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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1901
Page
3
An advertisement extols Ayer's Pills as a gentle laxative remedy to cure biliousness and constipation, claiming they improve digestion and liver health.
Hudson Maxim describes Maximite as safe from ignition and shock. He states it melts like asphalt, boils away without exploding, and expands as it cools to form a dense shell wall. He notes it withstands armor impact without shifting. The Unterhaus in Vienna urged clarifying German tariff policy. the motion failed.
Practical notes on soil nutrients for optimal growth and yield. Also guidance on training heifers to stand quietly for milking and the best methods for salting butter and handling honey to preserve quality and value. Insights from American Agriculturist and Epitomist columns.
Growling Tomatoes Under Ginna details tomato cultivation for a hothouse crop with a 70 degree day, small night drop, sun dependence for pollen, and soil with fibrous loam and manure. It covers fertilizer suggestions, hand pollination by tapping pollen onto pistils, later reducing intervention as sunlight increases, and the single stem training method. It notes winter fruiting from August-sown seeds ripening by January and bearing through May, with succession implied.
The article notes growing fresh tomatoes in pots or boxes to replace exhausted outdoor plants, allowing the season of forced tomato culture to continue until the outdoor product reaches the market. E. Hunn discusses this method in New England Homestead.
A Long Island farmer reports profitable use of 3000 pounds of fertilizer per acre on potatoes, due to manure shortages and high manure prices. He runs a five year rotation with wheat, grass, corn, rye, turnips, and carrots, selling 4500 bushels potatoes and other crops, storing surpluses for market when ready.
A Philadelphia Record piece outlines fall and spring wheat seeding in the eastern states. It recommends deep plowing harrowing before sowing drills with fertilizer attachments, weed control through crop rotation and early cultivation, and careful manure handling. It details fertilizer regimens including nitrate of soda phosphate and potash, plus alternatives like ground dried fish and cottonseed meal with cost notes and soil- fertility caveats.
A collage of advice and ads notes skin care with Ivory Soap and oils, warns against impure soaps, mentions Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a Toledo firm, touts Cascarons and Kline nerve restorer, praises cocoa by Walter Baker & Co, and mocks cooking woes and perfume fixes.
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