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Newspaper
Lehi Banner
Location
Lehi, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
9
The article presents a Hopkins guided method to compare corn kernels by protein and starch content. It explains visual cues from kernel cross sections, germ size, and horn matter to infer protein levels, urging breeders to study plant and seed varieties through careful analysis and comparison over time.
The article notes that summer manure loses more nutrients than winter due to scattering in the yard and rapid volatilization from sun and wind. It advises keeping the yard clean, relocating manure to protected piles, and applying it to ground only after plowing or turning the soil. Top-dressing midsummer is wasteful.
A congress of scientists heard a U S government chemist describe poisonous dyes found in foods. He cited examples from bread to vinegar and listed chemicals such as sulphate and copper salts, aniline colors, caustic lime, and other adulterants across common items like pickles, jellies, candies, and preserves.
A reader reports an orchard four years old suffering from blight and asks for advice. The article explains spraying may help but is not a cure, suggests cutting out blighted wood, burning infected parts, sterilizing tools, and notes spores spread by insects rather than wind. It cites Professor Ryarts Weed and the Farmers' Review for pruning guidance.
The text argues for more intensive horticulture to boost profits from gardens and orchards. It defines intensive growers as experts in soils, fertilization, pruning, and varieties, noting that pruning lessons and value assessment are still being learned. It contrasts Europe’s long history of intensive farming with America’s vast land favoring extensive methods, yet asserts intensive culture often pays best in both regions.
The text advises against placing fruit in warm cars without refrigeration as it spoils quickly, especially summer apples. It recommends letting fruit cool in a shaded area or cool cellar under 60 degrees, and mentions storage pits dug into hills as alternative cooling spaces. Night cooling is possible when nights are cool, avoiding dew.
The text explains sod bound trees occur when young or old trees fail to hold soil, allowing grass roots to crowd the root zone and starve the tree. Relief requires digging out the grass and freeing the tree to reclaim full soil use.
The knight's tour puzzles players by moving to every square once. Starting from any white or black square yields vast combinations, with central diagrams and four minor variations expanding counts into thousands of distinct tours and complex patterns.
A Moosehead Mass fisherman returning to the hotel found a dead swallow. He claimed he hooked the bird on a back coat. Other fishermen repeated similar tales, then the prankster confessed to the truth.
A London clockmaker displays a fan shaped timepiece in a window. Its leaves are numbered and begin to open at 1 am. They gradually unfold until 6 pm when fully open. The fan then closes and restarts the cycle in the same manner.
Frederick Kohn a Berlin baker's apprentice shot himself dead with a revolver leaving a letter saying after reading more than 100 sensational novels he was determined to make himself the hero of a tragedy.
A two section foldable fire ladder aids access between building windows. Firemen alternate raising sections via a rope system while one fireman climbs, enabling rapid ascent to upper floors. Inventor Winslow F. Sampson of Medford, Mass. holds the patent.
In Garendon Park Leicester shire England a dozen young bullocks chased a hare and tossed it about. The keeper, drawn by the noise, was attacked by the bulls while rescuing the hare and escaped as the animals pursued him. The hare was left mangled and died shortly after.
A Waln man shifts from carrying a portrait of his beloved to wearing a bracelet with a realistic eye image mounted in a decorative chain. The change reflects a trend toward discreet, wearable affection.
Miss Bessie L. Wyatt and John W. Jenks wed at Floyd Street Presbyterian in Lynchburg Virginia on June 9. The couple knelt before the pastor while two letters from courtship were carried up the aisle by a boy and girl and placed on two white pillows for blessing.
While walking to church Frank Pike of Norway Maine chased and captured a buck deer wandering the streets. He seized it by the antlers and held the animal until others arrived to help in the capture.
A property owner in Basingstoke England posts a placard on his house asking motor car drivers to avoid the area after a sad experience with reckless chauffeurs. The sign reads motor car drivers are requested to leave this house where it is.
Marion Sears of Gardiner Maine reports a peculiar dandelion blossom with a single curling stem grown from a single stalk. The find is described as unusually twisted and much unlike normal blooms.
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