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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1925
Page
6
The document presents a crossword style clue list with numbered hints and a note that the solution will appear in the next issue. It includes definitions and wordplay for terms across multiple categories such as anatomy, music, geography, and linguistics, concluding with a promise of the forthcoming solution.
Instructions explain placing letters in white squares to form horizontal and vertical words. Each word is numbered by a fret letter at the start, linking to definitions below. Black squares separate words. no letters go there. Entries use standard dictionary words, with abbreviations and obsolete forms indicated.
The Department of Agriculture notes co operative wool marketing in the United States dates back to 1885 with Putnam County Wool Growers association in Greencastle Indiana. By 1924 twenty two state and regional pools handled nearly 12.5 million pounds with a total membership around 80,000.
A committee of manufacturers shippers railroads and express firms studied egg packing methods to reduce transit damage. Results show minor gains from straw and hay stuffing with costs per case and standard fillers, embossed fins, and excelsior pads. Standard cases with six excelsior pads ranked third in effectiveness and cost.
Cows and heifers nearing calving should be nabbed and brought to the barn. Provide legume hay silage and a suitable grain mix to bring them to condition. Proper care during cold nights and pasture start reduces future milk costs and yields cheaper milk.
Plant experts from the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station outline simple controls for leaf blight on horse chestnut and maple. They warn the condition often stems from parasitic infection on leaves dead from prior fungus and advise thorough leaf removal and burning before spring. Severe chestnut blight weakens trees but is not fatal. maple blight is usually weather related, mitigated by moisture management, cultivation, and reducing leaf demand through strategic pruning.
The insecta that attack peas and beans can be killed by treating with carbon bisulphid, which should be secured at a drug store. It is highly flammable and must be used with care. Place the beans in a tight vessel, add a small amount of bisulphid, and seal. Use about one pound per 100 cubic feet of space to gauge quantity. Dry beans or peas well for storage. If dried with heat, do not exceed 128 degrees, or seed will be harmed but the weevil killed.
Sweet clover thrives best on well prepared, well drained soil, yet its extensive root system and air derived nitrogen allow good returns on poor soil. A bulletin from the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, details Manitoba experiments showing little winter injury, drought and frost resistance, with poor drainage and lack of time harming growth.
For five cents a nickel powered engine will separate 8,000 pounds of milk at the proper speed to gain the most cream. It will pump 8,000 gallons of water, keep fluid for health, light up the farm, and aid tasks from grinding feed to churning butter.
Farm notes discuss barn sanitation, burning debris, and using barley as a winter cover crop to prevent soil washing. Silage aids digestion. Housing quality is key to profitability, and turkey flocks should consider fixtures early. Tuberculosis in fowl is more common in farm flocks due to infected manure exposure.
An elderly gathering features a playful letter game where guests describe their wives with adjective phrases starting with successive letters. A lone husband delivers a witty punchline about loving his wife because she has done something, amid gossip of marital strife. An unrelated Cuticura advertisement follows.
The Bank of Brussels operates in a genuine palace once the royal residence of the count of Flanders. After World War I it bought the mansion, now housing an artful collection. The president, a connoisseur of eighteenth century works, shows modern banking can coexist with regal splendor.
A burglar entered Bill Sikes humorist Anthony, a London Tit-Bit correspondent reports, leaving a note on the dining room table after failing to take valuables. The note jokes about the thief's disappointment and urges the owner to buy valuables so he might return.
Great Britain claims first in Suez canal traffic with 40 percent of total volumes for the year, followed by the Netherlands Germany Italy France and Japan with the United States ranking seventh.
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