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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1909
Page
2
Experiments at three stations show cooking pumpkins adds little to ration efficiency while gains are good but expensive. Raw pumpkins plus grain cost 262 pounds of grain and 376 pounds of pumpkins per 100 pounds of gain. cooked pumpkins reduce pumpkin input to 1 150 pounds per 100 pounds of gain. Apple pumpkin rations yield costly gains as well.
The piece advises keeping cellar apples near 40 degrees with tight headed barrels to preserve quality and moisture. It then recounts a naval officer who disciplines profanity and hosts a story where a captain notes his men respond to sharp cues, aided by a brisk push from a nearby ship.
A passerby recalls an old man who has sat on a fence for three years waiting for a tall man in a red automobile who once ran over the old calf. The driver gave twenty dollars and drove away, leaving the old man to wait for a supposed repayment while clutching a shotgun.
A lively exhortation urges citizens to stop gloom and take action. It mocks pessimism and calls for unity, grit, and tooting horns, promising a boost to morale and collective effort during tough times.
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