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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1917
Page
3
The passage explains selecting seed corn during ripening time per USDA guidance. It urges farmers to triple focus on choosing ears from stalks with highest dry shelled corn yield, early maturity, and sturdy, wind resistant stalks, while avoiding ears with defects or poor fertility traits.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges farmers to retain brood sows as critical for future pork supply. With war-related declines in swine numbers, higher hog prices, and costly feeds, the department advocates green forage, alfalfa, clover hay, and crop rotations to cut costs while maintaining breeding stock.
Bureau of Markets reports that nine hides bought by a Washington dealer carried 79 pounds of waste meat and a Detroit dealer found an average six pounds of waste meat on 49 hides. In ten days 2,177 hides were scraped, enough to feed about 5,900 people for one day. Poor butchering reduces meat value and edible fats remaining on hides.
A study of about 1300 cattle matings finds no practical link between the heat timing of service and offspring sex. Maine experiments from 25 years prior similarly show no significant bias toward females when service occurs early, middle, or late in heat. Breeders lack a reliable method to control sex ratio in cattle.
The Southern Agriculturist urges wartime action to conserve soil fertility. It warns that improper manure handling wastes nutrients and threatens future food supplies. It advocates increased use of acid phosphate, better manure management, and field practices to raise manure value from $2.40 to $4.52 per ton with added acid phosphate.
Record crops are expected for corn oats rye white and sweet potatoes tobacco and beans, yet September conditions caused substantial losses in corn by more than 36 million bushels and other crops including spring wheat barley buckwheat white potatoes and apples also fell, while oats show strong gains reaching a new high and rice rises by over a million bushels.
The rough part of grains provides minerals and substances aiding health. It adds bulk to food and supports normal digestion.
The United States Geological Survey urges farmers to collect old iron and steel scattered around barns and fields. High prices and war needs make scrap metal a profitable and patriotic source, easing supply strains for guns and ships while boosting farm income.
A Bath meeting with business leaders and officials endorsed Bath as the proper city for a new vocational school tied to the Bailey evening school. Dr. A. O. Thomas explained the Smith-Hughes act and federal aid aims, stressing that the program would strengthen trades without displacing Maine’s existing education system.
A mare named Kit owned by Kimbal Bros. Co. vacationed from the delivery wagon. She fell overboard at City Landing during low tide, freed herself, and after a rope around her neck, she climbed back to the wharf. The wagon harness was torn and a crossbar broken. Kit was stiff but uninjured overall.
Bath Iron Works employees learn of a 5 percent hourly wage raise starting October 20. The new rate is set by increasing current pay by 5 percent and rounding to the nearest even or half cent. Also noted is the arrival in France of Connecticut troops including Edward Cushing.
The text asserts pure blood is essential for lung function and argues Hood's Sarsaparilla creates such blood. It promotes the medicine as a reliable family remedy for blood diseases, scrofula, rheumatism, catarrh, and run-down conditions, urging readers to start taking it immediately.
Canadian soldier Roy J. Rollinson of the 40234 battalion Canadian engineers is visiting Hattie Hodgkins at 108 Center Street. He joined the Canadian regiment in Portland eight weeks ago and has been training in Canada near Quebec with nine Maine boys, on a ten day leave before potential deployment to France. Rollinson previously worked at Torrey's Hyde Windlass Co and the Texas Steamship Co, and chose to enlist to reach the front quickly.
Morse High School Glee Club met after school on Monday October 23 to plan a party for Friday November 2 in the M H S Assembly Hall. Faculty and some outsiders will be guests as in prior years with Miss Margaret Bakeman starting the custom. An entertainment games and dancing will follow refreshments. Miss Beulah Withee Latin and algebra instructor at Morse High has resigned and will move to Reading Massachusetts to teach the same subjects.
William and Martha Pinkham were arraigned before Judge Lancaster in Augusta municipal court on abducting three children from Sidney home of Annie Gunning. They denied guilt. Pinkham said the children willingly went with him. Probable cause found to hold for January term. bail set at 1000 for Pinkham and 500 for Mrs Pinkham. bail posted and released.
A 25th anniversary celebration featured a daughter born while the mother wore a bridal gown. The event highlighted family pride and remembered the wedding day with a special dress motif.
The Kimball residence on High street hosted a dinner party in honor of Mr and Mrs Fred H Kimball 25th wedding anniversary. The event featured 25 American beauty roses and a bridal gown arrival by their daughter Prisilla. Two prize amateur canners Jennie and Dorothy Sineny of Belfast displayed over 500 cans at the New Belfast Fair. Mrs Samuel A Evans travels to Steen Falls to recover from double pneumonia at her father John L Guilford's home.
The article discusses signs of liver issues such as bad breath coated tongue and debility. It cites Prof Hemmeter on liver importance, explains how intestinal blockages burden the liver, and promotes Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and Anuric as remedies for uric acid and related ailments.
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