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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1910
Page
9
An experienced grower from Randolph County North Carolina offers detailed steps for packing apples into barrels. He covers base preparation, racking to settle fruit, facing ends with stem down, layering, cushioning, and sealing with caps and a press, stressing uniform grade and an honest pack.
The notes cover 65 active beet sugar factories across 16 states, 365000 acres grown to beets yielding 8470000 tons. It warns against using immature sows for breeding and stresses the value of strong breeding stock for hog growth. It also lists long fruit-tree bearing periods, the San Gabriel grapevine’s size, and cautions about poor fences and lean hogs hurting profits.
A discussion notes that farmers and their wives bear heavy burdens as land yields meager returns. The suggestion is to lighten domestic labor if farmers could obtain more income, improving the rural household condition amid limited crops and toil.
An essay argues farm life burdens fall more from lack of thought than money. It praises improvements in home machinery and utilities, from running water to electricity, and notes rural delivery and telephone growth will ease drudgery. The author envisions farmer homes becoming as comfortable as city homes.
A Connecticut State Experiment Station bulletin warns that feeds containing grain screenings risk introducing weeds. Analyses of wheat screenings show flax and shrunk cereals at 30 percent, foxtails 15 percent, bindweeds 8 percent, digweeds 15 percent, other weed seeds 21 percent, plus dust and broken seed.
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