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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1911
Page
2
Farm Progress shows a simple sod cutter built from a few parts. A knife dips slightly to cut sod at the right thickness, two men and a boy can load a wagon of sod in about an hour. Also notes puckerless persimmons, the Japanese method, using carbon dioxide to sweeten and preserve fruit longer.
In a Toledo Blade cartoon a dialogue asks what role you will take in improving farming. Solomon, claiming wisdom, replies to his wife that she is one in a thousand as a playful quip about affinity and modest wit.
Old manures show water content around 70 percent in fresh horse manure with nitrogen 0.5 to 0.8 percent phosphoric acid 3.0 to 3.5 percent and potash 0.5 to 0.7 percent dry matter holds more plant food. horse manure yields 2.04 to 8 per ton valuation. Sheep manure sells at 25 to 33 per ton though 60 percent is vegetable water. Silk mill cocoon dust is rich in nitrogen near 10 percent with some phosphate and potash. Sewage sludge from Hucklee beds contains 65 percent water 10 percent protein and traces of phosphate and potash. nitrogen content higher but availability lower. may pay to haul for plowing if cheap.
Sadie Puller of Oshkosh Wisconsin files in Dayton Ohio common pleas court a five thousand dollar damage suit for personal injuries from being struck by an aeroplane. She alleges negligence after a machine dropped a piece of Arch Hoasey’s craft striking her at Milwaukee street level. The plane allegedly stalled its propeller and plunged while only forty feet high, injuring spectators.
The Ebert Hardware Co on West Patrick Street lists Walnut Stock packages priced at 3.75, wire nails in 5 lb packs, tar and rubber roofing, galvanized roofing per 100 sq ft, Red Barn and Graphite paints, buggy wheels sets, bar iron, buggy axles and steel tires with prices from 40 cents to several dollars per set.
A Complete Jewelry Store touts its continually stocked offerings and favorable prices. The ad emphasizes that customers should not pass by and promises satisfaction and strong reasons to patronize, claiming never to be sorry.
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