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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1897
Page
3
The article contrasts hill culture with level cultivation in potato farming. It discusses moisture retention, evaporation, drought resistance, and soil surface management, arguing level culture preserves moisture better and reduces labor while avoiding burying leaves through the chilling process.
A Rural New Yorker letter discusses methods for Connecticut sweet corn trade with Massachusetts Sauer Resort. It covers planting intervals for Cory Crosby Stowell’s Evergreen First of All Early Essex and Potter’s Excelsior, row and hill spacing, seed quality, manuring, and aims for 500 ears per day. It notes Stowell’s Evergreen popularity and compares varieties for early and late seasons.
A trade note praises the Crosby sizing for hotels and notes last year's retail success at a watering place. It adds guidance that larger corn varieties, when grown on rich land, should be planted farther apart than Crosby or Cory.
An Ohio Farmer illustration shows a homemade roller and polleur built from oak scraps. The piece notes greenhouses multiply as costs fall and a Philadelphia grower uses extra houses to cultivate potatoes, yielding early harvests and profits by selling at parity with southern imports.
Reprint discusses honey fermentation treatment by melting to evaporate moisture and remove excess ferment. Reports formalin use as a substitute for corrosive sublimate in potato scab control, with dilution guidance and cost note. Also mentions Pennsylvania timber watershed plans and a rural drainage method using plowed furrows and potato crates as winter sentries.
A fragment recounts cold weather work in December with a frozen wet spot. The narrator describes digging a ditch, laying flat stones, and covering it with earth to prevent future freezing. Emphasizes protecting a stone drain before rain fills it with mud and sand.
Cairo letter writer protests plans for an electric tram from Kast eidil bridge to the pyramid and hints at future restaurants and lifts atop the monument. The author voices fear for antiquity’s sacred solitude, noting rapid modernization and calls on preservation society to intervene.
Drange Geer extols dairy cow beauty and intellect, argues cattle should be bred for brains, and highlights four leading U.S. dairy types Jersey Guernsey Ayrshire and Holstein. A Texas dairy venture by Hiram C. Wheeler aims to create the nation’s largest dairy farm near Galveston with large-scale machines and debate over efficiency and cost in butter and cheese production.
The author describes an experimental sowing of cow pens on sandy soil expected to yield 150 to 200 bushels of potatoes per acre in a favorable season. Broadcast sowing on June 18 produced a heavy rye cover prior, but potato growth was limited and overtopped by a weed.
A Creamery Journal letter from F. A. Leighton urges Iowa creamery managers to study New York market standards for butter quality and packaging. He cites dirty tubs and broken hoops hurting sales, and advocates installing compact mechanical refrigerators modeled after New York warehouses to improve flavor, appearance, and storage. The piece notes the value of insulated cooling rooms and reports on farm forage and pasture trials from Rural New Yorker and exchanges on dairy practices.
A critique of dairy farming notes that perpetual confinement of cows is as cruel as life imprisonment for an innocent man. It warns that millet feeding can leave seed in cow heads and may trigger garget in udders while discussing standards construction.
In a moonlit morning Burns, an excise man of quiet kindness, wakes to horsemen fleeing smugglers. He debates the right call, knowing Brandyburm’s dependents and own family’s need. His wife urges action, but he remains cautious yet steadfast as tales of smugglers persist alongside tense Greece Turkey tensions.
An article discusses profitable farming by rearing dogs, noting a current craze and demand for large breeds such as the collie pointer and Great Dane. It details breed traits, faults, and measurements, citing Fitzsimmons’s Great Dane and outlining ideal and flawed features for pointers and Danes.
The passage describes a horse with a forward-tilting ear, dark hazel eyes, straight forelegs, a hind leg sweep, long round compact feet, dense cent around the withers and tail, and a mane texture ranged from rough to soft with a dense under coat. Color deemed immaterial, tail carried low with curl. Faults include a thick short head with a distinct stop, light eye, ears not carried up, poor coat with no undercoat, and a straight hind end with the tail carried over the back.
The article argues ongoing demand for well bred, trainable family horses and outlines mule advantages for work and endurance. It contrasts horse and mule traits, cites historical notes from St. Louis and Spain, and offers practical foaling and feeding tips for colts and foals.
Guidance from eminent teachers on piano practice. It contrasts passive repetition with conscious, goal oriented work. The article urges creating a daily study plan, setting concrete aims such as accuracy, touch, tempo, dynamics, and velocity, and progressing from single to multiple purposes to develop fluent interpretation.
Drain 25 clams free from their liquor with a cup of cold water. Chop finely. Scald 4 cups of milk. Rub together a tablespoonful of butter and 2 of flour until smooth, add to the milk and stir until thickened. Add 3 tablespoons of dry bread crumbs, the yolks of 2 eggs, and parsley. Mix, fold in clams, season to taste. Fill shells, top with yolk, bread crumbs, brown in hot oven, serve on water cress.
A new affordable shopping bag illustrated in The Sun is described as ample in size and finished in a matte black satin.
A New York Sun account discusses a man unable to express humor despite deep appreciation. On a railway journey a pretty girl repeatedly smiled, but he could not return the smile, failing to crack a single grin by journey’s end. The piece reflects on the tragedy of blocked expression.
The article traces the evolution of the U S cabinet from its early informal structure to formal departments and salaries. It notes the creation of agriculture, interior, and other departments, salary increases to eight thousand dollars, and shifts in cabinet stability through presidents from Washington to Grant. It highlights disputes within cabinets and the rising number of members across administrations.
A Pennsylvanian applicant writes to Charles Depew boasting of aims to serve the country. He seeks ambassadorship in England or private secretary posts, naming McKinley Hanna McCook Hay and Depew as steps in his bid. Depew laughs at the candor, noting the writer even offers railroad brake work if not appointed.
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