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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
4
A 19th century note says store onions in a cool dry place to prevent growth and spoilage. Near freezing temperatures and dry air extend shelf life, while freezing causes thawed onions to deteriorate when mishandled.
A dairyman must choose breeds that maximize milk yield or cream content. The dairy scientist first selects the breed for the intended purpose and then feeds to maximize milk or butter yield relative to feed cost, based on each breed’s suitability for converting into milk ingredients.
In fall culling is essential to improve flock quality and feeding efficiency. Undersized or poorly shaped birds stand out to buyers like small potatoes at sale time, so remove inferior specimens now to present a top flock and optimize feeding.
John Long of the Indiana Farmer touts wagon box manure spreaders as ideal for daily and weekly manure removal to fields. He notes high durability, easy loft storage, light bed attachments, and user friendly operation suitable even for a ten year old.
Irma B. Matthews explains a preferred winter egg preservation method from the Indiana Farmer. Fresh eggs are gathered, stood on the small end, and packed in bran in layers, fully covered, until the container is filled. Bran preserves quality for months, avoiding salt packing and other treatments, enabling year round access to eggs during cold weather.
Prune flowering shrubs after they bloom and avoid indiscriminate cutting. Remove old flowering wood to encourage young growth and stronger future blooms.
The piece notes poultry benefiting from orchard feed and thriving in shade, with no artificial shade surpassing a good fruit bush. It emphasizes a rural, home-garden perspective from the Farmer's Home Journal.
Keep garden sides free from weeds and tall grass to curb insect pests. When weeds are managed pests spend less time in the area, reducing crop assault risks per Farmer's Home Journal.
Blight and beetles harming melons or cucumbers can be subdued by spraying the underside of leaves with Bordeaux mixture every ten days. Remove all diseased leaves and consider planting squash or pumpkins as a catch crop since beetles reportedly prefer them to melons or cucumbers.
Perennial sunflowers need little urging thanks to bright yellow blooms and clean foliage. Prepare ground thoroughly, trench and loosen soil, add stable manure for deep roots, plant in spring, avoid wet soil, and use large holes filled with light compost of leaf mold and sharp sand for best results. Most perennials repay initial effort under proper conditions.
Winter spreading of fresh stable manure provides peak plant food value, and thicker applications leach more nutrients into soil for spring humus. Wood ashes are best applied after plowing in spring to keep potash near root zones and prevent deeper leaching. Epitomist notes emphasize timely use for soil improvement.
A Gardeners' Magazine guide to hedge making using flowering shrubs. Syringa hedges such as Philadelphus rosaeflorus and P Gordonianus provide lush blooms. Mixed shrub hedges offer charm where uniform height isn’t needed, with plants like Escallonia macrantha Viburnum Opulus and snowberry tree pruned into regular forms for small gardens.
Mr A H Horwood of the Leicester Inkland Museum explains how birds’ eggs imitate their nesting environment for protection. White eggs come from hole or dark nesters like owls and woodpeckers, while ground nesters show olive green or brown grounds. Ringed plover, little tern and oyster catcher eggs resemble beach sand and shingle, lapwing eggs mimic bare soil, and grouse ptarmigan and forth eggs blend with heather. Young chicks inherit similar protective coloration.
A local lawyer arrives late to a formal dinner, offering only Detained on Important business. His wife vents until at last he reveals he bailed two of her women friends from jail for speeding, which explains the tardiness. The couple reconciles after the odd tale.
Readable excerpts recount the Vicksburg siege with cave dwellings where families sought safety. William W. Lord Jr. narrates daily life marked by humor, pathos, and tragedy, including clergy resilience and soldiers in the besieged church. Also mentions patent nostrums and a verse lampoon.
A collage of advertisements and snippets touts cures for ring worm and piles, with testimonials from Mrs. M. F. Jones of Pittsburgh praising TeTTERweE and Paro Vintment. Other items include Kokomo cocoa verse, Mitchell's Eye Salve from 1848, and light fiction lines from Everybody's Magazine and Kansas City Independent.
In Vienna promoters of the Institution for the Blind report eight months of operation show 23,000 kronen worth of orders executed and fair profit. All workers are blind and brushes and baskets are made. Consideration is given to enlarging workshops as wares are sold in fair market competition with similar factories.
A yearlong suffering boy covered in eczema improves after using Cuticura products, with a claim of complete recovery in six weeks. The page also includes satirical lines about feminine logic and a warning against mercury in catarrh remedies, endorsing Hall's Catarrh Cure and related products, plus a street scene joke about a collection plate on the boulevard.
Mrs Thomas Thompson of Clarksville Ga writes of 15 year eczema cured by Terrentwe after doctors failed. She thanks Terrenixe, sold locally or by mail from Savannah Ga. Also mentions ad lines about Bromo Quinine and a one day cold cure with EK W Grove signature.
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