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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1871
Page
1
A local writer promotes diversified farming in Colorado, noting potatoes could surge with irrigation, rail access, and regional soil conditions. He highlights water limits, crop comparisons, and nephew Max Clark's mixed results while urging practical farming and shared learning.
Harper's Magazine notes extensive tree plantations in Algiers with Acacia mollissima and Acacia lophantha reaching nine to twelve feet, improving climate with rain and dew. In Landes, sixteen square miles along the Bay of Biscay coast were planted with cork and swamp pine, draining swamps and reducing fevers, under strict replanting rules.
The article discusses age and productivity, citing Galton and Beard on the mean time of life for great work, and notes Generals peak young while judges show longevity. It then details Highland Nursery near Denver, describing 40 acres with diverse crops, fruit trees, vines, and a thriving home established since 1870 by Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, plus reflections on decades from brazen to wooden.
An health column explains correct head alignment during sleep. It notes that lying on back requires no pillow while side sleeping needs a pillow to align head with the spine. Elevating the head disrupts respiration and blood flow due to neck tube-like airways and vessels bending.
L K Perrin moved from Oxford Massachusetts to Colorado in 1860 and bought 320 acres near Clear Creek at the Middle Crossing four miles from Denver. He built a thriving diversified farm with over 50 cultivated acres featuring gardens orchards and field crops. The Perrin operation employs one English gardener and wife six men and eleven horses and mules, raises poultry stock and swine for prizes, and emphasizes deep plowing crop rotation and ample water.
The article discusses how foresting and deforesting alter climates, noting India and Egypt as examples where reforestation increased rainy days. It mentions global interest and mentions French administration measures supporting tree growth.
The writer admires Colorado flora sharing notes on lupine in purple pink and blue hues while cultivating cactus blooms indoors. They describe sixteen cactus blossoms and various cactus shapes, admiring yet fearing the spiny plants as they ponder conquering and imprisoning them.
The piece contrasts youth and old age, noting the young seek ascent while the elderly recall past triumphs. Dr Beard examines this through eight hundred biographies across ages and nations, asking at what age people reach their best.
The Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal notes rising incentives for women’s medical study in Europe and America. It cites a Boston philanthropist bequeathing nearly 1.5 million dollars to fund a female medicine institution, while critics fear women doctors may displace male practitioners as crinolined graduates gain prominence.
The essay argues that near sightedness can cause blindness in middle life and be inherited, urging couples to consider this in marriage. It warns parents to detect early signs in children and for teachers to limit near work, suggesting current education may harm eyesight and recommending a return to oral classical teaching.
The editor of the Woman's Journal in San Francisco offers free advertising to any shoemaker who settles there and makes ladies calfskin shoes with comfort and warmth. The offer promises ad space to publicize a good article. The Publisher of Tax Gresney Trisuye makes the same offer.
Professor Wilder describes plantigrade feet and argues that humans roll from heel to toe while bears plant the whole foot flat. He notes the bear cannot heel strike and push off with a spring, unlike humans, drawing a comparison to a dancer with a wooden leg.
A quotation from Spurzheim argues that children gain more in studies when given good physical education alongside intellectual learning. It warns against forcing early reading at the expense of health and bodily development, urging simultaneous cultivation of body and mind.
Prof 0 Marsh reports in the Journal of Science New Haven on Rocky Mountain fossil serpents. They are unique on this continent aside from three New Jersey species and show many Boa Constrictor relatives. Lengths range four to eight feet, prompting a new genus name Boavus meaning grandfather of the Boa.
Dr Turner cites 1406 delirium tremens cases with 980 showing alcoholic ancestry. He estimates eight in ten ancestors were heavy drinkers. Rev G Ames of California highlights his wife preaching while he was away, managing domestic duties and sermon prep. Geneseo Republic notes a Scottish immigrant collie said to control 500 sheep bound for Colorado.
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