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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
6
The passage offers diverse farm notes from pest control to pasture management and stock choices. It discusses irrigation costs in Arizona, livestock care, and economic motives behind strikes. Advice includes salting hay, feeding, nesting rates for birds, and crop timing to avoid pest damage. It argues for early cabbage planting, grassing wet lands, and choosing well bred heifers over scrub cows for starter stock.
A broad column discusses irrigation, farming costs, and crop prospects from India to the American plains. It critiques pie crust skills, livestock care, and the value of poultry, rail and road improvements, plus the impact of tramp labor and Nile floods on agriculture.
A farm owner with 160 acres seeks how to protect cash from risk while staying invested. Rent for cash yields least trouble and return. Share leasing needs a right tenant and firm terms. Hiring a capable manager with stock and pay offers highest profit if oversight is strong.
The passage argues against mixing multiple breeds and varieties on a single farm. It favors selecting one type of cattle, one type of horses, pigs, and chickens, with focused efforts to produce the best within that chosen type. It also warns that diversification can become unprofitable in crops.
The piece argues a quarter section farm valued at 12000 could bear about 7000 debt at five percent if focused on meat production and not machinery. It warns against overborrowing during agricultural prosperity and urges lenders to reset limits, noting moneylenders will face renewed pressure in the future.
The article urges farmers to earn at least 100 dollars annually from poultry by good care and letting fowls roam the farm, noting many women already make 100 to 175 dollars a year. It also reports a real estate boom increasing farm land wealth, with Iowa Kansas Nebraska and the Dakotas seeing land values rise by about 20 dollars per acre, enriching four-year owners by hundreds of millions.
An elderly bachelor lives alone on a small farm with only a cat and a dog for company. He keeps a clean house but leads a dreary life, having soured on romantic prospects after a past heartbreak. Women previously tried to help him but could not change his stance.
A Kentucky farmer recounts that his colored farm workers would quit during camp meetings or revivals in the neighborhood. He notes they never fully understood that the boss’s property belonged to him, causing ownership confusion and farm disruption.
A letter recalls a young wife whose mother refused to teach her domestic skills, leaving the daughter ill prepared for homemaking. The husband and wife faced ongoing struggles as a year has passed since the marriage.
A Washington Post note recalls mailbox curiosities from money to sausages and a bite of mischief. The piece also recounts John Ruskin’s dialog with Newman Hall on church building, mattering wisdom through three stages of learning.
A Camden town chemist recalls a woman asking for morphine and insisting it was not for suicide or her husband. The conversation reveals a need to quiet nerves and sleep. Also notes on meerschaum pipe coloring and wax sealing to protect porous material.
A fragment describes a Spaniard at home as charming yet cruel. He loves flowers and theater, carries a pistol, shares food with strangers, and stabs a friend over trifles. It notes bullfighting as the favorite and national diversion, though waning in popularity.
A civil engineer with twenty five years experience argued the Central Pacific railroad could not be completed in twenty years even with Bank of England funding. The project was built and finished seven years before the congressionally set deadline.
A San Francisco Bulletin item notes Bliffkine's flaw as always boasting about his own intelligence. The exchange calls this his worst failing, countered by a remark that it is not by a good deal.
A patient complains of sleeplessness and constant hunger while working hard. A doctor suggests consulting a veterinarian, parodically implying a misdirected self diagnosis. The snippet mirrors a humorous, if cryptic, newspaper line.
An item from the New York Herald presents fragmented dialogue about a person wondering if another knows his sister has honey. The text preserves a terse exchange with partial phrases and unclear context.
The Canton Akron Railway announces from Aug 14 1902 cars depart Canton and Massillon Public Square every 80 minutes from 5 30 am to 11 30 pm with Sunday first car at 6 00 am. Baggage express times listed from Canton and Massillon. excursion to Columbus via B&O Sept 1–5 at one fare round trip for Ohio State Fair. tickets valid to Sept 6.
The Fort Wayne route via Fort Wayne and the Grand Rapids and Indiana line adds a Pullman car on train No 9 arriving 9 40 p m at Grand Rapids with no train stepping. Next month through car service expands to Petoskey as northern Michigan resorts open season.
The Ganton Akron Railway Co announces that from August 15 1902 Massillon car passengers must enter and exit at cross streets as sign posted Cara Stop Here. This rule aids car operations. G W Rounds General Manager E J Rauch General Superintendent. Read the want volume daily.
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