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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1909
Page
2
The American Forestry Association promotes planting on waste and marginal lands to avert a treeless future. It argues timber prices will rise and warns owners to utilize unused acres, citing Forest Service guidance and examples like Catalpa posts on the Yaggy plantation, Hutchinson, Kansas.
The article argues that investing in land planting and forest crops yields high long term value. It notes a crop return of $22.67 per acre with $21.56 net annual, despite ten to fifteen years before timber is marketable. Catalpa peats and poles are highlighted as durable assets increasing farm value, even if a farm is sold later.
In a Paris Kentucky address, Harry A. Sommers argues that converting mud roads to turnpikes boosts land values by at least 25 percent and cites state and federal road aid as essential for rural counties. He warns Kentucky risks losing federal funds if amendments blocking aid pass, urging support for state aid to rural routes and public schools. The excerpt also includes an endorsement for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from H S Nichols of Oakland Indiana, praising its reliability since 1872.
J F Stone of Kemp Texas, a Civil War veteran, describes a supposed plot to kill him via lung trouble. He recalls a stubborn cold and years of cough, then credits Dr King's New Discovery with restoring health from 130 to 178 pounds. Advertises $1.00 trial bottle and guarantee by Haydon & Robertson.
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