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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
8
The article explains that road dragging is not automatic and hinges on hitch length and drag angle. Operators must adjust hitch to team height and harness, and control skew by position. Practice with common sense yields better earth movement toward the road center.
Road dust comes from ridges formed when the road bed is wet. Keep the road crowned and smooth to shed water. ruts trap water and deepen with each pass. Use a road drag soon after rain to scrape loose soil into depressions, harrow to lay soil flat, and harden the surface. Oiling roads is also mentioned as highly effective.
The instructions emphasize side ditches to remove surface water quickly. Protect long steep grades with riprap or timbers, and ensure culverts and bridges are permanent and adequately sized. Drain tiles should carry underground water. Clean ditches with sufficient slope are preferred to tile drainage, though tile drainage is needed in some locations.
The text notes that road improvements surge in winter when travel is difficult and public interest rises, but as summer returns and roads ease, enthusiasm fades and attention declines. It mentions a rapid public shift in opinion and a tendency to forget past complaints.
A brief note urges maximizing dragging whenever feasible at sea this year. Details are sparse but emphasize continued activity and compliance with safety protocols during maritime operations.
A United States Department of Agriculture prepared note explains how rats and mice threaten foodstuffs textiles clothing and leather goods in stores and homes. It calls for stringent inspections clean buildings and safe disposal of waste to curb rodent breeding and spread.
The article notes animals prefer certain feeds and stresses matching rations to each animal, from oats or corn for horses to hay and ground feeds. It also warns against waste, promotes rat proof storage, proper disposal of garbage, and modern facilities to reduce losses in transit and in packing houses.
Winter tasks for farmers include planting pruning and spraying home orchards forming cooperative clubs for buying and selling farm supplies clearing pastures repairing fences and sodding next spring with Bermuda or other grasses buying fertilizers cooperatively paying cash if possible removing stumps terracing and ditch cleaning winter plowing making compost top dressing grain with stable manure repairing painting implements cleaning poultry and hog houses mating poultry and setting eggs for fall pallets using the split log drag on roads and coordinating with neighbors.
Farmers are advised to feed pigs with dry middlings rather than slop. Dry feed is devoured quickly and competitively, reduces germs and odors around the trough, and does not freeze up in winter.
Congressmen question whether war aided great fortunes as 1914 to 1917 income tax data show million-dollar incomes rising from 44 to 376. Total individuals paying taxes reached 437,036, with projections of $3.4 billion to be raised in the year ending June 30, 1918. Internal revenue mainly comes from distilled spirits, tobacco, and corporate and individual income taxes. Commissioner Roper also urges reform of the oleomargarine tax.
The article urges residents to collect foxglove leaves for digitalis, a key heart stimulant. Domestic production is prioritized as imports from Germany ceased and England cannot spare more. Foxglove grows across the country, with first year rosettes and second year flowering stalks bearing glove finger shaped blossoms, various colors, and a white variety. Leaves are dried indoors or on burlap trays.
The confectionery sector, by product value, is about two thirds the size of butter, just under one third of wheat flour, slightly larger than canning and preserving, and about two fifths as large as the bakery business, per Uncle Sam's figures.
The article extols Western Canada as a rising agricultural hub. It highlights high farm profits, affordable land, and rapid expansion as farmers inspect new lands. It notes record wheat and oat yields, with remarkable per acre outputs, and frames farming as central to national prosperity. It promotes Western Canada as a global breadbasket.
A Welsh woodworker trainee joins a building materials firm and bets his skill by making a sash. The foreman mocks the first attempt, but the craftsman quickly finishes a second sash, joking that a ferry worse one lies under the foreman's bench. The exchange ends with the man promising to proceed.
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a trusted cough remedy used for fifty-one years across the United States. It promises better sleep, reduced coughing, easier expectoration, and natural healing overnight. Bottles are sold in 30 and 90 cent sizes in civilized countries.
Popular Mechanics reports a proposed war vessel by the council of national defense featuring an enormous ocean going water wheel. The design uses two connected cylinders with adjustable paddles, a gyro stabilized crew space, and gun turrets at axis ends.
A US government expert created films showing the complete honey production by bees. The films are described as lifelike and sparked a humorous claim that an epidemic of hives followed their first release.
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