Horticultural Points on Proper Picking and Handling
Proper harvesting preserves storage fruit keeping quality. Do not pick when unripe or let fruit hang too long. Use black seeds and easy stem separation. Handle gently in baskets or bags and move fruit quickly to storage to avoid spoilage. Avoid bruising from sharp edges and avoid sweating fruit in piles.
Handy Orchard Stepladder Adopts Eight Foot Reach
An eight foot ladder lets a picker reach most fruit on a tow headed tree while top central branches remain out of reach. Authors urge light yet safe construction with straight grained stringers and durable rungs from hickory oak or similar woods.
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L Herbert A. Shearer
Aroma is Good Strawberry and Orchard Tips
Aroma is one of the very best strawberries for home and market use being early productive well colored ships well and hardy. It notes Senators Dunlap Beder Wood William Belt Gandy and Klondike as other good sorts. Warns that over savers disappoint and advises use of hydrated lime as a substitute in Bordeaux mixture and to turn the orchard cover crop to prevent moisture loss.
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Senator Dunlap
Beder Wood
William Belt
Gandy
Klondike
Arolleoster
Cork
Auaek
David Truck
Pen
Cuckle
Corkie
Len
Quack
Mire
Thand
Moe
Crekle
Mrs. Hen
Grunt
Porky
Spray for Apples Use Bordeaux Mixture and Lead Arsenate
Instructions advise spraying apple trees with Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead to protect fruit. The note references a field practice labeled fb.
Nehemiah Builds the Walls of Jerusalem Lesson
After securing leave and credentials Nehemiah surveys Jerusalem at night and motivates the Jews to rebuild. The lesson highlights preparation, loyal leadership, and overcoming hindrances, with focus on division of labor and faith in God.
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Nehemiah
Jerusalem
Shallum
Seaftine
Sanballot
Tobiah
Ggil
Sanballat
Sii
God
Fletcher's Castoria warning to Mothers
A public notice warns mothers about imitations and counterfeits of Fletcher's Castoria. It urges using the trusted Castoria product, noting its thirty year history aiding healthy babies and opposing unproven “Just-as-good” substitutes.
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Fletcher
Find the Rock Beneath by Whittier
Poem lines urge discovering solid faith amid doubt. The speaker cites stepping through a void and seeking a steadfast foundation in belief hinted by a spiritual rock.
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Faith
Wordplay Riddles Stir Clever Laughs
Pun filled reminiscences compare sounds and letters with everyday quips. A narrator riffs on how changing pronunciation can turn mirth into crime and explains why a letter marks the end of venison, while a pig in a sty triggers more noise.
Quotable Fragment: Empty Head Wit Heart and Purse Quote
A fragment quotes Earle on a head without brains a wit without judgment a heart without honesty and a purse without money expressing a sharp moral observation about virtue and wealth.
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Earle
Cultivate Forbearance for a Fine Crop of Patience
A reflective urge to grow patience and mercy. The speaker counsels cultivating forbearance until the heart yields a harvest of calm and a short memory for unkindnesses.
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