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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1902
Page
7
An Ohio Farmer correspondent describes an ingenious grain lift to raise sacks nine feet to a loft over a corncrib. The device uses a ladder like frame with a roller and trucks to guide sacks from wagon to loft, aided by a stop and elm timber construction.
Description of a lightweight grain lift using wheels, enabling rapid grain handling without carrying up stairs. The device can be sourced from machine agents as old iron wheels and costs little. It promises back-saving convenience and is easy to construct with few tools.
Instructions for pruning budded fruit trees discuss cutting stubs left above buds from last August or September. Proper slanted cuts, size of stub, and careful knife work prevent damaging the bud. Summer cuts aid healing and growth, with multiple shallow passes sometimes needed. National Stock n.
Kettles on the gas stove are described in terms of double and triple sets. One double has handles extending in different directions, allowing two vegetables to cook in one area. A three-kettle set features interlocking pots with separate covers, resembling plows of pie.
A report on wheat varieties tested for 1900 01 at Kentucky’s Agricultural Experiment Station notes fourteen top performers over two years including Fults Harvest King Prudy Lancaster Red Beech- CLAWSON LONGBERNY CANADIAN HYBRID IMPROVED RICE wood Hybrid Indiana Swamp Daw son’s Golden Chaff Jersey Fultz Extra Early Oakley Pearl Prolific Fal caster Turkish Kansas Mortgage Lifter and Hungarian Beardless and bearded groups show yield gaps with smooth wheats averaging 89.2 bushels, bearded about 36.9. Clawson Longberry is beardless with large soft white seeds. Canadian Hybrid is beardleaf with medium plump red seeds. Hungarian grows tall and bearded with large dark hard seeds. Pootung is beardless or bearded with small red seeds. Straw is weak and rusts are noted on blades with early harvest around June 22.
Alabama expert J F Duggar argues leguminous crops outrank commercial nitrogen fertilizers for cotton by fixing atmospheric nitrogen and enriching soil. He urges wider legume use to fund phosphates and potash, boosting yields by potentially over 50 percent. Pecan bears earlier than some claim. cucumber and muskmelon suffer downy mildew, best combated by Bordeaux spray from late July, repeated every ten days.
Farm Journal estimates that on poor eastern land ewes can be summered at 1 to 1.50 per head and wintered for 1.50 per head, including raising the lamb if not early. Farmers report a net profit of about 2.50 per head per year and do not require extra help.
Per Southern Cultivator note Bermuda pasture will stay green with summer grazing and yetch through winter. Yetch seeds in May or June. In Florida Miami area pineapple and orange crops spread over coral and rocky soils. Horticultural society reports guavas mangoes avocado pear becoming naturalized in extreme south Florida, with high prices for avocado fruit.
Effective for San Jose Seale. Oregon and California washes prove highly efficient insecticides at the Illinois station. Western washes, priced at 1.12 per hundred gallons, appear to be as destructive to insect life as whale oil soap priced at 0.58 for the same quantity.
B J Wickson notes citrus growers on the Pacific coast are shifting from shallow furrows to deeper furrows and subsoil plowing to curb surface evaporation and improve water delivery. Deep furrows and cement conduits replace open laterals, reducing leaks and maintenance while promoting deeper rooting, though overdeep placement can harm trees on shallow subsoil.
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