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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
24
The article outlines procedures for crop bound in chickens, detailing when surgery is needed and how to remove contents. It covers feeding adjustments, sterilization, and instructions for a crop wall incison to extract the blockage, followed by wound care and restricted feeding until recovery.
A Cherokee Oklahoma inventor Kirkendall describes an instrument to dose pigs and hogs. The device uses a spreader upper jaw clamp and flexible tube with a funnel to receive medicine, aiming for easier handling and reliable internal administration.
The text argues that natural aptitude matters for farming and poultry, noting one farmer thrives on a rich soil while another falters. It asserts success comes from placing the right person in the right role, warning the wrong person in the right place or vice versa.
Tinols station reports experiments favoring shallow cultivation for corn, noting higher average yearly yields over five years. Frequent cultivation yields 3.0 bushels, ordinary cultivation 8.6, shallow cultivation 71.0, and deep cultivation 0.6 bushels.
Irene Johnson of Minnesota heads a feature on youth farm work. The U S Department of Agriculture notes boys and girls nationwide excelling in garden club projects. Johnson’s record includes prizes, Liberty Bond profits, and multiple firsts in southern Minnesota competitions with crops, canning, and vegetable exhibits.
A vintage tip advises amateurs to coat hardware with vaseine before painting woodwork. After the paint dries, wipe off the vaseine to remove paint from metal parts, ensuring a clean, tidy finish and a prouder job.
Pruning and staking tomatoes gives more plants per given area. Ripening starts earlier with support and ground clearance. Cleanliness eases harvest and reduces decay. Fruit quality improves on pruned and staked plants.
A short admonition urges keeping the house and coops clean at all times. It suggests spraying roosts and floors with kerosene oil and dusting nests with tobacco dust to prevent rats and lice infesting the house and coops and sapping profits by pestering the hens.
New York Commissioner of Agriculture issues order requiring branding of cattle found tuberculous. Brand must be a letter Y, 2 to 3 inches high, placed on the jaw. Effective March, the rule covers all bovine animals in the state units. Experts call it a significant step in bovine tuberculosis control and a model for other states.
Farmers' Bulletin S40 notes that sheep suit hilly regions and small farms for home meat, with girls' clubs boosting production. Sheep thrive on short fine grasses, brush in small plots, and varied forage, though grazing on overgrown land may yield poorer lambs and wool.
United States Department of Agriculture investigations show hog mange spreads mainly through direct bodily contact. It hits low vitality hogs fastest, especially in small enclosures, and moves more slowly in pastured or roomy pens. Proper eradication requires four dippings in a lime-sulfur or arsenic solution at 60 to 7 day intervals.
The article discusses barn management for profitability including maternity care for mares, temporary fencing for quick enclosures, and the impact of hurdles on sheep handling. It warns that indigestion in lambs shows distress and offers castor oil as a remedy. It emphasizes growth rate and feed cost savings as key for experienced swine and livestock raisers while noting disease risks.
A tourist remarks that a cowboy life seems wildly adventurous while Cactus Joe recalls a tame day except for one moment when a moviel reel company duped him into helping with a film exhibition.
Bayer Tablets of Aspirin are advertised as genuine and proven safe by millions for headaches toothaches earaches neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. Handy 12 tablet tins cost a few cents with larger packages sold by druggists. Planets Without Moona notes Mercury and Venus lack moons plus the system has 27 moons including Earth's.
A fragment notes doubt about action and suggests uncertainty about outcomes. It mentions Mat and a caution against unpredictability, reflecting a personal or reflective moment without clear events or details.
After lambs are weaned, ewes should receive dry feed for a day. Monitor milk flow and milk when needed. Avoid udder cake to preserve future usefulness of the owl.
A concise quote from Daniel Webster stating that opportunities do not emerge on their own but are created when someone takes initiative. It emphasizes proactive effort and initiative in finding success.
An old advertisement touts Allen’s Foot Ease antiseptic powder as a remedy to friction in leather and canvas shoes. It claims widespread wartime use and promotes daily shaking into shoes to prevent callouses, bunions, and irritation, urging readers to adopt the habit.
An advertisement touts a blood cleansing remedy for eczema described as burning and torturous. It claims skin symptoms come from a blood infection and promises lasting relief, urging readers to write to the Medical Director at 110 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
Mr Herbert M Gessner of Berlin New Hampshire recounts ten plus years of stomach pain that worsened until severe. After trying remedies he found Eatonic, taking portions of a box which swiftly alleviated pain and restored appetite. He reports lasting relief and gratitude for the product.
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