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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
5
The article discusses humane farrowing housing for sows, stressing adequate space to prevent piglets being crushed and to allow the sow to move. It recommends minimum pen sizes, protective rails, moderate bedding, and careful relocation of sows to new quarters to reduce stress and injury.
In Milan a war sufferers subscription raised 2,000,000 francs in forty eight hours. London and Paris papers note firm Wilson tone toward Germany. Reports from Madrid say cholera outbreak in Vienna and Villa signals possible resignation to curb U.S. intervention. Reginald Warneford awarded Victoria Cross for Zeppelin attack. Parliament approves 8,200,000 total forces. Norwegian Antarctic whaling yields 32,000 barrels worth over 6 million. Udine reports Austrian towns looted amid bread shortages. Bryan resignation seen as hard line toward Germany.
The piece notes that pig births are hotly debated among breeders. It urges constant watchfulness as sows may give birth at night and appear fine in the morning, yet many piglets are lost or sows sacrificed due to lack of a capable attendant. An experienced farrowing man helps, but improper interference brings harm.
The text explains comparing horse and hand cultivation for garden work. It recommends horse cultivation when possible and describes garden layouts for horse tools as long and narrow with no inter-row paths but ends open for turning. Hand cultivation allows closer rows or rows across the garden, with minimum two feet spacing if only a hand cultivator or wheel hoe is used.
An Alabama inventor designed an automatic wagon brake praised by the Farming Business. The device auto applies when a wagon moves without a pulling team and auto releases at the incline bottom, with a slot in the tongue and a simple sketch explaining the mechanism.
The article explains that formalin treatment prevents oat smut, stinking smut of wheat, and covered smut of barley, but not corn smut or loose smuts of wheat and barley. It notes two loose smuts require a special seed treatment.Corn smut prevention relies on crop rotation and avoiding smut-infected manure for corn.
Twelve people are reported dead in the storm that swept western Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota and Iowa Saturday night. A cablegram from Van in Turkish Armenia says Americans are safe. Movements for Crow Indian reservation development arise in Aedan Wyoming and Billings Montana. Goethals defends Panama Canal security before leaving Indianapolis. Lusitania affidavits probe hints at German conspiracy. Cecil Boyd a 19 year old El Paso cattleman’s son is kidnapped for 5000 dollars in western Chihuahua. U S Supreme Court denies Roy Montgomery’s new trial in the white slave case. he must serve 30 months.
The 1915 G A R encampment closes with an early morning parade drawing record Colorado and Wyoming veterans. Officers elected include Department commander F O Burdick Boulder senior vice R E Fitch Laramie junior vice E V Thomas Littleton and chaplain Robert Waugh Colorado Springs. The Woman's Relief Corps and Women of the G A R also named officers, with H L Battles Boulder to head the Sons of Veterans.
Loftus, a dark horse, edged Seneca by four inches in the opening handicap at Overland Park before 6,500 fans. The final stride produced a new track record and capped the eight-race program as the season's kickoff.
Ute Indians at the Douglas creek and White river confluence plan a permanent settlement. A carpenter cut a barrel in two for them and they stretch rawhide across the halves to make drums for a “cheap big bear dance.” The event will signalize a conference, though they refuse to disclose its purpose to whites.
Earl Wilkerson fifteen fired at a cat near his home on South Ninth avenue. The bullet struck his brother Glenn ten in the head as he appeared around the barn. Glenn died before a doctor could reach them.
Nine hours of jury deliberation led to the acquittal of Mrs. Berta Wright in the West Side Court on a charge of deliberately slain her husband John A. Wright on April 18 in Denver.
Rudy Meyer found guilty in the District Court of murder in the second degree for killing Walter McDowell at Frederick several months ago. Jury recommends clemency.
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