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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
6
The column surveys crop shortages, weather impacts, and market prices through anecdotes on peanuts, corn, barley, oats, flax, and timber. It praises Jersey cows for family use, notes prolific Jersey Red hogs, and recounts a humorous cow sale miscalculation by a local butcher.
A long, eclectic write up on beekeeping economics, poultry, fruit, vegetables, labor, and farm advice from a late 19th or early 20th century agricultural column. It covers bee prices, sparrows vs grosebeaks, onion crop prep, alfalfa, wooly anecdotes, and vineyard advice, with assorted observations on farm labor and household management.
The piece portrays a west northwest farmer facing a shift to modern methods and land values at a thousand dollars an acre. He resists book farming yet must adapt or quit, as he weighs new costs, equipment, and management against his traditional guesswork and reliance on hired help.
The article warns that eager settlers chase cheap western land, risking poor returns from unsuitable soils while noting a rise in large creamery consolidations. It also critiques a 73,000 tax cut benefiting brokers and brewers, and laments sugar taxes as illogical and burdensome.
A large strawberry bed was renewed after the first crop with mowing close to the ground, raking, and deeper plowing. A narrow strip of plants was left, then well rotted manure applied as top dressing. The strips will be cultivated twice more before new plants run and set for next year’s crop.
The article stresses corn as the nation’s key food staple, more vital than cotton wheat or iron, noting its influence on prosperity. It warns that a short crop heightens prices, while only a bumper yield could not always lower costs due to ample old stock.
Attractive twenty five foot jet home design by Dennis and Gastimeyer of 280 Broadway New York features a full brick cellar with coal bins and hot air furnace, seven rooms, cedar shingle roof, pine trim, quarry oak staircase, gas piping, and period interior finishes. Estimated erection cost starts at 1700 depending on materials and location.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad announces sale of low rate excursion tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles on July 28, 29 and August 1 to 10, inclusive, for the Knights of Pythias biennial meeting. Tickets valid for return until September 30, 1902. Inquiries to local ticket agents or B N Austin, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Public notices advertise reduced fares on Pennsylvania lines for events in August including trips to San Francisco or Los Angeles for the Knights of Pythias Biennial Meeting and to Salt Lake City for the Grand Lodge reunion. Also items on Queen & Crescent service and schedules, plus warnings about cancelled July August daylight trips from Cleveland to Buffalo and through car service expansions to Northern Michigan resorts.
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