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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
3
Prairie Farmer outlines a method for heeling in fruit trees by bundling them tightly to endure winter. The approach, shown in an illustration, prompts questions about its advisability and whether storing trees through fall and winter pays.
Advice on planting a valued tree with deep hole, manure, and soil layering. Include watering after roots are covered, mounding earth, wrapping trunk, staking with sacking, and protecting from cold, wind, and pests. If arriving late autumn, heel into garden at 45 degrees until spring. Care and patience pay off.
The article urges growing the best fruit for profit, emphasizes small fruits like currants and grapes, notes grape profit vs wheat, and advises slow modern beginner lessons. It covers staking raspberries and blackberries, soil enrichment with manure, leaf mulch, and planning a berry garden for the next season.
It will grow a good tree planted in fall or spring with fall offering less work and better soil. winter rains settle the soil for roots to take hold. A lime wash with soap helps deter mice and rabbits. mix acid, carbelic acid, sulfur and pine tar and paint trunks.
The article argues for better provision to dispose of fruit of low grade. Kia would remove it from the stream of better fruit, the only fruit suitable for market.
Fruit trees resist cold variably with trunks and limbs more affected than roots. Fall wetness and uncultivated periods worsen injury, especially if new wood forms in fall. Early spring bark and wood discoloration may not predict death, as some trees recover fully in two years. Young peach and pear trees show better recovery than older specimens.
A farm journal note urges including a complete tool kit for wives and daughters. It cites a hammer, gimlet, hand saw, screws, screwdriver, and even a mitre box as empowering women in carpentry and home crafts. Encouragement of female skill could ease chores and reduce men’s workload.
A Farm Journal illustration shows an effective plan for staking and supporting raspberry and blackberry bushes to prevent snow damage to young shoots expected to bear fruit next season. The article notes standard stakes and supports hindered by the guillivator and highlights a better method.
A cautious approach to tree planting favors established, well known varieties. Early results from a single year can be misleading. lasting value comes from continued experience and testing to determine the best fruit varieties.
The text weaves Quintilian and Pliny quotes with odd medical and laundry pitchs then notes about British naval gunnery and a wrecked Montague battleship. It appears as a damaged OCR jumble of ad-like lines and sparse news bits from a past issue.
Community tale recounts Phineas Jones known as Phin who, after a night in Augusta, tries to harness his own horse with a comic mix of bravado and inebriation. A stable boy’s laugh prompts Phin to declare his uncertain direction with a hiccuping pledge, “you don’t know which way I’m goin’.”
A collage of vintage notes and ads mentions Mrs Winston's soothing syrup, cautions about taxes and banking, Lewis' Single Binder tobacco, a claim adding piles cured by Paso Ointment, Garfield Tea laxative, teachers' books barred by New York City board, and a joke about a bull and a 1904 automobile. The noisy jumble reflects product pitches, civic notes, and light humor.
The London Chronicle notes how the term chapman became chap from buy er to fellow, tracing meanings from trader to casual man. It compares customer usage in Shakespearean times as boon companion, now mainly a distinctive man, with traces of old companionship in phrases like my chap.
Laundry work at home would be more satisfactory if the right Starch wore weed. To achieve stiffness, users apply excess starch that blurs fabric beauty and reduces wear. Defiance Starch promises greater strength allowing thinner application and better results.
A quoted reflection attributes to Marcus Aurelius the belief that reasoning beings exist for one another, that patience is a form of justice, and that people sin without intending it. It frames moral duty in interpersonal restraint and unintended fault.
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