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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
9
A historical guide describes typical gravel road subgrade construction with cross section details, explaining thickness standards, crown differences, and the two main work classes. It outlines grading, trenching, compaction, and shoulder drainage steps to ensure proper drainage and a uniform surface.
Farmers should keep dry ground chicken feed in hoppers at all times, offering mixtures such as bran and shorts. The advice stresses constant access to dry ground feed and recommends providing some milk to support the birds.
The text stresses careful subgrade work for gravel roads to prevent settlement and seek uniform, firm surfaces. It covers backfilling culvert trenches to prevent later settlement and mentions handling feed or grain processes for hens, including corn meal and buttermilk as a drink.
In a French anecdote a pilot riding a fast Dipline collided on the ground with a large bumblebee. The impact caused a swollen cheek and an annoyed look, prompting discussion of unlikely hazards aviators face beyond crashes.
A careful study of the bee and its life and habits shows beekeeping can become an interesting and profitable pursuit. Farmers should produce their own honey by keeping and properly caring for a few stands of bees.
Sheep sorrel cannot be entirely eradicated by mowing but can be greatly weakened. Mow when flowering stalks reach full size but before they turn red to reduce the weed’s vigor.
Ideal Ventilation promotes the King system as ideal for hog houses ensuring the building does not smell to heaven. The system aims to improve air flow and odor control in pig housing facilities.
A mangled reminiscence quotes a Youth's Companion line about Li flying at sixty knots due east and another at thirty five to forty knots due west. The speaker grimly notes a dramatic impact and hopes Li spilled his honey and remains unconscious.
Surface cultivation is best when muskmelons appear to remove weeds conserve moisture and stimulate rapid growth and early maturity of the plants and the melons.
A brief note argues profits rise when one raises own feed, noting a nun benefits from not buying grit. It frames feeding as a form of income growth and self sufficiency, urging readers to grow their own feed to increase profit.
The guide warns against cultivating beans when mole ture affects the foliage. It emphasizes avoiding cultivation during affected periods to protect plant health and yield. It advises inspecting leaves for signs and postponing work until conditions improve.
In these days of high prices the wise farmer will let nothing go to waste. The message urges careful use of resources and avoidance of wasteful practices to cope with economic pressure.
An English paper notes Americans will not seek independence from Paris in fashion. War disrupts Paris supply but U.S. buyers adapt, selecting outfits to fit individual type. The piece urges American women to study history of costumes, blend global influences, and shape wartime dress to local life.
The article notes the adoption of vitrified clay and granite small-block pavements in Germany Austria and other parts of Europe and the United States. Monroe County New York county supervisor J McClintock promotes 2½ inch vitrified clay blocks on gravel or concrete bases with wide shoulders for turning vehicles. A Morris Town Turnpike section in New Jersey tests 1½ to 4 inch blocks on a thin foundation, laid in curved mosaic patterns with joints filled by fine stone and cement sand grout to reduce skid on a steep 10 percent grade.
Twenty years ago New York began state aid for highway construction and maintenance across state, county, and township roads. About 20,000 miles have been improved, part of more than 80,000 total miles planned. The state, an early leader in good roads, has expended or pledged over 120 million dollars in the last two decades.
Prison road camps are now an accepted institution in Oklahoma says the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Convicts build the Ozark jail in the central region and grade the Jefferson highway in the southeast while aiding local good road efforts elsewhere.
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