Start a Wood Lot on Poor Acres for Profit
TheFarmers Home Journal suggests planting a wood lot on few poor acres to yield quick growing trees. Such a project can pay taxes and earn profit in a few years on land that would otherwise underperform.
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
3
TheFarmers Home Journal suggests planting a wood lot on few poor acres to yield quick growing trees. Such a project can pay taxes and earn profit in a few years on land that would otherwise underperform.
A summary of methods for growing pyrethrums including seed sowing versus division, and notes on weeds. It discusses weed control, neighborly responsibility to prevent spreading, and tomato growing as a high yield example with emphasis on fertilization costs and profit in farming.
Farmers and seedsmen work to improve sweet corn quality while suburbanites show little interest. An Indianapolis News excerpt notes selecting earliest ears speeds harvest. Parsley can be grown year round with outdoor protection, grafting, or preserved by drying or pickling for winter use.
A testimonial from Sallie Greneh of Pancaunia Ind Ter credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after seven years of female troubles. The ad promotes the product as a standard cure for displacements inflammation and related symptoms with free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham. It also mentions Catarrh and Hall's Catarrh Cure and notes money is essential for campaign expenses.
An article extols trusted health products like Syrup of figs and senna as wholesome family laxatives approved by physicians and well-informed buyers. It also describes a telegraph printing machine that punches Morse tape to drive a fast, duplex receiving and sending system with operators handling hundreds of messages daily.
An advertisement touts Hicks Capuchine as a brain and nerve refresher that creates perpetual motion. It claims benefits for fatigue and overwork and notes the liquid tonic is pleasant to take, priced 10 25 and 50 cents at drug stores.
A Topeka capitalist T. B. Sweet stopped in Abilene and ordered breakfast. The waitress brought a dozen hard boiled eggs in a bowl. Sweet protested the abundance but the waitress quipped that it was a regular cowboy breakfast, per the Kansas City Journal.
The New York American argues the president must speed up plans to aid farmers, noting the farmer’s own efforts are already underway and the country needs prompt action to catch up.
Miss Helen Sauerbier recalls a winter illness that started with a sudden cold and catarrh. After using Peruna on advice, phlegm loosened in three days, appetite returned, and within nine days she felt in usual health. The note praises Peruna as an old and well tried remedy.
TerreRine has helped many with eczema and other skin diseases, advertised as a wonder cure. It claims marvellous effects in aggravated eczema cases and lists a 60 cent price through druggists or mail from T SavrrRins, Savhna, Ga. The piece also quotes a New York Evening Mail lament on class distinctions tied to architectural terms.
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