Hedge culture and garden prizes along the New Jersey coast
An essay extols evergreen hedges from Atlantic Highlands to Sea Girt as a status symbol and landscape feature. It details planting, pruning, mulch use, and spacing for 12 to 24 inch stock, with emphasis on spring pruning and trench preparation. It laments social divides while praising flowers as democrats.
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New Jersey
Atlantic Highlands
Sea Girt
America
England
Pacific
Newport
Queen of Summer Resort
Long Island
Democracy of flowers and the ethos of genius
Elizabeth van Benthuysen discusses how flowers symbolize democracy in society. She cites President Wilson at the Lincoln birth cabin and notes a recent East Coast social event where wealthy women gathered amid vast mansions on Long Island, highlighting class contrasts.
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Elizabeth van Benthuysen
President Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
Tam
Longsland
Tulips In Pots Provide Fragrant Easy Care Blooms
The Clu siana vent tulip grows to about 20 inches with slender stem and two inch flowers. Funnel shaped lemon yellow blooms with green or white shading and pink streaks. Easy to grow in light, well drained soil. heavy soils dull color and smaller flowers. Some Virginia uplands offer ideal tulip soil similar to Efoltund where bulbs thrive.
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Virginia
Japanese Maples Add Color and Grace to Your Garden
The Japanese maple offers striking color and ornamental value with a sunny site and liberal watering in spring and summer. Keep the soil loose around the base and never prune the trees.
Diseases of ginseng and spray control measures
The article outlines diseases affecting ginseng from New York to the Pacific, noting spraying with Bordeaux mixture as the main control. It covers timing, application pressure, avoiding spraying during blossom, removal of diseased tops, root disposal, soil disinfection, and soil sterilization before reuse to curb disease buildup.
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New York
Pacific
Bordeaux
Greatest Returns in Milk for a Well Kept Cow
The article outlines optimal dairy care emphasizing comfort, companionship, and a balanced diet. It recommends a warm stable, daily exercise, and a ration of clover hay plus succulent feed such as ensilage, roots, or beets. Typical daily rations include four pounds ground wheat or shorts, three pounds ground oats, four pounds bran, and two pounds oil meal.
Cowpeas Superior For Hay
Cowpeas make very excellent hay and are easy to grow providing land benefits. Plant them as a sole crop to ease harvesting, either broadcast at a bushel per acre or drilled in rows with a peck to a half bushel per acre.
Indicating Ailing Horse Causes Dirt Eating Decline
The article notes that a horse eating dirt does not prove illness but reflects the animal seeking what its system needs. It mentions winter corn and bran mash with chopped roots as related dietary factors and remedies.
Eradicate Smut From Oats By Formalin Treatment
A historical note describes laundering smut from oats using a rubbing method. Oats soak in formalin solution in an upper tub for about twenty minutes, then drain into a lower tub and spread to dry. The process is repeated until all seed is treated.
Steer Clear of White Diarrhea in Young Chickens
Early infection with white diarrhoea in chicks can carry germs for life. The article warns to avoid infected birds as they may spread the disease wherever they go, urging careful selection to prevent transmission.
Highway of farm life and future crops
A rustic advisory piece urges sound horse breeding and feeding practices, notes demand for draft stock, clean nutrition for pork production, and stresses exercise for growing colts. It mentions the hilghbush cranberry in shrubbery plans and encourages early seed orders as European varieties become scarce.
Cream cooling tanks boost butter price and score
An Indiana experiment station trial using crexn cooling tanks raised butter by about one cent per pound and improved the score by 2.83 points, according to the report.
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Indiana
Indiana Experiment Station
Potatoes in Cold Weather and Prairie Dog Control
Look after potato pits by adding earth and closing ventilation openings. In cold weather cover pits with corn fodder. Prairie dogs can be destroyed by poison at a cost varying from five to an acre depending on prevailing conditions.
Fragmented Reader Notes on Local Gossip and Industry
A quick glimpse blends social chatter with industrial facts. The piece cites Miss Oldgirl's rumored marriage, a quip about a antiques collector, eye ailments treated with Roman Eye Balsam, and mentions a rural Oregon road surfaced with borax. It also notes American lumbermen cutting timber three times faster than it grows.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Advertised for Skin Trouble Relief
Free sample offer by mail with Book from Cutulture Dept L Boston. Advert promises instant itch relief and clear skin from pimples blackheads and irritation plus healing for hands and baby skin. United States has 70 000 rural school teachers. Natural gas price up 50 cents per 1000 feet in Kansas.
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Cutlture
Dept. L
Boston
United States
Kansas
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