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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
2
U S C football coach Henderson plans a winning season and picks from Long Beach high school coast champions of 1920. Notable players include Chet Dolly Phil Tiernan Chunky Le Febvre Boice and Roy Baker though ineligible this year.
Trainmen aboard 186000 railway workers on American roads may strike if a vote counts in favor. James Murdock, vice president of the organization, says a strike order will be issued immediately upon a favorable tally. Roy Gardner, labor day escapee from McNeil Island, reportedly hid in Raymond, Washington last week.
Washington September 26 The national unemployment conference called by President Harding organized today and adjourned until October 5 when the ten sub committees will present suggestions for emergency relief.
Roscoe Arbuckle walked from San Francisco jail after 18 days, freed on 5000 bail as murder charge was reduced to manslaughter. Judge Lazareus ruled insufficient evidence for murder but conduct at Hotel St Francis party supported manslaughter. District Attorney Brady criticized the decision noting criminal responsibility hinges on the act, not intent.
Uncle Sam operates a high power wireless station at Greenbury Point near Annapolis Maryland built to bridge seas and keep naval and merchant traffic in contact with France Italy Germany Norway and other stations. Four 100 foot towers form a square supporting a vast wire network and the site includes power plant transformer house and maintenance facilities.
Visitors are invited to tour Skobel and Haimut Bros turkey ranch, described as the district's largest. The site is located near Minneola, offering an open invitation for guests to view the operation and learn about turkey farming.
United States Department of Agriculture notes roots such as mangel wurzel beets carrots and turnips offer succulent dairy feed. Small dairies benefit from silos only with six or more cows. Roots storeable in cellars or buried and yield up to 25 tons per acre with intensive farming. Long Orange carrots and White Vosges beets noted for high yield. turnips fed after milking to avoid milk flavor.
The text advises using sandy loam for early spring root crops and heavy or muck soils for midsummer to fall crops. It stresses soil condition with organic matter, manure application of 20 to 30 tons per acre, and fertilizers with at least 2 percent nitrogen, 8 percent phosphoric acid, and 4 percent potash. Seed sowing details include 30 inch rows for horse cultivation, 15 to 18 inches for hand work, about 6 pounds per acre, shallow covering, and using quick sprouting seeds as row markers. It notes thinning by hand is inevitable and describes leaving beet roots in field for winter storage until just before heavy autumn frosts.
The article explains pulping and storing beets carrots and turnips in pits or cellars, noting that 20 to 35 pounds of roots plus proper grain ration and dry foliage make a daily ration for a dairy cow. It suggests 2.5 tons can feed a cow for five months and an acre or two of root crops can sustain a herd not large enough for silo profits as sugar beet farming advances reduce labor with new implements and methods.
Practical sewing room tip describes using a square pasteboard box with a board and nails in rows to hold spools of silk or thread. Spools rest on nails, ends secured, covered and stored to prevent fading. system keeps colors organized, easily accessible, and thread fresh.
Exchange or lease with option to buy. good improved 80 acres at Pishop Inyon county California with nice buildings and irrigation water at 25c per acre per year. Also a dairy hogs poultry and general farm extra good ranch. paid $250 per acre in 1914. Make an offer. small down payment and balance easy. Physically disabled only reason for selling. Owner J W Newton 209 N Olive Ave Burbank California. 9 20 3top
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