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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1918
Page
6
The article urges standardized home canned products with clear labels and proper packing. It stresses sorting by size, keeping quarts and pints separate, and presenting attractively to appeal to buyers. It notes club canning under supervision can guarantee grade and weight.
Beekeeping demands studious care and timely action. The industry hinges on understanding bee needs and disseminating detailed information for proper agricultural development.
The piece argues that the American beekeeping industry can expand to raise honey production ten times its current level. It notes benefits in emergencies and normal times, offering a nutritious staple alternative to inferior syrups and jams.
Girls may have canned 14,640,187 containers of fruits and vegetables in 1917 through clubs and home demonstration agents. Total canned output estimated at 50,000,000 quarts valued around 140,000,000 dollars, not counting dried and salted home products.
Factory workers in an Ohio town earned 92 cents an hour in spare time last year, equaling 7.56 for an eight hour day and 2,649.60 a year. They grew ware fare in home gardens and tracked the value of the produce, illustrating that garden work yields better returns than idle factory hours.
Guidance on feeding and managing young horses to ensure they mature into useful work animals. Emphasizes ample grain and roughage for colts while conserving grain by not feeding idle mature horses. Advises consulting state experiment stations for economical rations and Farmers Bulletin 803 from the USDA for feeding and management of young horses.
The article argues a home garden needs minimal tools. With a spade hoe and rake costing well under five dollars, most tasks can be improvised. Stakes from sticks, a board as a trowel, nails in lath as a scratcher, and hoop iron as a weeder provide simple, low cost options.
The Agriculture Department advises poultrymen to provide dry roomy coops with ample fresh air and sunlight. Avoid crowding, choose well drained sites, and consider climate. colony or long-house systems suit different conditions and allow varying ranges for breeding stock and market hens.
The article outlines methods to suppress top growth of perennial weeds to starve underground parts. Techniques include clean cultivation with sweeps, frequent hoeing, bare fallow plans, pasturing with sheep goats and hogs, smother crops like alfalfa and buckwheat, mowing, and smothering patches with building paper.
When hens go broody and egg production drops they should be confined to a small flat bottomed coop. Provide ample water and decide on feeding. Most birds break in three to six days but some require ten to twelve days. Signs include staying on the nest at night and protectiveness.
Young turkeys stay with the mother until October or November when males separate and range alone.
A Farmers' Bulletin from the U S Department of Agriculture promotes home gardens to reduce living costs and aid wartime food security. It details how to grow common garden crops and requests free copies by writing to Washington D C.
War has created a stupendous task for the sheep and wool industry. Domestic wool covers about half of peacetime needs of woolen mills, increasing reliance on foreign supplies and tightening access to global stocks. Meeting the clothing needs of 2,000,000 soldiers for a year would exhaust all annual U S wool production.
A Fremont Ohio reader describes relief from heat flashes nervousness and backache during the midlife period after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter promotes the remedy and invites further inquiries to Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass.
Don’t rely on laxatives and purges for constipation. A 25c box of Nature's Remedy NR Tablets claims to improve digestion, stimulate appetite, strengthen the liver, regulate kidney and bowel action, and provide a thorough cleansing with daily use then occasional doses. Sold and guaranteed by your druggist.
Popular Mechanics Magazine reports a theory that Alaska ground remains frozen due to a now-extinct colder climate rather than current winter temps. Clearing surface moss in mining or farming appears to let frost descend, suggesting present temperatures may not reach depths once frozen.
A girl named Bessie shows her grandmother a dry pressed leaf, a relic of a bygone day, found in the big Bible and linked to Eve's Boston Transcript in a nostalgic gesture.
A playful dialogue fragment pairs a parent praising a daughter who plays entirely by ear with a guest who is deaf, replying that it is all right. The exchange hinges on wordplay about hearing and music rather than a full narrative.
A remark notes that many men who present themselves as benefactors overlook giving any dollars to their wives for personal use, implying a gap between public philanthropy and domestic support.
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