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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
13
Professor P G Holden warns against selecting too large or too small corn ears for seed. He stresses medium sized ears yield stable, hearty plants, with late-season frost risk favoring uniform maturity and solid kernels over oversized, water-filled ears that spoil in cribs.
An eight ounce ear of corn per hill is claimed to double crop yield and value, potentially increasing total crop value by 1.7 billion dollars. The paragraph presents a bold agricultural forecast based on seed quality.
The guide advises saving twice as much seed as needed and selecting ears that will ripen and are high quality. It covers handling, storage, regional seed sourcing, testing in spring, and selecting the choicest ears for future planting. It warns about immature corn freezing and describes kernel hearts turning cheesy then black in thaw cycles.
The listing describes four hundred cows aged 2 to 7 years bred to registered bulls in pasture, five hundred twenty-five weaned white faced calves, seventy-five two year old steers averaging 1025 pounds, about one hundred wintered yearling steers and eighty-five yearling heifers not bred, plus fifteen registered bulls and a few registered cows and calves with five bull calves from the rest of the herd.
A noon event advertises free lunch and water at Pumpkin Creek with milk requested of auctioneers. The sale features an automobile set from Gering and Scottsbluff to the Airedale Ranch at reasonable rates.
Six months time will be given on notes with approved security bearing interest at eight percent per annum. Buyers may arrange pasture or alfalfa at ranch and delivery at the railroad for stock not removed immediately.
A fragmentary humorous exchange from a newspaper page recounts a balloon discovery and a joking remark about a baby in the balloon. A conductor warns about safety while a passenger jokes about riding on a foot.
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