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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1913
Page
9
New Castle’s garden guide highlights sweet alyssum as an easy, fragrant white edging plant thrives in good loam or any soil. Planting tips include spacing 6 8 inches for large specimens and early fall seed boxes for winter blooms. Bulb care covers tuberose dahlia canna begonias and catgium bulbs with depth and sunlight notes.
A report from a market garden shows extensive hand labor with piles of onions weeded by workers, while weed control and soil stirring suffer without wheel hoes or machines. The piece argues improved implements save time, land, and money, urging use of better tools against wasteful practices.
An experienced housewife published a time table for preparing vegetables. It lists cooking ranges for potatoes, asparagus, beets, corn, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, beans, onions, oyster plant, peas, parsnips, spinach, string beans, summer squash, turnips, and tomatoes. It notes cooking in meat liquor after boiling salt meat.
Guidance for boy egg sellers to raise prices by presenting clean, uniform eggs and neat packaging. Learn to grade eggs, sort by color, and offer fresh guaranteed eggs to grocers and direct customers. Emphasizes reliability, neat appearance, and trustworthy hatchery stock.
The article details methods for dressing squabs quickly with hanging and bleeding to maximize yield, noting 100 to 150 squabs can be dressed daily by a skilled operator. It highlights African ganders as ideal breeding stock for stuffed geese, their large size and hardiness, plus lucrative market prices for geese and liver sales in New York City.
Plant tender bulbs and roots not hardy in this climate from May to October. Start indoors for longer bloom, but wait until corn planting time. Dig deep beds for vigorous rooting and moisture. enrich soil, especially for caladiums dahlias and related plants. Gladiolus and related varieties are hardier and can be planted earlier with biweekly sowing for July to November bloom. Set bulbs 4 to 5 inches below soil. Tritomas red hot poker roots go six inches deep.
The article explains how animals and birds react to approaching rain with restlessness and sleep, including dogs, cats, sheep, horses, cattle, peacocks, guinea fowls, ducks, and geese. It adds cats rub ears and coats due to damp air and electricity, while dandelion and clover leaves close as clouds gather. moisture alters plant air vessels.
A compact parable compares plants to children, urging constant care. It argues the plant demands nourishment, suitable attire, attention to quirks, and patient nurturing to flourish, framing horticulture as parental stewardship.
May gardening guidance for women including planting Cory sweet corn, recommended small garden sizes, tool tips for large child sized tools, and seasonal tasks. Advice covers radishes lettuce tomatoes nasturtiums sweet peas roses mignonette alyssum heliotrope dahlias and cosmos like blooms with notes on birds and garden seating.
A note on the African goose as a cross of the Brown China and Indian goose, its name adopted in 1879, and its tendency to reach heavy weights quickly, with observations that the breed is being raised extensively.
The article offers a series of domestic hints. It describes methods to remove jar tops with hot water and cloth, rust from Emery powder, burns with lime water and sweet oil, paint splashes with soda and water, tea stains with wood ashes, willow furniture cleaned with salt water, and kitchen memoranda on a slate. It also notes bed placement, hair color, rest, and pillows for the sick room, plus linseed oil floors for easy cleaning.
A concise Q and A discusses hen fat reserves delaying starvation, green food and meat scraps in rations, and Clover hay as winter feed. Advice covers green bone limits, milk for chicks, and feeding vegetables cooked or raw. Also notes blood should not exceed ten percent in feeding rageing hens.
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