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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1907
Page
13
The article explains how irrigation sediments affect crops. Beneficial sediments mix into soil, while barren silt blankets impede water and air reaching roots. Deep cultivation helps. when sediments are poor, settling basins can reduce them in irrigation water.
The article lists three tests to verify Bordeaux mixture quality. First, a minute of contact with a clean knife blade should show copper plating if lime is insufficient. Second, a light pellicle should form on a shallow dish surface when blown across. Third, adding ferrocyanide to the diluted Bordeaux should produce no color change if lime is adequate.
A Kansas Farm Journal summary notes the green bug invading Texas Oklahoma and spreading toward Kansas. It details its destruction of grains, its natural enemies including parasitic bee larvae, and the distinctive aphid life cycle with winged migratory females and seasonal eggs.
The advertisement touts Dr. R. V. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and tonic for stomach and liver disorders. It lists ingredients like Golden Seal Queen’s root and Bloodroot, claims non alcohol content, and offers a free booklet upon request from Buffalo New York. It also promotes All-Healing Salve for sores and Pleasant Pellets for digestion, with order details and pricing.
Kansas State University reports ongoing work to foster and distribute natural enemies of aphis as a key pest fight. Efforts aim to reduce seasonal damage through biological control and careful pest management.
The Homestead notes practical tips for small plots. It advises breaking crusts around young plants to curb weeds and retain moisture. A tooth harrow is recommended for this task. It also warns against mixing poultry and garden crops on the same land due to fencing needs.
A writer in Orange Judd Farmer notes alfalfa grown under irrigation on moist soils becomes very rank, producing little seed. Growers in fertile valleys often choose the third cutting for seed, hoping to save seed from earlier cuts as moisture wanes later in the season.
A neighbor crafts a simple derrick to lift heavy weights such as hogs or steers. The post is chestnut tapering from eight to three and a half inches, with two inch iron bearings and a wheel salvaged from an old chain pump. Blacksmiths fabricate the iron parts, and the device can work without a wheel by winding the rope around a post peg.
The article touts summer cotting and yarding as superior methods for handling most pig classes. It notes cats as especially useful for dry brood sows and young breeding stock, praising their access to fresh air, sun, and exercise.
A Rural New York writer recalls 1905 gardening trials with striped bugs devastating crops. He notes lacking a trap crop of bush squashes allowed insect damage, while bush squashes' vigorous growth drew pests away from main plantings.
The author details a squash growing method using a Bush Fordhook trap crop to protect plantings from pests. After initial losses from insects and over rich soil, protection with wire screens and staggered plantings led to a good July harvest. The plan involves timing plantings, dusting with dust, kerosene emulsion sprays, and removing trap crops by early August to optimize Fordhook squash and Deli cious varieties.
Ralph E. Smith notes pear scab as a major obstacle across California reducing quality and yield with widespread occurrence. He adds spray timing is often ineffective due to frequent rains and highlights widespread pear blight threatening the industry, prompting renewed suppression efforts, especially in southern California where apples in mountain districts are affected.
The guide explains spraying potatoes with Bordeaux mixture containing Paris green at four to six ounces per fifty gallons. For New York early potatoes apply in June, mediums from July 1 to 15, and late varieties by the third week in July. Repeat every two to four weeks, with usually three treatments sufficient.
A Chicago Tribune meditation on how peaceful minds influence others. Gentle, healthful thoughts create positive atmospheres and lift the distressed, bolster courage, and renew vitality in those around us through harmonious inner states.
Cattlemen with Osage and Kaw leases plan to stock to the limit this year as allotment of the lands to Indians approaches next year. Cattle will be unloaded at Elgin Kansas and driven across the line beginning about April 1 for thirty days. Some ranchers will relocate to Old Mexico seeking cheaper land.
The Buffalo Express speculates on Iceland's ambitions for a distinct national flag and possible independence. The piece questions what course Iceland would chart as an autonomous nation and how such moves might unfold.
A reflective essay on how weather and crop conditions dominate life in the corn belt. It traces January to September anxieties from cold snaps and late springs to early frosts, winds, and hail, and ends with lingering fears of early snow and bumper harvest pressures.
Quote from Helen V. Roberts in Collier's Weekly warns that bargains tempt readers but living in the corn belt may not be peaceful or bucolic as advertised.
The article urges consistent hog profits through balanced rations, proper feed, and good living conditions. It warns against over fattening brood sows, emphasizes vigor in breeding stock, and notes free exercise and dry, draft-free sleeping quarters as keys to healthy, profitable hogs.
A satirical column notes beliefs about women's beauty and faith influencing others, explains why the average woman might avoid marriage if not pursued, and mocks the idea of brains versus hot water in wives. It comments on suburban life as training for indifference to jail and jokes about money and engagement norms.
A historic remark notes that respectable men shun labor driven by depraved appetite, reflecting social judgments of work ethic and morality in the period.
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