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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1922
Page
14
New York State College of Agriculture advises buckwheat on poorer soils benefits from 200 to 400 pounds per acre of acid phosphate. On unirrigated land lacking manure, add 60 to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda or ammonium sulfate and 25 to 60 pounds of muriate of potash. Nitrogen is essential but lodging risk increases in wet seasons.
A neighbor used a four inch log placed in a manger to stop a horse from nosing hay out. The log, suspended by ropes through halter holes, rested in the feed area and prevented feed spillage. After four weeks the horse ceased the wasting habit.
After alfalfa is cut for hay, allow stock to feed slowly to avoid injuring crowns and tender shoots. Grazing too soon or heavy feeding can permanently damage plants, so provide other crops first and use alfalfa for pasture only when plants have a good start.
In Steuben County Indiana a survey under county agent J A Darker showed 27 percent bulls 83 percent grades 40 percent scrubs. cattle and poultry varied. The county stock association launched a purebred sires campaign using USDA posters and literature, with local meetings to promote purebreds.
Prepared by the Unite Btaira Department of Agriculture explains dipping every 14 days as the quickest method to eradicate deka across quarantined regions. It notes that full cattle coverage speeds elimination, and urges all owners to dip on a shared schedule to avoid delays.
Farmers on Montana’s Milk River reclamation project explore better gumbo soil methods per the U S Department of Agriculture. Frequent small applications of water aid crop start, with fall plowing and seeding of yellow or white sweet clover, to improve grain or alfalfa establishment.
In 1921 Tixtenaim agents partnered with farm women delivering 11 000 demonstrations in home management. Reports to the USDA show 12 500 homes built or remodeled, 7 000 water systems installed, 46 000 homes screened, 5 000 septic tanks, and 7 000 fighting systems installed.
The bureau of public roads of the U S Department of Agriculture urges broad state control over highway traffic rules. Variations in load, subgrade soils, equipment, and moisture create complex factors that make detailed regulations inadequate for all conditions.
The Bureau of Public Roads investigates sands with foam or organic matter that weaken concrete. A test detects organic content, guiding treatment methods to render sands safe. Public samples from across the country are sought for analysis at Washington, D.C.
A $2,000,000 road project in Arkansas near Pine Bluff completes 75 miles of asphalt and two-course gravel from Stuggart to Jefferson county. The route allows heavy rice trucks to access markets more cheaply and quickly from about 9,000 acres of rice lands. Plans call for a connecting road from Pine Bluff through Jefferson County.
A pithy editorial note ponders paths and progress, hinting at practical road building and travel wisdom. The author muses that patience, planning, and efficient routes mirror the idea that the best journeys may lie along well maintained, straightened ways. Impactful but concise, it contrasts roundabout thinking with better standards for infrastructure and movement.
A brief note on building reputation with one customer to sell more later. Emphasizes direct producer to consumer sales, and a method described as the best remedy for weeds in the garden, with a practical start to removing weeds before cultivation.
Frail and nervous individuals report Tanlac restores health strength and energy. Salem Oregon resident Mrs George G Owen credits the tonic with weight gain and renewed vigor after weakness and low appetite. Ad copy claims Tanlac benefits digestion blood and overall constitution, urging readers to buy at druggists.
The text describes constant daylight hours on Paeifte Island of Nauru with six o clock as both sunrise and sunset year round. It notes no daylight saving and mentions westerlies during the rainy season. A claim of 150 inches of rainfall in the year after a three-year drought, including a single night with 10 inches, is cited.
Three year old Geneva fled to visit her aunt who warned of street dangers and proposed punishment. The girl sobbed and cried to return home as her father left his house chasing the runaway toward the street. The aunt carried Geneva toward the door while the child cried I must Turcy back.
The Patriarch of Ferney was a name given to Voltaire, the French philosopher born in 1694 and who died in 1778. Thomas Carlyle called Voltaire “the eighteenth century” as he settled in Ferney near Geneva, where he produced much of his work.
A St Louis reader recounts monthly cramps backache and fatigue eased by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after years of illness. The ad extols fifty years of use and claims the remedy corrects female troubles with gentle restorative effects.
A fragmented tale shows a colored gunman at a police station seeking death by his own hand and being advised to flee to an empty house, while a colored woman seeks guidance about her husband flying in a flying machine and becoming a widow, then remarrying.
A French inventor develops a water pipe system to weigh cargoes by measuring water in a pipe extended into the sea. The device varies the water amount with the ship’s draft as cargo is loaded.
A garbled OCR style dialogue from a boarding house scene features a youth pressuring a father about his daughter. The exchange centers on threats, silence, and an apparent order to marry, with authorities barely invoked. The fragment hints at blackmail dynamics and domestic moral conflict in a London setting.
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