Plow and cultivator adapts to orchard rows
The device serves as a plow or cultivator for orchards to form irrigating furrows and cultivate around trees. Hinged beams fold to avoid trees, are spring balanced, and adjustable for row widths. Operation raises blades via a winding drum and cables, with counterbalance springs and casters for depth control. Inventor noted as Mr. W. L. Chase of Banning, California.
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Scientific American
W. L Chase
Banning
Cal
The Small or the Large Farm Debate in 19th Century Agriculture
A reflective essay argues for scaling farms to optimize efficiency and capital. It contrasts small plots with large estates, noting personal attention and improved cultivation on bigger farms, while warning small operations face high costs for machinery, travel, and limited net income. It cites New England averages, dairy practices, and a Lucerne area photograph, then touches on bone discoveries, rock phosphate fertilizer, and farming costs.
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Ulan
Tmar
Jorvl
New England
Ginseng Boom Coins and Blight Halt Patch Venture
A grower courted the ginseng boom by planting a patch with favorable drainage and shade. After the boom collapsed he plowed under the roots and left the business. The enclosure later hosted muskmetons then suffered blight, prompting early season spraying to salvage the crop.
Root pruning is harmful to orchard trees
Farmers’ Review warns against root pruning through deep plowing or spading as it cuts off feeding root ends and reduces growth. Deep plowing between trees in old orchards can stall growth for two years, with young trees recovering slowly. Excessive soil disturbance harms long term fruitfulness, especially where roots are dense near the surface.
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Saya
Farmhouse Tips on Home Production and Plant Care
Practical notes urge aerating milk after drawing, avoid barn exposure, and transferring through vessels to preserve butter flavor. Encourage debt for land, self reliance in food, and home made faults. Advises on home canning, selling preserves, and growing fruit, with low headed peach trees and straw mulch for kale and spinach, plus landscape gardening for farm homes.
Bounty on Grubs in France Pours Funds into Pest Work
France offered 16 to 20 centimes per kilogram of white grubs to collectors for years. Six years produced 462 911 kilograms collected, equaling about five hundred million grubs. High payouts prove unsustainable and collectors abandon effort when grubs thin, letting remaining grubs spawn further colonies.
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France
Truck and Small Fruit Growing Advice for Gardeners
Farmers and truck growers receive practical guidance on soil fertility, drainage, and pruning for raspberries blackberries grapes and cucumbers. The article urges halving acreage boosting fertilizer and care, using surface furrows, protecting tender fruits by bending canes and covering with earth, and notes November as optimal for pruning grapevines. It also mentions Farm Journal guidance and a Farmers Bulletin on cucumbers, advising readers to obtain copies from the US Department of Agriculture in Washington.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Farm Journal
Low Orchard Step Ladder For Fruit Picking
Prairie Parmer shares a plan to build a compact fruit picking step ladder. The top uses a 2x8 plank three feet long, legs are five feet, and braces and steps are made from 1x3 pine or light wood.
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Prairie Parmer
Leeches Preserve Vaccine and Nut Culture Advancements
The report notes leeches can preserve sheep pox virus strong for two years, suggesting digestion and absorption of virus by leeches. It also highlights expanding nut culture, urging farmers to plant nut trees for shade and future improved nut varieties with potential gains over wild types.
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Biological Society At
Paria
Ttly
Keep Cultivating Strawberries With Mulch
Advice urges continuing cultivation of strawberry beds until the ground is friable. Mulch promptly when soil holds a wagon. Recommend wheat straw aged two to three years or marsh hay as effective mulch to suppress weeds and conserve moisture.
Diet of Americans in Die Woche on indigestible city dishes
A two page feature examines what Americans eat with a tone of moral critique, labeling hearty items like hot cakes, pie, ice cream, grapefruit, and pork and beans as indigestible promoters while singling out four “Dutch foods” as the only objections. It uses the average New York business man as a foil for a broader national palate. The piece also includes dubious patent medicine copy about catarrh cures and faulty claims, reflecting period advertising alongside the dietary discussion.
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New York
Flowers Stored Long In Cold Storage Experiment
A French experimenter named Vor cler kept peonies in cold storage for over three months with flowers remaining fairly preserved. Red and white China peonies bent during the long storage period. A woman begins to sit up when other women praise her husband, Liviren Weemins.
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Vorcler
Rheumatism Cured by Williams Pink Pills Says Mrs Cota
Mrs Cota of West Cheshire Connecticut credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing her rheumatism after years of pain. She describes severe swelling and confinement to bed before taking the pills which she says permanently resolved her symptoms. The ad claims the pills purify blood and restore nerves digestion and sleep and are sold by druggists or by mail.
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Henry Cota
West Cheshire
Conn
Dr. Williams
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