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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
8
United States Department of Agriculture and extension specialists demonstrated dehorning methods for calves and older cattle using caustic soda or potash to prevent horn growth, clippers or saws to remove horns, and dehorning chutes to reduce stress and injury.
The USDA urges eliminating scrub stock in the United States. Scrub animals are wasteful and hindering progress, while pure-breds increase value and market prospects. The shift away from scrub stock is seen as gradual but essential.
Silage may be fed to horses in limited quantity if care is exercised but a horse cannot consume the large amounts of roughage used by cattle and horses on full feed must be very restricted.
The article discusses profitable beef cattle raising and pig feeding. It emphasizes choosing good feeders and well-bred calves, and notes that heavy feeding does not always yield proportional gains. It suggests cornmeal potatoes and buttermilk as a pig ration.
Opening day at South Omaha shows hogs strong to higher with about 10,000 head. tops at 20.10. Sheep and lambs weaker with demand indifferent and prices 25 cents lower than last week. lambs 17.00 to 18.50, yearlings 11.00 to 12.15, ewes 8.00 to 10.50. Cattle mostly steady to lower across steers and cows with varied quotes.
Two youths on the stone steps of the Polytechnic remark on Betty decorating her room with pistols swords and rifles. Lomion Tid Hits notes Betty is a great girl for having arms around her.
Fragmentary dialogue shows concerns about parental approval for marriage and financial plans. A young couple discusses money saved for an intended home and the father's opposition to their union. The lines hint at family disagreements shaping relationship prospects.
Notice that executive order dated April 8 1916 relocates townships from Broken Bow to Alliance land district in Nebraska effective July 1 1919. Lands and records to transfer. broken Bow land office will cease related business after June 30 1918. District of Columbia signature dated May 5 1919.
Experiments show a candle flame dies when atmospheric oxygen drops to about 45 percent. In an inclined space sulphur continues to burn until oxygen reaches 13.5 percent. Charcoal combustion persists with only 9 percent oxygen remaining.
A warning urges extreme care to ensure water is pure as typhoid germs can harbor in standing water or drains. Boiling kills germs and improves taste, which can be improved further by shaking the boiled water and adding carbonated water.
A quoted reflection argues democracy fails to solve the social question and urges a non birth or wealth based aristocracy of character and will to free society. The speaker Thaen emphasizes moral and mental excellence as the true elite.
A humorous exchange in Town Topics where a husband asks for special consideration at his wife’s parties and she replies that, if he were not her husband, she would not invite him, highlighting witty marital dynamics.
A concise quotation attributed to Benjamin Disraeli stresses preserving wisdom through cycles of time and enduring ideas across generations. The note hints at the value of learned insight surviving the passage of ages.
A Scotsman quip from Edinburgh asks what is indispensable yet undesirable, something one would not part with if possessed. The speaker identifies a bald head as the answer, reflecting humor in a concise puzzle.
An advertisement touts a home hair dye method using wine and sulfur or a ready made “Sage and Sulphur Compound.” It claims gray hair disappears by morning with repeated use and promises glossy, darkened hair while noting the product is not medicine.
A German witness in a stolen hog case is questioned about ear marks. He says the only marks he saw were the hog’s tail being cut, while the lawyer probes the animal’s identification features.
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