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Newspaper
Hartford Republican
Location
Hartford, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1916
Page
6
Agricultural notes discuss feed costs for pigs and gains from forage crops such as alfalfa, clover, and rape, with specific returns per acre and per animal. It covers worm prevention, a tonic mix, barbed wire industry stats, a new Missouri experimental farm, tomato disease advice, and humorous anecdotes on social blunders.
A hog buyer distrusts hogs from aeron districts and relies on grain feeding to compensate for acron fat. Hogs fed only on acrons stay soft and fail to reach medium grade pork. Grain fed with acrons supports fat and growth, while acrons alone are unprofitable for hogs.
The Porto Rican tree wool known as lanta or guano is exported in small, varying quantities to Cuba and England for hat making. The dried fiber, windborne like cottonwood seeds, comes from the inna tree pods nine inches long. Fiber ranges from light brown to dark, soft and silky, but market gathering is limited by low demand.
Mrs Anna Kway of Burlington Wisconsin reports relief from side and back pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Tablets and Sanative Wash. The ad extols the remedy for female complaints and urges women to seek free confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine.
An analysis of crop and poultry pests shows annual US losses from plant diseases reaching about 1.0 billion dollars with major drains from potato blight grain smut and cotton wilt. Poultry mites threaten hens causing blood loss nervousness and high chick mortality while aiding nest disruption. Advice covers treating roosts with coal tar products diluted in kerosene and regular thorough applications. Additional notes discuss chick diarrhea caused by digestive irritants and recommended diet changes along with oil laxatives and mild sedatives for severe cases. Sprays like black leaf 40 and soapy mixes control melon lice on cucumber and melon vines. Estimates place Kansas Hessian fly damage in the millions, threatening substantial wheat losses statewide.
The ban disrupted the wheat market and advised farmers to monitor the situation and apply practical control methods after harvest. Immediate disk tillage, early plowing, and burying volunteer wheat were recommended to prevent volunteer growth and cutterweed emergence, with multiple plowings advised weeks apart.
A fragmented article compares Hall's Catarrh Cure ad text with French cartoonist Fabiano's wartime sketches. It notes artists such as Steinlen and Poulbot portraying Paris during Verdun and the Army’s trenches. The piece references Red Cross posters and the “New France” beard soldiers, outlining wartime imagery and public sentiment.
An official German test shows that networks of telephone wires over a city tend to lessen the danger from ligutoing. The study suggests dense wiring may reduce exposure and risk in urban areas.
SPARM LANDS and City Residences offer farms in Ohio county at reasonable prices with liberal terms. If a desired farm is unavailable they will locate one for buyers. Also offering houses and lots including a Hartford home with modern improvements, good garden, for sale or rent, with rents from 10 a month.
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