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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
3
A Rural New Yorker summary explains bridge grafting to save trees damaged by mice. Use twig cut ends and wax at entry points, placing twigs along the wound one inch apart without tying, effective only on strong trees. girdled trees aged one to two years should be replaced.
The article discusses bean cultivation notes focusing on soil type, moisture, and timing. It emphasizes loam soil with prior manuring, shallow cultivation, avoiding deep root cutting after flowering, and spacing in drills for best yields. It also contains erratic text about seed sources and other crops like cherries and plums, with references to manure and garden practices.
New York horticulturist S Wadhams urges thorough coal tar treatments to prevent borer eggs and protect peach trees. Apply annually from trunk base to 12 inches above, remove borers from nursery trees, and clear earth to roots. Tar helps against shot hole borers and bark beetles, outperforming paints or washes.
The Department of Agriculture plans to combat the San Jose scale with its natural enemy the ladybug. Assistant Marlatt returns from China with a supply of these insects, of which only two remain after a period of care. fifty now survive, feeding on gathered scales. Experts aim to use the ladybugs to attack the scale, though extermination is not expected.
The piece explains soil firming after planting using improvised hand rollers and a keg weight, noting moisture retention and seed cover as key to even rows. It cites Orange Judd Farmer on alfalfa as a long standing, adaptable crop, urging trial planting in eastern soils with patient experimentation and small initial plots.
The passage describes cow pea diversity in seed color ranging from black to purple and patterns such as speckling, with shapes including round and kidney forms. It notes ripening times vary from zero to over 200 days, influenced by planting time, rainfall, and soil nitrogen levels, which can alter fruiting and maturity and affect yield.
Ohio breeder F. J. Wilson raises quail and pheasants with a two week old starter fed on ants and eggs. After two weeks he adds hard boiled eggs fine clover and occasional curd. Quail can be raised with bantam mothers for easy care and nightly roosting.
The article notes varying physician densities worldwide. It cites the United States with one doctor per 647 inhabitants, California one per 420, New Mexico one per 1391, and compares European nations like Holland and Norway. It links rising physician numbers to lower death rates, contrasted with Russia’s high death rate due to few doctors.
Explosions in the Hennepin canal bed near Rock Falls Illinois have caused hens to lay without hatching for three weeks. Poultry breeders blame the blasts for killing vital sparks in eggs, with up to 200 pounds of dynamite used at times. Effects reach Sterling across Rock River, rattling windows and disturbing local poultry leaders of the Arena Poultry Association.
A historical note recounts a man once named Tabi Smith who adopted Gugadlg Gigdded, inspired by a resemblance to John Pickles whose line had a John Smith in the sixth generation, creating a quirky surname shift with no clear lineage.
Pioneering aviator M Santos-Dumont argues airships can cross the Atlantic in two days carrying 100 passengers, given $1,000,000 to build a suitably large craft. He compares aerial travel to rail and sea progress and notes public demand and capitalist funding.
The passage discusses reactions to idealism, noting Goethe and Emerson on beauty and usefulness, and contrasting critics like Herbert Spencer and Julian Hawthorne who doubt value in the mind world. It argues that some scholars scoff at idealism as impractical, while defending the beauty's usefulness.
In a reflective critique, critics scorn theology as unknown study while noting Scots and Dutch scholars became highly practical through two centuries of theological discipline. The piece argues such deep doctrinal training bred broad thinking, scholarship, and business acumen across nations.
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