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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1899
Page
6
Apple tree wood is valuable and should not be burned as firewood. Do not cut long unproductive healthy trees. instead, utilize trunks to yield profitable crops. Old trees beyond saving should be salvaged before winter, as factories will pay well for suitable apple wood.
Farmers should remove and pile manure to form rich mould in barnyards then spread it as a safe fertilizer. Canners pay low prices for green corn, yet cured corn stalk fodder is valuable feed and ear early harvests can be sold privately. The article also covers three potato essentials including soil seed and culture, fall plowing, pure seed, storage, seed preparation, and planting depths and spacing.
The piece extols crosswise harrowing to destroy hill weeds and give potatoes a strong start, notes that nearly any potato variety can fail without proper selection, and urges early spring planting once soil is workable. It discusses hog farming as a profitable, convenient stock on corn farms, with improved breeding and value of pigs as cash year round.
The guide explains plowing or spading a plot to proper depth and applying manure or poultry litter. It advises early spring planting of pear, beets, lettuce, radish, onions, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, squash, beans, and corn with succession sowing every week or ten days for a steady harvest. It stresses long rows for wheel hoe efficiency and cautions about frost risk.
In 1898 Brooklyn issued 7,483 permits for new buildings and alterations, up from 6,807 the prior year. A total of 2,059 new buildings were completed during the year.
A fragment from a humor page presents a jumble of jokes and quips about romance, money, and social pretensions. Characters mock betters, wives, and widows while trading barbed social observations. Names and places are sparse, but the tone mirrors light era humor.
Exhibition of picture postal cards has been held in Vienna Stuttgart Nuremberg Leipsic Zurich and Nice. The first popular card was printed at Basle in 1680. At Nice 17 000 specimens were shown including 400 depicting scenery near Nice and other subjects like mowers.
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