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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
4
Pages recount Republican Senate picks and a Topeka subscription dispute, note AP press distortions, Belmont bill vetoes by President Cleveland, and Lawrence gazette mayoral talk for Geo Innes. Also critique ads, tariffs, pensions, and party battles amid Irish and Indian concerns.
A fragmentary editorial laments growing suffrage activism in the state and condemns Republican budget and defense schemes. It condemns tariff extortion, calls for reduced treasury waste, and criticizes pension agencies, shipbuilding subsidies, and costly naval projects while urging better wartime readiness and rail mail improvements.
The March Atlantic issue features Mr Lowell's poem Fancy or Fact 2 and Dr Bolmes's Our Hundred Days, plus Breck Perkins on Cheophile Gautier and part two of Lawrence Saxe's Lady from Maine. Agnes Repplier on Curiosities of Criticism, Lawton on The Hippolytes of Euripides, and Crawford on Paul Patoff are continued.
The March Harper's opens with Abbey frontispiece The Day of Best and a leading article on The New York Police Department by Dr Richard Wheatley. Theodore Child duelling in Paris photographs Henri Dupray. R M Johnston story The Rivalries of Mr Toby Gillam. Blackmore's Springhaven nearing end. Also Russia of To day by A F Heard and Howells April Hopes continues.
Washington notes how society receptions flood streets with carriages in a crowded northwest area, featuring the Russian drosky of M. Greger and the Moscow driver Aleksei. It also covers Gen. Bragg's pivot to branding deserters, Sheridan’s views, military reforms, and a Logan statue discussion with photographer Brady.
Amateurs learn pruning from expert E P Roe. Pinch back main canes in the growing season for fruiting, with plants kept to about three feet after pruning. Fall pruning for red raspberries, soil and manure recommendations, wood ashes as fertilizer, and potash-bone mixtures detailed. Also notes on keeping fowl houses warm for egg production.
A practical 25 to 30 fowl poultry house is outlined with a 10 by 20 feet ground plan, south windows, roosts and nest boxes, warm lining, and optional yard. Breeds cited include Plymouth Rocks Brahmas Leghorns, noting Rocks set often but quickly useful. Plowing guidance covers soil types, seasons, and depths from shallow to deep, with mid-range five to six inches as safe.
Dairy authorities dispute salt in butter arguing that salting with brine makes butter keep longer while dry salt fragments persist and do not preserve quality.
The Russian agriculture minister cites winter wheat efficiency at 27 percent versus the last four years, with spring wheat up 4 percent. California nurserymen import fruit seedlings from France. Vermont agricultural college offers winter programs for farmers. Wheat regions report general progress, Illinois and Kansas as exceptions. A prairie grass and corn stalk mixture is proposed as a wood substitute. Farmers use 35,000 tons of twine yearly. Poultry authorities deem large farms risky. The kitchen window aids plant humidity. flour ferments Oct–Apr causing odor. Highest apple orchard near Lake Tahoe at 6200 feet signals extreme altitude fruit growth.
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