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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1919
Page
4
The article praises the osprey as a keen fish hunter and notes the strong talons of eagles and hawks. It explains owls as highly beneficial to agriculture, with superb night vision and hearing for rodent control, and describes the sparrow hawk and red tailed hawk vendors, while also recounting Audubon observations on vultures and carrion.
In a dated comparison, Belgium moves a Napoleonic era lion monument to face Germany rather than France. The stone figure, once aligned to deter French aggression, now roars toward Germany as Belgium reassesses its old fortress posture and the memory of conquest.
Scrap Book reports a maker friendly iceless refrigerator from New York State College of Agriculture Ithaca. Cost estimates: about 3.75 dollars at home or 11 dollars by carpenter. Describes open framework shelves wrapped in Canton flannel kept moist by cloth flaps and wicks.
A Christian Science Monitor note explores why tennis scores use love to mean zero, mentioning possible links to the Scottish word huff meaning nothing and speculative eastern origins, while noting no danger to the game's popularity and that such terms provoke innocent amusement.
A garbled text references shelf widths and molding, hinges, tape, nails, and Canton flannel for two covers. It then claims a refrigerator cannot cool hogs to a new freezing point but notes Syracuse summers reached 84 degrees, implying an essential but unclear comparison to cooling performance.
The piece notes plans to honor General Maximo Gomez with a costly monument and American readers learn a model by Aldo Galiani won first prize of 25 dollars. Second and third prizes went to Huertas Cabarroens and Gutsen Borgima. Gomez led Cuban forces 1895 1898 and died in 1905. A 100 dollar gift was presented to his family by the Cuban government.
Helium gas output worldwide was tiny, with value around $1,700 per cubic foot, and shipments like 150000 cubic feet to Europe were not sent near armistice. Discovered on the sun by spectroscopy, helium is the best nonflammable gas for balloons. It is now drawn from Texas and Kansas natural gas, separated by cooling natural gas to minus 520 degrees Fahrenheit while helium remains gaseous.
A 40 member surveying party has departed the United States for Nova Scotia to survey Labrador forests. They will use airplanes despite the limited aircraft quality to photograph extensive areas and compile statistics on wood pulp value. The leader previously served two years as a captain in the British air forces.
A Chicago museum receives a rare treasure trove from rich gifts, including gold breast plates, aprons, earrings, bells, and necklaces excavated from Colombia's Nech River basin last June. The collection, valued as the world's finest art from ancient Colombia, showcases pristine gold ornaments.
A Port Glaxcow Crohie family traveling from Aberdeen toward Drunmlithie Scotland saw a child fall from a speeding express. The grandmother mother and two girls leaped from the carriage as the door opened, the train halted by a communication cord, and they later reunited with the child who had minor cuts and bruises but no serious injuries.
Observers debate the fate of the great building raised by Emperor Justinian as a Christian church for nine centuries and later a Mohammedan mosque for nearly five. Rival claimants emerge over ownership while art lovers urge reopening doors and windows to reveal the basilica’s intact beauty beneath centuries of plaster.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes scarce supplies aboard Colunabus with only three caratmels reported, highlighting minimal candy aboard during historical voyage references.
The article explains federal grain grading by licensed inspectors under the Enforcing Grain Standards Act. It notes Duluth and Minneapolis as major markets, with most hard red spring wheat graded high. It gives breakdowns of grain classes, percentages in grades 1 and 2, and details on who assigns grades in different sale contexts.
A United States Department of Agriculture specialist notes two fungi cause alfalfa and red clover leaf spots. Alfalfa leaf spot overwinters on dead leaves, with round small spots and a central raised disk. The disease, serious in wet weather, can wipe out half the alfalfa crop. seed surface sterilization has failed to prevent spread, and the infestation source remains uncertain.
An agricultural note argues there is no single best hog breed. It explains two hog types lard and bacon, outlines common breeds like Poland China Berkshire Chester White Duroc Jersey Hampshire for lard and Tamworth Yorkshire for bacon, and advises farmers to choose one type and breed based on local conditions and markets. It notes that pigs 175 to 250 pounds currently fetch the highest bacon prices and emphasizes developing the chosen breed to a high standard.
Advice on confined poultry housing stressing straw litter for grain scattering, exercise, and health. Warns that birds used to free range may stall in development when confined and urges contentment in new quarters plus green feed to maintain health and interest.
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines parcel post rules for mailing eggs. A dozen average hens eggs weigh about 1.44 pounds with 2 ounces tolerance. a dozen in a carton may weigh 2 to 3 pounds depending on container and packing. Postage is 6 cents for 2 pounds or less in zones one and two. most dozen eggs exceed 2 pounds but stay under 3, costing 7 cents in those zones. A pair of dozen eggs may add 2 cents to postage, or sometimes 1 cent, based on container and wrapping.
Rape seeded at the last corn cultivation yields nitrogen rich feed for hogs. In normal seasons when corn is hogged down, high protein feed supplements corn for pork production. Rape seed can be evenly distributed by suspending tin cans with small holes on each side of the cultivator, at a rate of one to two pounds per acre. The Dwarf Essex variety is most commonly grown.
Livestock disease outbreaks are sometimes inevitable, but farms should always apply preventive measures and take proper precautions at the first sign of disease to limit spread and protect animals and livelihoods.
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