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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
2
The piece collects aphorisms on poverty education and merit amid commentary on public figures. It notes wireless railroading trials by the Ann Arbor line and reports bubonic plague outbreaks in Manila Adelaide and Honolulu with swift quarantines and city actions.
The piece questions whether the British crossing of the Tugela under Gen. Buller was a grand feat or a censorial overstatement. It notes a month of preparation before January 17 and contrasts dramatic dispatches with the unclear fate of the Boer army and the battle's outcome.
A how to on carnivorous plants with the Venus flytrap's hunting mechanism and how to sow timothy with winter wheat. Includes cautions on timing for sowing, soil preparation, and protection, plus six practical steps for managing clover and timothy with winter wheat.
William Saunders explains strawberry culture at the Washington department. Key steps include deep plowing and subsoiling, applying rotted manure at twenty cords per acre, thorough soil mixing, and using loamy soils with drainage for best crops. Space plants with 30 inch rows and 15 inch plant spacing, and remove runners as they appear.
The Aukee millet, a barnyard type, grows up to seven feet tall in wet lowlands and swamps. It is known to the Mohave Indians as Aukee and used as food seed. Trials at Washington D C Knoxville Cornell and Michigan show strong growth, with Brooks noting it is later and coarser than Japanese barnyard millet for fodder.
The article argues barbed wire usage is waning in thickly settled areas while noting continued use on western ranch tracts. It recalls a colt killed on a fence near a North Dakota ranch and urges alternatives to barbs where possible. It also highlights ladybug effectiveness against grain aphids and criticizes hedges for fencing flexibility.
Chicago hosts the thirty fourth national encampment Aug 27 to 30 with McKinley Dewey Shaw and other dignitaries expected. The program includes naval parades fireworks ceremonies and memorials across parks streets and arches.
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