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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1917
Page
2
Alfalfa, praised as the world’s great forage, is to be seeded on Montana irrigated land this spring. Guidance covers planting times, seed rates, drill vs broadcast methods, nurse crops, irrigation needs, and early poultry and pig farming implications.
Montana readers learn corn needs thorough cultivation with two harrowings after planting and weekly to ten day cultivations. A two row cultivator can cover fifteen acres daily at 25 to 35 cents per acre, with greater yields from added cultivation.
Guidance stresses careful irrigation to prevent overwatering and recommends early spring disking of alfalfa fields to split crowns and stimulate growth.
If weather allows the sow and litter should be turned out in the yards at the earliest opportunity. This gives the piglets needed exercise. Teach the pigs to eat early in life for better gains.
The article notes the shift from ancient scarce materials to modern rubber shortages driven by rapid automobile growth. It highlights nations examining rubber substitutes and scientific efforts to ensure a steady supply for industry while tracing humanity’s long history of seeking essential resources.
King Alfred waged long wars against the Danes yet kept courage. He built a navy to master the seas and finally unified England under his rule. His victories inspired other kingdoms to hail him as a leader and preserved the isles from invaders.
An English correspondent recalls a 1670 teapot gift to the East India Company and notes the habit of drinking tea from a saucer. The piece contrasts elegant cups with thick hotel ware, quotes John Wesley on tea abstinence and a healing tea anecdote, and reflects on tea’s social meanings.
District superintendent Robert L Burns told Philadelphia teachers that fanciful stories should be eliminated from schools. He singled out ghost and hobgoblin tales as causing nerves and lifelong fear, warning against stirring young minds with morbid lines.
A Washington doctor, Charles Jr Barker, gave a Chicago address outlining a happiness recipe. He urged looking on the bright side and accepting one’s place, doing small kindnesses daily, and maintaining child like trust in God. He said happiness comes from inner laws, not wealth, and that the rich seek happiness as a commodity while the poor can be joyful by following these laws.
Paul Huntly inspector of the New York Public Service Commission collapsed from gas pressure near the East River tunnel after visiting the site with 34 psi air. Doctor Hoffberg aided, moved him ten miles back to the tunnel, then brought him to the surface. Huntly recovered at home from the bends.
A Belgian aviator returning from a mission with bullet-riddled clothes recounted almost comic bravery. He said he entered enemy lines to take photographs when a Fokker with two machine guns charged him. unarmed, he chose to photograph the pursuer rather than flee.
Notice announces a teachers examination for Teton county to be held at Choteau and Conrad on Friday and Saturday February 23 and 24, 1917. Grace M. Thompson, County Superintendent.
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