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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1914
Page
6
A centenary observance marks a major national event tied to Baltimore and maritime history. The plan includes a week of patriotic exhibits, monuments, and a lasting memorial program to educate future generations about the era.
The American National Red Cross boosts its general endowment to 7.0 million after two gifts of 50,000 each from Jane A. Serymeser and Jaeoh TH and 400,000 added by a recent congressional bill for a Washington memorial building. Nations' endowments are listed, with Japan 88,080.08 and France 1,471,475, among others, as the drive to fund the new headquarters proceeds amid efforts to raise 2,000 for various departments and relief work.
Following last summer’s success, the War Department will organize at least four training camps for college men next summer. The camps aim to boost military readiness by widening the pool of trained reserve officers, drawing from students and volunteers likely to become commissioned officers with stronger training.
A Chicago mail order house sent advertising to a farmer in Muscotah Kansas but the merchant who had supplied goods for years never advertised. The farmer switched to the mail order house after seeing its offer and saving on freight. The exchange highlights the value of advertising in attracting steady customers.
HL Miller of the Kenses Agricultural College division of exilege exten sion calls for village improvements including streets, alleys, trees, walks, and a park. He favors yearly closings and village clubs with mixed committees for lands such as streets parks schools and churches. He also advises dealers to highlight new goods and beat catalogue house prices, warning the retailer against antiquated business practices.
Six hogs from the Kansas Agricultural College traveled to the International Live Stock exposition in Chicago. The fine brood averaged about two pounds per day gains, with three Berkshires and three Lurocadores showing strong returns. At 87.750 hundred, the lot could fetch around 8740, with rearing costs proving manageable. Their steady feed, mostly corn shorts and tankage, under a balanced ration, demonstrates the potential of careful dairy-like husbandry.
The piece urges thrice daily milking, proper barn prep for winter, and feeding with bran at the calf line to encourage calves to eat. It emphasizes ample feed and water, keeping accounts per cow, and using scales and the tabcock test to judge value. It notes larger milk yields equal higher profits and many barns lack sufficient windows.
The lesson explains John's prologue as the logos or word of God made flesh. It contrasts light and life as core themes, noting Jesus’s divine origin with God from the beginning and his role as source of all life. It then covers the reception of light by some and rejection by others, highlighting belief in his name and the spiritual about the incarnation.
Cottonseed meal is a cheap protein source for dairy cows beef cattle hogs and horses but overfeeding causes poisonous effects. Studies by US Department of Agriculture Louisiana station and others find toxicity varies by seed lot and is greater in cotton seed than meal. Seed from plants with cotton wilt or black rat disease is less poisonous.
Farm Progress cautions that inbreeding in turkey flocks should be avoided. Breeding with a cock carrying wild blood may yield stronger offspring but long term inbreeding leads to deformities and health issues in young birds.
A brief Farm log advice urges building a tine fence strong enough to mark boundaries and keep peace with neighbors. It cautions not to raise it so high as to hinder neighborliness or good relations.
Silver Creek and Golden Gulch clans, fierce rivals for years, see their towns merge after a violent plan unfolds. Citizens discuss lynching suspects as celebrations turn to a dramatic, ominous holiday event.
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