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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1923
Page
33
Instructions stress careful packing of eggs for shipment to prevent breakage. Emphasizes top and bottom padding, between layers, and the use of stiff fillers and soil to stabilize crates. Warns that loose plies must be secured and crates inspected for quality before transit.
The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station reports a packing method using excelsior pads in crate compartments to cushion eggs. Alternate layers place pads and eggs with ends down, ensuring a single cushion above the bottom and a final top pad to hold contents secure.
A rough guide compares ordinary silage to corn by weight and value. It suggests fifty bushels per acre from corn could yield two tons per acre, equating to five bushels of corn plus 31.20, with a per ton value around 4.70 dollars using six cents per bushel.
The text outlines pruning frule trees to achieve even growth and an oven finish across all parts. It warns against overdoing pruning to avoid vitality loss, notes that removing vigorous shoots directs sap to weaker growth, and stresses maintaining a symmetrical head of the tree.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns farmers neglect home gardens due to labor shortages and belief home crops do not pay. Excess farm production in potatoes and cabbage during 1922 contrasts with reduced home farming as purchasing power declines. Farmers once stocked households with staples. now many focus on selling to feed the world, shrinking home gardens and reserves.
The inventor G. Cartex of Los Angeles California describes a restraining device and operating table designed for use with pigs. The invention aims to provide a restraint apparatus that minimizes holding and discomfort during procedures.
Description of a adjustable pig holding device enabling safe restraint during operation. The invention allows use with pigs of various sizes and can be operated entirely by one person, granting the operator free access to the animal.
The bulletin outlines early February to early March spray schedules for apple trees to combat pests and diseases. It recommends lime-sulphur and Bordeaux mixtures, arsenite of lead, Hovdenia beetula, and greenlead to protect against oystershell scale, tent caterpillars, canker, rot, and fruit rot, with timing near bud formation and just before blossoms.
Midwestern potato growers report losses after last year's crop. Michigan Minnesota North Dakota Kansas Nebraska and Minnesota stored about 100 million bushels. Plans discussed include adjusting acreage increasing storage facilities finding new buyers and improving marketing strategies.
The fragment contemplates truth and falsehood, noting that truth has many disguises while falsehood can mirror any face. It hints at the difficulty of discerning genuine truth amid shifting appearances, invoking a Monteignean reflection on perception and certainty.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes for coloring sweaters, skirts, and a child’s coat with guaranteed no spotting, fading, or running. It urges buyers to inform their pharmacist of fabric type and includes a dubious note about a “Double Viewpoint” with lines about true repentance.
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