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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1917
Page
6
Portia’s sacrifice pushes Rose Aldrich to conclude marriage demands more than given. Roddy confronts news from a court case Harriet’s link to an Italian count fuels tension. Rose hides pain while Roddy consoles, and a stubborn resolve emerges as the day unfolds.
Portia reveals their mother's declining health and plans to move to California with Rose, selling the business and facing the strain of family duty. Rose confronts envy and reliance on Portia, while Portia contemplates letting go and asserting independence for both. The scene ends with Rose's resolve and Portia finally crying.
The text shows a widening rift between Rose and Rodney. Rodney longs for his previous liberated life while Rose views herself as a useless battery. The following installment promises an unusually interesting scene.
Mineral waters analyzed with a spectroscope by M. Jacques Bardet show that light passed through the water and then the prism reveals trace metals. The method uncovers varied metals in water samples, including rare elements like germanium and gallium, seldom found in mature waters.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines a new community packing house plan to solve labor shortages and boost Northwest apple production. The report compares community, dealer and ranch setups across sixty packing houses near Spokane to Medford, noting advantages in grading, labor use, and efficiency, and outlines methods for picking hauling receiving grading sizing packing storing and loading.
Practical points discuss improving orchard health with soil and fertilization. Advice covers plowing under cowpeas for strawberries, applying bone meal and potash on rocky hillsides, interplanting Rocky Ford muskmelons among trees, and feeding trees phosphates and potash. Emphasizes windbreak value and warns against unskilled pruning or wood cutting harming crops.
The care of young trees is vital to prevent injury by animals and humans. Do not let stock graze orchards after harvest, as grass mulches the ground and trampling damages trunks. Fence and lock gates, restrict pasture to calves and sheep, and protect trunks with wire netting and an 8 inch trench to block rabbits and mice.
The guide recommends sealing trunks with wire nets or tarred paper to shield trees from heavy snow. Use a one foot by eighteen inch strip of netting to encircle medium trees, or wrap with tarred paper or heavy paper. Mounds of earth help young trees in winds, while snow compaction around trunks after snowfalls offers limited protection. Blood on trunks deters rabbits but not mice.
Advice on soil work for upcoming orchard plantings. Emphasizes deep, early plowing and thorough land preparation to ease transplanting, reduce tree loss, and ensure proper moisture and root growth. Strong entities include none. general agricultural guidance.
The article urges all persons caring for crops and pasture lands to resort to soil conservation. It proposes turning roughage into fertilizer to enhance farm services and suggests using straw fodder and corn stalks as bedding for stock when not consumed, improving continual pasture quality.
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