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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1900
Page
7
A Farm and Home note by L. S. Yates explains a simple fruit table to sort plums for market. The design uses a 3 by 2 1 2 foot top, slanted board, guards, and a front space to separate perfect fruit from leaves and damaged pieces.
Architectural guidance from H. E. Van Deman urges placing stables and pig pens away from the house to the northeast or east, favoring a south or east front. It recommends curved drives, irregular plantings, and groups of trees to create a natural backdrop, avoid front gate alignment with the main entrance, and favor native or inexpensive shade trees like elm and maple over costly tender species.
The article outlines the demanding daily routine of a farm wife from dawn to night. It notes duties beyond a city wife's, including poultry care, milking, fruit picking, and household purchases from farm earnings. It cites the saying that a woman's work is never done and hopes for greater reward.
Andrew H Ward notes in American Gardening that powdered phosphate of lime is the best cheap lime for land. It is obtained from low grade phosphates and adds phosphoric acid similar to superphosphates, more effective than wood ashes. When moistened, it dissolves and releases soluble phosphate, aided by organic matter decomposition.
A Boston Transcript quote estimates US cheese production near 265 million pounds annually with exports about 70 million. Home consumption around 260 million includes 12 million of imported foreign cheese. Exports likely up from 1899, but figures may be exaggerated. Call for legislation to curb counterfeit brands and bills to support fair trade with Canada to restore foreign market prestige.
A brief note from the Orange Juda Farmer describes using shoe boxes as crates. Cut two strips on each side and add a central partition to form a crate. A finger notch on end strips aids handling, making crates handy for fruit crops and potatoes.
George F. E. Newell in the American Cultivator argues milk cattle age more by care and feed than by years. A cow with rough handling loses milk value early, while well managed cows can remain profitable for up to twelve years or more.
Western horticulturists advise locating raspberry and blackberry patches on the northwest east or southeast to shunt prevailing winds over the patch. This reduces cane breakage in gales and slows soil moisture loss in heat, with a wind break offering additional protection.
The wheel hoe promises to cut garden labor by providing a multi tool implement. It combines seed drill cultivator teeth markers rakes and knives as detachable parts and works best on light soils though it can require more power on heavy soils. It is described as the cheapest implement for varied uses and a remarkable labor saver.
Two causes hinder orchard profitability are small acreage and too many apple varieties. Forming fruit-growing associations allows farmers to plant a coordinated acreage and a limited number of varieties, enabling bulk sales of carloads, better tree purchasing, shared expertise, and reduced risk while boosting profits.
An illustrated note explains a method to water horses using two half barrels joined by planks and pipes to provide gravity fed circulation to prevent stagnation. It cites tar lining and slight height differences for even flow. Also cites H E Van Norman on Summer Care of Milk and Cream advising cleanliness, udder washing, rapid cooling to 50 F or below, and cooling to 41 F to inhibit bacteria.
No cure exists for peach yellows a highly contagious disease. Infected trees must be dug out burned on site including roots trunk and branches to prevent spread. Late summer and fall aid detection with fruit and twig symptoms such as premature ripening abnormal buds and red marbling in flesh.
The article advises thinning dense flower beds giving each plant space. Use dry clippings from mowing as mulch and provide wire netting for sweet peas to climb. Pansies thrive in sun, compost is better than fresh manure, and avoid fresh manure to prevent plant damage.
A crowd at a drug store witnessed a heat exhausted man collapse. An ambulance arrived and a young physician diagnosed heat prostration. A stout passerby offered to take the man to his home, claiming to be the author of cooling tips for newspapers.
A humorous quip about a Russian general and a joke on travel is noted alongside broader wartime horrors discussed at The Hague conference. The text reads as a fragment from a Baltimore American report, reflecting satirical tone amid war discourse.
An OCR snippet cites Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement and liver kidney cures with price 25. It also touts Putnam's Faceless Dyers color products claiming superior dyeing power sold by druggists. Contains asides about privacy and other newspaper quotes.
Daily prices for flour, wheat, corn, oats, eggs, butter, cheese, potatoes, and livestock from New York Cleveland Chicago Toledo and Buffalo. Highlights include wheat around 82c in Cleveland and good to prime cattle and lamb prices in multiple markets, with hogs fluctuating from 4.70 to 5.75 per hundredweight.
An advertisement touts Lydia Pinkham’s It as acting on the female organism to cure inflammation and displacements. It claims no other remedy matches its effectiveness and cites thousands of women testifying in letters published in the paper.
A city boarder quarrels with farmer Hooks over a $96 30 bill for two weeks of board claiming extra charges from use of a carry all and well as apples, funeral, eclipse and picnic costs. Hooks counters with items charged and a sly poke at the man’s wealth. The exchange ends with a joke about grasping the nation’s wealth of about 100 billion dollars.
A Chicago Herald remark recounts Booker T. Washington saying Omaha negro youths should learn trades, not whitewashing. He notes the whitewashing job ends as interior decorators rise, and cites humor about plumbers and carpenters in the afterlife. Other quips mock forgiveness in prayer.
A collage of quotes and comical lines from Detroit Journal Chicago Daily News and Atchison Globe with notes on medicines remedies and product promotions. Items include Piso's Cure for Consumption claims Hall's Catarrh Cure and Burnham desserts plus a remark on female appearance and a parrot joke.
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