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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
8
The article outlines summer and indoor window gardening tips including box sizes, soil mix of loam manure and sand, and plant choices for sunny, shady, and viny displays. It recommends limned watering, light fertilizer, and options from geraniums to ferns, plus bulb care for hyacinths, narcissus, and cyclamen.
The article states buying plants is usually better than growing from seed, but some can be grown with little effort. It lists salvia, geraniums, petunias, euphorbia, abutilon, nasturtiums, sweet alyssum, fuchsias, and heliotrope as feasible from seed or cuttings.
Kansas City writer Miss R Wilder offers tips for farm women to maintain personal appearance amid hard work. She recommends nightly face washing with warm water and soap, plus using a stiff nail brush to scrub and improve the complexion, noting simple routines yield noticeable results.
The article explains the fruit tree leaf roller, its life cycle and wide US range, noting its destruction of leaves and buds on fruit and shade trees. It then offers detailed duck-raising guidance, favoring Pekin ducks, with housing, feeding, incubation, and processing tips aimed at early, profitable green duck production, attributed to Mrs. J. DeMarr of Maplewood, Missouri.
A Connecticut farmer reports using an incubator approach to start potatoes. Seed potatoes are placed in a warm room to sprout before transplanting to the field. The poem by Alice Spider evokes May textures at a rural farmstead with lilacs, hedges, and the scent of mint along a brook.
In New Zealand the market shows strongest demand for Shorthorn bulls of the milking strain. Buyers seek dairy efficiency and robust udder development, with breeders noting steady price support and wide interest across farm outfits.
The article explains the life cycle of a moth pest from late May to May of next year, detailing egg masses on twigs and larval leaf feeding. It prescribes arsenite of lead spray or Paris green with lime for apple trees to destroy eggs before leaf rolling begins, noting risks to cherry and other fruits.
Readers evaluating poultry finances argue that raising green ducks for summer markets is highly profitable. Ducks are hardy fertile eggs, disease resistant, easy to manage, and grow quickly, making them a strong investment for farmers.
The article advises feeding bran oats and clover hay to breeding ewes for good condition and warns to keep dogs and strangers away from the flock. It notes that large scale Colorado feeders have profited recently while other states face high feed costs making the business unprofitable.
Walter Williams of Kansas sold 112 head of Herefords on the Chicago market for 7.25 a head, netting over 13000. Kangaroo rats threaten vineyards near Santa Cruz, California, feeding on buds and vines. A West Virginia farm boy escaped a severe leg injury after a mule attack. Texas dominates cattle with a Panhandle sale of 10000 steers bringing 250000. A Wisconsin farmer found gold on his Lost Creek valley land with assays from 15 to 800 per ton. Charter Oak Iowa saw an acre of timber produce 900 in profit. The Wisconsin experiment station issued its spring fertilizer bulletin with crop guidance and ingredient guarantees.
The article notes breed choice depends on purpose and taste. It highlights Barred Plymouth Rock as a common farm fowl due to good laying, mothering, and decent market weight, while admitting many farms use mixed stock and breed identity fades over time.
The article compares general purpose fowls Wyandottes Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds with meat breeds Brahmas Cochins and Langshams noting egg breeds Leghorns and Minorcas are nervous poor sitters and hatch eggs by incubator. It discusses pure breeds versus mongrels and urges keeping one breed for uniform color and better profitability. It ends with a discussion of size control in animal breeds and heredity.
The article discusses heredity shaping horse sizes from a common origin. It notes mental and physical traits become hereditary while extant knowledge cannot yet create a mastodon draft from a Shetland pony. Ancient war horses were large, and dark age cavalry horses carried mailed warriors into con.
A wormy apple reveals a mature codling moth larva and its damage. The pest can be controlled by spraying with an arsenical solution.
Consul John H. Herley reports three black fox farms near Atherton PEI with twenty, twenty five, and thirty foxes. Fox skins sell in London for 500 to 1800 dollars, quality dependent. Foxes live in open woodland and hollow logs, fed oats milk bread and small cooked meat, and kept by wire enclosures to prevent burrowing and climbing. They remain extremely wild and are approached only by the keeper.
A USDA guideline promotes strychnine bait as the most effective and cheapest way to control pocket goppers. It describes making a sugar syrup bait, soaking corn in it, and deploying bait into main runways with simple tools, noting carbon bisulphide and traps as alternatives but less favorable.
The Nar ragansetts are described as medium sized with gray steel banded plumage and metallic luster. Males run 20 to 60 pounds and females 12 to 18, with breeding value in medium sizes. Docile, home-loving, good foragers, lays eggs near home, excellent table meat, and strong setters. Ed S Hobart shares experience.
The only remaining white pine woods in Illinois lie in Ogle County. They are the remnants of a now rare evergreen forest once common in the lake states.
Secretary Wilson declares favorable conditions nationwide for bumper crops and record-breaking yields across all major staples. He predicts strong production as growing conditions remain optimal.
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