Planning an Icehouse Conditions Necessary For Success
The piece outlines how to build and store ice, detailing essential features: a dry air sealed foundation, an airtight nonconductive wall with evaporation keeping the wall dry, a well ventilated roof to vent moisture, and a solid packed ice block. It recommends a wooden double wall with dry sawdust or bark as insulation, an elevated windy location, a tight roof, and a cement floor with drainage and an air trap. It notes cutting ice into interlocking block sizes to prevent air flow and claims outdoor storage can work with proper packing, while underground storage will fail if conditions are not met.
Campbell farming method spreads to Dakotas and Midwest
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes the Campbell system of farming, already tested by 12 railroad farms in Kansas and Nebraska, spreading to North and South Dakota and Minnesota. The process, described in The Country Gentleman, pulverizes soil, roots deeply, and uses a surface packer to trap moisture. Wheat is drilled in spring at 24 to 30 inches, with a wide machine covering 20 to 25 acres daily.
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Campbell
North Dakota
Milwaukee Sentinel
Kansas
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Burlington
Rock Island
Chicago
Milwaukee
Big Cornfield Champion’s Prize Winning Method
John Powers of Prophetstown Illinois writes to Prairie Farmer detailing his corn success. One acre yielded 166 bushels 30 pounds after applying sixteen loads of manure last fall. Ground was deeply plowed in fall 1896 and harrowed three times before planting and three times after. It was cultivated with a garden plow, red and thinned out, with all suckers and unproductive stalks removed.
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John Powers
Prophetstown
Ill
Ilinois
Prairie Farmer
Sugar and Sunshine in Beet Sugar Yields
Arizona leads in sun exposure with the highest sugar beets sugar content. New Mexico follows, both regions showing high saccharine percentage. The sugar beet is highly sensitive to sunshine. a few cloudy days before harvest can reduce sugar yield.
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Orange Judd Farmer
Arizona
United States
New Mexico
Care of Step Corn Seed for Better Stands
The Iowa Homestead urges careful seed selection at husking time and thorough drying and storage to ensure strong germination. Poor methods such as waiting to pick seed from the crib or exposing damp ears to freezes reduce germination and vigor. Kiln drying is safest. keep seed ears dry until planting.
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Iowa Homestead
Water as protection against winter frost for trees and shrubs
The American Cultivator argues that showering plants with water above freezing offers protection by forming an ice coating on branches. As long as the ice remains, cold damage is unlikely. evaporation will gradually wear it away if cold persists, possibly needing reapplication.
Sugar Beet Growth Beats Cane Across Nations
The piece notes sugar production shifts with beet sugar rising, especially in Europe, where climate favors beet over cane. It cites 4,773,000 tons beet sugar and 2,432,000 tons cane sugar last year, totaling 7,205,000. It laments the U S neglect of beet cultivation, despite suitable beet lands, while cane grows along a Gulf coast belt. It attributes the 50 percent production increase since 1886-7 to beet sugar expansion in temperate zones.
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Europe
Mexican Gulf
Florida
Texas
New Farm Highlight in St Louis Area
A Chinese farm near St Louis marks the latest expansion in local industries. Census data show Ohio leads with 251 430 farms, Illinois 240 681, Missouri 288 048, Texas 228 126, New York 226 223, Pennsylvania 211 557, Iowa 201 903. Florida orange crops rise and California may reach 12000 carloads. Pulp from beets after sugar extraction feeds stock. root storage urged in outdoor pits with minimal air. Our bacon is too fat for foreigners.
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St. Louis
San Jose
Ohio
New Jersey
Illinois
Missouri
Texas
New York
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Florida
California
Step Tripping Trial Sparks Laughter in Kansas City Court
In Judge Henry's court Ella Downend sues Kansas City for 5000 over injuries from a sidewalk step. Attorney George Jones argued the step was trivial and not a liability. He then tripped over the same step while pointing to it, eliciting laughter from the jury.
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Henry
Kansas City
Ella Downend
George Jones
City
Mr. Jones
No Legacy to Cigarette Fiends Bequest Contingent on Temperance
The heirs of the late George G. Seaton of Rockford Illinois must avoid excess cigarette and liquor use to receive legacies from his will. He left four nieces and six nephews amounts from 100 to 200 dollars, with a proviso that any heir who abuses cigarettes or alcohol forfeits that portion to a charitable institution chosen by the executors.
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George G. Seaton
Rockford
Ill
Philadelphia Press
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LETTE
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Pacific
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Owen Waster
C. D. Warner
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