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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1915
Page
4
A collage of items recounted from modern progress and everyday life. Notes on a gas engine’s impact on farms, humorous car-cranking mishaps, and a wellness advertorial extolling Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Included are quirky anecdotes about horses, cows, and a steed’s evolutionary ties, plus reader letters and product pitches.
The article extols soy bean and velvet bean as forage crops, detailing planting methods, seed quality, and hog feeding timing. It notes soy bean hay is nutritious, emphasizes soil improvement, and describes row planting with specific spacing and cultivation guidance.
A dairy publication warns that cows require ample high protein and balanced feed to maintain milk production. Withholding protein until cows tidy up roughage undermines milk checks, risking poor output and costly lessons for dairy operators.
A historical note by W. W. Boring discusses seed vitality. It explains high vitality seeds germinate quickly and yield vigorous plants, while low vitality seeds germinate slowly producing weak growth. Key factors include age maturity seed size pedigree curing and preservation conditions and seed variety.
Last year many eastern state trees including white oak chestnut oak and some black oak died. Bark inspection showed borers active with galleries under the bark and both flat headed and chestnut borers present in the burrows, likely causing the deaths, possibly helped by drought.
The Indiana experiment station urges farmers with livestock to build a silo. Benefits include preserving palatability of green corn, increasing livestock capacity, using silage as summer feed, requiring less ground space, locating near the feed manger, reducing grain costs in fattening, improving winter mill yield, and lowering production costs. Silage is a supplement, not a complete ration.
Advice on selecting ideal ground for poultry focusing on soil drainage and dryness. Notes on hatchability of turkey and goose eggs, cleaning feeding troughs, and keeping eggs under a week old. Warns of poor gelding for horse breeding, sheep management tips, pig care, and remedies for feather pecking including sulfur treatment.
Advice on growing annuals and perennials with tips to remove weed pods and faded blooms, fertilize, water in dry weather, protect chrysanthemums, plant focus bulbs for early blooms, prune rose cuttings, winterize iris and cosmos, sow self sown seedlings, disinfect pots, dry them thoroughly, transplant Forsythia in autumn, and create a Madeira vine arch over a window bow.
Article advises on pruning and preparing late flowering plants like hollyhocks phlox and annuals for winter. It covers removing spent blooms cutting back seed heads lifting root balls using wheelbarrows handling tubers and storing dahlias cannas and caladiums properly to prevent disease and decay.
A Canadian lumber district observation describes alligators, primitive steamboats used to tow logs, hauled from water to land on rollers to reach inland destinations. The piece notes a shift where an old craftsman’s habits change as a son’s wife prepares new dishes, lauded as French cuisine.
A preacher argues that the leading question for students is their relation to Jesus Christ. Education should expand knowledge of God and enable him to be known by others, making spiritual formation essential alongside intellect. The piece warns against doubt, secular temptations, and moral drift, urging early commitment to faith to sustain both character and scholarship.
A youthful lawyer arriving in Chicago meets Judge Gary, who invites a billiards match. Martin commits a technical error, then proceeds to a steady run while Gary, aging yet sharp, exits in embarrassment as the game unfolds on a 34 point, four ball table.
A blend of vintage ads tout Cuticura salves and baby care claims, plus wartime sentry dialogue near a British camp. The page also includes a humorous vignette about Pete the hired man’s breakfast and a cheeky exchange about Russian ammunition, reflecting light domestic and comic features.
A fragmented collection of vignettes and quotes from Columbus Dispatch observations on New York winter life. It juxtaposes Tommy and Aunt Katy about a silk hat, a Columbus schoolgirl’s spelling mishaps, and a humorous exchange on preachers. It also includes reflections on optimism and pessimism, daily grind, and the pace of life.
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