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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
7
This USDA guide explains how intensive farming can profit small farms, stressing market demand and transportation. It covers crop choice, timing, soil preparation, furrow and ridge planting, row spacing, seed rates, and the value of combining sorghum with cowpeas or soybeans for quality hay and drought resilience.
A Southern agricultural brief urges beef and dairy farmers to cultivate sweet sorghums for silage and fodder rather than money crops. It notes yields of 16 to 20 tons per acre, often exceeding corn, and recommends varieties such as Sumac Orange Amber Gooseneck Honey. It covers planting, harvesting, feeding rates, soil and fertilizer tips, and cautions about sorghum midge and drought risks.
A Arkansas station test shows hogs grazing on peanuts, chufas, and soybeans boost following cotton yields by 44.6 percent with soybeans and 61.1 percent with peanuts. Benefits extend into the second year, yielding more cotton than on corn ground.
The article notes cotton seed meal as the cheapest current protein source if mill feed must be purchased. It also suggests a better long term option by growing protein in alfalfa or clover hay.
Ducks are easily raised and make good layers or market fowls. They will thrive in any climate with a dry shed.
An bold advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, effective remedy replacing calomel. It promises to improve liver function and bowels, relieve headaches and digestive distress, and offers money-back guarantees if expectations aren't met. Strong emphasis on safety, instant benefits, and wide reader endorsement.
The article recalls how fortress defenders surrender with honors of war, detailing Przemysl and Port Arthur contrasts. It explains that beaten garrisons evacuate positions under their own leaders, retain swords, and march out with colors, not becoming POWs, while trophies stay with the victors.
A fragment discusses Hanford's Balsam as a remedy for wounds on man or beast and shifts to a provocative debate about Christians. The Sayre baby cries during a Christian rite, prompting a remark on modern Christian behavior.
The Russian empire tightened liquor controls at mobilization, prohibiting brandy sales in government stores for eight months. Moscow vodka consumption in 1914 dropped sharply versus 1913: July 612,686 vs 359,124 gallons. August 667,926 vs 23,373. October 707,688 vs 2,913. Early months allowed vodka in first class restaurants with strict bottle sales bans and penalties.
Professor Copeland scolds tardy students in an English class. When Miss Brown arrives twenty minutes late, he asks how she will have tea and she replies without the lemon. The Christian Register notes the sharp, witty exchange.
Do you suffer itching and burning from eczema or similar skin disease. Wash with resinol soap and hot water dry then apply resinol ointment. Itching stops instantly sleep returns and healing begins. Soothing antiseptic resinol targets surface infection and restores health quickly at low cost. Prescribed by doctors for twenty years and sold by all druggists.
A St Louis clergyman laments that images of poets and painters no longer charm society. He fears readers seek reality over art and notes poetry’s decline. Sassafras tea once touted as a remedy appears in the discussion. The piece ends with a social critique on rights and deserts.
A scrambled line mentions Hanford's Balsam for galls and a newspaper income from advertising subscriptions and the owners of lost dogs. The text mocks a conversation at a ball park grandstand and references a ball perk.
Sums paid to inventors for improvements in guns and machinery at army ordnance factories during the year ending March 1914. Col C L Holden received £4,000 plus £500 on another account for improvements in ordnance mountings and tools. W T Thomson £2,850 for nitro cellulose manufacture, plus £1,150 earlier. Smaller grants went to W H Turton £250, W Lambert £100, William Rogers and E F Pullar £25 each, S Capon £20, plus muffle forge payments at the Royal Gun Factory.
Philadelphia woman tells how displacement inflammation and backache left her unable to stand before taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports improved sleep appetite energy and ability to work. Another Providence woman credits the remedy with restoring health after similar symptoms and urges others to try it.
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