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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
7
Eight homing pigeons carried letters to Baldwin’s wife while a gray-eyed man plots a shipboard ruse. After the birds vanish, Baldwin’s agents track the owner to a Long Island villa, revealing a scheme tied to a diamond emporium and a secret-service stakeout.
Laura Terracina was born in Naples in 1500 and praised by the contemporary Aterati. She met a violent death killed by her husband Bocalini Manro. Four editions of her poems were printed in Venice. Chicago Journal.
A New York Times fashion verdict highlights color as the keynote of Paris and American shows. Designers push harmony of art and commerce with fabrics in silk crepe velvet and satin, presenting next autumns silhouettes and ensembles.
United States Department of Agriculture explains hay color as a key price and value factor. It describes using the Munsell color system to quantify green color in alfalfa and other hays by spinning samples with standard color disks to produce an accurate composite color measure.
A number of sections are conducting rat-killing campaigns praised by poultrymen as beneficial. Prevention is best with high foundations to keep nests from under buildings. repair old structures by excavating so small animals can access beneath. If prevention fails, join efforts to reduce rat populations by removing as many as possible.
Sour soils should be limed before sowing alfalfa. Apply ground limestone at 1 to 3 tons per acre after plowing and disk into soil. Often add 150 to 200 pounds of acid phosphate per acre in addition to the lime. Fertilizer costs about $27 per ton in carload lots and around $30 per ton in smaller quantities.
Guidance urges poultry farms to use flat-bottomed coops to break broodiness in Orpingtons Plymor Rocks Rhode Island Reds and other broody breeds. It warns against starvation or inhuman methods and notes broodiness is natural and inherited.
Deferring alfalfa seeding to the first week of September risks a weak winter stand. Plant by August tenth to fifteenth to ensure a good uniform stand, using less than 15 pounds of seed per acre and ensure proper inoculation.
Spring lambs that make the most money are lambs fed all the grain they will eat from the time they are two or three weeks old until they are marketed. Lambs thus fed will weigh at least 70 pounds by ninety days of age and command top market prices. A mixture of six parts ground corn three parts bran and one part linseed meal makes a splendid ration for young lambs.
United States Department of Agriculture veterinary specialists stress sanitation in calf raising. Clean milk utensils and sanitary calf quarters reduce disease risk. Ventilation sunlight and regular disinfection prevent common calf ailments and promote calf health.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture urges egg dealers to candle eggs before shipment to interstate markets during warm months. Under the federal act, eggs with yolks stuck to shells, mold, black spots, or rats are adulterated. Candling helps avoid violations and rejected shipments as some states require candling before sale.
Farmers and college experimenters in Ohio and southern Ontario focus on corn borer control. A burial experiment at Ohio Agricultural College covered 1,800 borers with plowed soil and ordinary cultivation, killing all larvae and moths, implying thorough plowing and stubble burial as a key control method.
The poultry keeper can fight worms and coccidiosis in young chicks by moving brood coops to fresh ground. Reusing old runs often hamstrings health and viability. relocation of brood houses is frequently the simple remedy.
Rhubarb prefers mellow fertile soil to depth with good moisture. Avoid high subsoil or hard pan, as large leaves and succulent stems need ample moisture. Irrigation helps, and warm south facing slopes aid early production.
Soy beans should do well on potato land or Amathy 80d plowed. Toepecking among baby chicks may result from lack of exercise. Kill new weeds which appear on the farm before they get a foothold. Feed your soil and your soil will feed you says soil fertility experts. The hen has not yet been invented that can make eggs without shell material to work on Oyster shell will supply the need. Sweet clover makes a good hog pasture. It is a hardy vigorous growing legume rich to bone and muscle building elements for pigs. One acre will pasture twenty or more spring pigs.
A Clemson horticulturist explains that after June drop thinning is essential to control crop load, conserve tree vitality, and improve fruit size and grade. The text notes that vigorous trees with ample moisture and nutrients can support more fruit, but overloading reduces quality and exhausts the tree.
Agricultural note stresses selecting vigorud plants free of disease and insects and rotating land. Avoid using old infested stock and freshly plowed sods. Recommend growing a crop like potatoes or corn for a year before introducing strawberries to reduce pest pressure.
Pruning timing before gaps rise and late July spray for plums using four quarts lime sulfur per 40 gallons water. Apply bordeaux on grapes as leaves are cut. Prepare stock blue stone and lime solutions for bordeur sprays. Emphasizes proper planting, spacing, early nitrogen on young trees, and cutworm bait in gardens.
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