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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1928
Page
2
Mr. Yak speaks of life in the zoo from Tibet to Central Asia and the work of yaks including rope making and plowing. Billie Brownie praises the creature, sings a winter song, and Mr. Yak expresses gratitude for his happy home and friends at the zoo.
The piece explains that dresser usually means a bedroom chest with a mirror but its true origin is French dessoir meaning a kitchen sideboard. The article notes Americans shifted usage from a meat-dressing sideboard to a bedroom chest and suggests colonial room limits influenced the change.
A cryptic line from Setiioquizing Lil links moral struggle to personal action. The speaker suggests a small flaw can amplify into a larger fail as emotions take over. No additional context or sources accompany the remark.
The meditation argues that reward follows effort and vision not chance. It asserts that progress comes from clear aims, generous giving, and high aspirations, noting that thoughts mold outcomes and that a person achieves only what they believe possible.
Harvard helped introduce modern football to colleges as the sponsor and origin of the game's first modern form. The claim highlights Harvard as a pioneer in organizing and promoting the sport within higher education.
The text argues that widespread discussion of crime and culture drives reform and suppresses danger. It praises free speech and public chatter as stabilizing forces, noting officials heed public opinion, revolutions advance when people speak, and reformers gain impact through dialogue and words.
Kentucky farmers in the bluegrass region are destroying limestone stone fences to yield ground limestone for soil correction. Reports say lime production from fences lowers costs and boosts crop yields, with counties like Bourbon and Fayette leading the effort.
An agricultural engineer from the New Jersey agricultural experiment station argues that draining small wet areas is profitable, while draining large swampy tracts is seldom worthwhile unless returns are high. Narrow, irregular wetlands hinder machinery use. draining them can improve field shape and ease labor, with rectangular fields simplifying acre calculations.
Straw fed as silage offers better advantages than other methods. Silage from corn cane kafir or sunflowers blends well with alfalfa hay and benefits from a touch of dry roughage. Alfalfa pasture thrives where lime is abundant and adds feeding value and resale appeal. Miniature tomatoes like red plum red cherry redcurrant and yellow varieties appeal to children and work well for preserves.
Calcium arsenate, touted by O H Brannon of North Carolina State College, is a cheap and efficient poison for Colorado potato beetle control. It can be used as a dust or spray, with precautions to avoid plant damage, and should be applied promptly as beetle numbers rise.
The Farm and Fireside Magazine describes a new masonry arch barn tested at Iowa State College. The fireproof design uses tile and reinforced concrete, with an arch roof, and promises lower maintenance and far reduced losses of buildings and cattle in U S farm fires.
The article notes alfalfa hay as the most popular and nutritious roughage for dairy cattle, offering high mineral and protein content, good palatability, and laxative effect. It advises feeding ample roughage within practical limits and highlights green state feeding, with silage only after wilting.
Silage with alfalfa hay and a balanced grain mix yields milk at about $1.03 per 100 pounds, according to Purdue tests. Doubling hay without silage raises feed cost to $1.14 per 100 pounds. Silage feeding added roughly half a pound daily weight gain, while hay alone caused a loss of about 1.5 pounds per day, favoring silage.
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