Production of Onion Sets Gains General Attention Worldwide
The onion set industry, a method using undersized bulbs replanted to grow large onions, has expanded in the United States. Major production areas include Louisville Kentucky, Chillicothe Ohio, Chicago Illinois, the Platte River valley Nebraska, southwestern New Jersey, and southern California, covering 2 500 to 3 000 acres with yields around 300 bushels per acre. The market spans the nation, with sets adaptable to cooler springs and soil similar to standard onions, though land should not be overly rich.
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North Dakota Professor Tests Alfalfa Transplanting by Machine
Professor H. A. Hansen of North Dakota, renowned for hardy Siberian alfalfa strains, reports success transplanting alfalfa with a tobacco plant machine. He set 6,000 plants per hour at five locations and used a plow method elsewhere. He claims better drought resistance and fewer dish-related injuries, with strong farmer cooperation.
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Letters for marking bags from vegetables
The article explains making bag markers from beets or potatoes. Cut a flat surface on the vegetable then cut out the letter pattern, using the pattern reversed for printing. Ink with shoe blacking and press to imprint on bags.
Average Fertilizer Formula for Corn Nutrition
The recommended blend uses 800 to 1000 pounds per acre of a fertilizer with 9 percent actual potash 7 percent available phosphoric acid and 2 percent nitrogen. A ton of this formula can be supplied by mixing 360 pounds muriate of potash 1000 pounds acid phosphate and 260 pounds nitrate of soda.
Marmalade and Jelly Making And Canning Tips
Practical household tips on preserving fruit and vegetables. It covers preventing mold with tissue paper and vinegar, a muslin jelly bag method, using cucumber pickle vinegar in salads, saving juice from canned fruit, enriching mince meat flavor, and safe techniques to open stubborn jars by heating the lid to expand metal.
Household Questions From A Seventeenth Century Page
Practical kitchen tips and home hacks on candy handling, potato balls, cleaning pans, reuse of cans for molds, preventing glue stopper sticking, and cleaning an enameled tub with turpentine and salt. Includes steps for boiling soda water to clean pans and drying methods for a fresh look.
Blackberry Pudding and Sauce Recipe
A recipe lists ingredients for Blackberry Pudding with berries, cream, and a flour-dredged mix. Instructions describe beating sugar, butter, and lard, adding egg and milk, folding in flour, then steaming two hours. A sauce combines sugar, butter, flour, and boiling water until foamy.
Pineapple Infusion Beverage Preparation
Pare and slice ripe pineapples and cut into small pieces. Place in a large pitcher with all juice and sprinkle generously with powdered white sugar. Cover and chill, occasionally pressing fruit. When cool, strain into another vessel and serve in tumblers with more sugar and ice. The drink is delicious.
Trellis for Home Vineyard Described by Rural New Yorker
A detailed trellis design for grapevines is described with posts, middle wire, outer wires, cross arms, and bracing. It aims to keep vines off the ground, allow passage between rows, and protect fruit from sun while offering good drainage. Commercial use is costly, recommended mainly for fancy table varieties.
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New Yorker
Selection of Orchard Site Causes Apple Trees to Fail
A discussion notes that soil too rich for apples reduces fruit yield while pears thrive. An orchard nearby felled for poor returns demonstrates the point. Within a rich tract a pear block earns nearly a thousand dollars per acre, while nearby lighter soils bear abundant apples.
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Berlin adopts electric street sweepers for cheaper upkeep
Berlin deploys twenty four storage battery machines replacing horse carts for street cleaning. Each electric machine reportedly saves about 1282 dollars per day versus horse drawn carts, according to The Electrical Review and Western Electrician.
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Mery Mysterious Royalty of Gastritis Question
An old colored woman seeks medical help for her ailing husband. The doctor diagnoses a severe gastritis, while the woman humorously questions how ether could cause it after admitting she burned a tiny coal flare in the house. The piece is a humorous line from Harper's Bazar.
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New Shoes Ad Promises Relief for Tired Feet
To Breal in New Shoes. Always shake in Allen's Foot-Ease a powder that cures hot sweating aching swollen feet corns ingrowing nails and bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Dont accept substitute Sample mailed free address Allen 8. Olmsted LeRoy NY.
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No Longer Forbidden City Lhasa Opens After Expedition
Lhasa, the Tibetan capital long known as the Forbidden City for political and religious seclusion, faced a turning point when a British armed expedition opened it in 1904. Before then most European travelers were barred. the city now houses about 35,000 people.
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French experiment questions necessity of bacteria for life
A French trial challenges the idea that bacteria are essential for life. It reports a chicken growing and developing normally while purportedly free of micro-organisms, suggesting microbes may not be required for life processes.
Bathing as Worship Draws Millions in Indian Cities
East India reports describe Allahabad hosting almost 2,000,000 bathers in a week as the Jumna and Ganges converge there. The practice is noted as both religious duty and personal lustry among Hindoo adherents, contrasting with American bathing forms.
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Handy Garden Soil Pulverizer From Old Shovel
A simple garden tool to pulverize soil can be made from an old long handled shovel as shown. Heat the shovel, flatten it, drill holes 24 inches apart, and rivet spikes. A board with large nails on a long handle also works but not as well as the shovel.
Splice Cake Mix and Bake Instructions
A recipe instructions to combine one cupful of beer with two cupfuls of sugar then add four beaten eggs and beat five minutes longer. Stir in a quarter cup of grated nutmeg one tablespoon each cinnamon mace nutmeg and cloves with three cupfuls of cream of tartar and one of soda. Sift twice then bake forty to sixty minutes in a moderate oven.
Olive Cherries Pickling Instructions
Take as many pint jars as you want fill each one fourth full of good vinegar. Use ripe cherries cut stems to half an inch and pack into jars. Add one level tablespoonful salt then fill with cold water. Seal and let stand three weeks before use.
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Quince Jam Preparation Method
Pare quinces and grate on a coarse grater. Add three quarters of a pound of sugar per pound of fruit and cook slowly for 10 minutes or until the jam clears the pan. Stir and mash often. Pour into jars or tumblers.
Corn Custard Method from a Historic Recipe
The dish instructs to cut corn from the cob then mix with milk pepper and salt to taste. Add three well beaten eggs and bake twenty five to thirty minutes until set.
Tree Wound Treatment Shares Inexpensive Mixture
A historical note describes a homemade tree wound mixture from three parts resin to one part crude petroleum, warmed separately and applied to pruning or cultivator injuries. It claims efficiency lower than grafting wax but cost effective and worthy of trial in California.
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California
Quote from local boss on directing votes
A local figure defends independence while claiming influence over workers by urging them to follow his chosen vote. He asserts he merely advises how he will vote and lets others decide, warning consequences for dissent.
Or the Trousers and a Thorn in the Bush
A witty quip attributed to a judge compares practical choices to odd challenges. The remark contrasts two apparent options using humorous imagery about a thorn and furniture.
Native donor honored as site chosen for new baseball park
The Globe reports a debate over naming the project as locals honor the man who donated the land for the new baseball park, while others argue the site should reflect the wider civic gift.
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