Health Camp for Consumptives at Indio California
A New York paper details Mr. N O Nelsons health camp for consumptives near Indio Southern California The desert valley site offers tents meals and free land and water equity with modest rents. Patients can work for income with crops melons vegetables alfalfa and potential land ownership The program aims to ease TB suffering through outdoor living and natural remedies encouraging self reliance and healthier habits.
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New York
N. O. Nelson
California
Nelson
Indio
India Depot
Alcohol and Tuberculosis Warned by Dr Knopf
Dr 8 A Knopf a noted New York physician urged in a scientific paper that alcohol cannot cure consumption. He called the belief that liquor helps tuberculosis a grave error stating it may prevent recovery by poisoning the system and harming digestion and that it deprives the sick and their families of funds for food.
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A. Knopf
New York
Predisposition to Tuberculosis and the Four Classes At Risk
Dr Knopf outlines four groups susceptible to tuberculosis based on heredity and health. The piece contrasts ignorance with intelligent combat and urges inquiry into causes rather than fear. It notes that poverty and certain occupations may elevate risk and discusses habits weakening constitution.
Food for Brain Workers and Mental Energy
New findings show that active mental labor with no physical exertion uses almost no more food than rest. Excess food fills the blood with poisons and wastes, hurting brain and nerve function, causing clouded thinking, disturbed sleep, and nervous exhaustion even with little energy use.
That Tired Feeling and the Harm of Overeating
The text distinguishes lethargy from fatigue caused by work and drunkenness. It notes that people often feel too tired to exercise, a lassitude not cured by rest. Proper treatment is gradual exercise and dietary regulation, with many chronic invalids recoverable through a simple diet and outdoor activity, increased gradually as strength returns.
Copper sulfate treats lakes but not ideal for water purification
A United States Department of Agriculture physician notes that tiny amounts of copper sulfate can inhibit algae and kill typhoid and cholera germs in water. He questions hygienic thoroughness, as copper may bind with organic matter, leaving water pure but chemical treatment not ideal. Boiling and Pasteur filters are deemed best. coal and gravel filters unreliable.
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United States Agricultural Department
Warning Against Tight Corsets by Hastings MD
Nature abhors a vacuum and there is no unoccupied space in the body. Rendering any part smaller than nature designed causes the occupying organs to diminish or crowd, interrupting nature's processes. C. TE Hastings, M. D.
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Nature
C. Te, Hastings, M. D
Simple Dishes and Coconut Cream Substitutes
Simple breakfast toast baked slowly until golden and crisp served with coconut cream made from fresh coconut plus hot water for a milk substitute. Also includes a strawberry egg nog mixing yolk and white with sugar lemon juice and strawberry juice, with a meringue topping.
Wrage Invites Reader Ideas and Correspondence
Mr Wrage invites contributions of ideas from readers of this department and offers to answer correspondents leaking information on stubsents. Address M J Wrage 800 Good Block Des Moines Iowa.
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Wrage
Sand
M. J. Wrage
Des Muinces
Iowa
Cutting Back Peach Trees In Winter Pruning Guide
Peach trees require regular severe pruning to maintain low compact form and strong fruit wood near the trunk. Each winter cut back main limbs to remove one half to two thirds of new growth when fruit buds remain, or prune more severely after winter-kill to prevent long weak limbs. Also advise mulching strawberries with fresh coarse horse manure to feed plants through spring rains.
Starting the turkey eggs for hatch and care
The article advises setting as many eggs as possible to hatch together, preserving them in a box with clean dry chaff at 60 to 65 degrees, turning daily. It notes April hatched poults struggle more, May hatchings grow better with less coddling, and stresses uniform age avoids stunting from older turkeys trampling younger ones.
Seed corn shortages warn farmers to recheck seed stock
A farmer warns that without careful examination of seed corn a good stand cannot be achieved. He notes widespread reports of poor seed and urges special attention this year to ensure crop success. The remark emphasizes prudent seed selection as essential amid general seed quality concerns.
Women and Bee Culture for Home Honey Wealth
An advice piece urges households to keep bees as a pleasing farm activity. It highlights white clover as a prime early nectar source, and promotes sowing Japanese buckwheat in July to yield 30 to 40 bushels per acre. Buckwheat supports long bloom, honey production, and home baking, with wives tending bees and husbands supplying bees and buckwheat seed.
Puddling Trees Before Setting Them Transplants
A horticultural tip explains puddling as healing root wounds before planting. Dig a two foot diameter hole, fill with water, mix mellow soil with clay to form sticky mud, and dip roots before planting. Repeat puddling if mud dries. The author notes it promotes quick root contact and growth for cabbage and sweet potato plants.
West Iowa town seeks canning factory investment
Editor notes waves of letters from western parties asking how to establish a canning plant. Waukee Iowa residents believe their soil climate and crops like corn tomatoes and peas warrant a factory and pledge support including money and energy to create jobs and utilize surplus produce.
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Waukee
Iowa
What Is Successful Farming in Five Acres of Land
Opinion argues land ownership should not define success. Five acres with careful management can yield more income than ten acres with average effort. Emphasizes concentration, working capital, and a reserve, citing a five acre model producing fruits vegetables eggs poultry milk and butter for steady income year round.
Seed inspection urged after weed pest invasion
A California senator recalled an import of Odessa wheat whose seed was full of weed seeds including an unknown variety that has since spread across Southern California. The weed raged as a pest, costing the region thousands in eradication efforts, underscoring the need for strict government checks on all seeds and plants entering the country.
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California
Odessa
Russia
Complacency and gossip cited in rustic verse vignette
A measured verse critiques wealth boasting and gossipers who belittle others. It contrasts a boastful man with a hen admiring wealth and a dog bearing a bone. The speaker warns to stay alert as gossip travels and leads to small talk and parade.
Deep Plowing Emphasized Over Shallow Methods
An editorial argues for deep plowing as generally preferable to shallow methods, noting soil conditions determine depth and that most farmers who can afford it plow deeply at least every few years. It recalls scenes of seasonal field work where shallow plowing is avoided and emphasizes aligning depth with crop type and subsoil.
Orchard planting craze grows with San Jose scale ally
The piece urges rapid orchard expansion but warns growers to follow scientific methods and ongoing pest control. It highlights San Jose scale as a critical ally for protection, and stresses vigilance against codling moth, borers, canker worms and other insects, plus disciplined packing to ensure success.
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San Jose
California
Poultry Rearing Tips From Farm Notes
Practical advice on poultry care and management notes. Useful periods for hens and turkeys, signs of vermin in droopy wing chickens, duckling feeding needs, freshness of duck eggs for setting, guinea fowl as insect destroyers, milk feeding benefits, ducks needing only water for drinking, and ground mixed feed handling. A farm with five hundred hens can support a family and fund expansion.
Horseradish Roots Ready for Dinner Grate
The reader is urged to harvest horseradish roots now and grate them for dinner. The activity may bring tears, yet the root offers health benefits during this season, aiding wellness and immunity. The note emphasizes care while preparing and suggests the plant’s seasonal usefulness.
How to Set Strawberry Plants in Double Rows
A farm method using a spade where a man and boy plant about 2,500 per day. A line marks rows, spade inserts at an angle, plant placed behind it, soil rests on roots, then crushed to firm. Proposes double rows 12 inches apart with 8 or 84 feet between, allowing space for cultivation.
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