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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
17
In Ford's Landing a tale of poverty and longing unfolds as Lizzie and Jack Mann pursue a fragile romance amid squalor. Tension rises with a store robbery that reveals hidden desires, ambition, and social divide before Stanley’s return to Detroit.
Mary Titzel notes in Ain Magazine that coconut palm blossoms, fruit, sap, and fibers supply almost all needs for food drink fuel and clothing in Ceylon. The article describes uses from milk and wine to rope, matting, and coffins, highlighting cultural reverence and practical life tied to the coconut tree.
A fragment discusses bells and bell foundries, naming American churches and institutions including the Church of the Advent, Groton school chapel, Roosevelt's association, Wesleyan University chapel in Middleton Iowa, and mentions Canadian locations Victoria Vancouver and Montreal. References extend to Australia and South Africa supplying bells for plantations and workers summons, with Robert Mott's successors producing fine dinner bells in Britain.
The article traces homing pigeons from ancient use by Egyptians Greeks and Temens to modern racing. It notes government and club involvement, training practices, and the gradual distance buildup from short hops to long flights, emphasizing weather and bird development.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns farmers to remove chicory from fields as it spreads north from Virginia. Wild blue flowering plants with thick roots identifiable by farmers, cut near surface, and roots treated with salt to prevent sprouts. Controlling methods include intertilled crops like potatoes or corn for two years or continuous grazing with sheep or goats. Chicory’s main US use is as a coffee substitute. in Europe it is valued for forage and salads. Circular 108 provides control details.
The Scientific American article details J. A. Klovstad of Hope North Dakota as inventor of a self loading grain truck. It notes the device builds on farm hand trucks designed for self tending use in cars and warehouses, aiming to reduce manual handling and improve efficiency.
A side elevation illustrates the truck in a beginning to load stance, showing it can transport from place to place with or without its head.
The article explains tuberculosis in poultry caused by a bacillus adapted to birds. Transmission to humans is rare, but hogs can contract it from poultry, more so than cattle. Diseased chickens waste away, with lesions in the breast muscles liver spleen and intestines detectable by intradermal tuberculin tests developed at Colorado Agricultural College.
United States agriculture notes hairy vetch as excellent food for animals and a valuable cover and green manure crop. It adapts to the eastern half of the country where red clover or crimson clover may fail, making it useful for hay, pasture, and soil improvement.
A Saltad status farm estimates poultry and eggs exceed 600000 annually and notes a nearly per cent loss from mishandled products. Improper handling, dirty nests, stray and old stock, and poor packaging lower quality eggs. Advocates pure breeds like Leghorns and Rhode Island Reds, better care, frequent collecting, dry cool storage, cash sales, and combining shipments to improve efficiency and profitability.
Numerous grain types form a balanced pigeon feed. A base mix of equal parts small corn hard wheat peas and vetch plus about five percent hemp and millet during mating. Substitutes include peanuts dried peas cowpeas oats buckwheat Egyptian corn milo maize and small amounts of stale bread rice millet canary or sunflower seed. Peas are pricey yet key during breeding. soybeans are less favorable. Green feeds like alfalfa lettuce spinach and clover add variety but are optional.
Farmers advised turkeys should not be confined long before marketing. With a free run they can be kept in condition for marketing within ten days.
Guidance on pairing one male with six to eight American breed hens or ten to twelve Mediterranean hens to increase fertilization rates and chick numbers. Warns against using too many hens per male.
A campaign for better roads argues farmers can deliver products directly to towns within fifty miles using motor trucks. It claims improved roads lower living costs, expand merchant supply, and raise profits by faster delivery and reduced rail delays. Emphasizing national growth, it cites widespread automobile ownership and the need for timely road improvements to prevent lost advantage.
The Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture calculated an average cost per ton mile of 22.7 cents based on inquiries from about 2,800 county correspondents. The reported average haul was 0.4 miles, and with less than half of the roads improved, this reflects the cost of using unimproved roads.
The slogan The mud tax is the heaviest tax the farmer pays was used by Alabama campaigners to promote a 12 year 860 million road-building program. Farmers were shown good roads would save money and offer practical, previously unavailable benefits.
Like the Balky Mule the dollar stalls amid mud as roads improve farm value doubles in many areas. Better schools and better roads boost farm prospects, with farm values near doubling where infrastructure enhancements occur.
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