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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1898
Page
8
The article outlines how Western beekeepers favor extracted honey and Eastern producers sell comb honey, with white clover and basswood as top prices. It discusses best packaging for comb honey in one pound frames, crate packing, and how retail jars and pasteboard cartons aid marketing, plus packaging for extracted honey in five gallon tins and paired boxes.
The Iowa Homestead urges careful seed selection at husking time and strict drying and storage. Poor methods such as gathering seed when needed or letting damp seed freeze or sweat reduce germination and vigor. Kiln drying or near-dry storage keeps seed reliable, with attention to season, moisture, and temperature.
A farmer bulletin details horse radish as a highly profitable crop when grown as a second crop after cabbage or early vegetables. It explains planting shoots from the main root, digging in late fall, trimming, storage for next year, and selling main roots by the pound for $50 to $70 per ton, with barrels used in winter.
The Virginia razorback ham is grown in Surrey, Southampton and Nansemond counties. An agriculture department bulletin proclaims these hams equal to Westphalians. Hogs roam the woods in youth, gaining a gamy flavor, then are fattened on corn and black eyed peas, with finishing feed of small potatoes. The curing method is local, and genuine hams require a year in advance orders.
At the Utah station investigations into growing and feeding alfalfa span years. Studies include feeding experiments on early, medium and late cut alfalfa from first and second crops. Alfalfa cut just before blooming shows higher protein than later cuts, but neither first nor second crop matches the protein richness of the third crop.
T. L. Lyon, head of the agricultural department at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, says the winter course begins December 28, 1897 and ends March 18, 1898. Instruction is at the experiment station farm with suitable buildings and facilities provided.
A historical note cites American Cultivator advising water over trees and shrubs to form an ice cover as a defense against freezing. It states ice reduces cold injury while maintained by evaporation renewing the layer, and links moisture loss during extreme cold to winter kill, urging rains to moisten soil to prevent deep freezing.
The Country Gentleman notes recent sugar outputs show beet sugar rising while cane sugar declines. Last year beet sugar reached 4,773,000 tons and cane 2,432,000, totaling 7,205,000. Beet sugar growth, largely in Europe, contrasts with cane limits in cane-free tropical zones, urging U S beet cultivation over overproduction of cotton and wheat.
A new Chinese farm arrives near St Louis signaling industry diversification. The piece notes kerosene treatment for San Jose scale and highlights state tallies from the last census with Ohio leading in farms at 251 430, followed by Illinois, Missouri, Texas, New York, and others. It also mentions Florida orange yields and California's anticipated carload harvest, plus beets pulp as stock feed and root storage in outdoor pits excluding air. An official remark states our bacon is too fat for foreigners.
Ella Downend sues Kansas City for 5000 dollars claiming injuries after tripping on a sidewalk step in Judge Henry's court. Attorney George Jones argued the step was minor and akin to the witness chair step, prompting the attorney to stumble over it himself as the jury laughed.
The will of the late George G. Seaton of Rockford Illinois limits legacies to four nieces and six nephews to amounts between 100 and 200 dollars each. A proviso states that if any legatee uses cigarettes or alcohol to excess, that portion shall go to a charity chosen by the executors.
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