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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
4
A practical guide describes constructing a farm roller from local materials to firm soil after plowing, improving germination and seed contact. It details design features, including a two-rail frame, oak spinner pieces, a 1-inch iron axle, a front cover, and a sturdy storage cover to guard against weather.
An article rebuts claims that wild parsnip is poisoness and poisons families. It notes mixups with cultivated parsnip and poison hemlock in appearance and early growth, stressing misstatements from superficial resemblance and misidentified dangers.
Fragmentary historical note describes feeding strategies for cattle using crops like cowpeas, sawtower seed, corn, sorghum, millet, and clover. It mentions feeding to cows and the use of a forge or oven, with unclear references to storage or processing steps.
The text describes a two stage plaster and bricklaying process with long work shifts and specific weather conditions. It notes drying time and the need to sack and package the wall material after completion. It mentions temperatures around eighty to eighty seven degrees and concerns about moisture and warping.
A column argues that feeding cows on fresh green crops can yield up to five times more milk per acre than grazing. It notes advantages of silage like manure savings and overall land productivity, suggesting this method as a profitable alternative when pastures diminish.
A gardener reports applying a nitrate of soda around cabbage and cauliflower to accelerate growth with quick results. Scattered applications between rows of sweet corn yielded marked growth improvement. No plant injury observed, though excessive near stalks can harm sweet potatoes. overall results exceed expectations.
A farm guide advises Mora calves should stay slightly hungry to prevent indigestion and diarrhea. It stresses consistent feeding quantity and schedule, proper milk temperature, and caution against overfeeding or scalding, noting many Colorado farmers face calf health issues.
A fragment discussing cheaters in the agriculture department and concerns about preservatives like sulphuric and boracic acids. It notes a shift to cold storage methods as a safer preservation approach. It argues that food deteriorates over time despite preservation efforts and warns of potential dangerous qualities.
A note reports improving sheep quality as breeding accelerates toward an ideal lamb crop. Sheep men see steady progress yearly and invest in better care to raise the best possible material for future flocks.
The study fed calves in groups with similar rations except for a fat component. Six month fattening yielded good gains with low food cost and favorable calf condition. Linseed meal with corn germ meal performed well. corn germ alone was costly and labor intensive. Corn germ with linseed meal recommended. two percent miltars too costly for best results.
The article describes portable racks for housing sheep, detailing frame dimensions and assembly. It explains corner posts, boards, and trough support, with typical sizes around 14 to 18 feet long and 4 to 6 feet wide. It notes racks form long rows against walls, with two or three sides used for enclosure and a passage for feeding and manure removal.
The text explains corn breeding by selecting ears, stalk height, leaf width, and vigor. By choosing ears high on tall stalks and plants with healthy leaves, acre yields rise. Emphasizes avoiding barren stalks and deformities to improve seed quality and crop productivity.
Melt equal parts tallow wax and beeswax with waxy resin to form grafting wax. Apply directly around the graft or spread on cloth strips to wrap the cut graft and secure it. Use even, smooth coverage to seal the wound.
A fragmented text notes feeding in terrain and digestion, with stray letters and phrases. The passage appears to discuss activeness of feeding and full digestion, but details are incomplete and unclear.
The article discusses introducing pure bred queens to improve bee colonies. It explains timing for queen introduction, methods to calm bees, and how a single breed queen can gradually replace workers and drones to stock an apiary with desired bloodlines through successive queens and matings.
A honey dealer explains bee stings as careful, calculated actions not impulsive. Bees first inspect the target with their palpi and needles, then insert their venom, and may eject the sting if life is not in peril, often dying within hours. drones are more readily stung and have better chances to withdraw.
The text describes outward signs before swarming begins. Colonies that had been industriously gathering show clustering of workers at entrances while others idle. Some await a migration signal, others still work. Sudden excitement grips those in the hive. they rush out with the old queen and cluster on nearby trees after circling.
An American missionary in southern China discovers milk, shocking locals who used cows only for plowing. Milk drinking sparks fascination as villagers begin to explore dairy, with many men turning to milk selling though breeds are poor and cows scarce.
The Apollo music hall in Hue de Cileau Paris features a movable reversible floor by Mackaye. A 45 by 50 foot platform shifts to slope and level, converting parquet to a dance floor in seven minutes with 50 folding chains and solid wood sections. The system costs about 70 000 francs 14 000 dollars with 9 000 on the floor mechanism and a 27 foot deep brick lined well for rotation.
The article explains why brown boots polish better than black. Black boot polish often contains strong mineral acids like sulfuric and phosphoric acids that dissolve mineral lime in ivory black, creating a very acid paste. This acidity can degrade leather and even char paper when dried on it.
A discussion on gold supply in the jewelry trade explains that refineries obtain gold from old jewelry and waste shop sweepings. Gold is recovered by burning away residue and processing materials, with government sources supplying most raw gold for manufacturers. The piece notes the imperishable value of gold and how stolen jewelry is melted down to a shapeless mass for disposal.
A short critique notes London as a social refuge for foreigners of modest means with ambitions. It argues that wealth and charm permit social tolerance, a condition satirized long ago by Thackeray and more evident now in a system that lets outsiders buy acceptance.
Frank Mowrer cites Abyssinia as a land where whites travel safely with native escorts, noting two Caucasian women married to officials, a climate that hinders hockey, and natives described as diligent but outright described as meat for butchery. he highlights birds, beasts, and the natives’ nocturnal habits as part of the land’s paradoxes.
The manatee inhabits the mouths of the Amazon and Orinoco and other South American rivers. Its paddle like fins, oval tail, and bearded look inspired legends of a humanlike creature. Names in Spanish Portuguese and Dutch reflect women fish and bearded beings.
The piece recalls Dionysius of Syracuse burning his beard with walnut shells to avoid a close shave and notes Rome’s effeminate dandies turning to various plasters and ointments for smoothness, with Martial epigrams offering amused reference.
A fragment lists places and names such as Rome Troy Athens Syracuse Ithaca Sparta Venice Florence Milan Naples Palmyra Pompey Mycenas Nineveh Babylon Utica Homer Cicero Ceres and more, suggesting a sweeping, if unclear, import of classical and historic nouns into local nomenclature.
Study by Meyer shows vegetables under chloroform lose emission of N rays. Jewu Recquerel tested both organic and inorganic matter, including sulphide of calcium, revealing suppression under diotore form fumes. Demonstrates similar anaesthetic suppression in vegetables and minerals.
An inaugural dissertation from Berlin reports digestion experiments with iron compounds and varying iron amounts. Tests show iron walls release organic acids, hydrochloric acid involvement, and perchloride effects. ferrous salts appear less inhibitory than ferric salts, with soluble synotin measured and undigested material weighed after digestion.
California olive oil forms a major revenue item as growers form associations to compete with Italy and France. Moody's notes California firms now produce a large share of the 20,000 gallons of oil made in the United States. An Eastern bottling plant in New Mayland handles carload shipments. One orchard clone holds at least 120,000 trees highlighting scale.
The piece surveys slang's evolving status from rude terms once deemed vulgar to phrases long kept from purists. It cites 18th century examples by Horace Walpole and Frances Burney showing how terms like guzzling and sneaked out spread, while others remain controversial.
A description outlines facial proportion rules for symmetry and balance. It notes the face should be five eye widths wide, eye distance equals one eye, eye width equals two thirds of mouth width, and the nose length matches the forehead height, all with precise measurements.
A mature man named Jostas Pialstane was stripped of the honorific Mr after stealing four baskets of corn from Indigenous people. Massachusetts founders then fined him five pounds sterling and required him to return eight baskets of corn to the offended red men.
In the ruins of Mitia Mexico locals claim a folk test beneath the Neath Column reveals a person’s years of life by counting the spana between fingertips when embracing the colura. The belief ties body measurements to fate in a regional superstition observed by indigenous communities.
The text states fishes have no eyelids and must sleep with eyes open while swallowing food whole. It adds that frogs toads and serpents do not eat unless the prey is alive. These claims present a curious ancient natural history view.
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