Professionals Take Up Agricultural Work to Create Wealth
The article describes professionals entering farming, citing a success story of Howel who left engineering for an orchard scheme. He bought 29 acres, cleared land, planted fruit trees and peaches, and built an irrigated system. The operation shows growing profits as orchards mature, with yields increasing over three years and revenue rising from fruit sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
iRy F. Webster Brady
Howel
Enelgeering
Profitable Life of a Peach Tree
Advice from a New York peach grower on orchard care highlights four to eight years as the most profitable life span. Emphasizes thorough cultivation, shallow work around stone fruit roots, careful pruning, protective bark painting, and whitewashing to deter pests and reduce disease risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dairy Facts For Improving Our Cattle
Farmers across the region are urged to support pure-bred stock and avoid the trend of using mixed breeding. The article promotes upgrading via superior sires while noting the dominance of non-pure-bred stock in meat and milk production. It calls owners to invest in pure-bred lines to raise overall herd quality.
Dairy Cattle Care and Tuberculosis Warnings
Guidance on salt feeding for dairy cows and notes on herd health. Highlights include cows needing salt at least twice weekly, age effects on dairy performance, risks of tuberculosis, calf management, udder care, and importance of tuberculosis testing by a competent veterinarian before introducing new animals.
Growing celery on a small farm
Anna Galiguer explains late fall celery growth, noting cooler weather boosts growth while hot dry periods demand heavy care. She advocates banking rows with earth, hay, or dry gravel to blanch, protect from frost, and improve white stalk quality, while warning against root disturbance and overbanding like covered tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Galiguer
Eastern Eyes on Alfalfa Plant
A carload of alfalfa seed shipped from Oklahoma by New England farmers draws eastern attention to alfalfa as a profitable crop. The seed, about 300 bushels, worth 750 dollars per bushel, would retail to farmers at ten dollars per bushel. Proper soil prep and pure seed yield one to one and a half tons per acre per cut, with two to three crops yearly, making land more productive and economic than other feeds. Alfalfa can be grown in the East with lime to sweeten soil and correct bacteria needs, restoring worn farms more cheaply than alternatives.
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Rome
Jonathan
Mary
Oklahoma
New England
Eist
Proper Feed for Sheep in Cold Weather
Proper feed supports ewes as they feed lambs and grow wool. Ensure abundant rations to meet demands and keep the flock in good health. Never let the flock run lean or lose body condition.
Properly Packed Butter Sells Best
A farmer’s market tip urges sellers to package butter in neat bricks with parchment sheets and clean boxes to fetch higher prices. Readers are advised that quality presentation and careful wrapping can boost profits, replacing torn or oily paper that harms appearance.
Feeding Cows During Milking Keeps Quality High
A note says feeding cows while milking need not harm milk quality if proper feed and appropriate pail are used. It states feeding can have a calming effect on the cows and maintain milk quality.
Doctor Gan Treats Five Generations In Portland Family
Doctor Gan of Portland Maine treated five generations of a single family in sequence over a period just under three months. He began with a ninety nine year old old lady suffering senile gangrene who died. He also treated her daughter age seventy five, then the daughter’s son a Morist aged fifty, then a twenty seven year old clerk, and finally the clerk’s wife bore a male child whom the doctor helped into the world shortly before the great grandmother’s death.
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Gan
Thiat Ty
Portland
Stopping the Wind in Morning Service
In a village morning service the organist was annoyed as the organ blower kept operating the lever after he had finished making. A famous preacher was visiting from afar to preach. The organist scribbled a 4.0f¢ note to the blower and had it handed to the preacher by a choir boy who misread the instructions. The note read Perhaps you will kindly stop when I to sou in The people have come here to hear my musta, not your noise.
Made the Parson Happy Story From Anglian Clergy
Dr Cosmo Gordannie archbishop of York recalls a Stephney bishop remarking that East End children rebuke clergy who grow dull and middle aged in spirit. He quotes a street urchin cheering a despondent visiting parson with a simple greeting, a moment that reassures him for the day. Dr Lang comments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosmo Gordanng
York
Stephney
East End
Eczema On Back And Chest Reported Relief
Pierson N Takota describes eczema starting on scalp spreading to back neck arms and chest with itching burning and discharge. After about a year and a half he used Culicura Soap and Ointment daily for two weeks and states he was cured. Sample and world advertisement details offered by Culicura Dept 1 Boston.
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Pierson
N. Takota
Dennis
Culicura
Dept. 1
Boston
Ady
Witty exchange hints at vanished courtesy in London crowd
A terse exchange quotes a person asking why civility has vanished. The remark notes that others have moved on with the fashionable crowds, suggesting social distance and a critique of manners in London society.
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