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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
7
Practical notes on watermelons and soil, manuring, and row cultivation, followed by leather care for saddles and then beekeeping with Italian hives. Emphasizes compost blends, seed placement, thinning, and late-season vigor. Includes bee-keeping as a farm staple, noting honey yields and medicinal value.
A Southern Cultivator excerpt notes farmers in Fairburn Georgia report six cent cotton helped them shift to corn and credit sales. It cites a neighbor who spent a week with two mules breaking six acres for corn and plans to use 800 pounds of guano per acre, showing growing emphasis on soil preparation and the Williamson plan.
A farmer’s tip recommends using fresh milk as a saddle dressing. The article claims milk’s fat and components act as a substitute for oil, improving leather if applied correctly and repeatedly.
The article argues for a 10 percent reduction in cotton acreage in 1908 due to lower mill demand, falling prices, and reduced wages in Northern mills. It recommends planting food crops, raising hogs, and increasing fruits and vegetables to improve profitability amid a poor yield caused by a cold spring and adverse weather and labor conditions.
A Massey advice note explains peanut pops stem from potash deficiency, not lime. Lime frees potash. use phosphate rich fertilizer and muriate of potash. plaster is common but requires acid phosphate mixing with lime phosphate. sandy soils lack potash and acid phosphate with potash boosts yield and reduces pops.
C K Davis argues that understanding nutrition and protein in feed is more valuable for growing stock than memorizing historical battles. The quote highlights practical agricultural education over classical topics.
King Edward Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria visit the Russian emperor with a large suite. Minotaur Achlies four torpedo boat destroyers meet at Kiel and escort to Reval. Nicholas entertains aboard Standart. Brent declines Washington bishop post. Passaic and Delaware line wreck near Millington injuring several, including Frederick P. Olcott and Fred B. Valentine. Oklahoma hotel bed bill signed. Ross jailed for school funds misappropriation. Philadelphia launch explosion kills one, injures fifteen. Leach succeeds Stillings as public printer. Edwards and Burkhalter quarrel on train. Vaudeville actor Jepson dies. Guild of Massachusetts considered VP bid. Guion joins Vicksburg Park commission. Uruguayan-US extradition treaty signed. Kingsbury accused killer surrounded. Persia seeks order amid turmoil. Chicago butter famine looms on new cream tariff. Hoflin arraigned for assault on Lundy and McCreary.
Science has yet to explain why seedless fruits occur. They are not man made outcomes but results propagated by nature. The seedless orange reportedly appeared in a natural state of seedlessness, not through human intervention.
A fisherman notes that no fish are found in one spot and advises casting the net in a different location where schools were seen. The remark suggests shifting effort to improve catch.
An incandescent lamp in a green shade gives diffused light for a room. A Lahore lite society announced a talk titled Man, the Index of Creation. City authorities sent 25 armed constables to the lecture hall, which only held people.
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