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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1897
Page
3
In a Farm and Fireside note a Michigan gardener growing onions on a large scale is described as using a different weeding method. Traditional practice scrapes soil away exposing bulbs, while the article hints at an alternative approach, suggesting notable variation in cultivation among growers.
A 19th century farming roundup describes onion weed control using soil piled against plants with a wheel hoe to choke weeds, and contrasts surface watering with subirrigation. It cites strawberry trials at Geneva Station favoring matted rows over hills, and includes building a corn marker from a plank with runners and hinges for field marking.
The article discusses using nitrogen yielding plants like clover peas and beans to enrich soil, noting crop rotations and catch crops such as crimson clover where feasible. It compares northern and southern conditions, mentions peas and cowpeas as nitrogen sources, and introduces a new potash Bordeaux mixture as a disease fighter with copper sulfate and caustic potash.
Instructions describe making a baby carriage cover from plain white cloth with embroidery and a ribbon. suggests color choices and possible flannelette and silk lining. Also provides a method to fry bread by dipping stale bread sticks in milk egg white and flour, frying in butter, serving with gravy.
This article describes a hornless Shorthorn calf named Polled Durham, later sold to an Argentine breeder to continue hornless line breeding. It also examines horn fly control methods, noting cottonseed or fish oil with pine tar, kerosene emulsion, and fish oil with crude carbolic acid as ineffective or costly, and stresses manure management to reduce fly breeding. Indiana and Mississippi stations report practical, economical approaches.
A Kentucky horse trainer describes his patient methods to calm and train horses without fear. He uses whip sounds, umbrella drills, and a collie to teach horses to ignore provocations and respond to commands. The piece cites a Breed’s Gazette note on umbrella safety and touches on bacon quality, horse trotting from New York to Philadelphia, alfalfa as drought-tolerant feed, Texas fever ticks, and breeding practices.
In central Indiana during 1893 1894 and 1895 hot dry Julys and Augs hinder rape growth unlike Wisconsin and Canada where plants reach 15 to 18 inches and regrow after grazing. The author credits southern location for poor vigor noting Bray fields sparse foliage and limited successive pasture. Mentions Busick in Wabash County and advertising rape seed in northern Indiana. Concludes rape may not profitably grow in southern two thirds of Indiana.
Malmie Wrottesley faces a doomed engagement to Donald Ferguson as Ralph Ruyton hires detective James Porter. Porter exposes Ferguson’s past and a Melbourne wife, triggering a dramatic arrest at Windermere. Ferguson flees. Ma mie collapses in Ralph’s arms while Porter's audacious victory reshapes the love triangle.
A New York San article recounts a tale of a prosperous city executive who rents and moves furniture through a widow who owns and sublets her pieces. The widow leverages foreclosures and new leases to generate about $50 a month in income, while the facade of shifting occupancy and clever subletting unfolds around a sparsely furnished apartment scene.
Atlanta Constitution reports a bold scheme led by Moses Bentley to found a self governed Negro city in Georgia. He aims to repurpose Sunbury near Liberty County as a model Black city with a Black mayor and Black officials, attracting 5,000 residents within two years at low cost to settlers.
Spades shovels and sects are seen depicted on the walls of Zeppe tian catacombs and are repeatedly referenced by ancient Roman and Greek writers in agrée sultorel texts.
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