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Newspaper
Sterling Semi Weekly Gazette
Location
Sterling, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1905
Page
6
The article discusses Washington state berry production and distant markets for strawberries. It argues for local experimental farms, stalk removal after corn harvest, and notes the limited fertilizing value of stalks compared with rotation crops such as clover. It also reviews redtop meadow grasses and suggests their limited usefulness on wet lands.
A farmer warns that high profits from orchards or crops depend on proper input costs and testing seed. He cites a Colorado orange grove contrast with California, then details a 200 acre corn field where poor seed testing and late planting caused a yield collapse and losses amounting to about $2,000.
Describes typical community features across Northwest towns, including stations, post offices, elevators, schools, banks, newspapers, bands, halls, clubs, farmers, churches, stores, and political life. Notes uniformity, with strong local assets and monotony yet potential for reform through civic action.
A farmer’s wife questions if washing a hired man means dress laundering or just work clothes, with playful guidance on what to expect from a hired man. The article then describes five types of poor seed corn, focusing on barren stalks and their impact on yield and field health.
The article warns that ninety seven thousand immigrants arrived in March, mainly very poor, facing compulsory service, poverty, and taxation. They will swarm cities, fill tenements, and drift into sweatshops and peddling, clustering with their own to form renewed foreign communities.
A damaged passage describes a farm yard area used for tending cattle and fattening steers. It notes the feed yard and timber around the homestead becoming a quagmire of filth, with trees ruined and the lot degraded from neglect.
Mysterious bomb plot surfaces as King Alfonso faces protective measures in Paris. Anarchist suspect Maalito questioned, others arrested after bombs linked to Barcelona cache found hidden in Bois de Boulogne. Officials search residence while the king curtails public appearances.
SCORES ON THE BALL FIELDS Chicago June 2 baseball results from Pittsburg to Cincinnati to Brooklyn American and Association figures listed. Obituary notes former Nebraska governor Robert Wilkinson Furnas of Brownville dies in Lincoln hospital after diabetes battle. served in Nebraska since 1855.
Fire raged through Camp’s livery stables on Broad Street Oneonta N Y destroying twenty horse teams and leaving several carriages burned with no full outfits of carriages intact. In Chicago Sir Charles Rivers Wilson of London hospitalized with unspecified illness after a conference at the Auditorium Annex. A Tribune report notes the tragedy and the crowd’s horror at the scene. Professor Williamson of Dixon will speak on The Christian Warrior at 3 30 Sunday in the gymnasium with Alt. William Todd to sing a solo.
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