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Newspaper
Iowa Iowa Le Mars Globe Post
Location
Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1927
Page
4
The United States Department of Agriculture cautions buyers of feeder hogs about hog cholera risks. From stock yards and local dealers come hogs that may spread disease. many are not immunized. Buyers should verify cholera treatment, separate new hogs for at least 21 days, and avoid mixing with existing herds to limit losses.
The article notes clipping is less essential if horses already have short coats from a winter with ample feed and little work. It warns long coats cause overheating and cold after work, and clipping before heavy work reduces sweating. Benefits include easier grooming and less loose hair during shedding season.
A foal may suffer an umbilical hernia causing concern but usually fades as the animal grows. In larger cases surgery may be needed to remove the rupture. For small ruptures iodine treatments, blisters, or a leather truss with an elastic harness are suggested to hasten healing without surgery.
Rape is a very good pasture for sheep valued for finishing lambs. Begin with a partial hay fill before turning sheep onto rape and combine with other pasture when possible. On wet days keep sheep on the pasture to avoid bloat from dew soaked rape.
Nature Magazine notes Mountaineer nutcrackers inhabit altitudes from 5000 to 8000 feet and spend year round in the Pacific Northwest forests. They pry cones from trees and use their bills to remove scales, exposing the seeds they eat.
A Goldfield Daily Tribune note indicates demand for gold rising sharply, with market observers citing stronger consumer interest and potential price support amid broader economic uncertainty. The piece highlights suppliers noting higher inquiries and steady purchasing activity.
New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca reports ground buckwheat and buckwheat middlings are valuable dairy feeds. Ground buckwheat offers digestible nutrients similar to oats or wheat bran when properly mixed, and middlings provide high digestible nutrients and protein. Suitable blends include oats or barley with ground buckwheat and cottonseed or oil meals. middlings blends pair buckwheat middlings with bran or oats and cottonseed meal. Prices compare buckwheat feeds to wheat bran and gluten feed respectively.
In New Jersey conditions pasture alone fails for milking cows. Carl B. Bender of the New Brunswick experiment station says a grain mix with 12 to 16 percent protein is needed. Many dairymen feed grain to prevent flesh loss from production. Cows should start on grass when it is five inches high and be let out briefly at first to avoid grassy flavors and digestive issues. Rotating cows among four to five lots every five to ten days prolongs fresh pasture. Even with ample pasture, clean water is essential.
A Vancouver firm acting for a Shanghai dairy reports that within two years the Shanghai dairy will add 200 cows to a 300 head herd. BC and Western Canada breeders will supply the stock, with orders for 30 pure bred Jerseys and 10 Holsteins to be shipped soon.
The theory of music covers the scientific side of the art, detailing harmony counterpoint composition and arrangement for voices or instruments. It includes rhythm melody and every aspect of music except playing or singing, defining theory as the science of music.
Dunkirk Observer reflects on ancient methods of building the pyramids and Roman roads, noting the misery and death involved and questioning whether such feats were worth the cost. It contrasts these with the power era and United States advances.
Civil War prison Andersonville in Sumter County Georgia covered 22 acres in 1868 and expanded to about 27. At one time up to 38,000 prisoners were kept there, with total admissions reaching 49,485. The burial tract has been made into a national cemetery.
Appropriate Name Spithead is the eastern portion of the strait separating the Isle of Wight from the English mainland. It takes its name from the Spit a sand bank extending three miles from the Hampshire coast in a picturesque southern county of England.
The U S Treasury notes 2014 one dollar bills balance one standard silver dollar, which weighs 412.50 grains, making each bill weigh about 20.12 grains. All paper money shares this uniform weight.
The volatile aromatic oil called attar of roses is produced from petals of roses especially damask and musk rose. Roses for this oil are cultivated in regions including the Balkan peninsula southern France Persia and northern India.
Nutmeg is the kernel of the stone inside a pear-shaped fruit grown on trees about 25 feet high. It is native to Madagascar and also produced in Brazil the Moluccas and the West Indies where it remains a popular flavoring.
The first US Japan treaty was signed in March 1854. Commodore Perry delivered a letter from President Pierce to the Japanese emperor, opening commercial relations between the nations.
The celebrated American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson started his extensive lecture career in 1899 34. For more than thirty years he spoke on topics including Human Culture Human Life and The Present Age.
A fragment describes Portland cement as an artificial product dyed to resemble Portland stone in color. It notes Portland stone comes from the isle of Portland, a peninsula on Dorset coast in England, linking cement to its stone namesake.
The Romance languages such as French Italian Spanish Portuguese and Romanian are based on Latin. About twenty percent of everyday English words derive from Latin.
A compact quotation notes that true women harbor a heavenly spark that awakens in hardship, remaining dormant in prosperity but blooming brightly during dark hours, attributed to Irving.
British mortality figures show clergymen living longest, followed by gamekeepers printers and gardeners. The register-general of Great Britain is compiling complete statistics.
The Rambouillet or French Merino is a distinct sheep breed developing from Spanish stock imported by Louis XVI and is named after his estate.
A report notes that many residents of Peking cannot afford heat and that between one and six people die from cold each day in winter, illustrating extreme poverty and hardship across urban areas.
Edna Purdy Walsh surveys handwriting clues to personality in the piece Is He Timid explaining how letter shapes slant spacing and pressure may reflect character traits and courtship signals in this issue of Character Reading Magazine.
The text analyzes handwriting signs of timidity and lack of conviction. It links backward slanting writing small size, short leftward tears, low pressure, and tiny t bars to hesitation and fear of expression. It notes shrinking letters at word ends and a backward-slanting capital I as further indicators of uncertainty.
Dr John R Mohler urged Texas and Southwest Cattle Raisers association members to rely more on public information in planning meat production. He stressed using past experience, studying federal and state research, and understanding laws and regulations to boost livestock profitability amid market incentives. He noted public data on production, consumption and trade is vital to both producers and the meat industry.
Hog housing and feeding equipment need more attention in farms' livestock programs says W A Foster from the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. He stresses sanitary, comfortable farrowing quarters and clean, well lighted growing spaces to promote vigor, health and gains. He compares community and movable colony housing, noting costs, contagion risks, and sanitation advantages of each system.
Development, not age, largely determines when gilts may be bred. A well grown gilt at seven or eight months can be a better mother than a poorly developed, older gilt. Early breeding may improve brood sow quality and reduce per pig birth costs, but risks include small litters and inadequate pig nourishment if the gilt is underdeveloped. Feeding during gestation and after farrowing can reduce danger.
The Southern Agriculturist reports hogs are fed much of the tankage produced as a by product in packing houses. Tankage, the residue left after heat and pressure extract fat from meat unfit for food, makes hogs the undesirable part of hogs a sizable portion of tankage. Thus the meek hog is depicted as a cold calculating cannibal.
The hummingbird is native to the American continent from Labrador to Patagonia. It is closely allied to the swift and can hover and perform rapid darting movements by its wing muscle action, appearing to move backward in flight.
A Psychology Magazine excerpt advises nervous individuals to follow a simple diet. Breakfast should be light with cereal or fruit, a mild drink like warm milk, lunch a solid salad or vegetable dinner, with lean meat occasionally, and a fruit and nut evening meal with whole wheat bread and butter.
Mack Sennett argues the killer whale is the ocean’s fiercest creature. He describes its air breathing mammal nature about five feet long with bulldog like head and massive jaws. The article explains its hunting method crushing the whale’s blowhole and leaving tongueless corpses adrift.
The article warns that gasoline can ignite from friction such as washing in a machine, and that even without an external flame the machine, cleaning fluids, and garments can trigger a terrible explosion. It notes that the press records such accidents almost daily.
Lincoln experiment tests cottonseed meal as a substitute for part of tankage in hog feed. Over 100 days pigs starting at 72 pounds showed equal gain with 38 pounds cottonseed meal and 83 pounds tankage plus 828 pounds corn versus 49 pounds tankage and 374 pounds corn. Farmers may save costs by comparing local prices, noting potential safety concerns for young pigs.
Tommy Malloy the film editor says he needs a new bridge for his fiddle. Eddie Meyer, visiting from India to study cinema, asks why violins have bridges. Malloy replies they are to help carry music across.
Rome's city government announced a program to improve public school children through a health survey to identify unhealthy adenoids and provide free removal. The governor ordered special classes for mentally defective children to be established.
Luzon leads in area among Philippine islands though figures vary. Mindanao ranks second with an area around 86,292 square miles. The text notes Luzon roughly 40,000 square miles in area.
A collection of wry maxims on contentment speed and success. It jokes that modest living often yields less, faster travel ages you, bragging shortens work, and stars may mislead a family line. It notes aviation study signals rise to the occasion while critiquing theater and meals.
A collection of quips on friendship curiosity and ambition. It reflects humorous observations about generosity opportunities appearance and family dynamics with a playful tone and compact wording.
Two English golfers on the North Foreland course in London both scored a hole in one during the same round marking a rare shared ace.
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