How to Plant Crops for Hay and Potatoes in Southern Fields
A southern field guide outlines planting methods for sweet potatoes Irish potatoes cabbage and collards plus peas and hay crops. It stresses breaking soil harrowing to fine depth five to six inches planting distances for each crop and careful storage of harvested potatoes. It also covers cabbage and collards fertilization timing and cultivation and suggests grasses for pasture and hay with deep breaking over white clay subsoil and sowing Johnson grass Bermuda or alfalfa mixes.
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Grorgl
Lookout Mountain
Marty Rose
Triumph
Peerless
Bermuda
Mounting a Grindstone in a Home Workshop
A practical grindstone frame design is described with wooden 2 by 8 inch sides and a 14 by 80 by 80 inch frame. The guide covers mounting a stone, crank fit issues, mandrel preparation, washer placement, and truing the stone, advising against wedges and proposing turning with a flat mill tile for true alignment.
HAYING ON A BIG SCALE Ranch Methods of Handling Alfalfa and Native Grass
The article describes large scale hay handling in the great basin region between southern Oregon and northern California. It details the slide method using a four horse buck and net to stack hay, estimates one ton per load, and compares derrick and slide systems. It notes leaf damage, improvements with wax on equipment, and water‑proofing stack density concerns, highlighting the frability of alfalfa and storage challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Basin
Oregon
Vala
D. Grimbs
Bureau of Plant Industry
Spinach for Fall Sowing Advice from American Gardening
A seasoned gardener offers fall spinach guidance: sow in August, prepare rich soil with manure, or chemical fertilizer, protect seeds from sparrows slugs and rabbits, sow in lines twelve inches apart for rapid growth, with successive plantings every ten to fourteen days until mid September. Vari ety choices include round seeded Savoy and Victoria.
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Ain Ineh
Savoy
Victoria
Hopper and Bag Silage Distributer Shown in Figure
An Ohio Farmer description details a hopper system three feet square at top, suspended from the roof, with a bag or tube distributor to mix silage as it is raised. It explains cutting and filling methods, plus substitutes like old joints of pipe for bags. Also notes corn fodder timing, value distribution between ear and stalk, and alfalfa leaves’ high protein for cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cor
Ohio
Prairie Palmer
Botanic Blood Balm Ad Promises Blood Cure
An old period advertisement urges readers to take Botanic Blood Balm B. B for ulcers eczema scrofula blood poisoning skin diseases and bone pains. Claims deep seated cures when others fail and promises a pure rich blood and health. Druggists $1 per bottle samples and free medical advice by mail from Blood Balm Co Atlanta Ga.
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Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
Ice delivery changes and ticket cashing note
A local notice from DB Thompson states ice will be delivered promptly in fifty pound lots between six and eight in the morning across the city area between the railroads and branches, excluding nickel pieces. Ticket holders with postdate tickets after the 15th are urged to cash them in as the nickel trade ends. Thompson will remove the wagon on the fifteenth of the month.
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Thompson
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Vienna
Etnes
Dooly County
Alvalva Witt
Kansas
Thos
Egles
STON
John B. McDonald
Keleston
McDonald
F. G. McDonald's Old Stand
OUA
Theo McDonald
Charlie Gurr
Joe Morgan
Pug
Vienna Cotton Gilco
Adah Ste Highland
Cale
J J Cooper
S. Waruel
Undertaker
Unadilla, Georgia
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