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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1911
Page
6
A collage of breezy observations and quips on heat waves, fashion, crime, and everyday life. References to aero planes, artificial ice, a laciral diamond, and moonlit marriages hint at a lighthearted column about coping with summer heat and current quirks. Names like Newark, Los Angeles, and Wisconsin anchor the snippets amid playful forecasts and social notes.
A long-form guide outlines planning a permanent woodland bungalow as a low-cost summer retreat. It covers site selection, material lists, a panel-and-roof frame, foundation, walls, doors, windows, and a simple stone floor, plus sleeping bunks, porch, and canvas awnings. The piece extols self-reliant camping, the joy of outdoor living near a city, and gradual, repeated improvements to create a personal forest home.
The article argues that soil moisture, not fertilizer alone, governs crop success and promotes dust mulch as a practical method. A three to four inch surface layer of pulverized soil reduces evaporation, with regular surface stirring enhancing moisture retention for corn, tobacco, and potatoes. It stresses adapting land area and cultivation pace to moisture conservation, noting irrigation as a safer, controllable water source.
The Cornell station recommends a temporary pasture mix for good land using Timothy, red clover, and alike clover with specific poundages. For wet land an added four pounds of red clover is suggested, while permanent pasture on good land should sow Timothy, red top, Canadian blue grass, red clover, alfalfa clover, and white clover in specified amounts.
Planting timing notes indicate celery requires most of its growth in September and October. Transplants can be put out in July and August, with good chances for a food crop once growth begins.
An arid zone experiment at the Rey Head station Saskatoon shows wheat on summer fallow can yield 32.05 bushels per acre over a 20 year period ending 1910, with average annual rainfall 13.09 inches though snow not counted. Data from Ig Indian Head and other years illustrate wide yield variation linked to precipitation, while oats under summer fallow averaged 82.93 bushels per acre. The study notes other factors limit wheat yields and emphasizes land cultivation in dry regions.
Advice from farmers and Professor Ten Eyck on conserving soil moisture after harvest. Techniques include wrapping stubble with disk harrows and barrows, mulching freshly plowed furrows, and harrowing multiple times to reduce evaporation. Implementing immediate post plow harrowing helps retain moisture and can boost subsequent wheat yields.
The passage argues liberal and wasteful feeding harms milk production and warns against relying on generous feeding to boost yield. It questions the expectation that excess feeding automatically improves product quality or quantity.
During 1910 the United States exported 60 289 barrels and 72 211 half barrels of apples to Flamburg Germany and American apples were widely bought in Germany across social classes.
The text notes a vast difference in milk production costs and highlights the need to study economic production. It discusses that producers face significant problems in understanding and improving production efficiency and cost management.
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