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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1896
Page
3
In timely garden notes the author advises against fancy fruit names like nonesuch or excelsior. Real quality matters, as the best fruit remains popular regardless of novelty. Long or odd names do not boost sales, while classic varieties with proven excellence stay competitive.
A strawberry bed thrives in the second year after planting but becomes crowded by runners thereafter. Remove last year's runners and replant them in a new bed for the next year. Old plants, weeded and freed of extras, will bear this year but not a full crop. Maintain two beds to ensure a full annual harvest.
A London correspondent laments the decline of chrysanthemum beauty. He argues amateurs rejected staged varieties for natural forms, while growers trim wild Japanese types into fat, tangled blooms. The piece defends field and hedge flowers over pedantic florist fashions.
Guidance on selecting land for onions, soil preparation, and planting steps. Dampen soil to a shallow, rich bed, cultivate three to four inches deep, soak seed, mark rows clearly, drop seeds precisely, and apply nitrate of soda potash and nitrogen-rich manures. Emphasizes minimizing hand weeding and early growth benefits from nitrogen.
A Cornell Central New York experiment challenges winter pruning as best, noting no healing advantage by pruning in any particular month. Six Kool-sized trees and a young orchard were studied with various wound coverings showing no clear benefit.
Fragmentary medical guidance discusses treating wounds with shellac and paint as protective coverings to keep out bacteria. It mentions Bordeaux mixture as a potentially effective remedy, advantages of rapid callus growth on branches, and cautions on cutting technique to avoid improper angle joins with the tree trunk.
The article explains how mulching around frozen ground slows flowering by keeping temperatures low. It compares tree buds, potato eyes, and tubers, noting buds and sprouts rely on stored starch and moisture from previous seasons. Proper wood ripening in fall ensures bud life for spring growth.
Agricultural tips on live stock care and feeding with notes on grain choices and beekeeping. Advises exercise for brood mares, dry beds for young pigs, grain benefits, oats or bran preferred to corn, bee propolis ineffectual as cement, bee lifespans tied to work, winter honey supply, and warnings about war clouds and pests in corn and cattle.
Practical farming snippets cover geese and ducks for steady income, space and care tips to prevent ill health, advice on buying better stock, plant care experiments, watering, and the Eden banana myth. Also notes on grit for hens, house plants, and early calf care for healthier livestock.
Hawaii Island, the largest in the group, spans 4,216 square miles with 27,000 population. It contains 25 sugar plantations on over 100,000 acres, producing about 73,000 tons annually valued around 4.5 million dollars, employing over 10,000 people, and dominating regional sugar output. The Hutchinson Plantation Company and Kukai plantation also run stock, dairy, and coffee operations, including 500 cows and eighty acres of coffee with an estimated forty-acre crop yield of 31,53 pounds of berries this year.
In 1858 C. P. Bateman of Minerva Kentucky cut his initials on a 25 cent piece and kept it as a pocket token for a year or two before selling it. Last week Capt Monroe Bateman of Columbia Missouri, his brother, received the coin and asserts it is the same piece, recalling the inscription and its distinctive features.
The Queen of Servin indulges luxuries but avoids the pillow habit custom. She sleeps on a narrow divan with a tight mattress and no headrest, yet her figure remains perfect and carriage stately. The Servi royal children were never allowed pillow indulgence.
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