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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1898
Page
8
A shortcut guide from American Cultivator on planting single eyes to grow large potatoes. Avoid crowding in drills, prune seed, and use careful cultivation. Deep cultivation and hilling can reduce size. use bordeaux spray for seed potatoes and strict safety in handling poisons. Also notes on asparagus culture and fertilizing timing from Country Gentleman.
The Rhode Island Station provides instructions for using corrosive sublimate. Dissolve 2.25 ounces of crystals in a few gallons of hot water, add cold water to reach 15 gallons, and stir well. Use wooden vessels only, with two wooden-fauceted barrels to transfer the solution for potato processing.
A reader asks about filling foundations in winter for beekeeping, with a National Stockman reply praising winter filling. The piece cites 1892-8 cottonseed oil exports, values, and home consumption remaining stock, attributed to W. J. Northen. It also notes a New York state bulletin on a bacterial disease harming young sweet corn on Long Island markets, with trials of lime and sulfur failing and limited spread.
A dramatic line from New York Weekly depicts Leckess welcoming his son who returns with an American wife and a purse large enough to settle family debts. The scene unfolds at an unseemly hour with heightened emotion and revelation.
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