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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1905
Page
7
A passage describes contagious blood poison as a highly invasive disease affecting the entire body. It notes skin eruptions, mouth and throat ulcers, swollen neck glands, hair loss, and copper-colored skin spots as the virus becomes established in the bloodstream.
A Farm and Fireside correspondent describes a three horse hitch with a middle horse between two shafts and two neck yokes. The middle horse bears one third of each whiffletree, while each outside horse bears two thirds of the one he shares.
A three horse evener is hitched to give each horse an even tongue load and balance. It prevents chafing from unequal balance on the single tongue. The frame can be attached to and detached from any three horsepower farm implement.
The article outlines two forcing methods for tomatoes. Seedling plants sown in August in New York latitude are transplanted into three inch pots, then four inch pots, and finally placed on greenhouse benches to mature. Cuttings from vigorous field plants root in late August and move through three to four inch pots before planting on benches to flower and fruit.
New York August 18 A patrolman Eugene Stack of the Stuy street station Williamsburg fought a large rat that had hid under the police station stable It had killed the station house cat and several kittens Stack fired both barrels from a borrowed shotgun the gun kicked and he fell The rat sprang and bit him in the leg until reserves arrived and killed the rat
Authorities report Marine guards doubled at the Brooklyn navy yard gate after a feud with a local roughs gang. The trouble stems from a Feb 8 shooting by Private Law rence T. Milton during an attempted copper theft.
The forecast covers Minnesota Wisconsin and surrounding areas with and summaries. Indiana sees fair skies and southeast winds while Michigan reports warmer conditions in the north with east to southeast winds. Iowa should be generally fair with fresh southerly winds and Wisconsin experiences showers and thunderstorms in the north with brisk southerly winds.
Quotations from the Chicago Board of Trade cover Wheat Corn Oats and Pork Lard and Short Ribs with Sept Dec May futures listed. East Buffalo and Dunning Stevens live stock quotes show cattle and hogs firming with lambs and sheep active and calves rising.
Inquiries to the Rhode Island experiment station explain dying heads of timothy redtop and other grasses. The condition called white top or silver top is due to the grass thrips, a small insect whose young feed inside leaf sheaths, sucking juices and withering the upper stalks.
The Vermont experiment station studied apple pomace as dairy feed and found it equal in value to corn silage when substituted in part. A 10 pound addition to a ration did not reduce milk production.
Since Statistician Hyde resigned the duties fall to Assistant Secretary Hays with a four member board of division chiefs Victor Olmsted B D Fessen den George H Holmes and W W Long overseeing operations.
The article advises using a cold frame to extend home gardening into November and December. It suggests transplanting young lettuce and spinach from the garden during the last week of August to ensure a late fall harvest.
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