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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1929
Page
8
Poultry worms and tapeworms are major disease causes in chickens and turkeys. Roundworms like gizard and large roundworms infest intestines, impair nutrition, and can cause obstruction. Tapeworms, with hermaphroditic segments, rely on intermediate hosts and reduce feeding efficiency, egg production, and vitality.
Armed men halted two rural trucks and spilled 510 gallons of milk near Lees Summit and Greenwood Missouri as part of a widening Kansas City milk strike. Drivers Ray Young and A L Copeland identified wrecking crews while Kansas City Kansas plants were warned not to take milk from unsupervised dairies.
John Haske of Gonzales County reports budding pecan varieties on hickory trees in May 1928. He now has 195 pecans from the Success and Stuart stock, harvested from the budded trees. The piece notes rapid maturation and hints at future farmer experiments and solutions from scientific minds.
Reports from Shanghai describe dire conditions in Shensi with drought decimating villages and 92 districts in distress. Bread lines stretch for days as barley soars to fifteen dollars a bushel and relief efforts mobilize in Sianfu with 19 stations and 12 camps.
Fire of undetermined origin burned 4000 bales of hegira hay on the W. T. Mc Lean farm three miles southwest of Dilley in the early hours Tuesday. Loss estimated at 1200 to 1500 dollars. Neighbors saved a 2000 bale stack but the main stack was beyond saving despite help with a chemical engine. Only half the crop had been harvested.
Soy beans alone do not make a satisfactory stage. Mix soy beans with corn in a two to one or three to one ratio, and blend as they are blown into the silo. Do not layer beans then corn. Cut soybeans for silage before pod hardening.
A new crater opened 80 feet below ground at the Sour Lake oil field, about 80 feet wide, with 2000 barrels of fluid daily leaking from it of which 10 percent is oil. The old sinkhole is filling, while cracks around its rim spur fears. Gilbert Oil Company prepares to move its central pumping power house to safety.
In Columbus Texas on October 14 Albert Malhalite 26 a young farmer was found dead in a pasture on the Gay farm. He had ridden out Sunday night to search for laborers and was thrown from his horse by contact with a barbed wire fence.
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