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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1895
Page
7
A scattered Northern region column laments low sheep values and land prices pushing ranchers toward speculative shifts like coyote farming. It contrasts time systems across Maine and New Brunswick, contrasts equal rights zeal in San Francisco, notes Spanish wines seeking U.S. markets, and critiques cocoa processing claims while promoting Walter Baker Breakfast Cocoa as pure.
A detailed column covers English agriculture history and soil improvement plants like crimson clover and cowpea, plus warnings on nutrient depletion. It notes a New Jersey Delaware river boundary dispute, historical grants to Duke of York, and the role of stenographers in modern legal practice.
The excerpt laments eighteenth century English farming, noting poor soils, scarce fertilizers, and costly nitrogen. It cites narrow roads in Essex, livestock issues, and the shift toward crop rotation and legume plants like clover and peas. Ohio farmers Gould and Agee praise Southern peas for soil improvement, urging wider trials.
A mixed old column urges grass over wheat as the farmer’s main value and advertises Salzer Grass and Clover Mixture seeds. It touts large yields per acre, lists seed varieties, and offers a free seed sample and catalog for sending in a postal request to Salzer Seed Co. Gardeners in Texas and the South are noted for potato varieties and land offers appear from Missouri and Arkansas promoters.
South Dakota station bulletin describes Bushy Blue Stem as a perennial grass with robust root stocks, unbranched stems two to five feet high, green to purplish color, broad rough leaves, and panicles six inches to a foot long. It yields abundant hay, stocks eat it greedily, and it thrives best on rich prairie bottoms though dry seasons reduce seed. The analysis shows water 7.75, ash 40, crude protein 0.85, nitrogen 1.67.
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