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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1925
Page
6
Mrs Mary Wilhelm y of 309 Duke Street St Paul Minnesota recalls near collapse from overwork and worry after her last birth. A friend urged Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and after several bottles she regained strength slept better and began to gain weight, with others noting her improvement.
A compact set of recipe instructions for making griddle cakes using rice. It describes beating eggs with milk and Calumet Baking Powder, sugar, salt, and mixing with cooked rice and flour to form a medium batter. The text emphasizes a batter consistency and includes mixing steps.
The United States Bureau of Standards has developed an apparatus to accurately measure the braking ability of automobiles, aimed at improving vehicle safety and performance testing.
The Tacna Arica question, long tied to Chile Peru and Bolivia, may move toward a plebiscite under President Coolidge. The article outlines the historical stakes, including Tarapaca loss, nitrate riches, irrigation heritage, and regional water challenges amid the broader Pacific coast negotiations.
A USDA report on better sires and stock emphasizes higher earning power with pure bred livestock. It notes improved formation, sale value, and faster, more efficient meat milk wool and work production, plus 50 percent higher progeny value and 40 percent more efficient feed use.
Barley proves superior as a fattening feed for hogs sheep and cattle and serves well as a nurse crop for clovers and alfalfa. Its early maturity and lower hull content offer advantages during corn shortages, with midsummer harvest potential and moisture retention for young clover. Barley also provides more carbohydrates and less fat than wheat or oats and far less crude fiber than oats.
The article explains a potato scab treatment using a corrosive sublimate dip. Dissolve 4 ounces of corrosive sublimate in hot water to 30 gallons, soak potatoes for one hour, and refresh solution after six bushels. Use non metal containers, keep potatoes clean, and remove damaged ones.
Wheat straw serves as feed bedding and soil fertilizer. It is best used as feed and bedding and then returned to the soil as manure. Fresh straw can be plowed under as a fertilizer in small amounts, and only lightly as a top dressing on prone to blow wheat crops.
The USDA Bureau of Animal Industry announces rapid progress in area work to eradicate bovine TB. By January 1 about 485 counties, 16 percent of all counties, conduct area work with 55 modified accredited areas and 100 counties nearing disease-free status. Freeborn County Minnesota tested over 59 thousand cattle in severe cold, 8.1 thousand reactors found, with 42 veterinarians using field teams.
Extension agronomist Er. C. Blair notes that seed price per pound masks value. purity and germination rates matter. North Carolina sets 98 percent purity and 60 percent germination as standards. tests show best American red clover seed is cheapest by delivering more viable seed per dollar.
Good summer pasture includes sowing oats or barley with a mix of grasses such as timothy and sweet clover if suited. Oats and barley supply early summer feed while grasses yield ample late summer and fall forage, with ready pasture for next year if conditions are favorable.
The article extols home vegetable gardening and smart farming. It stresses sharp tools, crop rotation to improve soil and deter pests, and careful budgeting to avoid financial ruin. It notes kale turnips spinach beets carrots and lettuce when soil permits and warns of wasteful power stock and disorderly production. It also forecasts a dry year for 1025 and suggests conserving water.
An advertisement touts Cuticura for itching scalp and dandruff. It advises rubbing spots with Cuticure Ointment then washing with Cuticura Soap and hot water, claiming daily use yields clear skin and soft hands.
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