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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1911
Page
5
Catch-Em-Alive Jack Abernathy, former U S marshal, argues coyotes are brave not cowardly. He recounts hunting experiences showing coyotes fight when cornered, outsmart dogs, and stay alert at night, asserting the wolf is larger but the coyote quicker.
New Jersey scientists plan a summer study with Harvard's Prof. A Johnson to determine if the Atlantic coast is sinking about two feet per century. State Geologist Kummler reports the project, funded by Harvard, aiming to clarify coast level baselines set 25 years ago.
After a 12000 mile journey from Adelaide the white Leghorn flock arrives at Garth Poultry Farm Glan Conwy Denbighshire. They originate from A H Pudman whose birds set the world egg record at Gatton Queensland with 1531 eggs in a year valued at 80 dollars.
The Kansas City Journal reports a mean act by a pretty local woman who betrayed a married couple by gifting photos to a lover and revealing the affair. The piece attacks the woman for deception and contrasts female meanness with male wrongdoing while noting the impact on domestic happiness.
A Russian escapee named Mark Seibert told New York papers he plans to return to Siberia to work in mines. He described New York as overly harsh and exhausting, saying his savings are sufficient for a ticket back home and that Siberia’s mines offer a better livelihood.
A classroom exchange shows the pronoun in the subject position is I or I have a book. The next prompt correctly shifts to the noun in the object position, illustrating how case changes with function.
A witty eight year old quips that what binds people and makes them better is corsets. The line captures a playful classroom moment reflecting social fashion ideas and youthful humor.
Captain Anderson of the Scandinav ian American liner Kentucky near the Grand Banks described using whistle blasts and echoed sound waves to locate drifting icebergs in dense fog. The technique helped steer the ship southward away from danger.
A brief stage tableau shows a character seeking a kiss and the partner replying with tension about her father, ending on a tense pause as the moment of truth awaits, capturing a quiet dramatic exchange.
A farmer consultant describes Hessian fly damage to winter wheat last fall and explains the life cycle of the brown eggs and maggots. He advises crop rotation, late fall seeding avoidance, and options to plow under or disk and reseed to oats and clover if infestation is severe, noting flies from adjoining fields can inflame the issue.
A Kansas inventor proposes a wagon tongue support using a rod and two yielding hooks to share strain. The system channels force from the tongue into iron rods that bend slightly, reducing breakage risk during downward and sideways movement.
The piece argues that two extra harrowings per field will boost yields by a quarter and insists New York farms are capable of good crops if farmers improve soil with humus rather than remain poor.
The article notes wood ashes are not presently used widely. It compares potash and phosphates, stating sulphate of potash improves tobacco yields more than muriate while strawberries prefer muriate. Potash benefits all crops, varying with soil, and is especially good for fruits, clover, peas and beans, with limited impact on sandy soils.
Succession planting of peas can be done two ways. Plant early Kinde in installments every one to two weeks for about three plantings. Or choose varieties maturing a week to ten days apart and sow them the same day in different garden spots. For example Lightning Express and American Wonder can be planted together if you sow from own seed.
A home made weed cutter for garden use is shown in a sketch. The tool uses sharp saw teeth to quickly cut or comb weeds from around small plants and can function as a weeder, trowel, or transplanter.
A fragment describes making a saw tooth weeder from steel about two garden trowel thickness and one inch wide. Bend the steel and attach a handle then fire or grind the sharp teeth as shown.
The article outlines farming tips including plowing efficiency, salting cattle, grain treatment with formaldehyde, clover as a profit crop, avoiding potatoes on wet soil, early beet seed in July, continued harrowing, multiple sweet corn plantings, soil type effects on potatoes, cabbage head timing and cultivation, late cabbage planting around July Fourth, radish succession planting every five days, and notes on canneloupes plantings.
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