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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1906
Page
7
Guidance on pruning ornamental trees notes that suckers may be removed anytime, dormant-season cuts minimize harm, maples dislike sap-flow pruning, and cuts should target cambium junctions. It warns against improper cuts, suggests painting large wounds, and advises pruning for species specific symmetry while stressing ongoing care for shade trees.
The Farmers' Review states dry soil farming is a distinct science. To preserve moisture, a farmer must drill crops with wide row spacing and cultivate between rows during the driest summer. Success hinges on studying individual conditions and adjusting practices accordingly.
The piece notes demand for cherries is high in many markets but often unmet. It advises marketers to plant what buyers prefer, guides home gardeners to consult the housewife, and suggests leaving parentheses and falsify in the ground until spring while mentioning freezing benefits. It ends with a reflection on people boasting of successes and concealing failures, skewing impressions of crop value.
The text urges equal care for pastures and meadows as cultivated fields to prevent bare spots from expanding before clover and timothy thrive. It notes yearly concession of bare places is necessary to maintain desirable grasses.
A snow roller is an economical device to break through heavy snow and keep roads passable. In Maine and Vermont this method has succeeded, using two to four roller sections drawn by teams of horses, with districts assigned and a supervisor responsible for each highway section.
The article explains that salt offers limited direct benefit to asparagus. Weed control and soil moisture retention are the main advantages, while salt can delay nitrification if applied in spring. Fall application of kainite at about 500 pounds per acre provides potash and allows spring fertilizers to supply nitrogen and phosphoric acid.
A Farm and Home writer describes building a bucksaw driven by a small power source to supply a year’s wood. Materials include hardwood frame $0, steel shaft $1, belt pulleys and nuts $2.50, boxes and belting $5.50, a 30 inch saw $8.50, and an eight horsepower motor $2b. The project yielded $75 per hour in cutting wood for himself and neighbors.
The New York aquarium reports its 1905 06 season hatchery is active with 2000 humpbacked salmon eggs hatched. The species, the smallest Pacific salmon, averages five pounds and is sought less for color but valued as food. Hatchery gains aim to establish humpbacked salmon on the Atlantic coast, with eggs from Craig Brook Maine. The young fish now about one inch long thrive under care.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip notes Massachusetts has 80 000 more women than men as a humorous take on demographic shifts. The line questions where the men have gone, joking they fled ahead of the next leap year surge.
Miss Jellers questions Flossie’s young man while Miss Tartan notes the humor, suggesting he wears the ridiculous chin beard because no other place fits. The lines capture a lighthearted Chicago atmosphere and witty banter.
A Judge remarks on a grandmother who has lost all her teeth and a bit ing tongue. The exchange hints at humor or irony in a courtroom setting.
Mrs. Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut writes of a year and a half battle with severe facial and body sores in her son. After trying two physicians and long suffering the Cuticura Soap and Ointment healed all sores in about two months and the child thrived.
A brief exchange notes a salubrious climate as a tourist quips about writing a word, while a native jokes about swearing at the climate in the familiar way and finds humor in anything new on that line.
Mrs. Chugwater Josiah asks about the surrender value in life insurance. Mr. Chugwater claims it is the value of what you surrender to the company for officers to profit. Chicago Tribune outlet reports the remark.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm B B B as a cure for impure blood and skin conditions including cancer, blood poison, eczema, scrofula, and rheumatism. It claims to purify blood, heal sores, improve digestion and kidney strength, with samples and home treatment guidance available from Blood Balm Co. Atlanta. The ad ends with a social critique quote from Outlook.
A reader laments disruption from coughing during worship and complains that Anti-Gripine would cure it. Adverts claim Piso's Cure for Consumption as infallible. Miscellany quotes and jokes appear from Atchison Globe and Washington Star with local humor.
A seed company advertises 5 tons of grass hay free to attract customers and promote Salzer's Bargain Seed Book. The notice touts Northern Grown Pedigree Seeds, Cosmo flowers, and a free seed package, urging readers to respond by mail from Lock Drawer K La Crosse Wisconsin.
Ad mentions Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for swollen sweating hot and painful feet. Product is sold at all druggists for 25 cents with no substitutes. A trial package offer is available addressed to A. 8. Olmsted Le Roy. The block ends with a quip about testing a man's goodness through meals at home.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure as claimed on Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Each box bears E.W. Guove’s signature. Product number 25. The ad urges readers that the world isn’t worse than in youth, just newer to you.
Dr. Melvin M. Page of Erie Pennsylvania recounts severe kidney illness after drinking iced drinks in New York in 1895. He details weight loss from 104 to 122 pounds, rapid recovery after using Deans Kidney Pills, and full restoration to 183 pounds by 1896. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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