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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
3
Guidance from the U S Department of Agriculture underscores thorough disinfection to curb animal disease. It details cleaning floors and surfaces, removing decayed wood, replacing earth floors, disposing of waste, saturating interiors with a 3 percent cresol solution, and ensuring ample sunlight and ventilation for stables.
Ten practical suggestions urge consumers to choose high quality milk, consult the health department, opt for bottled milk, refrigerate promptly, keep bottles in original containers, cover bottles, maintain a clean refrigerator, wash bottles after use, return empties promptly, and recognize clean milk as a nutritious economical staple.
The Ohio Experiment Station notes using acid phosphate or raw phosphate rock in stables at one pound daily per thousand pounds live weight of stock. It may be spread on manure in the shed or at hauling. About 40 pounds per ton of manure is the common rate.
In small buildings the garden hand sprayer can supply germ killing cresol solution or other disinfectant. A sprayer purchased now would be ready for anti insect and disease work in the garden later. Hand sprayers range from 3.50 to 12.50 depending on material, with smaller atomizers 0.50 to 0.75.
A call to reduce household milk waste notes every half cup poured away in 20 million homes would amount to about 2.5 million quarts daily. The piece urges saving milk, using sour milk in bread and soups, and making cottage cheese from scraps to support nutrition and dairy production.
The Secretary asserts the United States possesses superior physical resources for victory, provided they are conserved. He claims this advantage is widely acknowledged and surpasses all other nations.
Proper ventilation keeps air quality high and conserves heat, helping flocks save feed energy and improve egg production.
If soil contains abundant organic matter or humus and barnyard manure, nitrogen in fertilizer may be reduced or eliminated for grain crops. Excess nitrogen can cause lodging of the grain.
Frederic C Walcott and Vernon Kellogg describe German policies in Poland Belgium and France during 1917 stressing starvation deportations and planned German settlement to restock Poland with German settlers. Kellogg calls for decisive action to stop the abuses and asserts civilization cannot tolerate such horrors.
Dr. C. W. McCampbell of Kansas State Agricultural College urges proper feeding and protection for work horses during winter. He warns against cutting rations despite high feed costs and recommends balanced mixtures. A mix of oats and cottonseed meal at about one to six and the use of clean straw with some alfalfa hay can cut costs while maintaining condition.
Two experts Noboru Marumo and Teijiro Horie of the Japanese Department of Communications demonstrated a system to receive over a telephone a message sent by wireless at sea. Building on Dr Uichi Torikata’s vacuum bulb work, this method, tested during a Kobe to Yokohama voyage, marks a further advance in wireless telephony.
Before the war British magneto output was under 100 weekly. Since the outbreak, production is reported at 160000 units, indicating a massive wartime acceleration across the islands.
The guidance describes raising young horses for work, starting with early in hand work and gentle mouth work. It advises light spring and summer sessions at plow or harrow, followed by rest, to build tractability and muscle. In autumn and winter they gain a little grain and chaff, returning fit for three year old service and adaptable to various tasks. It emphasizes teaching to go anywhere, pull, back, and stand still on command.
To prevent stomach worms and internal parasites in flocks, rotate grazing frequently. If fences allow access to different fields and pastures, and old pastures are plowed occasionally, yields improve and the flock tends to stay healthy and vigorous.
The University of Nebraska department of animal husbandry notes soft corn can profitably feed hogs and steers. It recommends adding protein supplements like oil meal and cottonseed meal, which weigh more than their corn value for cattle nutrition.
The report presents several winter ration formulas for breeding animals, especially brood sows. Each mixture combines corn with tankage, middlings or ground oats, bran, and oil meal in specific parts to produce high quality winter feed. The guidelines emphasize balanced protein and energy content for sows during cold months.
A testimonial from Mrs. Alice Heller of Christopher Illinois states four years of nervousness weakness and irregularities were cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports being no longer nervous and now in excellent health and encourages others to try the remedy. The ad invites readers to write Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
A mother recalls her four year old son William expressing early medical ambition. He asks to become two doctors and to have two autowheels and a knife to cut into people to see if they are sick. The Indianapolis News reports the humorous exchange.
Doctors report widespread grip leaving sufferers with back pain and urinary troubles. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is advertised as a kidney tonic with sample bottles offered by Dr Kilmer & Co of Binghamton New York. Regular sizes available at druggists. Be sure to mention this paper.
Mrs Bilson muses that love makes the world go round while Mr Bilson the lawyer quips that it makes him dizzy. The exchange plays on romance and legal wit in a lighthearted moment.
Green's August Flower is touted for disorders from a disordered stomach and inactive liver. It claims to ease sick headaches, constipation, sour stomach, and indigestion while acting as a gentle laxative and liver stimulant. Sold worldwide in 80 and 90 cent bottles.
A brief domestic exchange quotes a wife asking for a new hat as she celebrates her husband’s birthday. The tone mirrors lighthearted social notes found in the People’s Home Journal.
A terse exchange recalls a parachute mishap with a man claiming the other had the drop on him and that he landed on his head during the incident. The dialogue highlights a dramatic moment of contact and surprise.
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