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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
13
Plans describe a north facing long house emphasizing garden views through a living room vista and large French windows. Features include a terrace dining area, a compact kitchen, servant access via the kitchen, a second floor glae room, and carefully finished interiors with pale gray brown and birch floors. Estimated total cost about 5000 dollars.
Architects and home builders are urged to enter for five hundred dollars in prizes plus publication. Perspective drawings with floor plans may be ink wash or photograph, built from any workable material specified by locale. First prize three hundred dollars, second prize two hundred, others paid twenty eight dollars each. all accepted materials become property of the New York Herald Company.
Practical advice urges women and youth to nurture a home garden to ease hunger. Emphasis on soil. planting, cultivation, weed control, and irrigation to protect crops through drought. Highlights herbs like mint, sage, lavender, and culinary staples such as onions, cabbage. notes market demand and feasibility of small plots and shared knowledge.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss vegetables and a colon related crop idea with odd spelling. Mentions grown produce like beans and cabbage and hints at seed quality and profitability. Lacks coherent details, dates, or verifiable entities.
An old fashioned cottage garden idea praises grapevines and box plantings to cover porches and walls. It highlights Concord as sturdy and adaptable, with several red, amber, and white varieties such as Catawba, Niagara, and Winchell Diamond. Even beans and vegetables can be trained as vines for practical beauty.
The article extols asparagus as a reliable year after year staple and outlines bed preparation, trench spacing, soil and compost use, and fertilization. It advises thinning young plants to two to three feet, laying wide trenches, and gradually burying with soil. It also mentions salt as a poor fertilizer, and suggests expanding tie-ins with clover, peas, and beans to enrich soil. It urges planting fruit trees, berries, and nut trees to fortify future food security and encourages starting strawberry beds and fruit plantings now.
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