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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
2
The notice states all communications should be addressed to the Holbrook News Publishing Co for prompt attention and that advertising will run until ordered out.
An eastern clergyman urges girls to stop chewing gum for a year and donate half of the 20 million spent annually on quids for foreign missions. The piece calls for self help in state road funding, a Holbrook cleanup to curb disease, warns against jealousy in business, and notes the Department of Commerce and Labor pamphlet on westward population shift from 1790.
The document tracks a latitude based population line shifting in Bloomington Indiana over decades. It notes a long term drift west, with alternating south and north swings, and states the U S center of population sits ten miles north of Smith Center Kansas. It projects a further westward shift due to Panama Canal related immigration.
The University of Arizona report notes feterita matures in about 90 days, enabling rotation where millet or kafir fail to mature before frost. Milo takes about 100 days and kafir 120 days. Feterita uses the least water, milo more, kafir the most, with similar feeding value but softer grain. Yield is 30 to 50 bushels per acre.
The text compares fodder crops noting kafir yields 50 to 75 bushels per acre or 2,800 to 4,000 pounds for grain, milo lagging, and feterita intermediate. For silage kafir produces more tons per acre than milo or feterita, while kafir is best forage, followed by feterita then milo, with feterita often planted early for green seed.
In May 1914, 280 acres within Sitgreaves National Forest Arizona were listed with the Secretary of the Interior for Forest Homestead Act entry. Five applicants filed individually. each tract was examined and deemed more valuable for agriculture than forest use. The favored applicants were H. F. Owens Pinedale S. E. West Lars Nielsen Lakeside E. D. Reidhead Showlow Niels Samuel Hansen Snowflake.
Secretary Morse of the Arizona Farm Improvement association sends members a list of five pure bred registered or eligible Jersey Ayrshire and Holstein bull calves from the University of Arizona dairy herd offered at moderate prices. An opportunity to acquire well-bred stock at a bargain encourages membership benefits including listing seeds and livestock.
J. W. Plunkett announces a new boot and shoe shop on Central Street offering all kinds of ready and custom orders with a specialty in refined Cowboy boots.
An old Holbrook newspaper item advertises carbon papers in various sizes sold at city prices. The short notice highlights value and availability for readers seeking stationery supplies.
The newspaper invites female readers to visit and view the latest correspondence cards arriving at THE NEws office.
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