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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
6
Peter Rabbit sits in the Old Brier Patch brooding after neighbors call him a loafer. He realizes others work happily, then chooses to cut the brambles blocking his paths finding work brings him purpose and company.
Cadet Charles Broshous stands in an anomalous position never having played an official minute yet regarded as a key army mainstay by experts.
The poem explores how people label human beings as clay and debate what clay may become. It considers mudholes and harvest fields as possible destinies, asking which path humanity should bear and endure as they journey through life.
A 1932 Burgess tale recalls Peter clearing paths through the Briar Patch, neglecting summer sloth. He fixes neglected trails, moves from one clearing to another, and learns that happiness comes from being busy rather than idle. His hurt feelings fade as time passes and work brightens the day.
A humorous string of old light verse items notes in-joke definitions and playful misuses. References include Greece stereotypes a prime minister swain ship bottom drydock and Olympic events with biscuits java and a coral wreath.
A collection of simple recipes for school luncheon items including Fudge Shortcake muffins Bacon Peanut Sandwiches Fudge Orange Tea Biscuits and Salmon Fritters. Instructions cover ingredients quantities mixing methods and baking steps with notes on flavor additions and serving suggestions.
A short item notes Kitty McKay by Nina Wilcox Putnam. The girlfriend jokes about shoulder straps on her evening gown drawing interest but not reliable security. Published 1932 by Bell Syndicate via WNU Service.
A North Carolina State College study across Piedmont and eastern counties finds that reorganizing small, poorly arranged fields with a detailed map and a fixed cropping plan improves efficiency. The plan includes inventory, field rearrangement, five stock, and annual farm records, boosting earnings by 10 to 20 percent.
Roy Gray of 15 miles northeast of Akron Colorado uses a mound and skid hauled water system to wet silage during trench silo filling. I J Meadows reports to Colorado Agricultural College explaining the method reduces labor when water must be hauled from distant windmills.
The Rural New Yorker notes eight-cent hides mark a return toward former levels, seen as pivotal for leather producers, cotton and wool sectors, and wage income for farm buyers. Cattle interests gain from higher market value, with overall farm materials near prior levels.
A simple system houses sows before farrowing and for two weeks after, in cleaned pens. Pigs are moved to a clean pasture sown to a suitable crop, protecting them from infectious material and older hogs until at least four months old.
Twenty six farmers in southeast eastern Ohio applied 50 pounds of nitrogen 120 pounds of phosphoric acid and 80 pounds of potash per acre on pasture plots. They averaged 4116 pounds of grass per acre versus 1473 on untreated plots. Fertilizer cost per acre was 10.63 dollars and return above cost was 32.58 dollars per acre.
A historical column notes farmers considering corn as an alternative fuel to wood for home heating. It discusses gathered data on availability, costs, and practicality of using corn in stoves or boilers amid shortages or price swings.
The article notes pine and field mice damage in clean cultivated orchards is limited but artificial mulches attract pests and shield them from predators. It proposes bait stations with poisoned grain in glass bottles, using strychnine and baking soda on oats, placed under alternate trees to prevent reinfestation.
The College of Agriculture at Cornell University promotes barley or barley oat mixtures with or without peas as substitutes for oats in New York. The plan offers versatile feed, supports a wide range of conditions, creates employment in off season, and can yield more digestible material per acre than oats. Proposed substitutes include barley, oats and barley, oats and peas, and barley oats and peas.
The South yields one fifth more sweet potatoes this year with most for local use and surplus usually uneventful. Northern shipments show no major deviation. New Jersey harvests range around 1.43 million bushels versus 1.95 million last year. Total U S production is projected at 76.28 million bushels, about 14 million more than 1981 and 18 million above the 1924–28 average.
Prairie Farmer urges early plowing of grasslands intended for corn next year to disrupt the life cycle of sod web worms cutworms and army worms. By tilling now eggs and hatching larvae lose their habitat and feeding grounds before winter.
County Agent W. A. Ross surveyed four-fifths of McKean county sheep owners. Findings show 86.8 percent use pure bred sires, 88.2 percent feed grain, 58.8 percent provide lamb creeps, 1.4 percent drench for parasites, 64.7 percent dip for ticks, 91.2 percent practice docking, 80.9 percent castrate ram lambs, and 100 percent use paper twine for tying wool.
Agricultural hints describe corn as more nutritious and cheaper per acre than oats or barley. Weed control benefits from early seedless cutting to curb spread. It claims no extra investment for stock and equipment and similar overhead for eight to ten pigs to weaning versus four or five. Vaccination of small pigs to prevent cholera is advised. The section begins listing advantages of fattening beef cattle for market.
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