Local notes from Vienna and Atlanta area
Hon Thos Egleston of Atlanta visited J B McDonald this week. The cannon oil mill is started and running well. Ax electric light plant soon for the mill and town. 200 bushels of sweet potatoes for sale or exchange for flour. The Atlantic & Birmingham railroad crosses the Seaboard at Cordele and will run trains to Vienna by late next week. The Progress took a holiday last week under new management. a default by the printer caused delays. A man is expected today to revive business. A surprise marriage united J L Taggart with Gertrude Kinny at Mrs L Davies boarding house. W H Proctor of Bank of Vienna and Carolyn Roberts wed at Southers hotel.
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Atlantic & Birmingham Railroad
Seaboard
Cordele
Vienna
J. L. Taggart
Gertrude Kinny
East Vienna Cotton Gin to Run Next Friday
Vienna Cotton Oil company announces a public gin day on Friday the 9th for packing cotton either in the round or square. After that date the firm will end public gin days yet will continue buying cotton in the seed.
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Vienna
Vienna Cotton Oil Co
Handy Farm Building Plans for Hoghouse with Butchering Chamber
A Farm Journal reader asks for a four brood sow hoghouse to fatten twenty to thirty hogs in fall and winter. The plan builds an 16 by 24 structure with a plank floor one foot to eighteen inches above ground, first story just high enough for a man, and a northwest corner chimney and food cooker to heat water. Includes an 8 by 16 room for cooking and butchering with movable partitions and a second floor trapdoor to lower dressed pigs from the raft ern, enabling work in bad weather.
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Farm Journal
Workroom layout aids farm chores and wagon access
The description notes a roomy center workroom in the building with direct feeding access for the operator. It proves convenient for tasks such as painting, oiling harness, washing wagons, and other odd jobs. A rolling door at the far end allows wagon entry.
Fattening Cattle Profits and Finishing Time
The article discusses profit sources in cattle fattening, stressing the importance of converting grass into beef efficiently and the role of gain in live weight versus value per pound. It notes that high grade Herefords finish fastest, while Shorthorns, Aberdeen Angus, and Galloways require longer finishing but remain in demand, with breed differences affecting market acceptance.
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H. W. Mun
Ford
Illinois
Flooding claim for rice farmers with wells and pumps
A fragment reports rice farmers with wells and pumps and power flooding fields up to six inches deep across a hundred acres per well. No dates or locations are provided, making details ambiguous.
Irrigation Outlook Pondered by Texas Farmers
A Texas Farm and Ranch excerpt notes flood levels lasting sixty to eighty days and questions efficiency of irrigation. It suggests farmers with shallow wells could irrigate half as much with one eighth the water used by rice farmers, and warns windmills are uneconomical beyond garden or truck patch needs.
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Texas Farm and Ranch
Diversification and corn growing guidance for Colorado farms
Diversification via livestock boosts farm productivity and efficient use of all crops. In Colorado, corn is rising as a rotation crop with high yields where water is ample. In dry areas, plow and subsoil to retain moisture, apply six inches of well rotted manure, disk daily in spring, plant early, and cultivate weekly after six inches tall. irrigations limited to three, with one during ear fill.
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W. L. Hutchinson
Mississippi
Colorado
Denver
Farming maxims from Professor Connell on stock and irrigation
Professor Connell of Texas warns against chasing constant farming success by selling top livestock while ignoring irrigation and infrastructure. He argues mules reflect human handling and urges avoiding poor instruments and poles, noting weak stock erode farmer profits while failures appear lively in memory but not in results.
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Professor Connell
Texas
Picking Soft Corn How to Manage It in Winter Storage
Guidance on handling soft corn with high water content after frost. Farmers weigh leaving in field versus storing now, grading options, and practical steps to dry and separate firm and soft kernels. Open winter risks and feed value discussed with emphasis on labor and space constraints.
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Iowa
Ida-So Myrtle Inherits Fire Tune Burden?
A fragment suggests Ida-So Myrtle inherited a financial burden tied to a tune that burned a hole in her pocket, with a May date and stocking imagery implied in the readable text.
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Ida
Myrtle
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Thos, Egleston
Atlanta
J. B. McDonald
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