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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1908
Page
7
An essay argues eastern turkey declines stem from inbreeding and poor breeding, not microbes. It warns against mismanaged feeding and sanitary neglect, urging revival of natural diets and diverse stock. A folk verse about Grandpap's gobbler closes the piece.
Admonitions against wet weather risk to turkey poults and stock. Advice covers housing, feeding, pest control, and care practices such as keeping guns away, avoiding sour feed, dusting hens, nursing poults, and cautious use of pepper and fat for tonics. Emphasizes preventing disease and ensuring growth through disciplined management.
A practical two week to four week feeding plan for turkeys using egg mash, bread, grit and milk, then transitioning to grains. It covers starter and growth phases, greens, and safety notes, including avoidance of meat and cabbage and how to handle diarrhea and poisoning risks.
A column on turkey egg shipping in Texas, ancient incubators, and modern methods. It covers advertising tips for poultry business, roasting chickens safely, and why hens differ from roosters in egg quality. Reports Maine corn trials, English day old chicks to Scotland, and long journeys with care tips for arriving birds.
Sour soil yields little value while lime acts as the best remedy. Preserve liquid manure as well as solid for a complete fertilizer. A mixed lawn grass including Kentucky blue grass is imperfect. a capable gardener can do almost anything. Do not spray during bloom to protect bees and pollination. An odorless onion claim by a Fresno Chinese gardener stirs social interest. Grapes thrive on high stony land with wide deep holes for roots and proper fall pruning.
The author warns laziness as mankind’s worst foe and links it to ragged lawns, overgrown farms, and weed-filled gardens. The path to success in garden, lawn, or landscape rests on good taste, common sense, and hard work.
Planting vines and shrubs around the vegetable garden can create beauty by avoiding hard straight lines. Nature’s graceful curves are more charming than the rigid, artificial regularity preferred by many amateurs and professionals. True gardening cannot be mechanical, just as true poetry or music cannot be.
A reflective piece argues that neglecting tidy, cared for landscapes surrounding homes constitutes a social evil. It praises gardening as a creator’s craft, citing botanists and the transformative power of cultivation to shape beauty and utility from plant life.
Individuals across the country are cultivating the Japanese kudzu vine for verandas and arbors. It is hardy and can grow forty to sixty feet in a single season. The leaf is large and the flowers pretty. It thrives in southern states though in the north it dies back in winter and flowers poorly. The vine has a large fleshy root with curious shapes and an inner bark yielding strong cloth. The root provides excellent starch as well.
A reflection on garden design as a noble act. The essay praises creators of beauty for spreading good, saying their influence expands like a lake wave, lasting beyond time or place. The benefactor’s life is likened to a sweet perfume emitted by his work.
A city family hires a domestic worker who finds what he believes are artichokes in the garden. The cook and a guest taste them and fall ill, then others follow. The doctor confirms the roots were poke root, a poisonous plant, and the man survives while vowing caution with roots without a doctor’s certificate.
A feminine correspondent explains her fifty foot city lot yard yields abundant food for her family and neighbors with only one hour of daily work and small seed costs. She notes a tidy, cheerful home, contrasts with city dwellers’ gardening missteps, and argues gardening is a science and art demanding intelligence and effort for high returns.
The article describes Brussels sprouts and kohlrabi as undervalued cab bage family vegetables. It explains sprout size, flavor, and planting steps, including sowing, thinning, leaf removal, and winter storage in a cellar pit. It then details kohlrabi’s growth, harvest size, and transplanting spacing, noting its flavor resembles turnips and cabbage.
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