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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1913
Page
6
A guidance piece for small landowners on turning forty acres into a profitable venture near towns. It favors diversification over single crops, detailing hogs, poultry, dairy, fruit, vegetables, honey, and fodder like alfalfa. Emphasizes business methods, steady yearly sales, and cost control to match urban living costs.
A study of the market and its methods is a crucial part of the winter reading plan farmers map out for themselves. Selling is as important as raising a crop.
Professor Watts notes Swiss chard has moved from obscurity to broad cultivation in home gardens and markets. The plant tolerates cold, thrives in summer heat, and can be wintered with mulch. Seeds sown in open ground and care in hotbeds yield a marketable crop in about a month after transplanting.
Farmers can test alfalfa seed at home using two square pieces of blotting paper with 100 seeds placed between them. Keep moist and count sprouted seeds after six days to gauge germination power, aiming for at least 50 percent. Watch for brown seeds as they may sprout yet fail to root outdoors. Also describes a sapling pulling device using a six foot wooden stake, a tree, and a chain for uprooting saplings with horse help.
The speaker stresses earning money without sacrificing soil fertility. The plan is to select crops that improve land while also boosting farmer income, marrying productive farming with environmental stewardship.
A simple guide from Farm Journal suggests attaching an old buggy wheel to the outside of a long farm gate on an axle so it rolls as the gate opens in either direction. The device prevents sag and aids smooth operation.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt notes a New York appellate division ruling banning artificial coloring in oleomargarine and addresses farm manure disposal rules. It also outlines contract basics: an offer exists, acceptance creates a contract, and withdrawal is possible before acceptance.
Local notes follow Sunday visits and calls among residents of Alma Ithaca and nearby towns. News covers illnesses moves to Redling and 747 Morton avenue, travel plans to Long Beach and Detroit, a Toledo injury, a Pine River death, property changes and social gatherings with multiple named families and farms in the area.
Alma residents and nearby neighbors share visits and trips this week. Kirt Willis from Elwell called on friends. Leslie Hoyt traveled to St. Louis for business. H. B. Currence hosted Dee Day and wife from Alma. families plan a spring barn project and summer farming. Several residents, including Mrs. William Rogers and Mrs. Clyde Raycraft, travel for family illness and Detroit return. Local dances attract many youths with a Friday Elwell gathering.
Elm Hall reports Mrs Hannah Coleman seriously ill with doctors Shaffer and Brainerd attending. Riverdale pupils visited Elm Tall school Tuesday. Miss Cecile Ward finished County Normal course at Ithaca and stayed with parents. Debating society favored Lincoln over Washington with Carl Blair Pearl Smith versus Clarence Martin Inez Connor. Mrs T J Blair visiting at the Soo. U B church protracted meetings this week. Mrs Mabel Beirdsell returned to Grand Rapids.
An advertisement touts Bucklen’s Amica Salve as the best remedy for skin diseases, burns, bruises, and healing. It cites John Deye of Gladwin Michigan who spent $400 on doctors for twelve years before being cured, and urges readers to buy at Rexall and Rhodes stores for 25 cents.
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