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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
2
The country press praises farmer prosperity from good crops and fair prices but warns against monopolies and high taxes that shift profits away from producers. It urges open markets, better education, new foreign markets, uniform production, and careful soil management to sustain lasting prosperity in farming.
Prof. H Snyder of the University of Minnesota outlines fall plowing benefits over spring. Fall plowing preserves humus and nitrogen, slows vitrification, and enhances nitrification near the surface where seeds and young crops need nitrogen, while late spring plowing exposes inert nitrogen to the surface and risks insufficient available nitrogen in old soils. Deep plowing and thorough cultivation aid nitrification and soil readiness.
A farmer named Handy describes a trenching method to keep a ditch open in sandy soils by using stakes and boards anchored from the top. As the trench deepens, boards are added and pressed down, with stakes driven down to secure each board, enabling a stable wall until the pipe is laid. A second note provides a grain estimation trick: one space equals 1.8 times more shelled grain than ear corn, so a 400 bushel crib fits about 720 bushels of shelled grain.
The Philadelphia and Reading company test a new air compressor system at Alaska colliery Schuylkill county Pa replacing mine mules to haul coal from gangways to the slope bottom. The trial promises big annual savings, with plans to install in all their mines and others in the region, a shift that may harm mule breeders in the West due to reduced demand and mule slaughter for slaughter.
The Little Gem Market operates as a strict oyster market location opposite the union depot with emphasis on seafood sale activity. No other details provided.
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