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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1908
Page
7
A tiny elf living in a rose garden watches roads on leaf veins and vanishes at dusk. After a girl buries a moonlit head in a jasmine-adorned pot, her grief deepens as the jasmine sprig grows, while a indifferent brother questions her tears.
A beautiful pair fatefully parts as a jealous brother murders the lover and hides the body under a linden tree. An elf in a rose guides the sister, flowers, and bees to uncover the crime, culminating in the brother’s punishment and a tale of retribution from the natural world.
Rufus Obrecht of the University of Illinois experiment station describes farm chunks or all purpose horses sold in spring markets. Mares predominate. draft blood, medium size 1200 to 1400 pounds, 11 to 15.3 hands, lighter bone, may have minor blemishes. Feeders buy thin horses, fatten them, and resell, with emphasis on turning poor stock into marketable draft horses.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent urges asparagus farmers to use a balanced fertilizer mix with 4 percent nitrogen and phosphoric acid and 10 percent potash. The recipe favors nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, tankage or bone, acid phosphate, and muriate of potash with broadcast application early and soil incorporation.
The article details onion growing profitability with Arthur Hobart of Franklin County, Mass. harvesting 2,050 bushels from 2.5 acres at harvest prices around 50 cents, using one ton of fertilizer per acre and netting rent income of about $125. It also describes range ponies, their traits, and market value, noting the Indian pony and the use of ponies as children's horses and farm assets.
Denver Field and Farm notes vast ranches across the west fading as farmers acquire 100 to 200 acre patches. Land values rise steadily with irrigated Colorado fruit lands at 500 to 1200 per acre while beet, potato, and cantaloupe tracts fetch 100 to 300 or more. Experts project 10 to 25 percent annual profit on high priced land.
The guidance stresses frequent and clean cultivation as the watchword for onion crop care. Hand weeding will be necessary, particularly for the main crop grown from seed.
Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas Missouri Texas all surpassed 100 million bushels in 1907. Remarkably the only other state reaching the limit was Oklahoma with 113,265,000 bushels.
In the eleven months ended November 1907 the United States imported nuts valued at 9,459,761 dollars. Almonds made up 27 percent, walnuts 28 percent, and cocoanuts 14 percent of the total.
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