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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1902
Page
3
A long survey from Ames Iowa details experiments at Iowa Agricultural College on corn yields, cultivation depth, and forage crops. It highlights deep versus shallow tillage effects, sorghum and rape yields, and winter forage possibilities, then shifts to Michigan muck lands and reclamation costs, ending with a farmer’s view on best uses for swamp and marsh lands for pasture.
A reader asking how to quickly restore exhausted soil is answered by B A Riehl of Illinois. Humus is typically depleted, and methods vary by soil. Barnyard manure builds humus. cow peas offer cheap restoration where suited. bone meal phosphate and nitrate of soda help some crops. Each field requires location and crop-specific treatment.
The narrator recalls a father’s 19th century view that a third of the country was waste due to marshes. He has spent thirty years working land and now holds over one hundred acres of marsh and swamp land across Western New York and Michigan.
Holson Gaylord of Floyd County Iowa argues in Farmers Review that apple trees should be planted on the line of the sun in February to prevent sun scald. He notes injuries rise on the sunny side from morning to afternoon, especially in trees seven to twenty years old, with better resilience after twenty. He cites northwest conditions and contrasts with Chicago eastward and New England westward.
In Champaign County farmers report potatoes are no more profitable than corn. Rich soil and deep fall plowing yield best results. Planting should begin early in spring and thorough afterculture is essential. Farmer Spencer from Champaign shares his views.
A full grown elephant is capable of bearing a weight of three tons on its back. The fact highlights the animal's remarkable strength and load capacity.
The Harvard Mineralogical Museum adds about 100 W.A. Bentley photographs of snow crystals to its 600 specimens, detailing New England storms over 25 years. The images reveal diverse, unique forms from star shapes to hexagonal cores, with simple photo methods enabling wide access to minute structures and their cloudward evolution.
An account from Cornhill describes restless nights in thatched resthouses in Kyat pyin Burmah with six rats on the bed and theft of boots, candle, and matches. A later Tibet travel moment recalls a hen sitting on the speaker’s head and laying an egg during high altitude travel, provoking a humorous reaction.
Professor D. Wilson will present Princeton University with a collection of Syriac manuscripts described as the largest and most valuable private donation to date. Many documents date from the era of Emperor Constantine, promising rich historical insight for scholars.
The annual take of salmon in the Columbia River reached about ten thousand units. Young salmon were recently granted protections. The report notes effort to sustain the fishery and safeguard spawning stock amid harvest pressures.
A Paris fashion wave centers on edelweiss as a perfume and decorative motif. The flower, favored by Parisians since the czarina’s visit, appears in perfumes and sewn enamel and pearls for Christmas. Superstitions link the flower to health and luck, with a legend tying it to the guiding star of Bethlehem.
Rev. G. W. Terbush proposed an endowment by churches for a Christian theater. The plan provoked a strong reaction among West End Methodist Church attendees in Pittsburg, Pa., initially received as a thunderbolt before further discussion.
A veteran boys' high school teacher, famed for sharp sarcasm, finds a prank when a hungry yellow car is altered with oversized wire spectacles and set before his chair. He returns, surveys the room, and tells pupils in a calm tone that they have elected a chairman in his absence.
Frederick G. White age 40 is named County Judge of Livingston County Winds to fill the unexpired term of Judge Brickman who resigned. White rose from railroad section hand to college student through tamping railroad ties on the Chicago and Alton line and later taught school after studying at Illinois State Normal University.
Windmills from the United States show rising sales as a low cost energy producer. Strong demand grows on the west coast of Africa and inland regions of Europe and Australia.
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