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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
2
The article explains clover pastures can support about ten hogs per acre under favorable conditions. It notes hog size, land fertility, and weather drive stocking, with more feed produced in rainy seasons and fewer in drought. It cites W F Purdue in National Stockman and discusses pasture carrying capacity.
The article argues farm life can rival city living with adaptable farm structures and attractive home workshops. It notes dairy barns have evolved to emphasize sunshine as a key factor and predicts dairy pay may soon reflect product quality. It advocates septic tanks to bring city sanitation to farms.
The text advises that well handled pigs fed on diverse seeds eat more grass and gain more from it than pigs confined on concentrates. Pigs weighing 125 to 150 pounds consume ten to twelve quarts of grass daily with slops and grain. An acre of clover can pasture ten pigs of this size, or four to five sows with litters, if managed to avoid overgrazing. when grass gets rank, mow and cure for hay to encourage new growth.
A Country Gentleman article urges cover crops in every orchard for most of the year including red clover, crimson clover, vetch, and sometimes alfalfa pastured then plowed under. It notes heavy cover can delay fruit maturation and boost blossom abundance, while too little air in poultry houses harms bird condition.
Ancient Rome enforced seating distinctions in theaters with senators occupying the orchestra and later the first fourteen rows for knights. Augustus reshaped privileges, assigning highest seats to magistrates and senators, while women and lower classes moved to upper tiers. Tribunalia hosted editors, emperors, vestal virgins, and the empress.
A short old Philadelphia Ledger item notes a beggar pleading for a nickel for a starving wife while a pedestrian replies that he is already married, reflecting a brief street dialogue in period reportage.
A brief dialogue captures a playful exchange as a speaker notes a mismatch in ages. The other person confirms being twenty three while a confusion suggests thirty two. The exchange highlights a light humorous moment.
A North Dakota farmer, deeply in debt, received a $1000 loan on condition of buying two cows, six pigs, poultry, and a garden. Maintaining grain farming, this livestock-and-garden plan aimed to steady income and erase debt. In five years he was debt free and prospering, turning farming into a business rather than a game of chance.
Advice from American Agriculturist urges thinning fruit trees to produce large healthy well flavored fruit. Remove wormy blighted and infested fruit to improve quality and prevent waste by feeding culls to hogs and poultry. Thinning allows remaining fruit better development and reduces contamination.
The Country Gentleman says capons hatched in spring are operated on in early summer before heat. Larger breeds gain more weight when caponized, Plymouth Rocks are ideal as fertile hens yield eggs while surplus cockerels are caponized. June and July are best for the work to meet market demand and prices.
A livestock farmer benefits from a silo and paved feed lot after a strong start. The silo yields profits in multiple directions and the paved lot lets bogs save about 15 percent of corn fed to cattle compared to traditional mud lots. Additional cattle comfort and manure savings follow.
A fragment notes bacilli and decay carried by flies cling to a baby during feeding and on the milk bottle. The remark adds that flies are the reason an undertaker maintains more than one white hearse.
An excerpt from The War Time Diary of John Hay in Harper's Magazine recounts a Lincoln moment from December 24, 1863. As plain folks gathered, someone noted the president looked common, to which Lincoln replied that the Lord favors common looking people, hence he makes many of them.
London May 3 Major General Sir William Robertson, quartermaster general on Sir John French’s staff, promoted to chief of the Imperial General Staff to succeed Major General Sir Archibald Murray. Murray’s removal unexplained. Robertson praised for handling supply lines and frontline duties amid war.
Charles McChord, newly elected chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, brings decades of railroad regulation and legal work. He previously chaired Kentucky's railroad commission for twelve years and led national safety reforms, guiding the division now known for its safety work.
New World's Center Washington May 3. W P Harding of the federal reserve board projects rapid normalization of business conditions and predicts New York will regain status as world financial center as war in Europe ends. He notes few rediscount requests, cotton price rise could stimulate southern business, urging conservative cotton acreage and increased food crops.
Paris reports that soldiers cannot see their wives as French authorities issue orders to punish husbands whose wives disregard curfews and rules at the front. The directive assigns husbands responsibility for their wives obedience under civil law. A prior practice of imprisoning husbands to control uncooperative wives is cited as outdated but under consideration for similar cases. In New York, May 5, the launch of the battleship Arizona is announced with 53% completion and plans for the California next, amid a Pacific and Atlantic fleet gathering and possible presidential attendance in Brooklyn.
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