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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1917
Page
6
An editorial argues straw are essential for soil fertility and warns burning straw wastes valuable fertilizing constituents. It recommends feeding straw to stock or returning it to land as manure or mulch, citing per ton values for oat and wheat straw and farmyard manure, and noting the double benefit of fodder and soil amendment.
A.B. Trowbridge argues quality becomes essential as labor land and feed cost rise. With high input costs and market pressure, top quality stock yields the greatest profit, though a feeder may profit briefly with cheap inferior stock. The producer bears the ultimate risk if the animal underperforms.
A writer in Gleanings of Bee Culture recalls a floor-board design that creates an entrance under the hive and eliminates the porch Your description notes that a beekeeper warned the entrance could clog and the board prevented observation of clogging The inventor claims continued use of the device years later.
The main floor of the hive is composed of boards of the right length and walled across battens on edge. The front board is three inches wide with a four inch gap before solid boarding to the rear. A V shaped cut is on the underside of the front board to half its width, the point facing the front. The alighting board slides under the floor on ledges nailed to the battens.
Weeds steal moisture from soil and crop food, and many are natural food for insects. After consuming weed parts they move to attack nearby garden crops, harming yields.
Canada experiment farms report steers fed 80 to 100 days show higher daily gain and profit. Dairy type feeders finish in three to four months, while many November December slaughter cattle could profit from longer feeding. Light-fed lots earned greater profit than heavy, grain replaced by molasses when limited, molasses aiding good stockers and butcher cattle seeking quality.
The report shows eight steers fed 140 days with box stall freedom yielding 617 dollars versus 223 dollars for eight steers fed differently. It compares corn silage and dry corn as fodder, with average daily gains of 1.96 and 1.5 pounds per steer over five months. Four lots tested various roughage feeds and housing, with daily gains per head of 1.05, 1.03, 2.47, and 2.82 pounds.
Experiments on Nebraska farms show corn with suckers left undisturbed yielded as much as corn from which suckers were removed. Suckers appear to absorb nutrients for the ear on the main stalk, suggesting they perform a useful role rather than hindering growth.
Farmers neglect sheep yet they are profitable and hardy. Sheep thrive on limited forage and harsh land where other livestock struggle. Consider adding a small flock to improve farm productivity and land use.
An editorial urges keeping factories running day and night to convert waste into goods. It claims hogs will turn weeds into pork cows create cream and poultry make eggs from wasted mud, framing efficiency as a social object. A small anecdote about Little Miss Sirah and her mother contrasts toy sharing with a child’s reasoning.
A remarkable gown of yellow brocade features two points of drapery creating a fishtail train. Black tulle accents trail from a large bodice rosette along the full skirt. Bodice held by narrow shoulder straps of rhine stones on black velvet.
Twenty three University of Kansas faculty members plan to give commencement addresses across the state this spring. The Extension Division has printed bulletins with speaker names and subjects. fifty high schools have secured speakers, sixteen more requested dates pending. Notable topics include Citizenship Tomorrow, The Price of Liberty, Education in Democracy, and The Making of a Man. The event lists many professors and titles, with Cross Chapel at 10:30 and interment in Sabetha. Prospective buyers can buy Hunting Dinosaurs on the Red Deer River, Alberta from local stores or via the Journal-World press, priced at 2.00. trade copies on life of a fossil hunter available at 1.00.
An advertising notice urges using Foley Cathartic Tablets to wake a sluggish liver in spring. It warns against dangerous calomel doses and salines, claiming the tablets gently stimulate liver and other sluggish organs, improving health and energy, with elderly and stout individuals especially aided.
Funeral services for Mrs Lucy Brown will be conducted Wednesday at 2 30 PM from the family home by Rev Mr Jackson. Interment follows at Oak Hill Cemetery.
A speaker named Mr. Meek mocks firmness as unnecessary for character and claims his wife made him a model husband. The tale pokes lightheartedly at self praise and marital roles with a humorous tone.
In this reflective note the author contrasts Frankneas Hurte Cnandor and frankness as beautiful ideas with bluntness. Sincerity is praised as kind and tactful while bluntness is described as a blunt weapon that harms. Frankness is framed as a helping hand that rescues rather than harms.
A traffic officer stationed in front of a hotel in Winsted directs two suburban women who arrive by wagon. They wave back in cheerful tones, calling out to the officer. The anecdote ends noting the country often yields scenery more than substance.
President Wilson picks Hoover the American engineer and Belgian relief chairman to lead a new commission to oversee the growth sale and distribution of foods in the United States during the wartime period.
The Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County authorized payments in April 1917 for lumber and road work. Names appear in the transcript including Mrs Alice and other listed bill items. The entry records purposes and amounts as approved at the session.
A long, detailed itemized record lists expenditures for the court house and jail, road work, and officials. Entries include salaries for clerks, surveyors, and sheriffs, supplies for the poor, bridge materials, and various county services. Totals show a substantial disbursement across departments with notes on warrants and refunds.
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