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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1914
Page
2
Instructions offer remedies for fowls including permanganate of potash to prevent colds and roup, scaly legs pine tar for legs, sugar saturated with coal oil to cure maggot ingestion, and a dry bran and wheat middlings mix with beef scraps to replace lost range feed during frost. It notes owners’ failures stem from poor management.
A correspondent for the American Agriculturist argues profitability hinges on pure bred early maturing hogs, good alfalfa or red clover pasture with shade and constant water, plus an apple orchard for shade and windfall fruit. It advises sweet skim milk with a little wheat middlings or ground oats, March farrowings reaching market at six to eight months, and cornmeal mixed with skim milk as final feed to produce market pork profitably.
Dr B A Beach of the University of Wisconsin warns shipper responsibility in disinfection of stock cars used for cholera hogs. He notes cholera germs can survive weeks in cars that carried diseased animals and have moved into communities via passing cars.
A brief literary exchange questions the cradle of the deep and the ocean’s rocky bed. The dialogue touches on origin and place with a philosophical undertone.
A Maine Agricultural College bulletin discusses winter green feeding for laying hens to maintain health and boost egg production. It describes a multi year rotation system on the station poultry plant adapted to northern winters and notes Houdon hens’ excellent egg yield and meat quality.
Green fodder forms a year long ration for pullets. Beginning in fall, chopped green corn fodder is fed until frost. When cabbage runs low, mangolds and later green sprouted oats provide continued green food into spring. A Laplander who marries against parental wishes may be severely punished.
The Panama Pacific Exposition will benefit California statewide. Alameda County pledges one million dollars to support access and accommodations for millions of visitors in 1915, while San Francisco raised 13.5 million. Voters authorize the constitutional amendment to fund the effort before opening day.
A lightning strike damaged the flagpole on the Bank of Italy Building in San Francisco on Saturday. No further damage was reported. The item appears among other quotes and literary snippets, but the flagpole incident stands as the clear news note.
A short, quirky exchange from the Cincinnati Enquirer about a man and wife being considered one, prompting the ailing humor of a child and a bedtime directive from Maw. The item reads like a local humor snippet or folk question from the era.
The passage notes Thessaly as Greece's main plain with water power and flood damage. It also includes a humorous Uncle Jed exchange about his college son and divergent views from London doctors on breakfast for brain workers.
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