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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1907
Page
3
Agricultural guidance covers poultry care pruning and spraying, feeding, inspections, and farm management. Topics include stallion inspections, flock health, winter courses, crop yields, soil fertility debates, and the use of tankage in hog rations with effects on cost and bone strength.
The Japan walnut also called Tuglans Sichaldiana was introduced about 11 years ago and tested in northern states. It grows rapidly with thick branches and large leaves, resembles walnut and butternut but is more vigorous. Trees become productive in three to four years, producing edible nuts in large clustered panicles with mild flavor and easy cracking.
Practical advice for orchard and garden care includes wrapping apples to extend storage, removing debris from spinach beds, burning asparagus tops, spreading lime and ashes, spraying peach trees, renewing old blackberries, pasturing sheep to enrich soil, trimming vines before spring growth, and storing sunchokes in a cellar for winter use.
Subsoiling before setting orchard trees may pay in very compact soils but generally does not. Theories for the practice are not supported by practical experiments. Soil character determines value, as deep roots find food even without subsoiling, and profits are unlikely in most orchard soils.
The article stresses improving farm sites, clearing rubbish to curb pests, and the need for growers to control marketing from harvest to sale. It advises neat packing, grading, and price awareness, noting direct home markets and consignments with careful branding for higher returns.
A Prairie Farmer correspondent suggests storing potatoes using earth layers with straw between, forming a four to five inch straw layer. Coarse manure may be added after the first freeze. The note also highlights labor shortages and rising wages hurting truckers as better workers seek other jobs.
Miss Millan Milliron of Logansport clung to the handles of a vestibuled Continental Limited for five miles as it sped toward Logansport. An Wabash operator halted the train at Hartsman Station after relay, saving her from a deadly plunge. She survived but was shaken and confined to home for days.
In Winsted Connecticut Engine No 1899 adopts a rooster named Hank. Fireman J B Downs and caretaker E H Cozier nurse and care for Hank after a near-tragic track incident. Hank hops aboard cabs, sleeps in the engine, and becomes a beloved mascot of Naugatuck division rail yard workers.
John Wurtzel of Pike County Pennsylvanian hunts in a cave near Promised Band pond after a fall from a 45 foot drop. He shoots a wild gobbler and, while recovering, discovers three young foxes and a tunnel to the outside. He kills a fox, retrieves his gun, and returns home with the turkey and hides worth four dollars.
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