Moving Picture Show Attracts Attention Over Meals
The line between entertainment and appetite appears thin as some prefer a moving picture show to a 40 square meal, reflecting differing priorities in leisure and sustenance among readers.
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Newspaper
Clearfield Herald
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
15
Basket Over Hog's Head Enables Easy Backing into Chutes
A reader notes a simple method for guiding a hog into a chute by slipping a bushel basket over its head. The technique reportedly makes the animal back up and enter most chutes with less resistance.
Poultry Yards Boost as Hens See Egg Profit Rise
Farmers aim to balance crops with poultry gains, ensuring hens lay steady profit while fields produce yields. The plan emphasizes orderly coop management and diversified farming to maximize income.
Neat Farm Makeover With Paint Boosts Value
Farmers are urged to improve appearance and value by painting buildings and fences now. The advice highlights quicker returns and enhanced curb appeal as a seasonal project for farms.
Record potato vine reported in Lewis County Washington
A Lewis County resident reports a potato vine eight feet long weighing forty four pounds with potatoes from the vine weighing twenty nine pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis County
Wash
Strawberry cultivation rivaling apples in revenue
The strawberry is described as the most generally grown American fruit next to the apple and nearly equal in revenue potential from cultivation.
Peas Benefit From Mulch and Watering
The passage notes that peas are vigorous feeders on planted food and will be more luxuriant if watered after they are well started with dilute manure water and given a mulch of well rotted manure.
Law raises wolf bounty in Iowa legislature
The late session of the Iowa legislature increased the bounty on wolves from five dollars to twenty dollars. The report suggests this may affect attitudes toward preserving older wolves so more bounties on whelps could be collected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Proper Ces Feeding Balance for Silage
Ces should not rely solely on silage. Include dry forage and add nitrogenous feed to balance carbohydrate rich silage. Aims for a mixed ration to improve nutrition and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oder
Birds Safe from Squirrels with Quiet Rifle Hint
The article urges using a target rifle to deter red squirrels that threaten birds at homes. It warns squirrels will destroy eggs and kill young birds if not controlled.
Small fruit offers healthy canning and cost savings
The article extols cultivating and harvesting small fruit as easy to tend, and with careful handling during canning it helps reduce living expenses. It emphasizes health benefits over heavy meats and gravy.
Changing farming methods and home food choices debated
The piece notes corn yields fall in the central western corn belt while rising in eastern states. It urges replacing meat with vegetables, milk by products, nuts, cereals, fish and eggs during summer. It also discusses seed timing and notes the milkweed becoming a cultivated food plant with spinach like leaves and asparagus taste.
Losses on farms from poor care of young livestock
The article notes useless losses on farms from failure to house and feed dams properly, blaming carelessness and lack of good sense. It also gives a method to eradicate quack grass by smothering with paper, covering joints with earth for small garden patches.
Chicks Need Space and Proper Ration to Grow
Young chicks must scratch and exercise by three weeks old to avoid trouble. A diet too high in fat hinders bone and muscle development, worsening growth issues.
Iron rake best weed killer for small gardens
At the right time, just as surface soil shows weeds, an iron rake covers ground well and stirs soil exposing weed roots to sun, making it an effective control method.
Poultry Business Failure Draws Reader Sympathy
An eastern agricultural journal ran an illustrated piece about a man who failed in the poultry business. While the article withholds details, many readers are likely to sympathize with the misfortune.
Massachusetts Firm Recycles Stray Milk Bottles Nationwide
A Massachusetts company collected stray milk bottles from multiple sources last year totaling 2.5 million, with 500,000 retrieved from city dumps. The story notes such waste collection could raise living costs if common in American cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Early Halter Breaking Boosts Young Horses Value
The article argues that breaking a horse with a halter before eight months and acclimating it to a bit before two years old minimizes trouble. Delayed training reduces value as the horse forms habits of life and temperament.
New Rural Organization Service to Be Created July First
A new bureau under the Department of Agriculture will begin July 1 called the Rural Organization Service. Its chief aim is to improve marketing facilities and address social welfare and other issues affecting farmers' financial, physical, and social well being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Department of Agriculture
Rural Organization Service
Italy
Columbia University
India
Bronx
New York City
Everett High School
Boston
Gas leaks blamed for city tree and plant decline
An examination shows leaky gas mains cause unthriftiness in many city trees and garden plants. Sweet peas prove highly sensitive to gas fumes while cotton wood remains the thriftier common shade tree despite the handicap.
Pigs Lose Litters From Moldy Silage Haste
The report describes sows losing litters midway through gestation after consuming moldy silage discarded by a farm. It notes several similar recent incidents caused by the same issue and frames the losses as costly but educational for farmers.
Lime sulfur as spray for fruits and potatoes
The lime sulf ur solution proves an excellent substitute for the Bordeaux mixture for vine, bush, and tree fruits but fails as a potato fungicide. New York station tests last year showed sprayed potato vines were stunted and tuber yield substantially reduced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lobster Attacks Fisherman in Boston Net Incident
A Boston fisherman named John Meuse hauled a three foot long lobster weighing about ten pounds aboard his boat. The crustacean, with eighteen inch claws and an estimated twenty five years of age, attacked the fisherman when lifted from the water and was subdued with an oar after biting his legs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
John Meuse
Rising cost of living outstrips 1896 levels in 1912
Figures from the Bureau of Statistics in Washington show the cost of living rising in late 1912 to the highest level in 23 years. A year’s food for an average working family climbed from 274 dollars in 1896 to 443 dollars in 1912, a roughly 60 percent increase, indicating sharp price gains since 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Statistics At
Washington
Slug Control For Pear, Cherry And Gooseberry Trees
Slugs that skeletonize pear and cherry leaves may be controlled by spraying arsenate of lead in water at two pounds per fifty gallons or by dusting low trees with road dust. The method damages the slug’s gizzard. Road dust also kills rose slug. Curdant and gooseberry worms may be destroyed by dusting with powdered hellebore when dew is on.
Farmers Bulletin 518 Details Fifty Useful American Birds
The Department of Agriculture issued Farmers Bulletin No 518 describing fifty American birds with colored plates. It covers appearance habits and value to farmers and gardeners. The piece notes the belated release and laments wasted years of filler material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Farmers
How to Make Bordeaux Solution for Trees and Potatoes
A reader asks about a Bordeaux fungicide for apple and pear trees and potato blight. The method uses copper sulfate and lime mixed in water to form a heavy, alkaline spray, with optional arsenate of lead to control potato pests. Apply repeatedly every ten days in wet weather, and spray with strong pressure.
New York Farm Commission Law Aims to Curb Unethical Dealers
The Cole commission bill passed both houses and was signed by Governor Sulzer. It empowers the agriculture commissioner to refuse licenses to dishonest produce men, requires a $3000 fidelity bond, allows seizures for unaccounted funds, and provides hearings and sworn testimony to resolve disputes between growers and merchants. Its aim is to curb long standing crooked practices in the Empire State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sulzer
Empire State
Commissioner of Agriculture
English Hens Still Lead in Intersections Egg Contest
In the twenty third week at Storrs Connecticut English White Leghorns led with the Barron pen on 520, Camn 466, Schmitz Buff Leghorns 443, Cam White Wyandottes 420. Averages show White Leghorns first at 24.5 eggs per pen, Wyandottes 22.18, Rhode Island Reds 22, Buff Wyandottes 21.5, Buff Orpingtons 20.5 with White Orpingtons dropping to eleven eggs in four pens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Storrs College
Connecticut
Barron
Camn
Schmitz
Mr. Cam
Rhode Island
Preserving Eggs In Glass Solution For Winter Storage
The department of agriculture reports April and May as the best months to lay eggs for storage. Use a stone jar scalded before filling with eggs. Dilute silicon water glass 1 to 10 with ten gallons of boiled water. Store only clean, uncracked eggs and cover the jar. For use, wash eggs in warm water and pierce shells when boiling to prevent bursting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Round the World Highlights Diversity of 1900s Observations
A mosaic of brief notes covers global prices and production shifts, social clubs and city plans in New York Los Angeles Buffalo Cleveland and London. Topics include agriculture refrigeration and sewage ammonia use battleships aiding fire services fashion education and Eiffel’s recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Water for Health Drink at Least Three Pints Daily
A London Answers piece quotes a medical expert urging the public to drink at least three pints of water daily. It argues that water replaces losses from respiration, helps blood and skin moisture, and keeps the blood purer, while criticizing tea coffee milk cocoa and alcohol as insufficient or harmful. It prescribes a regimen of half pint glasses: on rising, after breakfast, after dinner, in the afternoon, after tea, and before bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Curious railway travel in Syria described
A travel party bound for Beirut avoids a station master by using a red flag found on the platform to hail a train. A camp follower stamps tickets and records passenger details while the train moves. A porter later assists at the next stop with hospitality and honey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syria
Beirut
Wide World Magazine
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