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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1915
Page
2
An agricultural note emphasizes thorough pasture cultivation each spring after frost melts. It advises disking fields, applying manure and fertilizer, and timely tillage to grow robust pasture grasses. The guidance highlights dairy farmer Kimball's view on soil work and pasture readiness for grazing.
Experiments at the Maine station show high producers are not always the best reproducers while medium producers yield more high producers. Early batch pullets excel in egg production and beef scrap plus skim milk provide economical animal protein. Chick size correlates with egg size at hatching, with larger eggs producing larger chicks.
Spring disking and harrowing loosen soil and spread cow manure to enrich pastures. Mixed grass seed sown after disking improves regrowth and yields. Spreading manure on fields speeds nutrient uptake, keeps grass green, boosts grazing, and may raise milk flow, making pasture fertilization profitable like other crops.
Garden Life advises a twelve by two hundred foot gate layout with north south rows for optimal sun exposure and soil. It promotes rich well drained soil near the house, a diverse crop list, single family caretaker, and double cropping to maximize annual yields and revenue.
The text argues that the healthiest layer is the most productive, noting one hen becomes fat and soft while another is muscular and hard. It emphasizes choosing the efficient layer for profit and asserts her eggs will be fertilized, producing stout, strong chicks.
In a private museum in Cuzco Peruvian doctor’s collection, mummies from rock tombs are displayed in sitting postures with parchments on the skin. Some skulls show surgery where star shaped bone pieces repair damage from period stone weapons. A four inch stone club found with artifacts underscores the era’s brutality.
The Kansas State Agricultural College agronomy department reports sweet clover excels alfalfa as cattle pasture and soil improver, with strong value on eastern soils and for hay where alfalfa or red clover fail. They caution it is not universally suitable, noting high seed costs, short crop life, uncertain stands, and uncertain upland yields in western Kansas.
Old orchards choked by water sprouts and dead limbs should be pruned gradually. In year one remove suckers and dead wood and miscrossing branches. year two cut more crossing limbs. Afterward prune annually, head young trees, thin old ones, prune during dormancy, and avoid stubs and large wounds. Keep stock from pruning, use proper tools, and cultivate for profit.
A Kimball Dairy Farmer correspondent links defective udders to calves sucking each other. A well bred heifer that never nursed showed dormant front quarters after a youngster strained through a barn door, dragging udder tissue on a sharp edge. The piece warns calves left to interact cause uneven, unsightly udders.
A survey of Allied leadership and campaigns at Gallipoli. praise for General Hamilton and remarks on British and Irish military tradition. Also reports on a new war song replacing Tippecary, gun range theories, a Newburgh pageant about Revolutionary events, and a Los Angeles effort to uplift women’s pages with morally suitable content.
Philadelphia reports a sensational claim that blue rockets and deadly nightshade wage merciless war on animals. Professor Henry G Walters says certain plants possess memories and emotions, with poisons and carnivorous traits posing grave danger. Jubilee of New York Firemen notes a June 12 parade marking 50 years of paid fire service with 2500 firefighters, led by Daniel Connor, and a department history by Commissioner Adamson to be distributed June 12.
Dr. Frederick A. Cook, famed for polar explorations and Mount McKinley lectures, plans a summer Everest ascent in the Himalayas. He expects a twelve member party to reach Nepal in July, with the expedition lasting seven months.
Washington July 14 postmaster general Burleson announced extended rural delivery to 1,000,000 patrons starting July 1 without higher costs. Readjusted routes remove duplications and motor vehicle service adds 263 new routes serving 31,041 families and about 155,205 people. Existing service gains include 104 extra miles and 1,202 more families, roughly 6,010 more people.
London reports German helmets remain rare trophies at the British front due to recent cap use and dangerous crossfire in no mans land. Despite value in Paris London and New York markets, soldiers keep helmets as prized mementos, with a clearance hub sending many to England for sale. Also details Houstien B. Teehee becoming register of the treasury, his Cherokee heritage, Oklahoma roots, and long service in Indian affairs.
The National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teacher association tours the country to promote home education and child welfare. Mrs Frederic Seboff leads the home education division with aims to organize parents for study of child needs and welfare, amid conferences in Alabama Georgia Connecticut Mississippi Missouri Maryland New Hampshire Utah Wisconsin.
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