Conditions Necessary For Success How These May Be Attained
The article outlines practical steps for building an icehouse from Country Gentlemen instructions. Key points include a dry air barred foundation, airtight nonconducting wall with evaporative cooling, a ventilated roof, and a solid packed ice block. It stresses double walls with dry porous filler like sawdust or tan bark, elevated windy dry ground, a tight roof, sealed floor with a drain and air trap, and ice cut in interlocking sizes to minimize air flow. Underground storage is discouraged.
North Dakota adapts Campbell farming method from railroads
The Milwaukee Sentinel reports Campbell soil moisture farming being tried in North Dakota with 12 large railroad experiment farms in Kansas and Nebraska and similar trials planned in North and South Dakota and Minnesota. The process includes deep plowing, subsoil packing, and a three inch top layer, followed by spring harrowing and wheat sowing at 24 to 30 inch rows. A wide machine allows a man and two horses to cover 20 to 25 acres daily, aiming to maintain moisture through careful cultivation and the dust mulch.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Kansas
Nebraska
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South Dakota
Minnesota
Burlington
Rock Island
Chicago
Milwaukee
Prophetic Powers of Powers on Illiniois Corn Field
John Powers of Prophetstown Illinois earned first prize at the Illinois state fair for the largest corn yield. He raised one acre producing 166 bushels 80 pounds after applying sixteen loads of manure. The ground was fall plowed in 1896 harrowed repeatedly and cultivated with a garden plow thinning out suckers and unproductive stalks.
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John Powers
Prophetstown
Ill
Ilinois
Sugar beets rely on sunshine for sugar content says expert
An expert notes that sunshine, not heat, drives sugar in beets. Arizona leads the nation in sunshine affecting beet quality, with New Mexico close behind. A few cloudy days before harvest can lower the saccharine percentage significantly.
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Orange Judd Farmer
Arizona
United States
New Mexico
Care of Seed Corn for Better Stands
Seed corn quality hinges on careful selection and strict drying after harvest. Choose at husking time or earlier, then store using kiln-like drying if possible, keeping ears thoroughly dry to avoid germination loss or vigor decline from moisture and freezing conditions.
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Iowa Homestead
Water Protection for Trees by Ice Coating in Cold Weather
The American Cultivator endorses freezing water over trees and shrubs to form an ice shield, arguing it guards against extreme cold while evaporation wears away the ice if cold persists. It notes sap circulation can continue with roots below frost and that wet soil from fall rains helps prevent deep freezing. without rainstorms, more trees may die next winter.
Beet Sugar Domination Prompts Shift in Global Output
The passage notes beet sugar production in Europe rising to 4,773,000 tons while cane sugar totals 2,482,000 tons for the year. It argues beet sugar advantages in temperate zones, cites America’s cane belt from Florida to Texas, and criticizes overproduction policy for neglecting beet cultivation.
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Europe
Mexican Gulf
Florida
Texas
Beets Pulp Feeds Stock and Bacon Bordering States
A rural survey notes a new Chinese farm near St. Louis and urges kerosene treatment for the San Jose scale. Census shows Ohio leading farms, Illinois and Missouri high counts, Florida orange crop rising, California forecast at 12000 carloads, beet pulp deemed good feed, root storage outdoors with air exclusion, and an official remark that 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
Unfortunate Illustration in Kansas City Trial
In Judge Henry's court Kansas City, Lila Downend sues for 5000 for injuries after tripping on a sidewalk step. Attorney George Jones argued the step was mere access to the witness chair, then himself tripped over it, causing laughter in the courtroom.
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Henry
Kansas City
Lila Downend
George Jones
City
Mr. Jones
No Legacy to Cigarette Fiends in Late Will
The heirs of the late George G. Seaton of Rockford Illinois must not become cigarette smokers to receive their legacies. His will leaves four nieces and six nephews amounts from $100 to $200 with a proviso that if any legatee overuses cigarettes or alcoholic liquor, that share goes to a charity chosen by the executors.
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George G. Seaton
Rockforn
Philadelphia Press
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