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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1912
Page
7
A guide to massing flowers by color for year round display. White forms provide contrast and evening glow, with pink, blue, yellow, and red borders created by careful placement of perennials and annuals. Emphasis on harmony, selective pruning, and landscape potential.
The article argues gapes stem from poorly kept quarters and soil conditions. It advises dry floors for early weeks, rotating run areas, thorough sanitation, and regular changes of ground. It recommends carbolic acid treatments in a two-chamber coop if gapes appear, then relocating chicks and disinfecting roosts.
Fragmentary notes describe concerns about disease germs in hog lots and advice to change plowed up soil, keep the frame open, and improve drainage to make hog lots longer and narrower.
Fifteen years of rotation with varying fertilization at the Ohio experiment station shows average gains of 24 bushels corn 9 oats and 12 wheat per acre over non rotated plots. Manure treatment with phosphorus boosts results. gypsum and kainit are unprofitable. Costs and gains indicate treatment value nearly threefold. Also notes on poultry drinking water management and feed souring.
A study notes the English sparrow as destructive and filthy yet sometimes useful as a weed seed eater and insect predator. It damages crops and native birds, usurps nesting sites, and lacks protection despite its wide spread in the United States and Canada.
Studies show the pear thrips causes blossom and leaf bud injuries in Hudson Valley orchards. The pest, active during bud break, requires nicotine kerosene emulsion or soap sprays in multiple applications to reduce losses and support recovery.
Breeders sometimes send weak boars to fairs with excessive fat to hide defects. Top fat animals are usually sold first while rough ones are left for last. Experienced judges assess points and quality over sleek appearance, noting a boar with a long narrow head and closely set ears tends to be a poor sire.
Peeling trees in late summer will kill them and stumps can be removed with a stump puller or rot if the ground is cultivated around them. They may be destroyed by fire or dynamite. Sprouts can be killed after the trunk is dead by cutting under the surface with a mattock and steady cultivation.
Instructions advise adding disinfectant or crude carbolic acid to interior whitewash before application. The mixture aims to destroy lice and mites that contact the treated surfaces in the poultry house.
Musk melons face leaf blight and fruit anthracnose caused by fungi. Prevention relies on thorough Bordeaux mixture spraying, with early and frequent applications before and after August 1, plus monitoring downy mildew. Proper, repeated treatments help keep infections in check on young fruits and stems.
The article warns that fair packaging matters in marketing. It notes that top berries may hide spoilage and apples at the ends mislead buyers. It cites a historic example of flour barrels stamped George Washington avoiding inspection. It argues that honest dealing builds lasting reputation and succession.
Practical steps to make cheese at home from six gallons of fresh milk yield nearly five pounds. Dissolve color and rennett, heat to 86 degrees, cut curd, drain whey, heat curd to 100 degrees, salt, mold, press, and age three to four weeks. Cream cheese uses goecfourlay cream by Mrs. E. A. Neal.
The article stresses ensuring good air flow in poultry houses to prevent illness and improve profitability. It argues pure air enters every nook if allowed, warning against close stifling quarters that can injure birds and reduce yields.
Fragmentary text mentions a cadre associated with hogs and a deal, with unclear context and missing details about people, places, or events.
A white poodle crippled in a street-car crash wanders to a farm where a boy adopts it. A doctor fits an artificial leg over the stump, using a laced glove top and rubber pad. The dog travels well, though sometimes loses the artificial aid while seeking woodchucks.
An article describes building a two-box ice box with tongued and grooved lumber, inner zinc lining, and dead air space. It covers fit, waterproofing with building paper, drainage, and corrosion protection, plus notes on cleanliness and breeding guidance for mares and stallions.
The text contrasts two farmer types. The prosperous farmer diversifies with crops, livestock, vegetables, fruit, and poultry to sustain family needs and income. The unprosperous farmer relies on a single crop, avoids garden work, and laments hard times, blaming luck.
Guidance on hereditary unsoundness and defects to avoid in breeding horses. Lists vision defects roaring heaves ridgling and stringhalt among hereditary issues. bone spavin ringbone sidebone bog spavin thoroughpin curb. plus softer structures cribbing weaving and rheumatism. Advises selecting only sound, purebred sires and focusing on improvement with careful breeding plans.
The text advocates improving animal quality to double income without extra costs, stresses self-improvement and reform, and advises practical poultry care, crop-based feed, and farming discipline. It cites George S. Nixon as Nevada senator with large ranches, notes potato rot from infected seed, and links strong health signals to red combs in poultry.
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