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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1907
Page
3
A continuous farm column offers practical guidance on hay quality, cream weight, fertilizer use, road maintenance, soil structure, crop rotation, and efficient labor. It highlights poultry, carrots, corn, oats, timeliness of planting, and farm management, with notes on hogs, milk, bee laws, silo use, and dairy hygiene.
This guide outlines immediate measures to save damaged trees. It covers stabilizing broken limbs, bolting cracks, grafting wax sealing, protecting trunks from gnawing animals with netting, and cementing decayed cavities to prolong tree life. It emphasizes careful handling and timely interventions to preserve both form and health.
When trees show signs of unthriftiness, a liberal application of barnyard manure will usually restore vigor. Strong trees yield the best fruit and resist pests. In old orchards, half a wagon load per tree around the drip line suffices, spread to the branches, use coarse litter as mulch, and rot manure works into the sod with an orchard disk.
A practical guide from an experienced sprayer detailing three essentials for fruit tree spraying: target pests, proper solutions, and timing. It describes a preferred 100 gallon outfit, steps to prepare a toxic-free mix using Paris green, blue vitriol, lime, and water, and a three-spray schedule aligned with blossom stages to combat early season pests.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent shares advice for Moore's Early grapes, stressing vigorous wood growth through generous feeding with old manure and wood ashes, plus soil additions from demolished mortar. It describes a renewal pruning system for Ladrusca class vines and notes rose beetle issues on Duchess and Niagara varieties, with handpicking as the remedy and hens turning bugs into eggs.
Pedigree straw berry plants are high grade with known ancestry. The author explains goals, propagation beds, and careful cultivation to improve Northwest varieties. He details planting, rooting, cross cultivation, removing blossoms, layering runners, instructs on wintering beds with marsh hay to prevent damage.
A Colorado expert outlines a new grafting technique for large stock, claiming superior grip and smoother unions than cleft grafts. The procedure involves a side stock cut, cleaning, and a specialized tool to drive a graft into a groove, then waxed seals the wounds. Also notes coal oil and lard as remedies for scaly legs in poultry.
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