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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1897
Page
3
The note extols haying machinery as a time and labor saver and stresses the need for adequate tools and help. It warns that delayed harvesting at a critical moment reduces crop value and quality, emphasizing the importance of timely and efficient mowing and handling.
Practical guidance on haying operations advises studying weather at haying time, matching tools to work, using a loader for speed, and simple unloading and stacking routines. It stresses hay covers for storms, the tedder for even curing, and turning and swathing to avoid green loads, noting uneven curing harms stack quality.
The two sugar beet varieties most grown in the county are Vilmorin Improved and Kleinwanzlebener. Vilmorin Improved yields 12 to 16 tons per acre with about 16 percent sugar and tolerates high nitrogen. Kleinwanzlebener has a conical root, bright color, and strong performance in alluvial soils, common in France and Germany.
The article compares Improved Vilmorin and Kleinwanzlebeuer melons yielding 12 to 18 tons per acre and sugar content. It cites melons' asccharin richness, field ripeness, and a New Jersey bulletin on bisulphide insecticide to control lice, with cautions on handling. It also covers crimson clover hay, steam power in farming, worm root eradication, dog draft work, apple exports, swamp muck for celery, potato lime avoidance, and cabbage root pest notes.
Insects in the Garden describes two general insect divisions: chewers like caterpillars and potato beetles, and suckers such as green and black fly squash bug and scale. It offers treatment methods including kerosene emulsion slug shot tobacco dust hot water sprays and lime dust for prevention and control.
An instructional note on soil health stresses keeping soil receptive to water, avoiding nutrient washout, and the role of subsoiling every four to five years to aid clover seeding. It recounts an early experience with drainage improving clover growth and broader benefits beyond drains. The piece then shifts to a poetically fragmentary meditation on memory and regret, with garbled lines about tides, waves, and longing.
A period section extols Shropshire sheep for pasture and wool, noting hardy, dense fleeces and productive ewes and rams. It echoes Percheron and Shire draft horse demand in foreign markets, cites buyer preferences and price premiums, and includes a reminiscence about salt pastures and a rail freight efficiency note.
An 19th century tract argues for crossbreeding hackneys with trotters to create a uniform, superior driving horse. It claims bred pairs can yield strong action, size, beauty, and speed, noting market demand and the profitability of large, handsome road horses for small breeders despite initial imperfect crosses.
G W F describes lamb creeps as an alternative to full stalls, noting many sheep owners in the United States have not adopted the device. He explains constructing hurdles with end crepe holes, feeding practices in self feeders, and the advantage of lambs gaining earlier, larger growth. He adds tips on fastening hurdles with wool twine and cutting twine to remove them after a season.
Montana enforces strict disease controls on livestock entering the state. Bulls must carry certificates of health and vaccination, southern cattle barred March to November, hogs require health certificates and quarantine of 15 days, transport pens must be disinfected, and cremation advised for die offs. Sheep scab controls praised as model. Also notes on a thoroughbred horse Tycho Brake clearing a bar and a rural advice column on castor oil for warts.
In a brooding scene a Crusader knight and a Moor marry into a noble family. A hidden curse follows across generations, culminating in murder in the manor. Darwin and Thorndyke witness the Moor's head at a critical moment as tragedy erupts, ending the tale with grim irony.
San Francisco Chronicle reports Sam Vick a Chinese American youth rose as a clever businessman then turned postal criminal. After a series of post office robberies in 1596 he fled inland for ten months, evaded capture, was boxed as freight to China, escaped his packing, and arrived in Canton where he reportedly enjoys a comfortable life aboard tea and bird’s nest dinners aboard a steamer.
London Syren and Shipias reports on M Bazin's roller boat tested at Rouen. Aimed to revolutionize speed in marine propulsion, the 120 by 26 by 5 foot iron box achieved only 12 mph with 70 hp, due to roller inertia and extra weight. Critics say the design fails to overcome fundamental limitations.
Brooklyn girl plans a new society called the Parsenu, where members may name parents but great grandparents are fined. Monthly meetings will burn family records and relics, and those proving long stock must erase their ancestry. The idea meets mockery from Daughters of the Revolution and others who doubt its practicality.
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