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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1916
Page
6
An analysis argues that farm kitchen costs rival field work in importance. It urges fathers to start costing kitchen labor and equipment, noting better facilities raise efficiency and profits, and suggesting mothers or fathers keep records to justify improvements.
A Stockman article quotes Professor Alva Agee arguing soil analysis rarely helps in choosing a farm. He says buyers should assess waterholding capacity and crop suitability, noting lime-rich soils generally offer more available plant food than acid soils, aiding profitable farming.
It advises farmers to buy empty barrels for cabbage shipping and to place orders for summer packages. It praises overbearing and fall-bearing strawberries, stresses high soil fertility for tomatoes, rich soil for eggplants, and rotted manure in each hill. It warns against crowding, recommends Prizetaker onions, and mentions sowing and transplanting some crops. It ends urging children at home to have a garden and earn money.
American grown gladioli bulbs are described as superior to imported varieties being firmer and disease resistant. The article notes many American hybrids names and praises large flowering forms, with cultivation tips including soil, depth, fertiliser use, timing for continuous bloom, and storage after season. It emphasizes five key practices for successful gladioli growth and encourages readers to plant a bed in a sunny yard.
Rising costs of paper ink leather and glue push up prices for Bibles and religious books. American Bible Society cites freight delays and depleted stock as factors with a 2 cent Testament costing twice as much. Methodist Book Concern warns white paper costs will jump about 190000 dollars this year and ink leather and glue add 20 000 more.
A pasted excerpt lists practical household tips. It covers heating oranges to ease peeling, soaking bacon to reduce fat, adding milk to old potatoes, hot-water washing for rice, mildew removal on linen, soaking egg cups, molding leftover cereal for luncheon, storing dry staples in glass, using sandpaper for cleaning, olive oil bottle funnels, blotting paper on oil necks, and a flour salt paste to clean copper utensils.
President Van Hise cites Britain's Germany's and France's war era debts. Initial WWI debt near 11 billion, end of 1915 loans exceed 17 billion, total national debts over 28 billion plus 8 billion local debts. At 5 percent interest annual cost tops 1.4 billion, and each month past Jan 1 1916 adds a further billion to principal and interest.
The largest feeding farm in the United States is planned in Florida. Spanning about 25 000 acres in Clay County it is owned by the Southern Cattle Feeding Company Ohio. A 6 000 acre plant is planned to grow velvet bean corn Natal hay Japanese cane Irish and sweet potatoes. A force of 200 men is at work clearing the land.
A small boy carts a massive bundle of papers and says he cannot read, provoking a passerby to ask if it tires him. The boy answers cheerfully that he cannot read, turning pity into a staged moment of irony.
A dialogue notes a fisher asking if a stretch of public water allows angling. The Inhabitant confirms, doubting the feat would be a crime to land a fish, calling it a miracle instead.
A collection of brief curiosities notes varied topics from France cutting hair to gold leaf coverage. It mentions early steel pens priced at about 40 cents, an ounce of gold leaf covering 14 feet square, and Great Britain supplying a quarter of world lead. Ireland’s landholders are tallied by plot size, while other items note meteorite weight, iron vibration rate, whale oil uses, and U S meat packing leadership. A gipsy caravan near Bridgeport, O travels in three autos.
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