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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1896
Page
7
A garbled receipt like item dismisses beer for women seeking small feet and links foot size to wine or beer regions. The piece drifts through unrelated names and phrases about family relations, health tonics, and reform talk without coherent narrative.
The article notes extreme heat causing illness and debility among women and the poorly conditioned, with many residents reporting nervous exhaustion and prostration. It mentions medical concerns and a sense of hopelessness while also drifting into a discussion of ocean tides and a scientific explanation by Vaughan Cortish.
A fragment from The Saint Louis Republic notes shifting gender norms as a wife reflects on dowry practices and changing marriages. It lists eight German army women colonels and references a Canadian Chinese immigration restriction petition in British Columbia. British India reports a crackdown on snake handling due to native breeding for rewards.
Crimson clover is described as an annual true clover suited for mid-summer seeding. It blooms in May and is cut for seed around June 1. It serves as a green manure and pasture crop, useful between corn crops or after wheat, with sowing advice and cultivation methods given by Indiana Experiment Station.
Market gardeners earn larger profits from turnips by sowing early and selling home market bunches for few cents yet per bushel rates impress farmers. The piece suggests farmers could boost early turnip production with nitrogenous manure to match gardeners, noting late sowings stay cheap and harvests surge post midsummer.
A bulletin notes that a muleh may benefit cultivated ground but cautions against thick coarse litter mulch on trees and small fruits. Surface-rooting, drought sensitivity, hindered cultivation, weed growth, and quack grass can destroy crops. Some horticulturists urge switching to dry-earth mulch despite soil exposure risks.
Protcesor Playfair notes small lungs aid fattening in domestic animals with a ranking: pig, sheep, ox, horse. He compares Chinese and Irish pigs for fattening rates and discusses fat deposition, waste, and health. The piece also covers selective plant breeding, greenhouse flowers, and grape bagging for improved ripening and beauty.
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