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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1913
Page
2
Instructions describe building a gallows and lift to hoist hogs for butchering. A 14 foot post supports cross bars and mortises, with a sweep, eye bolt, chain, and gambrel stick to hoist a 600 pound hog from a scalding tub, then hang for processing.
The plant shows signs of stress as leaves yellow and fall. Treat by feeding a tablespoon of olive oil every two weeks and washing weekly with warm soapsuds to moisten the soil. Apply the same routine to ferns and sprinkle every other day.
Farm Press stresses selecting appropriate work for farm horses and avoiding mismatches in weight. It highlights the need for dry, well ventilated shelters with roomy, comfortable, bedded stalls to prevent fatigue, heat in summer, and cold in winter, noting wet bedding and narrow floors hinder usefulness.
Root crops like turnips boost dairy cow nutrition and variety in winter rations. Feeding a peck per animal daily, after milking or early morning, improves palatability with a little salt optional. Caution: large quantities two to three hours before milking can taint milk flavor. Western states such as Wisconsin and Iowa are increasingly using roots in farm crops.
Do it now to clean and grade seed grain while plenty is available. Selecting the best twenty-five bushels from a hundred yields superior seed compared with the spring cleanup from a smaller stock. Cleaning and grading costs are slight and provide heavy, plump seed at little outlay.
Cardiff father writes to a school teacher asking to spare his son John from Welsh lessons due to a sore throat and inability to speak English. The humorous note appears in Tit-Bite.
Instructions from the Wisconsin Agriculturist explain building a heavy farm gate with eye bolt hinges set in a ground anchored post and braces. The guide covers post depth, hinge placement, brace construction, tying a draught rod, and methods to prevent sagging and splitting the gate and posts.
A seven acre alfalfa field at Ohio State University farm near Colin bus was spring seeded with 16 pounds of alfalfa and a bushel of oats per acre on April 11. Oats harvested for hay on July 15 yielded just over 1.5 tons per acre. By September 10 the alfalfa was ready for the first cutting, producing 18 080 pounds of field cured hay, about nine tons. The field sits on well drained land previously in potatoes then Rye, then corn, and was plowed and dished before sowing.
The article notes six hundred thirty boxes equal a carload and predicts a season total of 12 600 000 boxes sold as nature allows. It recalls past fears of overproduction but says U S apple production now vastly exceeds historic levels with apples shipped domestically and to Europe and Asia calling for more. The piece asserts the nation’s top apples cannot be matched globally, securing a world market.
Text notes that crop loss occurs yearly on many farms when crops like grass clover or hay substitutes are allowed to overripe before harvest. It warns that grasses shed seed once seed formation begins and grain hardens to the best harvest stage.
A period ad promotes a new Implement catalog described as worth owning for practical money making saving on farm machinery. It offers free delivery if readers mention the newspaper.
Mitchell and Stavere Portland pursue a lead in a late season race. Lewis shows steady pace while Stavere aims to close the gap against the field as standings tighten.
A historical note explains that bracelets have long been worn, but the golden bands of modern times were once used to mark inmates in asylums, with an armlet serving as a marker before confinement.
Elkhart Indiana resident Mrs Lapin Williams reports four months of relief from organic inflammation and female weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She says doctors gave only temporary relief and urges others to seek the remedy with confidential correspondence from the Pinkham laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts.
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