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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1916
Page
11
Land cleared efficiently using a stump puller says W P Blain horticultural foreman at Kansas State agricultural college. Dry ground aids pulling while older stumps come free sooner after trees are cut. Costs for stump pullers range from 75 to 150 dollars and small stumps can be repurposed as wood.
An inexpensive rust preventive for unused farm machinery combines flour with common lubricating oil to form a thin paste that coats surfaces. The flour keeps the oil from drying hard while the oil bars air and moisture, preventing rust and corrosion. removal is easy with cloth or waste soaked in coal oil or gasoline.
Strawberry leaf rollers feed inside rolled leaves. spray with lead arsenate and burn fields after harvest. Strawberry flea beetles hollow leaves. spray with lead arsenate before fruit half mature. Crown borers tunnel crowns. rotate crops and burn infected fields in fall. White grubs from June beetles damage roots. use fall plowing and thorough harrowing before planting.
Entomologist H F Wilson of the University of Wisconsin discusses arsenate of lead as a spray for potatoes. He notes it is expensive and unlikely to solve the problem, and mentions arsenate of lime as a cheaper alternative not yet tested in Wisconsin.
Helen White from the Washington Experiment Station emphasizes steady feeding and water access for growing chicks. The guide outlines a three week starter mash with cracked wheat oats bran beef scrap and bone meal, noting bone meal’s nutrients and the need to avoid overfilling crops.
An agricultural note explains a garden and field treatment for cutworms using 25 pounds bran, 1/2 pound lead arsenate or Paris green, and 1 quart molasses. Mix dissolved in 2 gallons water with juice from 1 lemon or orange, spread at dusk to stay moist. Caution that it may attract chickens and other farm animals.
Plants may develop this disease in the seedbed and it is most prevalent in early summer. To control the disease the Pennsylvania State College agricultural experiment station advises keeping the young plants coated with a 44-50 bordeaux mixture. Later the nonstaining ammoniacal copper carbonate solution should be used. Well drained, half shaded fields seem to suffer less than others.
A Kansas member urged inserting the word wife into the Hay resolution on dependent families of National Guardsmen. The House debated the point amid a noisy scene with mixed support, but the final outcome remained unclear.
Federal dairy experts tour communities with health oriented dairy education. They assess milk supply and enforcement, visit farms to improve sanitation, herd health, and utensil sterilization, and stress consumer responsibility for milk temperature to prevent spoilage after delivery.
Officers Charles M. Birrighth and John Maher of the seventh precinct adopt and feed a flock of tramp pigeons at the Georgetown terminus of the Acqueduct bridge. The birds perch on them and move about the crossing, seemingly obeying traffic for feeding. Both officers, stationed for years, now keep pockets stocked with grain to sustain their unusual street companions.
Senator Martine of New Jersey faced a burial challenge for his elderly dog in a Washington apartment setting. He purchased a plot in an exclusive dog cemetery and personally oversaw a proper funeral, marking the grave with a marble headstone.
Fremont Lounsbury reports hatching a chicken and a half from a single egg after an accident involving a hen run over by a motorcycle. He claims prenatal influence altered the chick, noting a half fowl without wings neck or head but otherwise a full chicken.
White clothes come back sparkling as Red Cross Bag Blue is praised by laundresses. The ad extols the product as a reliable laundry additive, noting its effectiveness and approval by grocers as a trusted item.
Secretary Daniels praised the American navy for high morale and relentless work. He recalled asking a boy apprentice who replied that there were no complaints, only that the workload never ends.
Quick relief for itching burning and disfiguring skin troubles through Cuticura Soap and hot water bath followed by Cuticura Ointment. Claims to stop itching instantly and promote healing, with a free sample by mail and a booklet. Address Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
An amateur poultryman received perfume atomizers for holiday sales and after testing them on friends he returned home to check his hens. In a nest he felt fur that proved to be a genuine willow pussy in full vigor, a mishap he notes more for the foolish chatter of business acquaintances about faunal atomizers than for his coop misadventure.
John G. Zepp recounts a negro funeral overheard anecdote. A preacher in a silk hat white vest and Prince Albert coat blesses everyone from the corpse to pallbearers family mourners neighbors and finally asks for the undertaker Mistah Miller to prosper his business.
A father explains to his son that the lion's share is a polite way to suggest a man is taking more than his due, implying greed. The exchange uses a simple, folksy tone to illustrate etymology and moral judgment in everyday speech.
Mrs Dewitt Lincebaugh of West Danby New York testifies to relief from nervous trouble sleeplessness irritability backache and other female derangements after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes family use and ongoing household reliance on the remedy as a tonic and invigoration for women.
Bishop Conrad at a Newport News dinner lampoons tolerance by naming Cal Clay in a parable. He recalls a mock exchange accusing Calhoun of looting a chicken house and warns against taking communion after such a deed.
The narrator returns from a hunting trip with a rabbit he claims to have bagged. He had previously won a running match last summer. An incident occurred when he stepped on a sunbathing man's stomach, who then pursued him to enforce disturbance laws. Friends note the rabbit shows no shot marks, and the ferret claim was dismissed as he said he ran it down.
Mr Yeast is described as studying his wife like a book before marriage and after their wedding he tries to silence her and metaphorically place her on a shelf indicating ongoing tensions in the relationship.
No discernible news event or entities present. The fragment states a general moral remark about self faith and strength, with no identifiable person, place, organization, date, or action.
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