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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1913
Page
7
A pamphlet outlines farm start options for city dwellers including land costs, equipment, and farming musts. It advises buying twenty acres near rail towns, renting to test suitability, and notes profits from a well managed twenty acre farm can reach 1500 to 2500 dollars yearly.
Farmers warn that every good day today saves dollars in fall and advise quick service for planters and cultivators when weather limits outdoor work to ready equipment for future tasks.
A simple homemade device shows how to measure height to limbs or trunks for timber work and pole cutting. It uses two 15 inch boards forming a right angle with a horizontal arm mounted on a stake, sighting to the point at the desired height and adjusting for ground irregularities to yield the distance to the tree. Also notes garden depth for yield, soil pulrization, and a tip about keeping a wrench handy in spring plowing.
Farm Journal urges setting aside an acre for experimental use this year to test new ideas and judge their fitness by observing likely suggestions from papers. The note emphasizes practical evaluation and hands on trial of innovations.
The broad bean also called the English broad bean may prove worth trial in the United States. It grows in England with heavy soil and two to four foot tall stems, white blossoms, large pods and angular beans. It is an ancient European crop used for food and forage in gardens and fields. A separate tip suggests making a durable knife by shaping a file with a blacksmith.
The article discusses shade for poultry in hot weather and home remedies such as onions for pip. It lists maize experiment station trials with gentian ginger saltpeter iron sulphate and notes Ohio station tests find larger profits from town and country chickens with unlimited range and farm flocks outperforming village flocks.
The piece notes shifting views on scents from ancient times to today, citing alo es and saffron as once popular but now less favored. It weaves in stray quotes about honesty, fathers, and social perception from various sources.
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