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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
8
Agricultural hints cover dairy, hogs, poultry, and crops. Advice emphasizes cleanliness, feeding quality, early cream delivery, alfalfa, and shelter for colts and calves. Topics include silos, grazing, breeding, and barn safety with practical notes on equipment and storage.
A compact guide for earnest gardeners listing pests and remedies. It covers asparagus beetles, beans, beets, cabbage, celery, cucumbers, eggplant, lettuce, muskmelon, onions, peas, potatoes, radish, squash, sweet potatoes, tomato, turnip, and watermelon. Treatments include Bordeaux mixture, arsenate of lead, tobacco decoctions, lime dust, formalin, and netting, with timing and soil notes.
A discussion on the value of fresh barnyard manure as fertilizer notes that its constituents are most valuable when leaving the animals. Fermentation with straw alters nitrogen as ammonia forms insoluble compounds with humic acids, reducing plant availability. Losses occur in yard urine and gas. In stables further nitrogen loss occurs during decomposition.
Ducks kept entirely on land must have deep drinking vessels so they can submerge their heads. Shallow troughs cause eye irritation, listlessness, reduced appetite and eventual death.
A jumble of quips and lines about women happiness and cages appears as a fragmented clipping with attributions including George Eliot and Coward. The text shows no clear story, date, or location to anchor a traditional news item.
A fragmentary concert scene features late arrivals asking about the program with mention of the Ninth Symphony. An ad promotes Tyree’s Antinepus Powder for summer skin afflictions, available in 260, at druggists or via free sample from J. B. Tyree, Washington DC. Also notes several legislative advances on tuberculosis and hospital subsidies, and a light exchange about Whittier readings at an art exhibit.
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