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Newspaper
The Dillon Herald
Location
Dillon, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
6
At the Montana experiment station a storm shed backs the bee building with a dirt floored room fitted with two skeleton shelves to house fifty bee colonies for wintering under near normal conditions. Entrances connect to the outdoors. a gable roof stores empty hives and surplus combs. During the first two winters before the bee house was built, experts...
Article outlines methods for outdoor and indoor wintering of bee colonies. Describes straw-packed and double-walled hives with ventilation to conserve heat and allow moisture escape. Recommends dry leaves for bedding and notes costs and practicalities of hive construction and placement.
The National Corn Exposition showcased a grand prize ear from Indiana selling for 250 dollars at Chicago auction. The white corn ear held 1200 kernels with a 20 cent per kernel value, equating to 60 ears per bushel. Breeders emphasize such prizes as encouragement tools rather than goals of the crop improvement campaign.
The article recounts farmer Miley’s indirect impact on corn varieties like Leaming and Yellow Dent, noting a chain of improvements across Indiana Illinois and the Mississippi Valley. It highlights Chicago shows with 14 states represented, record cash prizes totaling $16,000, and top earners from Iowa South Dakota and others. It also discusses cover crops reducing nitrate loss, carrots for horses, and mentions John Gorrie and Frederica Tudor as American pioneers in ice and cold storage.
A sparse dialogue shows a dentist handling a patient with practical questions about dental procedures. The dentist explains rubber dam placement and cheek retraction while describing technique and patient reaction in a terse, interview-like exchange.
In a fragment from Harper's Weekly a rosy cheeked Irish girl named Nora seeks work with a Germantown woman. The interviewer asks if she can cook and Nora answers with a naïve, humorous dialect, saying she thinks ten or more.
A jumble of dated newspaper quips and dialogue excerpts showcases a social mosaic. The lines reference actors parents Briggins and his wife reading a newspaper, a trivial quarrel, and a comparison of love to a U tube with opinions attributed to Hi Tragerdy Crittick and Austin O Malley.
A writer in American Cultivator notes Brussels sprouts are highly valued in farwer aid markets, thriving as a money maker. An acre holds over 7,000 plants. seeds are planted in open air with minimal extra cost beyond seed bed prep and seed. Young plants transplant like cabbage and cultivation is similar. The season runs from October to December and often into February on Long Island, with frost not harming and freezing improving flavor.
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