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Newspaper
Humeston New Era
Location
Humeston, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1913
Page
3
A Minnesota bulletin warns winter neglect harms colts. Liberal feeding preserves growth, building bone and muscle with oats bran offal and clover hay, while straw alone is insufficient. Well cared for colts may yield $75 to $100 more at age three. demand stays high for well fed farm horses.
Palmer North Dakota Experiment Station notes alfalfa hay equals 60 bushels of oats per ton and averages two tons per acre. Land rarely yields oats at 120 bushels. alfalfa costs less to grow, improves soil, and should be fed on the farm to realize value.
Growing young pigs requires attention to detail and persistent effort. The best hog growers succeed through disciplined care, proper feeding, and good environment, including dipping vats, light, and clean water. Breeding stock needs different feeding from market hogs to avoid bone and muscle deficiencies.
The article recommends starting with a warm bran mash as the first feed after a cow freshens. It notes the mash strengthens and provides general benefit, suggests reducing the meal ration about four weeks before calving, and increasing bran during that period. It mentions cornmeal raises animal heat while bran is cooling to the system.
The article stresses that meticulous soil prep lowers seed needs and boosts germination. It argues that seed failures often result from poor ground conditions, not seed vitality, and that thorough prep saves seed and lessens subsequent cultivation effort.
Breeding a heifer before eighteen months offers little gain and carries substantial risk. The period of early development matters for long term performance, and delaying breeding until proper maturity supports healthier outcomes for both cow and offspring.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst leader of militant suffragettes was arrested on the White Star liner Majestic and taken to Devonport by government detectives. She was later locked up at Exeter jail under guard for threats of riot upon arrival in London. Anti suffrage voices in Washington and New York denounced efforts for a special House committee on woman suffrage while arguing for state by state regulation and home and family as the focus of their campaign.
Vice President offers 5000 reward for capture of bandit who killed Horace Montague and robbed the Sunset Express near San Francisco. Catholic priest shot in Brussels by socialist for not joining funeral with red flag. Bandits steal 5000 from Blythe Palo Verde Valley Bank vaults after shooting guard. detectives rush to the scene. In Bingham Utah Frank Lopez the Mexican outlaw who has killed six, has escaped Apex mine. Sheriff doubts his death, expects to find his body.
Ten people die after a 20 foot wave rolls through Nolan creek in Belton Texas before daybreak sweeping away fifty houses along the banks. Mrs GC W Polk and four children drown in the heart of the town while Polk saves a baby. A camper family loses five members. the husband’s name is unknown. An unidentified man on the Main street bridge in Temple Texas vanishes into the water. In Chicago a separate note says Jack Johnson's bondsman Matthew Lalewin, a 74 year old Evanston real estate dealer, is found dead in a gas filled bedroom.
In Arcola nocturnal punishment erupts as five masked men lash Harry Sieh with buggy whips. Sieh, a Decatur resident, had been charged with beating his wife, prompting the display of mob violence under cover of night.
The French government named Alexander Louis Albert Tirman as commissioner general to represent France at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, with duties to oversee official French participation and presence.
Canadian agricultural progress pivots on extensive education and government support. Experiential farms in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta alongside university programs in Edmonton and Ames, Iowa drive farmer graduates into high cultivation yields, with co op marketing, herd improvements, and affordable long term government financed equipment.
The fragment lists crop performance and small grain yields with a humorous mix of advertisements and quips. It mentions wheat yields, Miss Roxsey, Miss Knox, Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops, a Four Hundred sermon image, Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup, legal quips about a strong case, and a joke about a wife and money.
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