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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
2
The Indiana fair hosts a premier five night horse show opening September 8 with many top Midwest stables participating. Prizes total 5320 for harness and saddle classes plus rich entries, with night hours, music by John C Weber band, and mass auto attendance.
Purdue University specialists will lead an extensive Indiana state fair exhibit opening September 7 offering practical, college level farming instruction. The Purdue building will host professors and department men in animal husbandry, horticulture, soils and crops, poultry, veterinary care, dairy and agricultural extension, with Prof. Skinner, Christie and others attending the week.
The article advises farmers to provide ample clean water for work horses during the cropping season. It condemns water from stagnant sources and urges humane treatment with steady work, cool stalls, proper bedding, and bright feed. Regular shoeing is recommended to keep the horse healthy and ready for duty.
Early spring pigs are weaned and grazed on alfalfa rape clover or grain pastures with grain supplements until crops are ready. In summer they graze barley wheat and peas with alfalfa or rape, then glean stubble and feed on standing corn and roots until fall. They may be sold directly from fields or fed briefly before marketing.
The piece warns against very early hatching as cold spells can setback young chicks. It advises delaying setting the hen until after weather stabilizes, noting survival improves once conditions are warmer than February or March hatchings.
Growing chicks should be allowed to run on ground as soon as possible. When kept on hard floors they develop leg weakness and many never recover. In cold or stormy weather, cover the floor with fresh earth to help until they can go outdoors.
Professor J G Halpin of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture warns brooders to keep facilities clean and sanitary and to disinfect brooders before chicks are moved from the incubator. He says thermometer readings can mislead and that watching chicks is better for temperature. He advises varied feed including cracked grains grit skim milk and green material especially onion for early days.
Feed calves milk at about 96 degrees to mimic natural feeding. Use clean pails and avoid overfeeding. Most feeders use more skimmilk and whole milk than necessary to feed calves.
Silage is too bulky and fibrous for growing swine and offers low digestible nutrients. Hogs mainly thrive on concentrated feeds, with older sows eating some silage but it should only form a small share of their ration.
Walter G. Doty from Lippincott's imagines a barrage of absurd inventions. A device to stretch dollars, a spring climate, mood boosters, and a five passenger car for a dollar ninety. He also calls for a clever judge, a money-saving banked profit machine, a tariff device, and a Millennium to please every pessimist.
A fragment from London Sketch presents a tense scene with an irate intruder and a man in a call box engaged in a brief wordless standoff. The dialogue hints at domestic tension and urban danger. Mr. Lutton Mitchell features in the setting.
The quote notes a passenger’s bags are covered with hotel and steamship pasted labels, then reveals he has passed through several college towns where institutions affixed honorary degrees. The description, cited by the Chicago Inter Ocean, highlights the humorous misinterpretation of the labels.
A witty Cleveland Plain Dealer quip jokes about Lord Softpate and his fiancée Tottie Poser of the Gayety, suggesting the couple’s engagement reveals Lofty’s parentage and stirs public curiosity.
A courtroom exchange exposes a deceitful ground for divorce as the wife accuses her husband of feigning senescence and heart trouble to gain advantage. The husband’s true age is revealed as seventy-two with no health issue, undermining the claimed grounds.
A humorous exchange from the New York Globe contrasts Tabitha the Cat and Rags the Dog. It asks which is preferable: a married woman or an old maid, then jokes about marital strife and the dog’s loyalty in a light domestic tone.
Bel gian chemists report exhaustive tests showing distilled water remains blue in color. Egbert notes milk residue may affect perception. Yonkers Statesman references the discussion on water purity and color stability.
A witty exchange contrasts learning to swim with insisting on dry land movement. The Boston Transcript uses a humorous analogy to critique rigid or impractical approaches.
Suiter says no bad habits and does not smoke or drink. Father confirms daughter does not play or sing. Brooklyn Life notes exoneration and parental statements in a brief social page item.
A relaxation method suggests lying comfortably with feet bent at the ankles and pressed on each breath. Move feet in time with respiration for six cycles, then alternate patterns while counting to deepen sleep. Gentle, flexible motions help distract the mind and ease onset of sleep.
The Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis opens September 8 and showcases massive growth since 1851. With 214 acres, 66,044.50 in premiums, 500 cattle and 700 horses, 3,000 fowls, and 2,500 plates of fruit, it draws over 200,000 visitors in five days and aims to surpass old records with expanded poultry facilities and enriched prize lists.
JOS. STARKEY, Trustee, Fulton Township, states he will be in his residence at Cates, Indiana each Saturday for township business transactions.
The Oregon Journal announces a Western Information Bureau with a Semi-Weekly Journal six month offer. Send 50 cents to receive the paper and a 44 page illustrated booklet detailing Oregon resources and opportunities. Portland, Oregon.
The Fountain Circuit Court warns defendants named including James Emmitt Levi Hollowey Margerette Robinson Wilson Vurnan and many others to appear by September 30 1913 or face judgment by default in a suit to quiet title to real estate in Fountain County Indiana. The notice records Stansbury & Billings as attorneys and Leroy Sanders as Clerk with seal.
The Robert Hoe library auction of professional book dealers saw Rodogune reach 1206 dollars, market prices rising from 1200. A copy of Pierre Corneille's tragedy Rodogune, printed in 1760 in the apartment of Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, set the sale price.
Red and green side lights for ships were first used on the Hudson River in 1862. They were introduced by General Benjamin F. Butler who took an interest in a factory producing the lights.
An article argues pigs root for more than a ring and that feeding alfalfa hay with corn lowers fattening costs by about half. It recommends preserving old sows for spring litters and stresses giving pure bred swine bone and muscle development over fat production to prevent rapid herd degeneration.
Many farms neglect young colts in winter leading to stunted growth. Liberal, nitrogen rich feed including oats, bran, oilmeal, clover hay and access to straw supports bone and muscle development. Well cared for colts view higher value at three years, with investment returning $75 to $100 more than poorly fed peers. W. H. Tomhave, Extension Division Minnesota Agricultural College.
Dr. D McIntosh outlines curb as a hind leg ailment caused by stress on the hock ligament, kicks, or whiffletree impact. Symptoms include swelling and heat. home remedies mix acetate of lead tincture of arnica with water and apply thrice daily, followed by iodine and mercury preparations if swelling persists.
The experiment station found the optimal winter feed for fattening cattle uses two and a half pounds of cottonseed meal per 1000 pounds of live weight plus all the corn silage the animal will eat and a small amount of dry roughage such as clover alfalfa hay corn stover or oat straw. Steers on this plan showed the best gains finish and economy.
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