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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1928
Page
7
A new live stock car designed for sheep and lambs has been patented. The triple deck car measures 36 feet 6 inches long and includes a center aisle with water and feed troughs, a caretaker’s stateroom, submerged feed bin, and two 10 barrel water tanks. It allows even distribution on three decks and continuous feeding without in transit stops.
R L Watkins Extension poultry specialist at Ames outlines winter feeding to sustain egg production. Key points cover pullet maturity weight targets for breeds, balanced egg mash with grains proteins minerals greens, and combining mash with scratch grain to maintain egg output and body warmth.
North Carolina State College biologist C. D. Schwartz urges a winter eradication push for rats. He notes their gregarious winter behavior aids poisoning trapping and starvation campaigns and stresses community cooperation. He offers free assistance across the state to reduce farm and neighborhood damage.
Protecting exposed farm machinery from weathering through annual painting prevents rust and rot. A protective film keeps out moisture, delaying deterioration. Use metal preservative paint on metal and a suitable exterior primer for the finishing coat.
Extension specialists from Ohio State University advise lime only when soil is sour after years of manure and fertilizer. Apply ground limestone after plowing until soil turns white, then mix in. Once sweetened with lime, another application is needed in four to five years. Emphasize organic matter. apply at least five large loads of well rotted manure per quarter acre each fall. Harrow well rotted manure into topsoil in spring. turn under fresh manure in fall to decay before spring planting.
The best method to kill bean weevil is to treat seeds or beans with carbon bisulphide. Place beans in an airtight container and spray an ounce per 100 pounds of beans. Seal and keep closed for 48 hours. Carbon bisulphide is highly poisonous and inflammable. do not inhale fumes and keep away from fire.
At husking time the preliminary selection of show corn can be made. Johnson grass is easily killed out when the roots are exposed to freezing. In dairy production clean, sweet utensils are essential. Peanuts suit sandy soil and fit well into crop rotation, providing forage for dairy cattle comparable to clovers.
A Detroit News excerpt recalls 19th century critiques of writing tools, noting James Russell Lowell warned in a 1846 letter that losing space for meditation would injure letters, and a later note derides typewriters as unclean and hard to read.
The item notes a humorous Parisian style phrase about illness and fashion in a tongue in cheek chronicle. It cites a speaker asking about coughs and comfort while playing with over smoking and underdressing themes in a light reader tone.
A poultry expert extols cod liver oil as the easiest supplement for layers. He cites stronger birds, fewer leg weaknesses in late winter and spring, better egg shells, more robust chicks, and fewer blood spots. He favors mixing oil into semi solid buttermilk or cottage cheese, or with scratch grain at a rate of one quart per 100 hens weekly, then alternating every other day until hens go outside in spring.
A concise reflection on gentleness and simplicity as core traits of good character, emphasizing sincere regard for others and the rights of companions. The passage frames these virtues as the defining qualities of an ethical person.
Some butcher shops have bone grinders and sell ground green bone as feed. Poultry offal must not be ground due to disease risk, especially tuberculosis. Spread green bone thin in a cold room when purchased. stacked mass spoils in the center even at subzero temperatures.
Fresh water should be available to hens at all times. In cold weather add more corn and grain. birds prefer grain feeds. Mash consumption follows grain amount and serves as egg food. Let breeders out daily regardless of weather to improve quality, aiming for A-1 class and a ready market for each egg or chick.
A downtown church gathering for a major political meeting ran late as the principal speaker failed to appear by 9 15 PM. Deputies and anxious committee members waited while a Sunday school room revealed the speaker asleep on a bench after claiming to have given seven speeches that day.
Frederick Rasmussen recalls a Vermont highlands tale described at a Harrisburg banquet. He quotes a farmhand noting extreme cold with a hog-killin day story of boiling water fringing ice, comparing northern Europe winters to Vermont conditions.
In northern Sweden's Torne River valley residents are painting farmhouses red after an anonymous donation of 1500 dollars in red paint to the Lap land Geographical society. The gift directs use in the valley to brighten the landscape and inspire similar color across the border in Finland.
A Howard Kansas man had been ill at home for weeks, found a new box of mourning stationery while his wife was away, and returned to work the next morning according to Capper's Weekly.
A brief dialogue has He suggesting fortnight as a solution while She asks for a suitable word. The exchange plays on the shared challenge of finding the right term after weeks of thinking.
Claudel spoke at a Washington dinner contrasting old, tortuous diplomacy with a new, honest approach. He said world actors respond only when you keep your word, stressing credibility as the key to negotiations.
During fire prevention week in Syracuse New York Boy Scouts distributed thousands of printed cards to households noting that 90 percent of fires are preventable and a large share last year occurred in homes.
A witty Tit Bits quip contrasts romance with danger as a tongue in cheek question about choosing a pilot and the absurd idea of a complimenting death wish in a humorous era.
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