Past Profits in Strawberries Before the Civil War Era
The article recalls how strawberry growing began in the country and rose in popularity before the Civil War. Wild berries sold for par value, while cultivated varieties later priced high. Postwar profits drew many into farming, with some earning $600 to $800 per acre. Prices fell, causing many to abandon hopes, as strawberry growing settled into a steady commercial industry with solid profits and large supplies.
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Ing
Insects pests and catalpa tree planting insights
The text distinguishes insect classes biting and sucking with examples like scale insects and codling moth larvae, and notes remedies such as kerosene, soap emulsions, Paris green, and contact poisons. It also discusses catalpa trees as quick growing fence-post timber, urging hardy varieties and noting farmers want rapid returns rather than longer growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico Experiment Station
Catalpa
Sweet Corn and Cantaloupe Cultivation Tips
The article advises staggered sweet corn planting for continuous harvest and notes benefits such as easier harvesting and feeding stalks to dairy cattle. It describes starting cantaloupes in hot houses then transplanting, using seedling boxes to protect from insects and accelerate ripening, and outlines advantages of earlier yields and extended growing seasons.
Setting Apple Trees Prom Farmers' Review Advice
Mr Aldrich counsels orchardists on setting trees with a southeast lean for better sun exposure. A Iowa reader adds that trees should tilt toward the sun between 12:30 and 1:00. The note discusses ridge planting for Wheeler potatoes and level culture in poorly drained clay soils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldrich
Edeon Gaylord
Iowa
Battle of Grass and Weeds In Prairie Lands
H F Roberts explains how native prairie grasses resist invasion when land is left to natural conditions. Disturbance via sod breaking and cropping creates space for new weeds, but abandoned farms may allow woods to flourish temporarily before native grasses reclaim soil and weed growth recedes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becaum
H. F. Roberts
Soil Amellorant Observations At Ohio Station
Ohio Station Bulletin 233 notes that wild sweet clover, Boklara or mel fot, grows only where surface soil has been scraped or puddled by trampling. Seeds sown on thin soil fail, except at an old Columbus brickyard site where a full stand persisted until 1891. Wheat yield after melilot was 26.9 bu/acre vs 18.6 bu/acre on adjacent land.
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Bulletin
Ohio
Columbus
Developing the Rice Industry Through Imports and Home Growth
The report highlights rice introduction from Japan boosting U S production and reducing imports. Secretary Wilson notes Louisiana and Texas investments spurring up to 20 million dollars into the industry. By 1900 production rose significantly and imports fell, signaling eventual self sufficiency and possible exports.
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Japan
Wilson
Lowitiana
Louisiana
Texas
United States
Modes of Trimming and Graceful Visiting Gown Features
The article outlines trimming techniques including broad double folds, gathered flounces, color and texture contrasts using silk or velvet, and heavy Ince designs with narrow velvet frames. It highlights a graceful blue visiting gown with buff chiffon yoke, embroidered panels, and wide skirt tucks, noting tabber fronts gain prominence for day and evening wear. A recently imported shift with dominant tabber front and a serviceable black broadcloth jacket with Corticelli silk stitching are also described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revere
Elaborate 18th Century Gowns in White and Green Tones
The text describes gowns with white gulpure over stripod green taf feta and an alm ond green satin Louis XV coat with lace jabot and collar. A blouse of white mouaseline de sole features a gold buckle girdle. A second gown uses veiling with gonise insertion and black velvet ribbon, while fronts show white linen shirred plaiting, all from an old Welner Chic style excerpt.
Clothing Description From A Fragmentary Text
A garbled passage describes a skirt with two sections cut in Cour divielona style and biased toward fit. The top and bottom parts are joined at the sides with fine tebed edges and roselis bow decoration, though some terms remain unclear in the damaged OCR.
Pattern and Design Showcased on Special Tining
Aainty pattern or design reveals the foundation of a special tining, with bonilsome app products and trimmed cloth details including turtota and other adornments.
Homemade negligee gown trends in white fabrics
The article describes a homemade negligee gown using flowered muslin over silk, detailing yoke width, plaited drape, and neckline finish. It praises sheer white touches, featherlike silhouettes, and artistic combinations of fabric layers, noting elegant white gowns with lacy billows and pearl embellishments.
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Macy
The Return and Chicago Street Boys Excerpt
A fragment from a publication mixes poetic lines about return with a long section on Chicago street boys. It details about 6,000 new boys, 1,500 in the downtown area, with Italians forming 80 percent, Jews 10 percent, and others 10 percent, plus homeless youths in homes or shelters. It notes leisure leading to gambling and a move to form a Boys Club in downtown. It also includes a brief electric experiment description using tin foil and lamp chimney.
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Chicago
Fourteenth Street
John F. Atkinson
Almaty Children’s Home and Aid Society
Blindfold Artists Draw Contest Opens With Director Selection
In a classroom scene described, students enter a room after the recess bell for a drawing contest. A director is chosen to organize but not necessarily judge, and the game begins with the head of the row summoned to the board. The participants proceed with the blindfolded challenge as the blackboard awaits their skill.
Drawing a Horae Picture Provokes Laughter at Card Game
A player blindfolded with a handkerchief is asked to draw on a board a picture of a horae. Despite effort, every drawing amuses others, and the laughter peaks when the blindfold is removed and the picture is revealed, revealing the humorous result.
A Puritan Conscience Folds Over Mental Arithmetics
A Youth's Companion tale recalls a New England girl troubled by a math problem. While solving additions at school she laments “failed again in mental arithmet ic.” Her mother asks the problem, and the girl explains she chose twelve as the slate answer after hesitating between seven twelve thirteen, honoring a Puritan conscience.
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New England
Cerunion
Butterflies and Birds in a Turbulent Page Fragment
A fragmentary poetic prose piece describes butterflies and birds with vivid imagery. It mentions gold alloy, perfume, and wing colors like orange and ivory. The text mingles natural detail with distorted words, leaving the exact subject and source unclear.
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Monsech
Vannaeta
Peru
Lanage. Amd
Diame
A Novel Game of Cornucopias and Tight Strings
A dry weather science toy uses silk cloth and a chimney to fill paper rings with ether and tension strips, while a party game moves two cornucopias on strings to race across a room. Players blow to slide the cornucopias along the string to reach the opposite end first.
Invitations Paper Decor Shows Harlequin Elephant Theme
A period notice describes decorative invitation paper for young girls party uses. The images feature a late girl in bloomers with dumb bells, a summer belle, a cavalier, and a harlequin elephant playing a trombone with a long trunk.
Coin Trick With Paper Cone and Mucilage
A dated craft trick explains using mucilage on a wine glass rim and a sheet of white paper to create a cone. The setup hides a coin under the cone and moves it by covering the glass, then reveals the coin on removing the cone. The method suggests the coin reappears when the cone is lifted and rehidden when moved.
Fragmented OCR Text About Frost and Modded Weapons
A garbled OCR passage discusses frost profiles and weapon mods, mentioning water, patience, and wear on materials. It references cooling and cracking images, with unclear names and scattered phrases. The text reads like a damaged gaming or engineering fragment with no clear narrative or identifiable entities.
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