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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
6
Farmers with woodlands and buyers in towns may curb coal demand this winter by using cordwood. Wood heats as much as a ton of coal, with prices shown for cordwood values. thinning woodlands now becomes profitable as markets grow, guided by state foresters and the forest service.
Federal agricultural guidance on poultry house ventilation. It urges keeping doors and windows open enough to supply pure air and dryness, warns against over-tight regimes, and notes use of cloth or glass windows, straw insulation, and the need to adjust for low temperatures while avoiding moisture buildup. It emphasizes humane poultry care and practical observation.
The article advocates hill selection to produce superior seed potatoes. It urges growers to mark and dig top plants, record results, plant progeny separately, and discard inferior lines. Over several seasons this builds pure, high quality seed for the next crop.
Advice urges full use of kitchen table leftovers and farm produce as poultry feed. Using waste for all poultry types can cut feeding costs and improve efficiency on farms and in kitchens.
Lice threaten young chicks as warm weather boosts their numbers. Urgent measures are urged to control the parasite and protect poultry health.
United States Department of Agriculture tests at Beltsville Maryland compare velvet beans with cottonseed meal as supplements to corn silage for fattening steers. Four groups of ten two year olds fed 112 days show varying gains and costs with soaked beans delivering best dressed weights and overall efficiency among the velvet bean forms.
Kafir grain production climbs from 53,858,000 bushels in 1916 to 75,866,000 in 1917 with July 1 prospects for 1918 at about 110,005,000 bushels, over twice the two years earlier crop.
Writers note Americans adapt by building livable suburbs with golf tennis clubs art and literary societies. Communities offer churches assembly rooms concerts lectures and moving pictures while rail access to Grand Central keeps city near and rents for landlords lower than city equivalents.
The government study credits Morgan Park as a model modern industrial suburb developed by United States Steel subsidiary for employees. Leifur Magnusson describes orderly town planning, diverse durable housing, and facilities including boarding options, with land held by a housing and maintenance company and blocks reserved for business, recreation, and a school site.
Agitation in many cities calls for a public landscape gardener to aid county surveyors. They would set out trees and shrubs, plan fertile gardens, advise gardeners, combat insects, secure quality soil and seeds, and improve home yards.
The passage extols a Liberty Garden as a symbol of freedom, linking fresh home grown produce to liberation from store foods, personal health, and the joy of outdoor labor under God’s sunlight. It argues Liberty gardens justify the effort by offering nourishment and better sleep.
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