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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1905
Page
8
Budding is an economical form of artificial plant reproduction, increasingly adopted each year. Nurserymen are even using budding as a substitute for other propagation methods in fruit cultivation.
Detailed 19th century horticultural section covers budding techniques for dwarf pears and apples, stock sizing, shield bud method, tying, and aftercare. It adds notes on peach stock timing, then pivots to agricultural reports: a critique of government crop reports, a postponed American Pomologists meeting, and cattle disease research with spinal stomach worm findings and a creosote treatment protocol.
Hints cover sowing lettuce for Thanksgiving in a hotbed or cold frame and sowing salsify in August to harvest next spring. Advice includes setting potted strawberries in August, curing onions, drying them on a barn floor, harvesting early cabbage, and sowing Welsh onion in August for early spring use. Black seeded Simpson lettuce handles heat. spinach for early spring should be bow spinach.
A historical advertisement fragment touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a cure for indigestion and related stomach issues, claiming strong endorsements from Dr. Newbrough of League, WV. It also promotes PazO Ointment for piles and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for vitality, with pricing and mail order details.
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