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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
9
William A. Radford explains a Iowa hog house design emphasizing sunlit south facing windows and roof skylights to keep sows and piglets warm. The 24 by 50 foot weather tight concrete building holds 16 pens with central feeding alley and removable partitions. A false floor and guard rails protect young pigs, enabling year round farrowing and economical single-roof care.
A home’s charm may hinge on doors. A new stock one-panel door features an insert frame with a recessed panel and flush molding, offering artistic appearance and proportion at a moderate price. This design, once exclusive to thicker doors, is now available in standard stock thickness.
The entrance should be hospitable and so placed as to help the harmony of the building. Not necessarily in the exact center of the front wall but in harmony with other features. The fault of modern houses is small doorways while old houses show large doors that reach up to the second-story sill, giving a welcoming air to guests.
The text argues that interior surfaces including ceiling walls and floor should form a unified background. It emphasizes that the relationship among ceiling walls and floor must follow natural guidance.
A living room should favor play and rest with a nature framed background that harmonizes mood. If naturally dark, paint toward sunlit tones and use yellow accents to evoke light, life, cheer, and buoyancy, with yellow lampshades lined with white to brighten the space.
Guidance on using a standard contractor builder agreement obtained from a stationer. Fill in total payment amount, include a clause for partial payments at eighty day intervals as work progresses, and require payment only after receipted bills. Include mechanics lien releases, 15 percent holdback until eighty days after completion, and involve an architect to draft documents.
The text explains that paint thin enough for priming coats covers about 600 square feet per gallon. To determine gallons needed, measure the building surface in square feet, divide by 600, and the result gives the gallons required.
A New Jersey College of Agriculture extension specialist urges growers to overhaul sprayers during winter to reduce low pressure and delays from repairs. Inspect engines and pumps, replace worn parts, test hoses, clean components, and stock spare valves, packing, pistons, coils, and nozzles for a smoother spraying season.
Ohio horticulturist J H Gourley warns mice injure fruit trees every winter and urges bridge grafting information. Protecting trees and eradicating rodents saves more than repairing damage. Clear litter from tree bases and keep a bare circle. Use mechanical barriers on young trees. paper wraps work but must come off in spring. hardware cloth offers durable protection until trees outgrow attack.
The peach tree naturally loses small fruiting twigs as it develops. Prune off all dead or injured twigs during each dormant season to prevent interference with spraying thinning and harvesting, reduce blemishes, and deter bark beetle activity. Severely girdled or weakened fruiting twigs should be pruned back to stimulate healthy growth.
The article traces early education from Macedonian teachers in Greece through Roman and Jewish schooling. It notes three kinds of teachers, literacy beginnings with Livius Andronicus in 272 B C, and the synagogue as a learning center with Hebrews showing elementary schooling around 64 A D. An advertising blurb for Cuticura Toilet Trio follows.
John, son of a Michigan professor, asks if the college won all its football games this year and, upon hearing yes, proclaims that America has won all her wars. The remark reflects pride in Michigan athletics and national optimism.
Sore eyes, blood shot eyes, watery eyes, sticky eyes were all healed promptly with nightly applications of Roman Eye Balsam, Ady.
The piece notes the pre-Civil War underground railroad employed 3,111 agents, station keepers, and conductors aiding escaping slaves, highlighting a historic network and its reach as explained in a witty aside about coffee.
Jim reports fair result from last night’s poker gathering. Briggs won enough to cover a fifty-dollar debt Jim owed him, ending the dispute.
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