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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
10
The article explains pasteurization safely reduces bacteria in milk and outlines three main methods the flash holder and bottle processes. It notes the holder process is gaining favor for its lower temperatures and cost and stresses rapid cooling to 40 degrees F after treatment to minimize bacterial growth.
A detailed USDA Public Roads and Rural Engineering plan for a small Southern farmhouse emphasizes cool kitchens, south facing living areas, and cross ventilation. It notes a separate cookroom, fuel storage, a rear gallery, a sleeping porch, and a hot air furnace in a bath room pit for efficient heating.
A study across twelve north central states analyzes how fencing costs adapt to farm size and timber scarcity. It compares stone hedges wood and wire fences, favoring heavy woven-wire for mixed livestock, with cost breakdowns for first and annual upkeep and depreciation. The piece notes the shift from wooden to wire fencing as economic conditions change.
A historical guide explains how egg cracking occurs from farm to consumer with losses around 10 percent. It details stages from farm handling to shipping by rail, and offers practical packaging steps to reduce breakage including new strong cases, proper fillers, cushion materials, and secure lids.
The article notes that blackberries currants gooseberries dewberries and raspberries begin bearing the year after planting and flourish best in their second and third seasons. Grapes yield first good crops about the fourth year after setting. Strawberries bear the next year and give the heaviest crop in the second year though they remain profitable for three or more years depending on soil and culture.
Clo ver is recommended to build soil replacing timothy. Its roots store nitrogen from the air, leaving plant food in the soil even after harvest.
City business men urge advertising as key to success in ventures. Farmers applying business methods to farming claim success comes from fertilizing and improving operations.
The article notes that cooperative packing plants are being set up in parts of the country but must operate on sound business principles or they will fail, a lesson drawn from earlier cooperative creameries and their outcomes.
The flavor of fruits though not nutritive aids appetite and digestion. Choose sound firm fresh fruit not overripe. Decomposed fruit harbors micro organisms likely to cause illness. Bruised imperfect fruit, even cheap, proves no economy.
Instructions for poultry caretakers state that small chicks require five daily feedings when wholly dependent. Once six weeks old and on range, feeding reduces to three times daily.
Guidelines for timing and methods to control plant lice, rot, and mildew. Warns to spray after hatching with nicotine sulfate and Bordeaux mixture 4-4-50 for rot and mildew, plow mummied plums and old leaves, cover radishes to combat cabbage maggot, and prune buffalo tree hopper damaged twigs. Includes spray recipes and schedules.
The article recommends fall plowing before spring planting to create a weed free field. It emphasizes preparing the soil thoroughly and achieving fine soil condition to enable clean cultivation and deter weeds.
Bone fertilizer is recommended for spring lawn care and nitrate of soda may be used at a rate of one pound per 800 square feet. If nitrate is applied, do so just before rain or water the lawn soon after to avoid burning the grass.
An article urges beautifying the home place with shade and fruit trees, emphasizing gentleness and practical planting. It outlines tree selection, spacing, and planting techniques, cites Syracuse College of Forestry findings on New York shade trees, and notes Buffalo's annual $76,000 spent on street trees.
The text notes that a home feels warmer and more welcoming when plants grow freely around it. It also observes that the initial days after a duckling hatches are a crucial early life period for the bird.
A historical note argues that every acre must yield a crop to avoid financial burden, calling idle land a costly mistake for owners and comparing idleness to a crime in a healthy man. The piece emphasizes productivity and economic duty in farming.
Long bearing notes that blackberries and raspberries are usually profitable for six to twelve years after planting. Gooseberries and currants produce profitable crops for twenty years, strawberries from twee to three years.
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