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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
8
Abortion in dairy is linked to herd size adjustments while milk and beef values shift with storage and market prices. Cold storage raises May and June eye prices, and high fat stakes boost land purchases. Readers are urged to weigh cows for profitability, consider grafting timing, and value robust stock, goats, and horse strength while noting marketing quirks and premium cropproduction ideas.
The author urges new settlers in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin to stock their farms. He argues hogs, cows, and poultry turn marginal land into a living, even where corn is scarce. With pasturing, land becomes arable, contrasting it with the common practice of minimal livestock and heavy labor to plant grain for sale.
A reader warns about dishonest seedsmen exploiting religious papers for ads and urges buying locally from reputable firms. A farm owner manages eighty acres with no hired man, using two teams, a gang plow, drag, and hay gear, planning independent work next season. Also discusses corn for fodder, recommending June planting, one bushel per acre, two cultivations, and four tons of fodder per acre for dairy use.
The column notes widespread poor germination with corn beans radishes lettuce beets peas lima beans and parsnips from a trusted seed house and cites heat drought as a possible cause. It also warns growers to watch for borers in orchards warning two to three borers can kill a healthy tree and urging careful digging and cutting as the remedy.
Canton-Massillon Electric Railway seeks a Main street franchise through Navarre to extend toward Canal Dover. Navarre council, reading the ordinance, tabled final action and plans to press for routing changes along Canal street for a town-wide streetcar. Ex mayor John G. Warwick and attorney Welty traveled between Navarre and Akron discussing rights of way.
An advertisement touts Headache Wafers as a heart tonic free of depression, claiming it cures headaches with no mood drop. It promises easy use and harmlessness, priced at 10 cents, from J. B. Eberly in Point Breeze Chautauqua Smithville Ohio, August 9 to 24.
Chicago based Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers round trip tickets from Chicago to San Francisco or Los Angeles for 50 dollars with a return by September 30. The Short Line links Chicago and Omaha with two through trains daily in each direction offering sleeping and dining car service. For timetables maps and info contact E G Hayden traveling passenger agent Cleveland.
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