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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1902
Page
3
The piece links rising farm prices and broker greed to mortgage strain on farms. It discusses how dairy and poultry ventures fail when cattle and hens roam, and notes soil reclamation via pasturing, drainage, and rail improvements. It highlights flax as a soil renovator and stresses deep sod plowing for grain crops.
The article discusses differing views on the best time to cut corn for harvest. Some prefer when husks are turning and leaves stay green for clean stalks, while others advocate a later cut with more colored leaves for better grain development and reduced shrinkage. It notes that with large crops, not all corn can be cut at the perfect moment.
A fragmentary guide urges acquiring rough land in central Minnesota and Wisconsin, buying a few Ancora goats to clear the timber, and fencing to allow goats to reconstruct the fields. It warns the beasts can climb exposed edges and notes three to five years to transform the tract into a farm.
A column extols winter blooming houseplants and the value of sun, laments farmer debt, notes poultry income favoring women on farms, and praises a Iowa highway width reduction to three rods. It recalls pioneer hardships, pine groves as windbreaks, and timber land as scarce but vital for communities.
A quire on winter pasture improvement via stock removal and autumn regrowth. A farmer describes keeping 550 Brown Leghorn hens freely roaming, earning about $1.50 per hen yearly from eggs, with no poultry diseases and profit at large flock sizes. The account challenges the 150-hen limit and notes garden and fruit challenges with free-ranging hens.
A moral reflection on fathers guiding sons to avoid ruinous paths. The piece argues the heaviest burden is a son’s decline into bad behavior, urging fathers to be supportive, exemplary, and present to spare themselves lifelong guilt and loss. It stresses early responsibility, friendship, discipline, and daily positive influence.
A former farm owner, now mortgage paid, is urged to restore the property. Advice includes clearing debris, trimming trees, burning old junk, rebuilding fences, painting structures, relocating the hog lot, adding a sign and lawn, removing worn equipment, and presenting a neatly maintained yard to raise perceived value. A $15,000 farm deserves a noticeable improvement.
The prospect ahead weighs on farm prices for the coming year. Bins and cribs will be emptied by harvest, boosting crop prices. Prosperous wages and growing consumer buying power argue for continued demand, likely lifting farm land values as the year 1902 opens with favorable prospects.
A smooth talking impostor claimed to seek a county office and gathered fifty farmer names for a petition. He split the list into three parts and attached them to a promissory note form sent to Chicago. The scheme failed to extract payment, but farmers fear legal costs and admonish readers to avoid signing for strangers.
The piece argues that keeping a cow and a small garden can cover much of a family's needs for milk butter meat and fruit. With effort from wife and children a head of household could even sell surplus milk to cover pasturage and feed costs, turning loafing hours into productive time.
Reported at a western insane hospital 150 acres were devoted to potatoes last year but drought and heat caused a near total crop failure. The field yielded about 150 bushels per acre after 150 inmates were kept hoeing in strenuous drought conditions, with the note that constant stirring of soil was the key.
An eleven room two family house designed for speculative sale will be built at 41 Wear ent street in New York. Plans show a corner lot with light on three sides, identical chamber layout on both floors, a first floor parlor with tile mantel and two windows, a bright kitchen and dining room with two large closets, and a second floor with an extra chamber. The cellar has two entrances and storage for coal and stave bins. Foundation walls use hard burned brick and concrete fillets, framing uses spruce in diagonal style, exterior features diagonal Omlock boards with building paper and pine trim.
Don t You Need BAR-BEN offers BAR BEN one tablet three times daily to strengthen muscles and tissues, purify blood, relieve functional disorders, and restore health and vigor. Marketed as a nerve food cure for nervous diseases, overwork, fatigue, and addictions. Sold by local druggists in Cleveland and surrounding outlets.
A handsomely illustrated book on early pioneers and Native American histories with 115 pages and maps, priced 25 cents plus postage. Includes reviews of Custer’s era and portraits of chiefs. urged as a valued library addition. Also mentions California Illustrated by The Chicago 400, praising its half-tone engravings and travel imagery. copies mailed for postage.
Free illustrated booklets mailed on receipt of postage. Includes travel and business guides with half tone views, maps, and descriptions of Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa regions. Topics cover hunting fishing picturesque Wisconsin opportunities copper and iron locations cities on the Northwestern Line Indian history and a wall map. Address W. B. Kniskern G P T A Chicago 22 Fifth Ave.
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