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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
14
The Agriculture Department describes cooling cream on farms with tanks filled by cold water. Tanks save two cream cans at once and require frequent water changes. Place between well and stock tank, cover tightly, and keep sun out. Simple versions reuse oil barrels or Grins cypress boards. water inlet pipes enter near the bottom to circulate cold water under cans.
Dairy farmers must devote more attention to soil management and crop growing and less to balanced rations to put farms on a self sustaining basis. As this system continues cows can be fed without feed heaters and within a few years a surplus will exist to feed horses beef cattle sheep and hogs.
Investigations by Professor McCand Ush of the dairy department at Town Agricultural College show cows freshening in August yield notably less milk over the year than cows freshening in any other month. The best months for freshening are November through March.
A nationwide surge of farmer and breeder backing for eradicating animal tuberculosis is reflected in hundreds of letters to the U S Department of Agriculture. Letters praise federal state cooperation, urge widespread tuberculin testing, and advocate compensation to farmers while highlighting benefits to the pure bred cattle industry.
Concrete tubes ten feet long and four and a half feet in diameter form piles for the Burnie Tasmania wharf. Each 15 minute section is spun in a steel cylinder on four wheels by an electric motor at 250 to 800 rpm. Water is expelled by centrifugal action as concrete is poured and segments are stacked with cemented joints and a steel band. The hollow cores are filled with sand.
An advertisement promotes Vader-Balm from E. W. Vachet Inc New Orleans offering rapid aid for summer colds nervous headache and superficial inflammation. It claims effectiveness for mumps hay fever and general pain with a free sample option or 50 cent stamps for a 225 cent tube and warns against imitations.
Coal mines in Holikangirau Manchuria begun last year employ about 1 000 workers and yield good quality coal. Beds extend roughly sixty seven miles and a light railway is planned to the Sungari river about forty seven miles away.
An advertisement claims Freezone relieves pain by applying a few drops to corns or calluses and then lifting the affected skin off root and all without pain. The copy emphasizes ease and effectiveness and invites readers to buy at drug stores.
Chile forms a commission to study a possible long artery system to transmit electric power from waterfalls across a wide region. The proposal envisions enabling cross-territory transmission and evaluating feasibility and costs for a future grid project.
An old advertisement offers 100 dollars for an incurable catarrh case using Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It claims internalaction through the blood on mucous surfaces and notes the product’s four decades in drugstores. It also includes a humorous line about color blind women and happiness.
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