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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
10
A broad critique of modern consumer choices shows eye appeal drives buying more than flavor or nutrition. Color, packaging, and perceived quality shape demand from potatoes to butter, eggs, meat, and oysters, with social habits and advertising guiding taste preferences across regions.
U S Department of Agriculture botanists seek to cross northern bearing citrus with southern sweet orange to create a hardy variety that fruit in warm summers and survive cold winters. If successful, orange groves could extend to central Virginia Kentucky Indiana Missouri Kansas and cities like Norfolk Richmond Lexington Louisville Cincinnati St Louis and Kansas City.
The article explains hybridization or pollination as methods to create the new orange and notes citrus trifollium plants in the US and Japan. It describes a Javanese shrub reaching Massachusetts, with ornamental use and fruit size like a wild persimmon, plus a spring observation of flowering and pollen transfer in the Department of Agriculture orangery.
Agricultural department notes experiments on sweet orange pollen pollinating bitter orange stigma infection for over ten seasons. Each year the fruit quality of bitter orange improved, with expectations that spring yields will be notably better and tastier.
A humorous clash unfolds when an English knight lists his titles to a Hoboken man in New York City. The local responds with a boastful, if comically lopsided, succession of nightly hours all tied to a festive or raucous schedule.
The article notes a sale-style event for Senator Bevernlee’s book The Husxtan Advance and mentions Kentucky crops expected to yield a large amount of pure Cuban tobacco this year.
In Kensington Maryland a government employee creates a joint water system with a neighbor using a gasoline engine to pump water for several families. Plans envision daytime water pumping and at night supplying power via a generator, spearheading a broader cooperative model for rural settlements including telephones and utilities.
A reader asks for honest advice on improving doughnets. The suggested method is to enlarge the holes a little to enhance texture and rise.
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