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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1919
Page
7
A U S government and state rail plan highlights disinfection, herd management, and serum use to curb hog cholera. The report notes wartime herd losses and stresses continued eradication efforts, with gains in meat supply and lower consumer pork prices.
United States Department of Agriculture reports county agents helped Paulk county Arkansas farmers earn 2 to 5 cents more per pound for hogs by cooperative shipments. Bankers financed central market shipments, each farmer sent one hog, marked for tracking, sold separately, and shared marketing costs. Six carloads sold, coop shipping area expanding. Also notes on cover crops and fuel solutions for farms.
A list titled Hog Cholera Do’s and Don’ts advises neighbors on preventing spread. It warns not to visit neighboring hogs, not to let dogs roam, avoid keeping pigeons nearby, isolate sick hogs, keep hogs from sour neighbors, avoid straw or refuse from affected hogs, not to allow carcasses, and avoid borrowing farming implements.
Clover substitute pasture for young pigs suggests 50 days after planting. Comments on pasture crops, fencing, water, hay stacks, and garden outputs. Recommends good brood sowing, purebred ram for beginners, and stock water ponds as dual fish ponds where suitable. Emphasizes self sufficiency with home grown pork and garden produce.
A editorial promotes Thrift and War Savings stamps as a safe investment and civic education tool. It argues a dollar’s value hinges on saving, urges purchases for children and as gifts, and links thrift to national stability against bolshevism. The piece emphasizes personal effort, government support, and converting small sums into lasting returns.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen declares no part in schemes aiming to destroy government or welfare. It stresses loyalty to American principles, rejects plans of shared misery, and asserts 100 percent American patriotism ready to defend Americanism with members in ranks, about 16,000 in service in France as cited.
A fragmented narrative recalls Broadway where it supposedly ends at Albany and imagines remote Alaskan tundra with booming tent towns. It mentions the Carillon of Mechlin and Bruges spared by Germans to supply war materiel, and notes Joseph Densa and Mechutin’s carillon virtuosity amid surreal visions of distant horizons and fading civic pride.
An unusual collage of quotations urges defending American ideals through education and restraint. It contrasts peace based on justice with dangers of propaganda for anarchy, calling for instruction that upholds decency, honor, and national liberty, and warns against fanatic influence in schools. Arctic Alaska notes end with Stefansson claim of seven million reindeer supporting meat production.
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