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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
4
The excerpt discusses balancing horse teams for a six horse drive. It explains placing the main hole in the center to achieve even spacing and notes that leading with two or three horses requires a different setup.
Fred E. Moyer of Buffton Ohio asks how to sow soy beans with proper row spacing and seeding rate. The article discusses soy beans in crop rotation hay silage and feed uses, varieties like medium green Ito San and others, soil needs, row spacings from eight to thirty inches, seed per acre ranges, manure application, equipment for cultivation harvesting threshing and general agronomic notes for forage seed and silage uses.
Guidance on growing rape for pasture and feed, soy beans for hay, and alfalfa for future pasture. Covers best sowing times, planting methods, seed rates, and yields. Notes cowpeas as hay and curing tips, with varieties and maturation days. cautions about milk taste and soil conditions.
A Kentucky correspondent asks via our New Albany branch for information on cowpea hay. Authorities rate cowpea hay highly, near clover and alfalfa, often better than timothy. Some stock raisers feed cattle and sheep cowpea hay, while horses prefer grasses. seeding ranges from late April to versatile dates.
A Louisville reader asks about velvet beans and planting. Experiments in southern states show velvet beans rival cowpea for soil humus and nitrogen, with seed maturity limited north of 32 degrees. Plant in every third corn row, fertilize with a phosphate kaiite mix, graze beans after frost, and view as a key green manure and forage crop.
The essay by George M. Logan of Indianapolis extols the disk harrow as the best farm implement. It argues for disk first to loosen soil and create seed beds, improves corn and oats soil readiness, and emphasizes proper size and blade diameter for different soils.
Correspondence with W Bestwick Mervin Sask requests guidance on constructing a S horse and a 5 horse evener. The note discusses a 3 horse evener combined with a 65 horse model, provides center to hole measurements and single tree lengths, and specifies the seventy five inch overall length with hole positions.
A Kansas Farmer guide advises collars must fit each work horse and not be swapped between animals. It recommends softening collars with water before fitting. It also notes a sharp sickle and high quality lubricating oil prevent mowing machine breakdown and extra drilling and cultivating costs.
A humorous collection of quirky German accent proverbs with playful mispronunciations. The narrator blends advice on saving, love, pride, generosity, and social behavior with satirical takes on aging and marriage. Quotes attributed to George V. Hobart via the Chicago Journal appear in the piece.
A collection of brief maxims on human flaws and social behavior. It pairs sayings on memory ambition happiness and relationships with light moral observations. The tone mirrors a mid century humor column offering pithy reflections rather than a narrative.
A collection of witty lines about women and artists from varied personalities. Notable quotes reference dress, aging, birthdays, censorship, and social behavior. The remarks mix humor and social commentary from figures like Israel Zangwill Mme Chase and Bernard Shaw.
A witty column remarks on human folly and social quirks. It jokes about ignorance and diploma mills, crediting others for one’s deeds, mediums and spirits, wealth dreams, and the challenges of keeping a wife pleased with humor and old fashioned observations.
A collection of aphorisms on love from Hichens Newte Howell Wells and Curtis. The lines explore who triumphs in romance the oddities of affection and the paradoxes of desire and comfort.
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