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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1918
Page
3
Practice of allowing the boar to run with the sows is widely frowned upon by swine breeders. Keeping the boar separate helps prevent injuries and allows better herd management. The owner can track breeding and farrowing dates to predict litters and avoid small or weak piglets.
Weaned pigs need muscle and bone making concentrates for thriftier development. Gradually adjust to feed to avoid scouring beginning at 10 to 12 days after weaning, feeding lightly at least three times daily. Rations include skim milk with wheat middlings and a mix of ground grasp with wheat middlings or rice meal. ground oats and rice meal are also good when fed with skim milk.
Garget or udder inflammation in ewes is a common trouble at shearing time and needs immediate care. Heavy milking ewes may develop fever. causes include overfeeding, cold, moisture, and wet fur. Treat by hot-water bathing with wool cloth, drying, then rub with turpentine and tar or lead acetate solution, keep the udder moist for half a day, milk out thoroughly, and give a dose of Promalte when noticed.
Sheep relish sweet clover and can suffer rapid growth when pastured. Overstocked pastures risk sheep overgrazing the plant and ground areas, especially in the first year before crown formation. Yellow biennial sweet clover likely less risky than white varieties due to spreading growth.
Ram fodder during winter aims to feed cheaply while maintaining thrift in the flock. Oats bran and meal are suggested to meet all ration requirements for the animals.
Hollander records 4000 Hollanders and Belgians in Krupp munition works at Essen Basen Germany under agents from Rotterdam. Workers face poor food, strict front-line discipline, and risk of non return as passes are omitted. Deported Belgians and French POWs also labor at Krupp with harsh conditions and propaganda.
A wartime fragment reports typhus claiming many in barracks and describes Dutch inmates seeking return home despite guards passes. It mentions hunger and prison risks, Krupp labor, and censorship while noting rumors of large submarines and long range guns planned against Allied forces.
Report recalls a passenger steamer torpedoed in the Atlantic 320 miles off land. The chief officer led 81 aboard, water rationing began, crew members fell to madness and death, and amid thirst and waning supplies they endured eight days before rescue. The baby and linen keeper died. two crew refused to abandon ship. The chief officer praised the crew's conduct.
United States Treasury officials urge merchants to stop taking Liberty bonds at par or premium in exchange for goods. Secretary McAdoo says such practices defeat bond sale goals and harm thrift, labor conservation, and government funding for the war effort. He believes merchants will discontinue the practice after consideration.
Mrs. John M. Bennett of this town contributes her husband and three sons to Uncle Sam’s military needs while her two young daughters and she herself support Red Cross work as male relatives prepare in training camps for democracy and humanity.
A terse note states payment accepted includes merchandise and Liberty bonds. The brief record notes the mode of settlement used for a transaction. No further context or dates are provided in the readable text.
L. D. Alford of Colquitt County discovered seven young guineas in a snake he had cut open after finding the reptile swollen in a cotton row. He placed the eggs under a setting hen and hatched seven healthy chicks, noted as “Jonah” guineas by the owner.
New Bedford man Captain Benjamin Cleveland at seventy years old sails his aged bark the Charles W. Morgan, bought after seeing it scrapped, on an 18 000 mile voyage to Desolation Island in the South Indian Ocean. There he hunted sea elephants for oil and brought back a cargo to America, fulfilling a boyhood dream.
In Montgomery Alabama J Bai ley of Leighton was sentenced to a shorter term than the law required for operating a gambling table. He filed a habeas corpus petition and after hearing the circuit court ordered his release, ruling the trial judge erred in giving nine months instead of the minimum one year.
Four youths calling themselves the Black Four threaten local business owners and a state bank president. They demanded $500 from druggist George E. MacGillivay, with a death threat linked to a buried $30,000 note. The group’s charter vows loyalty and danger.
Mrs Selma Levinson sues Isaac Levinson in a New York separation case claiming her father promised $10,000 as dowry but did not deliver it. She says the husband demanded the money or a divorce and that she did receive the dowry but the husband never obtained it.
A janitor at a Greensburg public school finds a newspaper notice revealing an $600,000 estate of Robert L Bly worth. Bly died in Washington eighty eight, leaving the fortune to his Greensburg nephew Elvina Bindon of Washington. The uncle had lost trace of the nephew for decades.
The Kansas board of agriculture estimates that 9 800 000 acres of winter wheat have been sown in the state. Based on a 100 percent condition, the wheat in Kansas shows a TA percent yield or lower by 04 points from last year. Government wheat allotment for Kansas remains 10 000 000 acres.
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