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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1890
Page
4
Country Gentleman discusses improving rural housing with floor heat registers, bath facilities, and ample closets, plus ensuring convenient room shapes. It also covers winter tree care, orchard top-dressing, transplanting young trees, and mouse protection before winter, with emphasis on cost-effective upgrades for farms.
National Stockman reports a Nebraska farmer’s trial using disease-infected chinch bugs to curb an outbreak. Diseased bugs infect living colonies, sparking rapid epidemic clearance. professor Barnes at the Nebraska experiment station offers diseased bugs for spreading.
A Wisconsin farmer, Mr C R Keach of Whitewater, harvested four acres of corn silage last year and fed his herd 880 worth of hay and 120 worth of wheat bran to balance the silage. The incident illustrates the need for dry feed alongside silage to sustain cattle.
Each year frost cuts tomato yields yet green tomatoes fetch better prices as pickles. Housekeepers seek green fruit late in season when ripe supply dwindles. Growers could market part of their crop green to reduce glut and avoid sorting frosted or damaged fruit.
Instructions describe separating breeding pigs before spring fattening. Choose pigs with long straight bodies and well developed brains and shoulders as likely milkers. Feed milk and wheat middlings with ample green food to keep them thrifty without fattening.
Farm notes advise early and frequent bean spraying, dusting with wood ashes for some pests, wrapping plant stems for protection, and careful curing of clover hay. It suggests hogs reach market readiness by March to Christmas, with strategies to shorten growing time and intensify early maturity through feeding to cut costs.
Theodore L. Terry of Shudson Ohio farms potatoes with minimal stock, using clover as green manure to maintain soil fertility. He alternates potatoes and wheat with clover, returning nutrients to the soil. The piece suggests mixed farming with strong stock offers higher profits and fertility, and notes limits to universal adoption. It also cites local anecdote about long work hours from Andrew Brown of Middletown and a correspondent from Orange County Farmer.
A farmer at age 42 contemplates running a farm for profit and reward. He compares fields to pupils, noting undeveloped resources and voices of the land, while acknowledging long hours and low profits yet arguing labor carries value beyond money.
The interview reveals Edison’s insistence on practical, commercially useful work and his habit of pursuing a result through repeated trials until it succeeds. He explains that he hates his finished projects and avoids unnecessary novelty, citing the phonograph as his only exception.
Wallace Jo Campin saw a rat flee as his dog spooked wildlife near his home by Lake Fairview. He chopped a four foot snake, a skunk, and a trout weighing five pounds. The trout’s stomach contained a large rat, all in about ten minutes. Orlando Flay Reporter.
The Philadelphia Record notes an Old Tub tied to San Domingo interests, once the Deer Hound English pleasure yacht. It recalls 1860s Channel clashes near the Alabama and Kearsarge and the crew’s escapees to England, then passing through owners to serve a San Domingo president on a peacetime voyage.
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