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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1912
Page
7
The article describes a wagon mounted lifting frame with endless chains to move large trees, eliminating guy ropes, and using wide tires to protect grass. It also details bridge grafting techniques for healing tree injuries, including scion insertion, wax sealing, trunk cutting, and grafting wax preparation.
Describes the Ocock chicken house with capacity for 15 birds, detailing dirt and board floors, a movable perch system, hinged dropping boards, removable nests with side doors, cloth screens and drop curtains for winter, end openings above the screen, hinged sash windows, tar paper walls inside the roost area, and nailed boarding throughout.
Bronson and Woodson joke about a man’s size while a patient seeks relief for a sleeping foot. A physician asks what he can do and the patient asks for something to aid sleep.
A reader describes building a home made hedge trimmer with multiple blade sets attached to a wooden handle and operated by a wood lever. The device mirrors the action of a standard hedge trimmer as shown in a Popular Mechanics sketch.
The article suggests boys experiment with grafting by growing small fruit trees like plum cherry apple or peach. It advises digging up saplings from old trees collecting limbs from the same variety and burying them in a box of dry dirt in a cellar to graft in winter or spring before planting.
The proper pruning rule avoids cutting large branches. For small trees no removal is needed. For medium or large trees only remove small branches to let sunlight reach the interior. This preserves major limbs and the long term health of the tree.
Guidance on planting fruit trees this spring emphasizes proper watering and mulch. Instructions cover keeping roots moist, pulling weeds away, watering around the root zone, and firming soil after irrigation to prevent stress.
The cherry tree does not bear pruning well and needs little pruning. Start with an open top and prune only to remove diseased dead or interfering branches as needed.
The column covers blight targets pear quince and apple. Thinning helps, fruiting guides caution against overgriping. pick raspberries when red and remove sun exposed blackberries. It stresses mulching strawberry beds, moisture retention and removing red rust infested plants to protect crops.
Rose Pastor Stokes spoke to a charity society in Philadelphia recounting a country week tale. Under an apple tree she gathered six country weekers and read aloud from Our Feathered Friends, asking the children who their feathered friends might be.
Seventy five million Red Cross tuberculosis seals are printed for this season. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the American Red Cross cooperate on the sale. The three color seal features a Santa Claus head with holly wreaths and a red cross in each corner, bearing Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greetings.
A Kansas man recalls chronic stomach trouble headaches and low weight from coffee use. He credits his health recovery to switching to Postum replacing coffee and water with improvement in strength flesh and wellbeing.
Covington Missouri and Brownsville Indiana readers report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Jennie Green claims it helped hemcleration and allows work, while Mrs O M Cie credits avoidance of surgery and dramatic improvement after months of suffering.
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