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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1901
Page
8
A long, garbled text catalogues crop yields and farming ideas from 1901. It mentions potato crop quality, sheep grazed tarps, predestination, Jersey calves, boys and football, oil wells, corn and hogs, milk and butter, wood fuel, sugar beets, Houdan fowl, winter and spring wheat, road conditions, lime and clay on roads, cheese yields, France dog density, lye in pest control, and naval uses of animal byproducts.
A Missouri landlord reflects on cruelty and greed as tenants pay full rents while cows are starved. Advice ranges from humane livestock care to practical farming tips, including calving, pasture use, dairy economics, and garden harvests. The piece blends moral commentary with rural how tos, naming crops, fruit culture, and seasonal advice.
The article discusses keeping rooted plants ready for propagation, the value of thoughtful work like recording cattle, and using straw efficiently for milk production. It compares brick making without straw to cows producing milk with proper feed, and urges winter social gatherings to strengthen neighborhood ties. It also shares a farmer's method of hauling corn fodder in cold weather to prevent spoilage and optimize feeding.
The Columbian raspberry is a vigorous prolific bearer with large purple fruit resembling Shaffer in size color and appearance. It propagates from tips and can regrow rapidly if bearing wood is pruned to a foot in spring yielding a big crop of late maturing fruit. In northern Iowa it should be winter protected as it is not ironclad.
The piece extols September to November as the most delightful season, tracing the year’s cycles from spring renewal to summer’s tempest and autumn’s calm. It likens harvest abundance to recompense for toil, urging hope for a fruitful, peaceful autumn and harvest.
The article argues for salvation of souls among the South’s colored people and urges teaching them to provide for material needs. It claims property accumulation as a path to respect and independence, notes money’s power, and asserts landownership and banking as keys to rights, while endorsing a controversial suggestion about infusing Irish or Scandinavian blood to make the race scrappy and industrious.
An experiment at the Wisconsin state fair used two hundred pounds of milk per test to show how butter fat content correlates with cheese yield. The table lists butter fat percentages alongside pounds of cheese produced. Also mentioned are vast nickel deposits found in southern Oregon, touted as the largest in the world.
An elderly man recalls attempts to master a bicycle after a nephew brings one to town. He recounts repeated crashes into a tree and fence, narrowly escaping serious harm, with wife Helen reacting, and plans to apply liniment and try again, despite the chaos.
Lieutenants Irvin V G Gillis and W R Gherardi of the USS Annapolis suffered extensive wasp stings during a swamp crossing near Iloilo Philippines. After crawling to safety and enduring fever they recovered enough to joke about future warfare using trained wasps and hornets.
The Street Railway Review notes a leading New York banking house has entered electric traction in China. Work will focus on interurban lines as engineers survey sites and draft plans for development.
The Pittsburg Automobile Company completed a steam propelled wagon shaped vehicle designed to haul 300 quarts of nitro glycerine. Albert Arnold a 61 year old veteran contractor plans to test it soon to eliminate horse danger and improve safety in handling explosive cargo.
London Express warns that Paris centers fake antiquities sold through agents in small towns and curio shops. Tourists are lured with old Dresden plates and Moorish leather paper pieces that appear centuries old, though only small portions are genuine and prices run high.
The proposal to stock Maine woods with game from Wyoming has drawn wide attention among Maine guides and hunters and sportsmen in general. It is likely to lead to a bill for the Pine Tree state's legislature at its upcoming session.
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