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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1917
Page
7
A chronicle tracing Seattle from 1852 pioneers to a lumber and shipping hub. It highlights the timber industry, skyscraper era, port growth, naval yard at Bremerton, and early Alaska gold trade shaping the city’s ascent.
The first clearing house on a foreign model was in Osaka in 1879, the trade center. Tokyo followed in 1887, with today clearing houses in Kyoto Yokohama Kobe Nagoya Shimonoseki Moji Hiroshima Kanazawa Hakodate and Otaru.
The passage notes a girl who borrowed ten dollars from a schoolmate would likely repay it, while small debts like pencils stamps and handkerchiefs are often forgotten. It urges keeping track of minor debts and avoiding new ones unless necessary.
A Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station article outlines that quality spraying gear saves time and money. It covers mixing and filling equipment, water supply, pumps, nozzles, and nozzle angles, comparing Bordeaux and eddy chamber types as well as air-assisted systems for commercial and home orchards.
Kansas State professors say fertilizer use is minor in fruit growing. Fertilizer proves detrimental on very fertile soils due to excessive wood growth, while sandy soils may require organic matter. Barnyard manure remains the main fertilizer for young peach trees, applied 12 to 15 tons per acre in fall and winter.
W. C. Edmundson of the Idaho Experiment Station argues that thinning is essential for size color and uniformity in apples. He notes thinning helps produce marketable fruit and can reduce worm problems and lessen worm infiltration in crowded orchards.
Experts note thinning reduces moth larvae entry and wood damage while helping trees grow evenly. A heavy crop often follows a light one, so luck and experience guide how many apples to leave. Spacing should keep fruit five to six inches apart, with no touching fruit. Thinning can be done by fingers or thinning shears.
Peach scab is a major peach disease. control through spraying with self boiled lime sulphur or finely divided wettable sulphur. Apply with arsenate of lead about a month after petals fall, with a lime addition to reduce arsenical injury. For brown rot, spray 3–4 weeks before fruit ripens. Detailed mixture ratios provided per 50 gallons.
The 1916 USDA yearbook notes exclusive turkey ranching growing in California foothills Arizona and other Western states. Flocks of a thousand or more are reared on open ranges using natural forage with limited grain. Turkeys are herded daily like sheep, with men and specially trained dogs guiding them.
Many experience leg weakness and bowel trouble in young chicks. Overfeeding and close confinement are the main causes. In open ground runs they may not be overfed. basement or building confinement needs moist earth to scratch and brief exposure. Chicks can find warmth by returning to a hover as needed.
A poultry specialist suggests using feather dusters in brooders to reduce chick losses. He claims chicks feel brooded by a hen when exposed to the dusters and thus avoid home sickness and despondency due to lack of a mother.
In every poultry house there should be a dust bath for hens to rid themselves of lice. Lice breed through pores along their sides. fine dust fills these pores and suffocates the vermin. Road dust, hard coal ashes, or dry dust of any kind will work.
Salt in dry mash for breeding stock and in chick feed reduces toe-picking and nibbling behavior in poultry, aiding healthier development.
A hen laid forty eggs between November 1 and March 1, enough to cover her year's feed. In midsummer, the same number of eggs would take 60 to 80 days to repay.
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