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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
7
The article emphasizes timely tasks for February including saving manure for hotbeds, roofing greenhouses, maintaining bottom heat, checking piney beds for ice, dividing choicer varieties, rooting chrysanthemums, increasing plant stock, growing sweet pens in limited space, sowing seeds in three inch pots, and preparing flats and pans for seed sowing as spring duties multiply.
A new geranium variety called Telegraph, derived from crossing Mrs. E. G. Hill and Wonder, is praised as a strong free grower with dark green leaves and large single flowers in rich deep orange cerise. It is noted for bedder use and decorative value in conservatories and windows.
A description notes potentilla resembling a strawberry plant at first sight. The plant shares leaf shape and trailing habit, with showy flowers. It mentions potentilla as an ancestral stock for many garden plants and lists color varieties from red to yellow, including double and single forms.
A North Carolina quote by Harold Hume warns against mixing apple varieties and qualities in packaging. It urges avoiding bruised or worm-eaten fruit and preventing poor fruit from concentrating at barrel ends. It emphasizes careful handling and labeling to ensure quality.
Warfield is praised as a good strawberry for distant shipment. Indiana horticultural leaders urge a $1000 prize for an apple rivaling Grimes Golden and as prolific as Ben Davis. Wickson, a Burbank cross, links Bur bank and Kelsey. Citric acid depends on time. chestnut weevil injures culture. an Indiana man grows 200 papaws or chards. Vermont society urges cooperative sorting and marketing of apples.
O P Beott argues in Western Poultry Journal that while inbreeding and confinement contribute, the main cause of chicks dying in the shell is insufficient ventilation. He notes that many incubators provide a constant air rate, drying eggs and toughening membranes, with humidity around 60 percent under a hen yielding better outcomes.
A poultry yard tip from Reliable Poultry Journal explains using a carrying crate to move pullets and cockerels between yards. The crate allows catching a dozen or more through a small top door, enabling quiet transfers without injuring birds or stressing them.
Never hurry the laying ducks and avoid handling by wings. Sickness is best met with dry beds and sliced raw onion in mash. For egg production use four to five ducks with one unrelated drake. Do not mix ducks with fowls and keep them in separate pens to prevent disease.
Inland Poultry notes green bone supplies balanced shell mineral and albumen nutrients for hens. The main drawback is its concentration so it must be fed with bulky foods like clover or bran to prevent overeating.
The article explains that fattening fowls in small yards with a compact house, two weeks of heavy feeding, ample water and grit, yields significant weight gain and flesh condition. This practice benefits sellers by producing plumper carcasses and higher market prices.
A mash recipe combines 100 pounds corn meal 100 pounds wheat middlings and 50 pounds wheat bran with charcoal if needed and alfalfa clover for mixing used to feed in fifteen or twenty minutes. Clover is praised as the best succulent food.
Yale New Haven Jan. 18 Discussion in the academy faculty over abolishing gate money and limiting future intercollegiate contests. No vote taken with debate divided. plan may be modified to reduce gate admission fees by about 40 percent.
George Barraclough a Winnipeg mining man and noted photographer tried to photograph a grizzly in the mountains near Deadwood. The bear charged, he fled, fell from a cliff fracturing a rib and injuring himself seriously while separated from his party seeking a mining claim.
In Joplin Missouri on January 18 a jury found Est Butler known as Foot and-a-lasis Butler guilty of murder and sentenced him to fifty five years in the penitentiary after he killed a policeman in the line of duty.
Official weather forecast up to tonight notes showers in the southern areas and showers or snow flurries in the north. Winds shift to southerly, increasing, with rain or snow in Michigan and cooler conditions in Wisconsin. Iowa likely to see snow or rain with high southerly winds becoming variable.
Chicago and East Buffalo markets report varied prices across grains and live stock. Wheat and corn futures move with mixed highs and lows while pork, lard, and short ribs show narrow ranges. Cattle and calves, sheep and lambs, and hay also trade within defined bands as receipts rise.
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