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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
7
In a woodland tale, Lizzie Lizard meets Gecko who explains geckos live with humans in warm climates and can cling to walls. After losing her tail to a bird, Cheerups reassures her that patience and doing one’s duty can bring a new tail, a lesson from Mother Nature.
The piece traces heartsease and littlesnake masters as products of the doctrine of signatures, ancient beliefs linking plant form to healing, and notes the shift from Pliny to Ray as science began to question such folk medicine. It cites McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
Medical piece by George Matthew Adams explains adenoids as lymphoid tissue enlargements in nose and throat. Larger growths obstruct airways causing mouth breathing, dry mucosa, frequent infections, and hindered growth especially in eight to twelve year olds. Adults have harder tissue and slower bacterial growth.
Althea, famed as a rare feminine name, traces to Greek roots meaning wholesome. The piece contrasts confusion with Atluthea and Letty, notes Althea’s ancient ties to Meleager’s mother, and mentions the star sapphire as its talisman and symbol of healing power.
The article explains three essential farm records: an inventory listing owned assets and debts, a receipts ledger tracking sales quantities and prices, and an expenses ledger documenting operating costs. Together they reveal profit or loss, highlight minor enterprises like eggs and butter, and show how money is earned and spent.
Crop specialists urge farmers to plant barley next spring noting its early maturity, drought resilience, and value during corn shortages. Barley outperforms oats for fattening hogs, sheep, and cattle, shades ground for clover and alfalfa, and reduces threshings by maturing with wheat harvest. It offers higher carbohydrates and lower fat with less crude fiber than oats.
A Missouri farmer in cooperation with the Missouri Experiment Station fed fall pigs weighing 94 pounds to blue grass and clover pastures with different grain rations. The blue grass group gained 1 lot pounds per head daily for 42 days, while the clover group gained 2 pounds daily for 25 days. To produce 100 pounds of gain the blue grass lot needed 6.75 bushels corn and 7.3 pounds linseed meal, whereas the clover lot required 6 bushels corn and 2.5 pounds tankage. The test shows clover’s superior speed and economy in gains.
Mange in hogs is a parasitic skin disease harming hog production across the corn belt. It reduces gains from feed, lowers pork valuations at packing houses, and leads to mangy carcasses that require skinning, with local outbreaks higher this year and little control efforts noted.
Dairy extension official E B Fitts reports 39 bull associations operate across 20 counties with 150 high quality sires. Sullivan county starts with 15 members. three sires cost about 300 dollars each, equating to 5 13 per cow over six years. Bedford Clarion Bradford associations expand and fund new bulls to boost tuberculosis free herds and dairy development.
A 120 day experiment at Towa agricultural station with Hereford steers compared corn silage to legume hay. Ten groups of seven head each received varied rations including shelled corn, silage, linseed meal, alfalfa hay, and soy bean hay. Silage rations yielded higher margins above feed cost, with the best mix producing $9.69, while the worst mix with molasses and alfalfa hay lost $2.05, underscoring corn silage’s value for beef production.
Practical guidance on livestock care, crop cultivation, and pest control. Advice covers feeding horses and chickens, providing shade and water, storage and canning of vegetables, wagon maintenance, soil cultivation practices, and methods to manage cabbage worms and intestinal roundworms in poultry.
Agnes Wignall of Taleville New York recounts relief from bladder inflammation after childbirth using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She cites improved confinement recovery and ongoing use as a tonic, noting her store delivery and broad recommendation to local women. Product advertised as a remedy for female ailments.
Tom and Mary, long residents of a hotel, speak of a simple quiet life. Mary imagines an old fashioned house dress and baking bisculta while Tom jokes about donning overalls to join in.
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