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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
7
A note on England’s National Sweet Pea Society signaling its annual convention set for July 24. The piece discusses ornamental gardening tips including pumpkin, Japanese iris, grape and strawberry planting, lawn reseeding, and soot water and soapsuds as fertilizers for flowers and dahlias.
A broad garden piece extols sweet alyssum chives and climbing roses as practical edgings and family edibles while noting inexpensive archways and lattice walks. It highlights New Jersey and Pennsylvania shade tree commissioner laws improving care and stopping horse damage, plus a legend of bloodroot tied to an Indian tragedy under an oak.
A Country Life In America writer argues American gardens fail due to underpaid landscape gardeners and misaligned public taste. While we lavish on yachts cars and noble houses we undervalue landscape beautification, and we must educate the public to desire genuine landscape art. It takes decades to cultivate the best effects.
The writer confesses limited spring gardening while detailing how a new twelve acre farm on a mountain river edge was acquired last fall. He likens landscape experiments to a horse-drawn, aging farmhouse, noting the desire to wash the place clean, and sums up with a sly critique of paying for farming while focusing on writing about it.
Advice urges natural rock groupings in gardens, warning that artificial cones or rigid layouts ruin charm. Emphasizes rough edges, loose stones, and harmony with vines water and shrubs. Endorses personal taste and discretion for graceful, authentic landscapes.
A 1908 verse by C M Barrite recounts kids watching a rooster showdown between Hill and Bill's father with a preacher nearby, the crowd cheering as the birds clash. The speaker notes humor and secrecy, urging not to reveal who lifted the lid on the event.
A reader asks about tiny black insects on a stamp back and is told they are wing lice from pigeons. Advice covers lime wash, tobacco stems, Persian powder, and disinfecting coops. Other letters describe tapeworm in fowls, suggested lime dusting, quarantine, and feeding damp mash with turpentine. Additional Qs seek cures for ruptured hens, soft bill in ducklings, and tuberculin concerns. Guidance includes heat, rest, and cleaning, plus leg bands and web punching for marking. a gosling with a broken wing is urged to amputate at the joint and notes geese have no lice.
An editorial urges providing shade and water to poultry during heat to prevent sunstroke. It advises locating leafy shade with a cool spring, setting up water vessels, and dipping sunstruck birds in cold water if necessary to revive them, warning that severe heat can debilitate fowl and lead to mortality.
The text details how bumblefoot differs from a corn, causes in fowl and humans, and practical treatments. It warns of inflammation leading to gangrene if untreated, and prescribes foot washing, draining pus, crude carbolic acid, iodine, and proper roost design. It notes bumblefoot is not hereditary and does not cure gout.
Practical advice warns against removing ducklings before they dry and obtaining broad approval, recommends sterilizing the incubator interior with water and common salt, and avoiding smooth floors to prevent injuries. Instructions stress cleaning feed troughs to prevent sour feed, and caution against overhandling young stock, noting they are farm stock, not houseplants.
A mosaic of odds and anecdotes on poultry, locust feeding, and farm life. References span South African locust farming, 19th century U.S. poultry growth from 1890 to 1907, thefts in Missouri and Danville, and a fatal spring gun incident. Also notes on pigeon fancy, English squab farming, and Plymouth Rock buyers facing backlash in Bloomsburg.
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