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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
3
Agricultural notes discuss hairy vetch as a winter and spring cover crop with guidance on sowing rates and methods. It also covers peach and apple prospects in Michigan, stating general crop percentages and care impacts, plus reports on wool, sheep markets, and Western range conditions affecting grazing and sheep dipping plans.
A tree uses energy to mature pits first to reproduce, leaving little strength for fleshy fruit. This overbearing exhausts the tree, weakens wood, risks severe winter injury, and reduces next year's fruit buds. Without support many limbs break, giving a ragged shape.
Professor Geo C Butz of the Pennsylvania Experiment Station warns southeastern Pennsylvania faces a serious scale insect outbreak on peach trees. The Peach Lecanium, dark purple and an eighth inch wide, clusters on twigs with thousands of young nymphs moving about as eggs hatch.
Reports from Ohio indicate sugar beets this year have higher sugar content than before. This suggests land now outside the sugar-making area could become viable for beet production as improved beet varieties extend cultivation zones.
Ohio Bulletin notes some soybeans mature seed in Ohio while others suit forage better as they yield larger growth. Beans at ten to twenty bushels per acre are high in protein and partly replace linseed meal. Kansas Experiment Station reports fattening hogs on beans reduces total feed for a pound of pork. Groessman adds pigs fare better with moderate rather than extreme seasonal feeding.
Professor Herbert W. Mumford of the Michigan Agricultural College explains that wool cleanliness hinges on removing barrs chaff and weed seeds. He notes removal is tedious costly and can damage fiber, urging farmers to keep flocks away from burrs seeds and dust and to maintain weed-free pastures to improve wool price and reduce mill waste.
The article argues confined poultry can do as well as free range if care is ideal. It notes free range benefits fowls, but confinement suits commercial poultry and households with enthusiastic children if work is reliably done.
The London obituary of Henry Dorougham Baron Loch recalls a Chinese captivity where he and fellow captives endured severe abuse. They were dragged, bound in hemp ropes, chained to overhead beams, and starved. Some prisoners died, others went mad, yet Loch and Sir Henry Parkes survived renewed efforts for release after intervention by Prince Kung and a final swift exit to British lines.
A New Orleans man recalls a Mexico City trip where an American avoided rushing to catch a late train. He says he quit hurry after a wild California scheme failed and now values missing trains as a pleasure, embracing a life of taking things easy. The tale frames trains as symbols of modern haste and suggests tranquility in patience.
The writer observes that crowds in China quickly form mobs under charismatic, fanatical leaders. He argues ordinary citizens lack critical thinking, are credulous, and susceptible to manipulation by shrewd individuals, turning peaceful people into destructive mobs.
Last year more than 2,000 British and 878 German ships passed through the Suez canal while the American flag appeared on only 25 vessels signaling limited American presence in the route.
Raymon Rives, born in Borongan Samar, is noted as the only Filipino drug clerk in the United States. A veteran of the Spanish American War, he was wounded twice and later came to America, where he quickly learned English and embraces life in the United States ready to defend the flag.
Wheat statistics reveal a small 7 million bushel reduction from Jan 1 to July 1 1899 and a 60 million bushel drop in the same period in 1900 yet the July 1 1900 supply is about 2 million bushels larger than the Jan 1 1899 figure, a span of eighteen months.
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