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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1917
Page
6
Ottawa announces a government plan to bonus farm workers by granting 160 acre homesteads with two year residence required. The program aims to fill a 30 thousand man shortage in Western Canada as many youths enlist in the war, promising settlers credits and reduced residency conditions to encourage immediate land entry and farming activity.
The two coaling plants at Cristobal and Balboa on the Panama Canal have been completed with a total emergency capacity of several thousand tons. Cristobal is the larger Atlantic terminus and will handle most coaling. Balboa plant was recently put in use. The completion is seen as important if the United States enters the European war.
A Ladies' Home Journal ad touts Knowlton's Danderine claiming dandruff causes hair loss and promises rapid restoration of luster and growth after a few weeks. The copy urges purchase of 2 25 cent bottles and notes noticeable new hair in time.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a likely shift in men’s fashion this year though details are uncertain. It questions whether the change affects style or the persistence of the old suit. The remark ends with a cautious “probably true.”
A fragment hints at a Contraries meeting where Mrs. Smith is mentioned by her maid as not being at home. The dialogue questions whether she is out, while a remark extols the straight and narrow path and notes a crowd gathering on a grand boulevard style street.
In Franklin and Wright counties farmers report strong earnings from creameries, with H F Lubieman milking fifteen cows receiving a $102 two week total. The district forms a Wright Franklin County Telephone Co with a $25,000 capital to improve service and local roads seek federal aid for better highways.
Professor Prymason argues against immediate artificial fertilizers for Palouse soils noting nitrogen needs and the value of manure from horses and cows. He suggests keeping and efficiently applying manure, and urges raising cattle hogs or sheep to boost manure production, market products locally, and conserve fertility on the land.
For early green feed for cows in milk and good hay, sow field peas and oats. Apply rotted manure, spread six pecks of field peas per acre, harrow, drill two bushels heavy seed oats per acre, roll if dry. Sown early April, best for first week of June feeding. Canada white field pea yields high. Virginia cowpea requires warm dry ground.
The excerpt advises planting three bushels of heavy seed oats to the acre for a heavy yield of green seed that will cut a forkful to the square yard. It warns that land must be rich and mellow and notes that a profitable crop cannot be grown on thin poorly prepared land.
Dr. B. B. Forbes of the Ohio experiment station reports that winter rations left minerals depleted in dairy cows. High producing cows need mineral rich seeds, especially calcium magnesium and phosphorus. His tests with Holsteins show milk and excreta minerals exceed feed, forcing bone mineral draw to sustain milk.
A young farmer boy builds a steam boiler from a beer keg to power a small engine and heat system for cleaning milk cans. The device uses a wooden boiler, a safety valve, and a return water pipe heated by an old cook stove. Steam is routed under the table to three valves and pipes that rinse and dry cans quickly.
Mrs Nellie Phelps of Fulton New York writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her chronic female weakness after doctors failed and surgery seemed only option She urges other women with nervousness backache or the blues to seek the same aid and invites letters for free advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts
A physician lectures medical students on proper diagnostics and fees. He notes rewards go to established specialists with examples of charges for home calls, office visits, and phone consultations. A student asks how much a passerby on the street would owe the doctor for such encounters.
Paddy Flynn boasted of a huge bulldog that accompanied him everywhere. A neighbor asked about the dog’s condition, and Paddy replied that the dog had died after a giant haste swallowed a tape measure. The neighbor quips about the dog dying by inches, but Paddy clarifies the dog died by the yard behind the house.
A tense scene unfolds as a mistress questions the cook about loud quarrelling downstairs. The cook reveals the shouting involved her husband, accuses the mistress of misreading, and admits she has now married one of her lovers to quiet the home.
Smoked pears from central European farmhouses are nutritious when properly stewed.
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