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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
14
Advice from the Kissimmee Valley Gazette on planting watermelons to build a local market. Advocates 5 to 25 acre melons, direct sale by car at the depot, and collective effort to create profitable, local demand. Also notes ladders for pruning, fertilizer, and manure nitrogen levels, plus beekeeping colony survival and spring recovery.
The excerpt covers orchard ladder use for pruning, selecting tall ladders, and pruning timing. It discusses soil preferences for potatoes including moisture retention and drainage, soil slope effects on crops, and the impact of organic matter on water holding. It also explains regular feeding for working horses, dangers of immature breeding, salt quality for dairy butter, the value of loving labor, and feeding needs for colts, sows, and cows with emphasis on regular hours and exercise.
Advice from Progressive Farmer urges Southern farmers to invest in diverse pasture mixtures, maintain year round grazing, and remove unproductive areas. Herds should graze longer, weeds kept low, and running sheep or goats used to control growth. Emphasizes pasture as foundation of profit and labor efficiency, noting ten months of pasture possible in Gulf States.
The article stresses the importance of a horse's feet and legs beyond beauty, noting flaws to avoid. It describes four example horses, including misaligned knees, hind shoes striking front, too-wide feet indicating a bad stumble, and toes turned out causing interference at the ankles.
Under President Diaz the railroads of Mexico have reached 19,000 miles, and the Government revenues have grown from 15,000,000 to 115,000,000.
A letter from Minnesota Governor Johnson to William J. Bryan places himself at Democrats’ service for September speaking engagements. Rumors of life-insurance policies on Taft and Roosevelt circulate amid Roosevelt–Parker campaign chatter. Texas politics shift as Martin Dies defeats Cooper in the Fifth District renomination. others are renominated. Bryan targets Taft on bank deposits, labor, tariffs, trusts in upcoming speeches, while the first bale of cotton is sent to Tammany Hall for campaign funds. Bryan criticizes the Independence party. A large shoestring protest item arrives in Washington for Taft. a telephone booth incident at Hot Springs yields a new mammoth booth. Invitations go out for Denver fair addresses. Cortelyou rumored as possible anti-Hughes gubernatorial candidate.
A judge recalls a peculiar watch with an eleven hour face. Green explains it was custom made to fit a lost hour per half day, and the watchmaker said faster adjustment was impossible.
Ten individuals retain privacy about their personal troubles, choosing to handle issues privately and not disclose them publicly.
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon leaves Washington for San Juan to probe the United States property dispute with the Catholic church. In related dispatches, the sultan of Turkey via the New York consul-general Mundji Dey proclaims amnesty to political fugitives regardless of race, affecting about 200,000 Armenians and others in the United States.
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