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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1910
Page
6
A long ragged collage of breezy items and anecdotes from a 20th century periodical. It surveys earthquakes, immigration, opera, novels, aviation feats, medical quirks, and social trends with a satirical tone. Prominent topics include Costa Rica real estate activity after quakes, Belgian air travel, Connecticut suicide, and Longfellow references.
The text urges weed control and raised vegetable planting to ease meat shortages, advocating root out radishes, plant peas, keep ground worked, drain gardens, and expand gardens beyond droughts. It suggests clover rows for many vegetables, cheaper clover or rape pasture, and mulching late potatoes with old hay. It notes mixed advice on pickling potato varieties and praises silo-fed corn for stock nutrition.
The infestation began in New Jersey in 1876 at clover roots on sand dunes and spread to Maryland in 1886, Washington D C, and beyond. It reached red and white clover and alfalfa near Pullman, Washington, as the species moved westward.
A Racine county gardener developed a small device to hold reins when not in use. A clip on the side of the wagon seat accepts the reins easily and securely. The simple attachment keeps lines handy and reachable if the team spooks. It is inexpensive and craftable by a good mechanic or blacksmith.
A maker describes his first cap ping melter built in April 1906 and notes ongoing use and improvements each season, claiming to have melted the capping from over a ton.
William E. Greene of Imperial Cal writes of a practical capping-melter that yields about 20 pounds of wax daily. The design uses a galvanized pan with a corrugated bottom, a shallow water tank heated by a small gasoline burner, and a hot air oven under a false bottom to maximize heat. The system heats in about 20 minutes, melts caps, and allows wax and honey to flow together for pressing and gum removal.
By IOWATD H. GROSS. The piece argues rural youth leave farms for cities due to limited social life and weaker education. It advocates consolidated township schools and good roads as remedies, claiming homes and mothers provide stability while improving rural education and opportunities. The best farm product is the children, so invest in roads and schooling.
The text urges farmers to test seeds by planting a sample in warm moist soil to verify vitality before sowing. It warns that using dead or weak seeds wastes millions and causes costly disappointment, emphasizing a free, costless check of seed vigor.
The article argues high priced irrigated western land is suited for small flocks to clean weeds and produce saleable mutton or wool. It notes purebred ram production can rival grades, with rams sold for 16 to 26 dollars and lambs valued at 3.50 to 5.00, urging western farmers to consider sheep for weed control and income.
Winter irrigation uses water outside normal season to moistening bare soil or crops. It has spread from Arizona and California to Oregon Kansas and Rocky Mountain states, with deep soils storing water and floods driving adoption despite storage limits. It reduces winter kill, improves soil condition and provides essential moisture when streams surge.
A composite from top fruit growers advises spring use of turning plow annuals to prevent hard soil, followed by harrow or disk, smoothing harrow, or float. Cultivate frequently to prevent crusts, suppress weeds, and thin after irrigation and rains.
Modern methods of caring for poultry and rearing chicks have become so simplified with advanced analysis that it is no longer the task it used to be.
Potatoes should be planted with modern machinery to stop hand labor costs. A typical planter covers five to ten acres daily and can plant up to 100 acres in irrigated western regions. Planter cost about 77 dollars. expenses can be shared by ten farmers. Planter types affect disease risk. some lifts seed with prongs that skin tubers, spreading disease, others lift without skin damage. An operator should ride the machine to ensure regular operation. Modern planters open furrows, drop seed, cover soil, and mark furrows for the next pass, usually pulled by two horses. Planting depths around two to two and a half inches are suggested, with row spacings from 26 to 42 inches and row distances of about eight inches in the rows for optimal yields depending on soil, variety, and water. Continual adjustment by each grower is advised to maximize potato tonnage and size.
Instructions cover pruning roots and placing trees along marked cross checks, aligning to lean southwest, firm soil compaction, deeper planting than nursery, shading trunks to prevent sunscald, closing furrows, and irrigating after planting for orchard irrigation readiness.
Practical tips on tree care avoid injuring trunks, soil depth for drought resilience, and use of ammonia water as fertilizer. Notes from Missouri peach and Norfolk Virginia truck farming, strawberry breeding claims, seed germination, plum curculio control by poultry, and seed sowing depth and root growth guidance.
An excerpt describes the Coca Cola Baseball Record Book of 1910 featuring the poem Casty at the Bat, schedules and records for both leagues, and notes on obtaining the booklet via Coca Cola Company. It also includes an offer for The Truth About Coca Cola and a promotion for Coca Cola beverages.
A fragment from a New York Authors Club scene shows a lively mix of remarks on love, divorce, envy, and wealth. A speaker dismisses a singer’s voice but praises his courage, while editors debate pratt and crookedies in magazine culture and the link between wealth and honor.
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