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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1908
Page
5
The article explains sowing tomato seed thinly in a hotbed during late winter and slow growth without transplanting until June. Plants grown under these conditions tend to be long and thin with a small tuft of leaves at the top.
Transplant young tomato seedlings and use clean cultivation with spring-tooth cultivator or narrow-teeth hoes. In check rows 4 feet apart horse-hoes keep weeds minimal. one-direction cultivation requires land hoes. Proper planning and horsepower reduce production costs and boost profits.
An article cautions gardeners on planting depth for geoberry and blackberry plants, raspberries and strawberries. It notes many buyers bury canes four to six inches too deep, causing weak base growth and poor shoots next year. A nursery owner recalls a customer who buried asparagus a foot deep, declaring plants dead when they were alive.
The article notes Germany spends about 60 million dollars annually on commercial fertilizers. It claims crop yields have risen sevenfold. A fragmented dialogue fragment about a man speeding and a question about a marriage follows, with a garbled reply.
The article argues farmers should focus on eggs rather than chickens when lacking dedicated attention to poultry. Fresh eggs fetch higher prices, while raising fowls requires time, expense, and disease risk. Success hinges on proper flock care, proper facilities, and proximity to market.
The article notes tuberculosis in large poultry ranches as a steady drain rather than a sudden alarm, with liver involvement commonly enlarged and studded with yellowish white nodules, affecting many birds over time.
The passage describes nodules of varying size across cases, easily detached from liver tissue. Poultrymen recognize the condition as liver complaint or spotted liver, a familiar ailment in birds.
Instructions on preparing capons for sale emphasize killing only after crops are empty and the bird is fat. A fat capon earns a higher price, with specific feather preservation on the neck, wings, leg joints, and back. Keep clean, wrap the head in paper, and ensure a neat appearance to boost value.
In absence of an egg tester, a lamp in a dark box serves as a tester. Fertile eggs show a black spot with radiating spider legs after seven or eight days, indicating stronger chick development. clear eggs or those with no spot are infertile or dead and should be discarded.
Old notes describe scalding ducks at 185 degrees then wrapping in a woolen blanket for ten minutes to ease feather removal. It mentions picking technique and a proverb about a man with a big head not handling Beart, implying a cautionary folk saying.
Clyde, destined for the stage, defies her lover Dick Graves by going to New York. Two weeks later she returns to find him dead, the awakening of love arriving too late. A final telegram hints at choices and consequences in a stark, bittersweet tale.
Miss A Meyer visits Mr Nea and returns home while Miss Rosa Nea comes back from Evaneville. Doctors operated on Sam Hoosier s 10 year old girl and may amputate the leg due to a severe bone condition. Pastor Father Maurus announces Rev Odilo Witt as successor. Abbotts agrees to step down. St Meinrad ball team defeats Ferdinand 8 to 2 with Edward Ringemann as umpire. Local trips include Megara Neu and Yent touring Tell City to inspect brick plants. St Maurus Council marks anniversary with High Mass and procession. Rheinhold Sturm called away by distant residents. Dance attendance includes many locals at a Carr ie Collignon event.
Fulda notes Weaver as candidate reminder. John Zogeleman and John Harm visit Owensboro relatives. Jacob Schaffer loses a fine colt to a fatal leg injury. John Heidelbech greets friends from Huntingburg. Supervisor Gotz and crew repair roads. Roll brothers of Santa Claus visit on a pleasure trip. Misses Simon visit Owensboro. Mary Wolf visits here. Schools resume with strong attendance. Frances Anderson returns from Louisville. Barbara Dilger back from Rockport. Gusta Gusta marks 17th birthday with a party. Weaver elected Jackson school director with 9 votes to 2 for Wagner and 1 each for Collignon and Kern. Wall of St Meinrad attends meeting. Mariah Hill visitors in town for pleasure, which turns to something else. Meriah Hillboye urged to keep quiet. Pfeiffer sisters host guests Sunday. Meth Miller of St Wendell, Ind.
Mariah Hill celebrates arrival of a baby boy. St Meinrad visitors Maggie and Annie Speckner with Anna Jellig. Mrs Sturm of Jasper visits town. Isidore Egloff of St Meinrad stays with sister F Wagner. Will Dilger and family trip to Huntingburg. Aloys and Albert Jellig in Huntingburg on business. Frank Roos family of Ferdinand visits. F J Wirtzberger's Huntingburg business trip. Henry Feldhaus promotes Evanaville Demokrat. Parochial school opens with good attendance. Our team loses 23 21 to Dale Regulars Babes.
Real estate transfers listed include Vanderheide to Vanderheide and Kremp to Anderson among others with parcels ranging up to 408 acres. Amid the transfers a cheap Ladies and Misses shoe sale at Henry Beckmann's Farmers Store offers $2.25 values for $1 and slippers from 60 cents.
Henry Beckmann proprietor of the Farmers Store seeks 5000 bushels of line hulled Clover Seed at top prices. Call or deliver details to Farmers Store for urgent sale.
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