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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1911
Page
3
A broad survey of farm practices covers alfalfa, horse conditioning, swine feeding, poultry management, milk production, soil humus, and crop rotation. It stresses clean cattle care, careful feeding to optimize milk and growth, and prudent use of silage, grain rations, and manure.
Agricultural guidance from R Bhatti of the U S Department of Agriculture explains intensive frame cultivation with sash or cloth covers boosts winter yields. It covers soil preparation, drainage, organic matter, green manures, lime, wood ashes, and manure use for heating and feeding beds in temperate regions near Norfolk Virginia and similar locales.
Genevan station experiments in New York tested keeping males with pullets. Pens without males produced eggs at 30 percent lower cost and hens began laying earlier by one to two months. Broody rates were similar, and separation of young cockerels from pullets is advised.
From Germany comes a machine for stitching grain bags shut after filling. A wheeled platform moves bags past an adjustable sewing mechanism with interlocking autchea seams that need no knot. The seam can be quickly opened by cutting a thread loop.
The Puget Sound region begins its first large scale reforestation project on the Olympic National Forest reserve. Burned lands are being replanted with Douglas fir to restore the area.
A satirical London proclamation puts an 82,600 price on Mohammed Ali Shah of Persia, recent Odessa student, with private subscriptions raising to 100,000. The piece recounts his 1909 banishment and return maneuver, Persia’s unsettled finances, and the national assembly soliciting US help to stabilize taxes and credit as the shah plots to regain his throne.
A jumble of vintage ad lines and comic snippets about medicines and remedies. Mentions Fletcher's Castoria safe for infants, Hamlin Wizard Oil, Mrs Winans soothing syrup, and a stray joke about Rome. Includes a quip about bathing suits and a line on temptations of modern life.
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