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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1917
Page
14
The Adams Enterprise quotes the Atlanta Constitution noting a gray headed editor denied thrice by the army despite his home war training. He remains hopeful and determined to serve in the war, arguing against discrimination of age and worry.
Vernon Kellogg recounts German entry into Belgium in 1914 and the wrenching aftermath. He notes cemeteries flooded with civilian grief, families shattered, and towns left bare while acknowledging occasional unintentional exaggerations amid a flood of harrowing stories from Dinant Wise Tamines Andennes and others.
A teacher receives a note in a boyish scrawl claiming Mrs Jones let Johnny out of school to attend a ball game, signed by Johnny’s mother Mrs Perkins. The fragment ends with a reflection on rumor and a wary view of reputations.
The document lists multiple wartime taxation and postage measures including three cents an ounce for letters, two cents for postal cards, ten percent theater tickets dues, ten percent on club dues over twelve dollars, graduated tobacco taxes, five percent express taxes, eight percent railroad passenger taxes, five percent oil transport, five cents telegraph or radio messages, and eight cents per hundred on life and one percent on policies.
Washington reports true Americans accept new war taxes to fund the campaign against the Kaiser. The piece lists rates on postage, freight, express, passenger transport, telegraphs and telephones, insurance, club dues, admissions, and public utilities. It notes June 1, 1918 as the payment deadline and explains tax aims as shared sacrifice, with specified revenue projections.
The document outlines war time taxes on transportation fares mileage books and telegraph dispatches with rates such as five percent on pipeline transport and taxes on admission including one cent per ten cents paid for venues. It details exemptions for government service religious educational charitable shows and box seat arrangements and requires monthly tax returns by collectors.
A reflective piece argues that the greatest thing for humanity is personality and heart not physical or mental prowess. It notes famous figures like Lincoln and Daniel Webster as examples and chronicles Antoine Watteau's struggle and artistic output while dying from tuberculosis.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports sheep can clear paintbrush from a two acre area on the Morgan Horse Farm in Vermont without feeding costs. The flock ate nearly all leaves in two weeks, leaving weed patches bare, suggesting sheep can pay their keep by weed control and reduce farm labor and costs.
Prof Edward N Wentworth Kansas State Agricultural College predicts a rising future for purebred live stock. He cites higher use of purebreds, notes current percentages among horse sheep cattle hog breeders, and argues for 6 to 8 percent purebreds to supply one per 80 grade females.
In Northwest regions early fall plowing is preferred for grain crops to build soil readiness and supply plant food for spring growth. The method varies with soil type with black loam best plowed in fall and heavier clays often favoring spring plowing for corn.
University of Nebraska tests show silage fed cattle outperform shredded stover. Eight steer calves over 20 weeks received daily rations with corn and alfalfa. silage yielded 1.8 pounds daily gain per head, costing $4.66 per 100 pounds gain and $5.88 profit per steer, versus $5.48 cost and $1.21 profit with stover.
During eight to ten weeks of drying, cows need mainly roughage. A daily mix of two pounds bran or oats or a blend of bran oats and finseed or carp meal suits near calving. Good feeds include roots and cabbage or pumpkins, while straw and corn stalks are too carbonaceous. Cold water, drafts, or lying on damp ground cause udder cake and girding issues.
The article discusses the difficulty of creating a cheap economical poultry ration with adequate protein. It notes malotensnce and challenges in formulating a feed that balances cost and nutritional value for farm birds.
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