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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1910
Page
8
In Kickersville Pennsylvania dated April 11 1910 farmers discuss plow depth for corn and roots. Some plow deep per Ben Franklin maxims while others prefer shallow tilling. A neighbor plants potatoes sping alfalfa and seeds hoping for rain and better yields this season. One farmer patched ground with holes and manure to improve moisture retention.
The text notes the white poplar as a natural lightning rod and describes an average oak tree with 700 000 leaves. It mentions the earth receiving about 123 tons of water over five months and highlights hickories as the best known North American trees with fourteen species found only in North America, thirteen east of the Rockies and one in Mexico.
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