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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
12
Professor L M Montgomery outlines summer and indoor window gardening ideas for homes with limited outdoor space. He covers box sizes soil mix and drainage, plant selections for sunny and shady spots, care for moisture and fertilizer, and notes on indoor bulb potting and propagation versus buying established plants.
Simple beauty tips for farm women emphasize nightly facial washing with warm water and soap, careful nail cleaning, mascara-like lashes using vaseline, and using glycerin and rosewater in the kitchen. The advice stresses practical routines to counteract hard work and improve appearance.
A May guide warns about the leaf roller caterpillar damaging fruit and shade trees across the U S. It also provides poultry advice from Mrs J DeMarr on duck breeding, feeding, incubation, and market preparation for green ducks, stressing clean, warm housing and rapid ice-packed shipping.
Advice from a home remedy column recommends rubbing a small amount of lotion or vaseline into the hands after frequent washing. It also suggests applying a little vinegar after soaking hands and rubbing vaseline around the nails at night to soften cuticles and keep nails from becoming brittle.
Poem by Alice Spider evokes May on a rural farm with mint scent by a brook. Images of sunlit showers, hedges, rain, and blossoming orchards frame the old farmhouse as nature proclaims the month. The piece centers on tranquil spring atmosphere and a welcoming peace.
The 24 inch disk plow is recommended as superior to larger sizes. Smaller plows pull easier but don’t pulverize soil as well. Do not cut furrows wider than eight to ten inches. Two 24 inch plows cutting eight inches each are better than one sixteen inch plow. The disk plow handles dry hard ground, has lighter draft, needs less sharpening, cuts trash, and resists clogging.
The article describes the life cycle of a leaf rolling moth from May to May of the following year, detailing egg mass protection, larval feeding, and pupation. It advises destroying egg patches and spraying trees with arsenite of lead before leaf rolling begins, and provides a spray recipe and alternatives for mixed fruit trees.
The article argues that growing green ducks for summer markets is highly profitable. It cites hardiness fast growth fertility and quick market readiness at about ten weeks. It also notes two common myths about duck farming needing dispelling before proceeding.
The writer urges sticking to one bantam brand the Black Breasted Red Games for versatile use. They describe raising 33 bantams, 30 surviving, for meat and profit, with methods from nesting to feeding. Breeds like Wyandottes Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds are weighed for farm use, while egg and meat lines are discussed.
Goodall's Farmer notes farm poultry mix is common on ordinary farms, but Barred Plymouth Rock stands out as a general purpose breed. They provide fair eggs and good maternal hens, and can yield market meat with proper feeding. The article discusses heredity limits and size control in drafting animals.
The piece discusses how horse sizes vary among breeds and traces this disparity back to ancient times. It notes that natural heredity shapes size and quality, but whether a mastodon draft could evolve from a Shetland pony remains undiscovered.
Consul John H. Herley reports three black fox farms near Atherton PEI with twenty, twenty five, and thirty foxes. Foxes yield skins sold in London for 500 to 31800 each and are kept in wire netting enclosures, fed oats milk and bread with limited meat, and live wild, approached only by the keeper at feeding times.
Walter Williams of Kansas sold 112 head of Herefords on the Chicago market at 7.25 dollars per head, netting over 13000 dollars. Kangaroo rats threaten vineyards near Santa Cruz feeding on buds and vines. A mule attack in Morgan county West Virginia left farm boy Frank Culp with a severely injured leg. Texas accounts for about one fifth of US cattle, with Panhandle sales recently totaling 250000 dollars across 10000 steers.
The article notes strychnine as the most effective poison for pocket gophers per U.S. Department of Agriculture. It describes making a sugar sirup bait, soaking corn or grain, and deploying bait into main runways with a dibble. It also mentions carbon bisulphide, traps, and asserts poisoning as the best, cheapest solution.
The Narragansetts are praised for size next to the Bronze, gray steel feather edges, and metallic luster. They weigh 20-40 pounds for males and 12-18 for females with good breeding value in medium size. Docile, home-loving, and strong layers, setters, and mothers, they are urged for wider cultivation. Eid. S. Hobart.
The article warns to keep dogs away from sheep and to limit strangers near the flock. It notes some farmers let sheep roam straw stacks and feed them sparingly to avoid poorer results than neighbors use. It mentions large scale mitten finishers and operators in the context of sheep husbandry.
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