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Newspaper
The Randall County News
Location
Canyon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1910
Page
6
A longtime ranch owner retires after years of hard labor, selling the property at a good price and moving to town. He buys a commodious residence and an automobile, choosing to enjoy life while health and family well being permit, arguing it is wiser to quit before decline makes happiness impossible.
Farmers in western fruit regions have developed frost prevention methods to shield blossoms. Simple oil lamps and coal stoves raise temperatures above freezing, while wood fires per acre have shown strong results, with one 10 acre orchard saved at about five dollars per acre during frosty spells.
The article urges simple, practical farm conservation steps. It advocates reducing train selling style farming, feeding raw products to livestock, installing silos, and better use of homemade fertilizers with manure spreaders. Such measures, though modest, improve finances and overall prosperity.
The piece argues for balance between order and disorder in homes. It stresses that family wellbeing and peace are more vital than pets, furniture, or cleanliness alone. Good sense guides when to prioritize harmony over clutter and expense.
The excerpt notes that sustaining continuous use of a gasoline engine while keeping the church function steady tests even the strongest man. It highlights the strain on a caretaker balancing mechanical labor with spiritual duties.
The cheapest fruit trees are those delivering the strongest growth in a given period, not those bought at the lowest price. This highlights a value approach prioritizing growth performance over upfront cost.
The text notes hens and a family horse or cow benefiting from fresh cuttings and improved condition from the relish. The passage is fragmentary and lacks concrete events or dates.
In hot weather a wooden barrel or pail remains intact if kept covered and enough moisture circulates to prevent Moe staves from loosening.
A preparation made from a pound of tobacco stems or leaves steeped in warm water and diluted to a small quantity is recommended as an elective spray to combat the green aphis that damages fruit trees in many sections.
A veteran poultry breeder and judge long ago proposed using the term Sandan Grad for fowls that would score S0 percent or higher under the breed’s official standard. The remark reflects a view on scoring language in poultry judging.
Bearded barley in roughage or fostail mixed with timothy and clover can irritate horses mouths as beards bed in tender guius or inner lips. Remove the cause of irritation and substitute a day free from the offending material if feasible.
The Department of Agriculture rules that Rocky Ford muskmelons may be used only for melons grown in Colorado’s melon district and Indian River oranges only for fruit raised along Florida’s Indian River. Previously these terms were widely used, and the decision may boost value for those legally entitled to use them.
The article warns that some fruit tree representatives substitute unknown seedings for ordered varieties. Seedlings come from root shoots not grafted or budded and show thorny, crab-like growth, right angle shoots, and reversion to the original crab stage, making them worthless without grafting to a known variety.
State experiment stations report that smoke forms a blanket reducing cold air penetration and earth heat loss, delaying thawing of frost damaged blossoms. Colorado station tests show sulphur spray mixes and oil sprays as insecticides, with tobacco and oil methods varying in effectiveness on mites and eggs in orchard crops.
The article notes mistletoe’s costly impact on white oaks three feet or more in diameter as the parasitic plant weakens and destroys limbs. Birds scatter seeds on rough surfaces, especially oak trunks, and the harvested mistletoe brings $8 to $10 per ton in larger markets.
Market notes show clean eggs fetch 3 to 5 cents more per dozen than dirty eggs. The decline in gathering fresh eggs leads to extensive losses for egg producers nationwide.
When new raspberry canes reach the desired length, snip the terminal shoot to create a sturdier bush. This pruning encourages many strong lateral shoots that will bear larger quantities of fruit next year.
A potential anti trust proceeding gathers momentum against the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Railroads and commission men appear to back the move, making the action seem more amusement than serious concern, though the true merits remain to be seen.
The text warns that valuable horse teams suffer when owners act impatiently or harshly. It argues a horse should recognize its owner or driver as master, but emphasizes using good sense and humane handling to achieve goals.
The article argues that by age two a child knows if it or a parent controls the home. A firm, consistent approach prevents future worry and benefits the child. It emphasizes force of character, dignity, and consistency as key factors in discipline.
The Danish Co operative Egg Export association awards premiums for best managed flocks. The first prize flock had sixty three Brown Italians producing 158 eggs per year with a net profit per hen of 1.09 dollars. Their diet included wheat oats bran ground bone beets hay sweepings barley meal oat meal and biscuits. They roamed a yard garden and pasture with liberal chopped greens.
The observer notes pear or chard trees reaching nearly four feet, with slender trunks and tufted tips. Windy conditions require staking to keep them upright, a task described as boggled and hoping trunks can bear fruit without breakage. Lower buds were trimmed, making lower-headed growth near impossible.
The chestnut blight known as the black knot variety threatens to destroy most native chestnut groves in the north Atlantic states. Spreading by spores carried by birds, squirrels, and wind, it infects the cambium layer beneath the bark. No effective control exists, though some suggest felling trees in a five mile zone around affected areas to starve the fungus.
The article explains a cheap test for sour soil using blue litmus paper and soil samples from shallow and deeper layers. If the litmus turns pink after 15 minutes, the soil is sour and needs lime. suggesting lime in stone or burned lime form, plus possible benefit from stable manure to restore productivity.
In Washington a famed guide Colonel Jasper E. Snow recounts Marion Crawford visiting the Capitol bronze doors by Thomas Crawford. The story notes Washington’s Trenton reception panel and portraits of the sculptor, his family, and Randolph Rogers. Crawford ponders if the painter’s youthful likeness matches his own memory.
The Walloon duck is described as tough and hard to kill with strong feathers and deep diving ability. A Baltimore Sun anecdote recalls skinning and boiling such a bird before it theatrically vanished when a match was lit, diving at the flash and never being seen again.
A method from the New York Sun suggests heating a poker until red hot and applying it to the screw head. After cooling, the screw can be removed with the same screwdriver as the hole enlarges slightly. The screw expands then contracts, loosening grip.
A titled wife warns her new gardener that her husband habitually derides greenhouse purchases and orders plants with reckless expense. She advises against humor, promising to douse him with cold water to curb his spending. The gardener replies with a sharp quip about restraining him with warm water.
Mr Meekton recalls serenading Henrietta before marriage, while acknowledging she now prefers no singing. He says he respects her wish and avoids such attentions. The quote appears in the Washington Star.
A humorous exchange highlights a misdirected inquiry as a servant asks about keeping a servant while a neighbor is identified as an embalmer, prompting a local chuckle at the misunderstanding.
A Boston Standard snippet records an exchange where a applicant notes limited barbering experience and acknowledges past hair cutting only intermittently, with the interviewer or counterpart remarking “Applicant-Off, sir, but never on.”
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