10 Dec 1892
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Newspaper
Iowa Le Mars Weekly Sun
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1892
Page
1
A rural correspondent outlines practical principles for breeding matched carriage horses. Emphasis on prepotent sires, crossbreeding mares, and coordinating two mares to one sire to improve form, color, and spirit. Also notes feeding trials with hogs and cows, and a fall crop tip for sowing turnips late in September.
Practical agriculture notes advise deep plowing, mixed fertilizers, and soil warming for corn. Emphasizes weed control, early mowing, clover rotation, and growing diverse crops. Warns clay soils require care to prevent baking and praises small, well-tended farms. A correspondent recalls wet conditions and turnip yields from late sowing.
The cut Fig 10 depicts a sawbuck extension for long timbers. The saw fits into a slotted sawing arm and moves up and down freely, secured by a pin through the cross slot. An improvement to the ordinary buck is noted for two man cross cut sawing. Farm and Home.
A Michigan farmer reports a windbreak planting of 150 trees along a road using sugar maple and white pine. He notes maples transplanted from natural growth thrive, supplying sap and syrup for years. The article also describes a planned sap tapping trough system and offers dairy and pruning tips for late summer and fall.
After blooming, wood must grow for next season with care to avoid pruning errors. Many landscape gardeners prune too early or too harshly in spring, harming flowering shrubs. This widespread practice underscores the need to respect season for blooming when shaping plants.
Dairymen are urged to attend public sales of pure-bred dairy stock to buy cows or bulls at reasonable prices. The piece cites a Philadelphia Guernsey sale where averages hovered around 80 dollars. argues pure-bred cows can be worth 75 to 100 dollars with proper care and feed, and notes a bull sold for 39 dollars highlights the lure of pure-bred breeding.
Instructions describe assembling a fodder throwing device using two poles fourteen feet long two cross pieces two standards three standard braces two cross braces from standard to tunnels another cross stick bolted together with hind wheels from a wagon tongue and drag pins. An eleven inch augur makes the holes allowing one man to hurl as much fodder as two with a wagon frame.
Westchester County New York owner W L Miller Jr reports a small poultry operation with feed cost 827.04 and income from eggs sold 679, chickens 26.25, eggs used 26.53 and 6 brils manure at Tae. The total income 63.29 yields a profit of 36.25 after valuing eggs eaten at 25 cents per dozen. Hatch rate and care routine noted with Barred Plymouth Rocks and 89 eggs per hen.
A collection of plain speak home remedies and tips. Salt on hot clinkers cleans embers, lemon rind with alcohol makes lemon extract, vinegar and borax clean galvanized items, soda cleans window glass, blotting paper dries excess water, brown sugar syrup mimics maple, dried orange peels flavor cakes, and mindful care keeps boots, shoes, and nails in good condition.
A collection of vivid Civil War sketches recounts a wounded veteran’s tale at Gettysburg, a Rebel captain’s beach prison ruse, a sharpshooter’s tree ambush, and Madagascar the brave dog who died guarding a picket. Also features Gen Grant and Gen Sherman’s near misses and battlefield ironies.
The 1891 report shows 409,489 members in good standing as of December 31, 1890 with a slight gain for 1891 and a noted drop in early 1890s membership. A line about Yorktown highlights a morning’s work in reductions and reforms within the organization.
Frederick J. Smith of Trinity College Oxford describes a method using two organ pipes and a telephonic circuit to compare tones heard at distant stations. By sinking pipes underwater and adjusting one until both emit the same note, the river height is read from the equalized lengths, about seventeen inches total. Temperature differences cause minor shifts.
Readable fragment traces Perfumes the Frangipani tale linking Mercutio Frangipani a 1493 botanist traveler with Columbus voyages to the West Indies. It notes Antigua blooming flowers yielding a lasting fragrance, Frangipani gloves, Rome perfume bans, Capua perfumers, Nero incense, and Plauen’s perfume betrayals in antiquity.
Carbon County commissioners sold 10 000 acres of unre deemed mountain land in various parts of the county. Some tracts brought less than three cents an acre in a departure from the usual tax sale of unseated lands. The sale followed two year tax auctions where purchasers could not bid below taxes and the former owner could redeem within two years by paying back the amount.
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