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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1906
Page
2
A chaotic collection of social quips politics and curiosities notes on football finance canal Mars talk and famous figures peppered with jokes and cultural references. The item surveys era ideas and humorous asides from Mark Twain to Halliburton style chatter.
Farmers learn to harvest and store ice, build square cube like ice houses, and pack with care to minimize melting. Costing up to 60 cents a ton for storage and hauling, with ice bought from neighbors or delivered for about seven dollars per ton in towns. Proper drainage, double walls, and air gaps help preserve ice through cold weather.
The general purpose farm horse blends draft and roadster traits for versatile farm and road work. A typical “chunk” stands about 18 hands high, weighs 1100 to 1400 pounds, with good feet and a lively, tractable disposition. This horse suits Northwest farms as a valuable all around working animal noted by Wisconsin Bulletin 127.
The text argues the horse hoof is too long and causes fatigue and energy waste. It says keeping a long hoof invites interference and that dealers foster this habit to the horse’s detriment. If the furrier trims to natural proportions, the owner should permit it for proper foot balance.
The national government increasingly reserves land for forest growths. Most tracts are not agriculturally valuable. In Puerto Rico the reserve covers about 65 000 acres in the eastern inland region, roughly 100 square miles, mountainous and unsurveyed, hosting a variety of woods.
Special correspondence describes Davos as a high Alpine sanatorium for consumptives with harsh winters and a brutal spring thaw. It portrays a strange sick settlement where patients endure open air cures, grave deaths, and eerie dreams, while sport amid the snow offers dangerous bravado.
The piece argues the rise of farm machinery once needed to move grain by rail and sea, noting lower grain prices over a century require cheaper per acre costs. It urges farmers to study equipment, discard outdated machines, and adopt efficient machinery to stay competitive in global commerce.
A Belgian experimenter proposes iron sulphate as a fertilizer, claiming 260 kg per hectare boosted oats and cereals similarly to 150 kg of nitrate of soda and killed many weeds. Critics argue iron’s role in plant growth is limited and results may stem from other elements, not iron.
Early purchase of clover seed is advised to allow germination testing. In northern areas sow on snow in March, south in February, and test by counting hundred seeds between damp wool and a moisture seal. Buying seed early reduces risk of poor results from low germination and hides seed quality from the farmer.
The text argues that many farm experiments lack proper controls such as a no-treatment plot, risking erroneous conclusions about fertilizer effects. It notes sorghum and corn silage offer similar fodder value for beef, and urges planners to prepare trials for spring and summer in advance.
A Farmers' Review report describes brown rot Monilia fructigena destroying plum crops in Northern Dl nol s farms. It details infection: spores invade blossoms and fruit, mycelium rots pulp, mummified plums persist on trees, and spores survive winter. Advice includes burning mummied fruit and spraying with diluted Bordeaux mix before bloom and after fruit set, with repeats every two weeks until relief.
A discussion by 8 G Soverhill of Northern Illinois and Edson Gaylord of Iowa notes differing local practices for heading trees and sunscald. They urge horticulturists to share observations across states to explain how sunscald varies with locality and climate, beyond latitude.
In fall and winter prepare for spring. The SPraying apparatus must be ordered in time to be ready for use in spring. The winter is a time to hunt up the ba os worms on the trees.
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