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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1923
Page
6
In chapter four, Lettie's theft and restless appetite for loot clash with Mrs. Penfield's plan to lift the girl by care and craft. Uncle Jerry moves in loft rooms. Lettie adores a silk sweater. Penfield seeks steady progress, while Lorene and Mrs. Penfield discuss social circles and a possible Diablo outing.
In a barn converted into a dwelling Mrs. Penfield runs The Custard Cup apartment building and relies on laundry income. She shelters adopted boys Drink and Thad with Pen ie, known as Pensie. A stranger named Jerry, claiming kin, learns of Lettie’s existence and announces he will stay nearby to watch over the Custard Cup.
Mrs Wopple greets Mrs Penfield as a sunlit moment fills their living room with light. Their conversation moves through domestic warmth and a reflection on the sun’s rare intrusion into city architecture.
In Chapter VI Perennial Prue Mrs Penfield and Mrs Wopple clash over an egg shortage in a small home scene. Crink speaks of borrowing an egg while Mrs Penfield humorously notes exalting a hen above a human. Mrs Wopple questions the seriousness of house management as Uncle Jerry looms overhead.
A fragment notes Mr Bosley riding around in a new car. The item suggests a local social or personal update without further details on date buyer or location.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the piece describes signs of loafing hens and the benefits of culling them. It notes pale legs and beaks, a shrunken combs, and reduced pelvic distance as indicators. It cites Beltsville Maryland experiments showing late molters as stronger breeders and outlines a plan to build long distance layers through selective breeding and culling for prolificacy and vigor.
Prof. A F Conradi of Clemson college advocates poison baits to curb mole activity. Spread Paris green on unparched peanuts or roll raisins in strychnine, then place bait along runways by foot. Remove leftover poison and rely on poisoned traps for best effect.
A bulletin from the Department of Agriculture details heat sterilization for milking machines, noting large bacterial reductions from 257,900 to 19,800 per cubic centimeter when heat is used. It describes cleaning parts like rubber tubing, teat cups, and vacuum lines, shows steps with pictures, and offers copies from Washington, D. C.
R Rose University of Minnesota extension specialist suggests forming spray rings among farmers to reduce initial costs and obtain a capable spraying machine. A cooperative setup maintains 150 psi or more, covers plants thoroughly, and lowers material prices through collective buying for potato pest control.
Plan to obtain seed soy beans describes saving four to five bushels by letting the beans fully ripen and threshing on a wagon sheet or in a tight wagon box with a stick. It notes this method yields the best seed, avoids cracking, and stresses dry storage in well ventilated cribs or granaries on clean old fertilizer sacks.
Doing it on time is the key to a farmer's success. Spraying must be precisely timed to be effective. delays lead to repeats and disease spread. Timeliness governs profits and work, reducing labor and anxiety and forming the cornerstone of the farm system.
A balanced farming plan uses three to four main cash crops with several small supplementals. It aims to keep labor busy, fully utilize fertility, and avoid the drawbacks of extreme diversity or specialization for stable income.
Sweet clover has been used as hog pasture as hogs eat leaves and tender stems well. The objection is that it soon grows tall and coarse, and then the pigs do not eat much of it.
Ophelia worries over Silas buying an automobile and selling corn to fund their mortgage. Silas plows with a new “Lizzy” to grow a premium corn dubbed “Colonel Golf.” The crop attracts buyers, grows a market presence, and a Reed firm suggests extending the deal next year.
A dialogue fragment from a serialized piece features Virginia declaring her plan to begin by choosing a tall brunet man to marry, with Alice prompting the direction of the series. The exchange highlights social expectations and courtship themes.
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