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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1915
Page
7
Omer F Hershey argues modern industrialism harms human life and that restoring labor to home and garden can humanize work. A garden by the home, even small, awakens ownership, education, and hope, reversing urban drift and revealing gardens as schools and drivers of social reform.
Specialists summarize guidelines from a thorough survey of an old Chester County farming area. Key ideas include matching farming to soil climate labor and markets, profitability tied to living standards, diminishing returns beyond high yields, and focusing on weak points in the system. Diversity and poultry as a side enterprise are discussed, with production costs higher on small farms. A bulletin titled Warm Management Practice In Chester County Pa will detail these principles.
The Pennsylvania Experiment Station warns farmers to select seed corn carefully and store it properly to avoid loss of vitality due to immaturity and high moisture. Well dried seed can be stored on shelves, wires, or ventilated outbuildings. if not fully matured, light heating with ventilation may aid drying. An unused room can serve as storage.
Workers tearing weather boarding at the S. B. Manifold house in Muddy Greek Forks York County found 200 pounds of honey stored by a hive between inner and outer walls. The bees had haunted the walls for fifteen years before the remodeling exposed them.
The Penn State College of Agriculture and Experiment Station outlines a feeding plan for laying hens. It divides grain feed into cracked corn 60 pounds and wheat 60 pounds, plus a dry mash of cornmeal 200 pounds, bran 100 pounds, wheat middlings 100 pounds, and beef scraps 100 pounds. Feed is given morning and night, with about twice as much whole grain as mash. mash is in hop-hoppers, with access variations by breed. Add grit such as oyster shell or ground limestone and provide green foods like cabbage, mangel wurzel, sprouted oats, potato parings, or ground green bone.
Duchess Skylark Ormsby a HolsteinFriesian won the annual butter fat production championship. The cow produced 1 205 091 pounds of butter fat and 27 161.7 pounds of milk in a year with an average butter fat of 4.32 percent. Tests were conducted on a farm near Minneapolis under 14 experts from Wisconsin and Minnesota Experimental Stations.
Description of mixing chocolate milk and sugar for Hershey's bars and the finishing process between granite stones 200 tons of chocolate continuously refined to achieve superior smoothness and distinct flavor.
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