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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1921
Page
22
A fragment notes Carolinians gathering herbs roots and bark used to synthesize drugs, detailing farmers moving widely for years to collect wild medicinal materials, with risks from snakes and harsh work affecting wages and health in a historical context.
Catarrh treated as a constitutional disease requires internal medicine. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised to act through the blood and mucous surfaces, destroy the disease’s foundation, and improve general health, with druggists offering circulars.
A Chicago Daily News excerpt urges readers not to clock watch, arguing progress comes from steady effort. It compares time to a racehorse’s speed, warns against measuring life by cycles, and advocates direct, unhurried work without obsession over minutes and seconds. Also notes a blue kitten anecdote from an exchange.
The guide from the United States Department of Agriculture urges autumn collection of ripe forest seeds, acclimation for climate, and careful handling. It notes seed viability, storage in cold places, and site choices near farms to deter rodents, with practical planting and transplanting steps for various species.
There is a decided advantage in growing soybeans with corn for silage purposes. The combination yields more dry matter per acre than corn alone, and the silage fed with protein improves the feeding value. Lesser priced feeds can balance the ration when the silage contains a good proportion of soybeans and peanut products.
A United States Department of Agriculture guide extols the value of a well kept farm diary. It explains diary use for recording farm events, solving yearly problems, tracking personal items, and supporting bookkeeping tasks with added personal notes and historic references.
Farm management specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture urge careful, middle-ground farm appraisals. They warn against inflated or deflated figures and advise using market values, including costs of reaching the farm, purchases, and deducting probable marketing benefits from the total value.
The Bureau of Crop Estimates of the USDA tracked total crop acreage from 1908 to 1920. It shows 460,022,000 acres in 1908, 852,882,000 in 1918, similar totals in 1910, then 846,402,000 in 1920. The drop in 1920 was about 13,000,000 acres below 1908 totals, with overall shifts over the period.
Advertisement features Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with testimonials from Mrs. Keller of Afton Tennessee and Mrs. Mary Lister of Adrian Michigan. It describes relief from hot flashes, nervousness, and other symptoms of the change of life, touts the product as a natural restorative, and offers a free private text book on ailments peculiar to women.
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble unaware it affects other organs. Back pain, headaches, fatigue signal kidney trouble. Start treatment now with Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root. obtain a sample by mailing ten cents for a test bottle to Dr. Kilmer and Co. Include newspaper name in letter.
In recent years automobile accidents in America have caused about half the deaths from all industrial accidents, a Brooklyn Eagle observation.
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