This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1902
Page
6
A London Market Gardener describes a petrol lorry used to haul crops to market. The machine performs the work of six horses, can carry 4,500 pounds, and once delivered five tons of tomatoes sixteen miles, leaving at 3 o clock. It unloaded first load, then returned home to haul a second.
A Rural New Yorker report describes a farm automobile system covering sixty four miles to Lomé after two trips, costing 75 cents in fuel. The 17 by 4 foot machine with a three ton frame ran sixteen miles with 2.5 tons in 2.5 hours, using petroleum. It carried 280 baskets of grapes at 3.75 dollars total versus 12 cents per basket by rail, suggesting potential in rural freight and express rate reduction, with roads near cities most suitable.
Reclamation of tidal salt marshes in Atlantic states is discussed with reference to European practice in Holland Denmark Germany and Belgium. The piece notes health and fertility implications, outlines reclamation methods, and cites Ohio and rye crop data as context for agricultural value and costs.
Rural New Yorker advice on cellar and pit storage covers dry handling of potatoes, double-layered straw and soil coverings, and late season care. It warns against storing cabbage, turnips, and rutabagas in home cellars due to odor, recommends loose soil for root crops, and emphasizes drainage, low temperature, and preventing freezing.
A Farm and Fireside piece argues warm stalls save feed costs for cattle, noting comfortable cattle eat better and fatten on less feed. It suggests boards and proper bedding beat high corn prices, with practical stall setups and a lengthened wheelbarrow illustration from Farm Journal.
The article discusses fodder handling with ash-wood lengtheners, and practical hog care. It covers drying pumpkins in barns, movable pens for cleanliness and even manure distribution, and skimmilk plus corn to strengthen bone. It warns against exclusive corn diets for hogs and notes digger deficiencies in potato fields and a Cornel station view on improving level tillage.
Ohio grower W K Fouts details a costly 1900 tobacco season with wet conditions causing burn and stem rot. Wages rose from 1899 by 25 percent, nine acres of Spanish tobacco produced receipts and gains totaling 196 45, with many labor tasks itemized from April to July and low crop prices trading near market tops.
Hoarne's Dairyman says twenty pounds daily is the limit for potatoes fed to cows and advises cutting into angular pieces to prevent choking, not cooking for cattle, and cooking for swine with four and a half pounds of potatoes per pound of ground corn. American Cultivator dissents, warning that twenty pounds daily yields thin milk and favors feeding to swine, while Egyptian onions and hardy varieties are discussed for hardiness and yield. Hogs like sorghum as forage, with cowpeas planted alongside, offering good hog gains and corn savings.
Aroostook County Maine reports a record potato crop amid national shortages. Angora goats draw interest among Maine farmers. New York suffers potato rot while Pan-American dairy tests show Guernsey profits in early October. Orchard income potential noted at 500 dollars per twenty acres. Ohio potato yields lag behind average. soil humus formation aided by cover crops. Maine beans and potatoes show promising improvement per American Cultivates.
A jealous husband hires a detective to watch his wife while he is abroad paying a $200 fortnight fee. The observer grows to pity the wife and the husband, discovers the wife’s innocence, and ends with the detective quitting, the husband ashamed, and the observer contemplating a career as an actress after adopting a new identity. The piece ends with a wry remark about the couple’s marriage and the detective's decision.
A compact advertisement extols Benson's Plasters as highly effective for gout rheumatism neuralgia chest colds and back pain. It promises rapid relief and notes availability from druggists with prepaid postage on orders in the United States for 25 cents each, with Seabury & Johnson as manufacturers in New York.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.