditional varieties, notes its suitability for semiarid western regions, and discusses farm practices including meat handling changes, windbreak trees from willows and soft maples, and the benefit of ten acres planted in these trees for prairie farms.
A farmer complains about cattle profits while a city butcher explains the meat trade. A shopper buys a half pound of steak for dinner and orders delivery to her home, then repeats the trip, illustrating social norms and clever commerce in a humorous vignette.
The narrator visits a small farm praised for its neat painted house and fences, orderly outbuildings, a well kept garden, uniform White Rock poultry, and fifty Shropshire sheep. The farm features a well water pump, grain stacks, and a red barn with the owner's name. A content family life is pictured, urging more such homes to spur rural happiness and patriotism.
A city planting guide outlines elm as a strong street tree but less coal smoketolerant than maple basswood and sycamore. It recommends hard maple for clay soil for rich foliage and autumn color while noting catalpa for late spring leaves and early fall drop. It suggests black cherry for lawns bur oak for urban resilience and Colorado blue spruce for evergreen effect with advice to mix elms for streets and other species inside yards.
Justice C. E. Gardiner announced the decision upholding the Nebraska divorce law that bars a divorced person from remarrying within six months, following a week of deliberation after arguments were heard.
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