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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1902
Page
14
The article recalls how strawberry growing rose to prominence before the Civil War when wild berries sold cheaply and cultivated varieties fetched high prices. Profit drew many into farming, with $600 to $800 per acre reported, but prices later fell and many abandoned the venture. The industry eventually settled as a steady commercial enterprise with reliable but less theatrical profits.
A New Mexico Experiment Station note divides insects into biting and sucking. Sucking pests like scale, red spider, woolly aphid injure by sucking sap. remedies include contact killers such as kerosene, kerosene emulsion, and soap mixtures. Biting insects chew plant parts. examples are grasshoppers, beetles, codling moth larvae. Direct poisons like Paris green applied to attacked parts are most effective. The catalpa tree is favored for fence posts, as it grows quickly and lasts long, but only hardy varieties should be grown because farmers seek quick returns and suspect long maturation times.
Discussion on staggered sweet corn planting for steady harvests and feeding green corn to dairy cows. Describes advantages of corn over field corn, including lower cost and quicker growth. Explains starting cantaloupes in hot houses using seed in boxes to transplant, protecting plants from insects and achieving earlier ripening.
A reader from Iowa cites an article by Mr Aldrich on orchard management favoring southeast orientation for apple trees and notes a sun angle between noon and 1 pm. Comments touch on potato trenching, ridge planting, and clay soils with drainage concerns.
A discussion on how native prairie grasses persist when undisturbed, while new weeds invade after land is cleared. It notes that wild grasses withstand change unless farming alters conditions, and abandoned farms may see woods reclaim soil, crowding out weeds over time, attributed to H. F. Roberts.
Observations show wild sweet clover or bokhara clover grows mainly on scraped or trampled soils such as road sides and old brickyards rather than well kept pastures. At Ohio Station seeds sown on thin soils failed, except at an old Columbus brickyard site from 1888 to 1891 where stand and reseedings occurred. Wheat yield later reached 26.9 bu/acre where melilot grew versus 18.6 bu/acre on adjacent land without melilot.
Discussion on the benefits of introducing rice from Japan and expanding domestic production led by Secretary Wilson. Notes Louisiana and Texas investment, increased yields, and reduced imports, with outlook toward self sufficiency and export capability. Also touches European farming feeding to improve land and the costs of feed and transportation in widening markets.
A fashion piece on trimming styles for gowns and cloaks, detailing broad folds, flounces, color and texture contrasts, and heavy lace motifs. It highlights velvet and satin accents, embroidered chiffons, tabber fronts on visiting gowns, and a serviceable black broadcloth jacket with white Corticelli trim and distinctive stitched features.
The article describes historical fashion with a white gulpure skirt over green taf feta, a Louis XV coat in alm ond green satin with lace appliques, jabot and bléeve rifled by gulpure bands, a white mouaseline blouse, a gold buckle girdle, a veiling second gown trimmed with gonise Insertion, black velvet ribbon, and white linen frontals.
The text describes a dress section arrangement with bias cuts and small upstanding frijix. A lower section folds to join the upper part, forming a full flounce at the skirt. Side seams connect to a tabber, while edges are finished with roselis bows in arrow motifs.
Aainty pattern or design and showing the foundation of some special tining are very bonilsome, all thy ap plinued trimmings of cloth, turtota or molre.
The article describes homemade negligee gowns with flowered muslin over silk, yoke widths, and diagonal front plaits. It notes sheer tulle trims, pearl embroidery, and white fabrics, praising airy, featherlike silhouettes and lacy billows as fashionable.
The article describes about 6 000 Chicago newsboys and related youth groups in the downtown area. It details ethnic composition, homes, homelessness, and leisure misuses like gambling, with a push to form a Boys Club. Also notes an electric foil experiment with a lamp chimney and a spark demonstration.
Students gather after recess for a drawing contest guided by a director. The process begins with the leader calling the front-row student to the board and the blindfolded artist proceeds to draw, while the director directs the course of the exercise.
A player is blindfolded with a handkerchief and asked to draw a horae on a board with chalk. No matter the effort, every picture provokes laughter from all, especially the player who realizes the joke after the handkerchief is removed.
A Youth's Companion tale tells of a young Puritan girl misled by arithmetic rules. While studying mental arithmetic at school she reports to her mother she failed again. She explains she wrote the answer on her slate after counting aloud and choosing twelve, thinking mental math required a different method.
A fragmentary, period tone piece describes butterflies and birds with vivid, if garbled, imagery. It evokes perfumes, colors like orange wings and ivory beaks, and a fleeting scene of nature’s creatures in a summer setting.
A fragment describes an amusing game using cornucopias made of stiff paper and twine. Two players stand apart, threading string through cornucopia openings and blowing to move the pieces across the room, testing lung power to win the prize.
The article depicts special imported paper for little maidens to invite guests, featuring white sheets in colored designs. It shows two women in bloomers with dumbbells and Indian motifs, plus a harlequin figure with an elephant playing a trombone, underscoring playful summer imagery.
Instruction describes applying mucilage to a wine glass and folding paper to form a cone over a coin. By covering the glass with the cone and paper, the coin appears to disappear when the cone is removed and can reappear when the cone is placed again.
garbled text describes a frost profile and a metal or mod system with references to water churn and wear. it hints at a scene of cracking earth and eneth with mentions of a HE Bt and a heel pager mod. no clear events or persons emerge from the unreadable fragment.
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