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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1906
Page
3
A practical guide on growing beans in clay loam soils with late plantings possible up to early July. Covers planting spacing, equipment adaptation for beans, minimal cultivation, drying and curing, and simple home made hullers and pullers to thresh beans without shelling.
Practical notes urge fighting poison ivy and weed rye in wheat, selecting Timothy sod for rutabagas, and studying alfalfa. Emphasizes cleaning waste land, swill barrels, and pig rearing with hogs pasture-fed near cattle. Recommends shade, water, free-range hogs, crust prevention, and weekly soil stirring after rains.
A neglected fence harms a farm by inviting access to restricted fields and signaling animals to ignore boundaries. It becomes a harbor for weeds and pests, lowering efficiency and increasing risk to stock and grain areas.
The Ohio Farmer advises a restrained approach to home grounds, proposing specific trees for shade and ornament around a house. It suggests a cutleaf weeping birch or catalpa, a large fast growing shade tree, and a selected mix of hawthorns, a chionanthus, and a weeping dogwood, aiming for beauty without cheap common choices.
A horticulture article explains reviving old peach trees by drastic pruning which delays fruiting for a few seasons. It notes peach wood regrows rapidly and can recover vigor, citing Ohio experiment station as showing a tested tree that renewed growth after severe cutting in 1905.
This guide advises fall earth shading and linseed oil coating for peach tree borers. It recommends inspecting for gummy exudations to cut out borers and remove damaged bark. For curculio, it suggests a cotton cloth umbrella device to jar insects into water with kerosene, repeating until the fruit reaches half crown to avoid wormy peaches.
A practical cattle stall design from Rural New Yorker emphasizes liberty and safety, with an airy, lighted setup, a durable hard wood rack and manger, and a trough positioned to catch shavings. The system prevents self fouling, preserves bedding, and uses adjustable sills, partitions, and neck chains to maintain even milk flow and ease for the herdsman.
Garden guidance discusses setting out lima beans and cabbage, sowing turnips and radishes, late cabbage after strawberry crops, and tobacco dust as a spray. It notes melon bug vigilance, and questions Japanese clover as a north mulch crop with Rural New Yorker commentary.
In a rural tale from the Tow of Wondher a long courtship ends with Liza Jane Bohannan accepting Bab's Andy McClarnin. She shifts from testing his resolve to proposing marriage after revealing a need for commitment and a hundred pounds plus livestock. Andy confesses his delays and fear of asking, then the pair agree to marry though she teases him about the timing and his nerves.
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