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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1919
Page
7
DeWitt C. Wing emphasizes well sheltered, generously fed stock to endure harsh winter. He urges inexpensive sheds, straw walling, and south-facing openings, plus plentiful roughage such as clover and pea hay. Animals need warm water, high-protein feeds, and consistent hydration for best returns.
Fragmentary notes describe New York harbor debris from military rail lines and wharves linked to Bartholdi statue work. It mentions American thrift and Liberty’s soil aiding victory, with imagery of crosses and kindred ideals amid debris and labor.
The document asserts Yang I-teh envisions Tientsin becoming a key Chinese city under new governance. It claims goals to eliminate beggary in education and industry and to reclaim land for modern improvements. It mentions plans to cut through streets and clear sites to build a cleaner, organized metro-like area and to relocate resources for rehabilitation.
Breeders trace Poland China hogs to Ohio and Philadelphia regions influenced by Shaker communities. Reports discuss crossbreeding with China hogs and debates on preserving China purity. The era features mixed colors and early breeding committees shaping the stock.
The campaign to promote German made goods continues as hundreds of shops display signs reading Made Goods Sold Here. The effort supports the women's national commerce initiative and aims to broaden public interest in locally produced products.
A collage of cartoon captions and snappy lines features Mrs Naylor, Scribbler, Tommy, and Miss Cayenne in exchanges about manners, timepieces, and original thought. A Senator Sorghum joke pivots to government ownership while a broken engagement and book-hunting quips end the scene.
West Virginia farm women's clubs used proceeds from canned and dried fruits to endow hospital beds for wounded soldiers in France. In a summer drive they canned 20,000 quarts from waste materials, and 19 of 31 counties stored 1,500,000 quarts for winter. The clubs led in using substitutes to release substantial food supplies.
Farmers warned that rabbits girdle young trees mainly in winter but can damage others when food is scarce. A home remedy is a lime sulfur mixture applied to trunks, with options including hog fat or soap in water, stirred and fresh when used. for few trees, wrap trunks with a wire screen.
The Nebr. College of Agriculture urges pruning fruit and shade trees in winter when time allows. Remove dead wood and crowded limbs, cut smooth wounds, coat with lead paint, wash spongy cavities with creosote, and fill with cement on warm days.
The article advises eliminating red cedars to stop apple rust which uses cedar as the first host stage and may occur on cedar or apple in the second stage. It also notes cover crops protect soil, prevent humus loss, and provide mulch for trees and grazing for livestock.
United States Department of Agriculture guidance outlines key practices to raise poultry and eggs. Emphasizes breeding stock selection, early hatching, brooding confinement, free range for growth and egg production, and separating hens from cocks to protect egg quality and eye safety. It advises culling unprofitable birds and timing sales by laying class.
A USDA prepared guide advises a laying hen diet of four parts cracked corn and oats to one part barley or wheat, dry clean litter, and a dry mash of cornmeal bran middlings oats and beef scrap. Provide continuous access to feed, exercise for hens, and introduce sprouted oats clover and alfalfa as green additions. Wet mashes should be crumbly, not sticky.
A reader notes roosters from high priced breeders pass certain qualities to their offspring more effectively than hens from some lines. The writer argues that in animals the male more closely resembles the dam than the sire and the female reverses this pattern.
This piece extols salads as vital for hydration minerals acids and flavor with proteins from animal products and fats from cheese and eggs. It gives a Calcutta Salad recipe with soft cheese gelatin paprika cream and garnish instructions and a French style dressing with vinegar oil and paprika plus a suggested cream onion parsley variation.
Farmers with woodlands and city residents can ease this winter’s coal demand by burning wood from nearby farms. Wood offers a cheaper, more convenient fuel for heating many buildings, especially churches halls and summer cottages that require heat only occasionally but in large bursts.
The article cites Good Housekeeping urging potatoes as a bread substitute to feed Europe, detailing a method to steam potato slices in skins then toast or bake until lightly browned. It recommends careful cleaning, steaming about ten minutes, drying, and toasting for a bread-like texture with salt, skins optional for connoisseurs.
The text reflects aphorisms about the shrinking impact of good deeds the closer they come, the value of simple questions, usefulness of study, true friendship from frankness and forbearance, and the role of pluck in success including influencing others.
A Tientsin business man laments the long distance telephone situation in China saying a Peking call took eight hours with 60 calls ahead and only three trunk lines active. He urges the administration to add another trunk line to restore usable service for commerce and compares it unfavorably with Japan.
The word influenza derives from Italian origins meaning influence. A retrospective view links its name to ancient plague rumors blamed on star influences, shaping the term influenza through historical attribution.
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