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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1924
Page
6
A reminiscence recalls a California pioneer who digs postholes under a blazing sun for fun. The tale, from H A Va chell’s Yellow Travelers, notes the man’s wealth and twinkling reply that labor can be enjoyment, illustrating a lighthearted view of work as play.
A fragmentary, posturing exchange recalls Sagebrash Charley failing to respond as a camera crew questioned his registration. The piece casts the silent man as one who maintains calm while ignorance remains unchecked.
A 1919 USDA study of Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan New York and Maine shows yield drives cost per bushel from 30 to 240 cents. Farm labor dominates costs while fertilizer led in Aroostook Maine, with Clay County Minnesota lowest at 75 cents per acre.
More than 45 percent of 10 100 farmers business organizations reporting to the U S Department of Agriculture as of April 1 are in the seven west North Central states Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Iowa Missouri Nebraska and Kansas Minnesota leads with 1 830 associations followed by Iowa 1 039 Wisconsin 879 Illinois 640 and Nebraska 477 Seven hundred seventeen cooperatives run retail stores mainly in Minnesota 46 Nebraska Iowa Kansas Wisconsin with varying counts in other listed states
The USDA asserts cattle fever ticks can be eradicated anywhere including swampy brushy free-range land. An exhibit panel and a pictured land show ticks eradicated and free of ticks since. Dipping cattle kills ticks before they mature and ticks not on cattle die in months, ending the tick problem in a season with thorough dipping.
The United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Chemistry urges candling eggs before interstate shipment to remove bad or spoiled eggs. Violations include yolk stuck shells moldy or putrid eggs and shipments may be seized with prosecutions under the federal Food and Drugs Act. A bulletin on candling methods is available as Department Bulletin 565.
Prof P J Parrott of the Geneva experiment station notes a bountiful codling moth year. Worm holes and apple scale damaged fruit despite spraying, showing past methods fall short. Double benefits remain: control worms and lessen pest carryover for next year.
Fertilizer demonstrations by the Middelsex county extension service over the past year show higher yields on hay land. Six farms tested nitrate of soda or SG fertilizer, with fertilized plots averaging 24 tons per acre versus 13 tons for check plots, an average gain of 11 tons per acre.
The notice urges farmers to plant broad acreage of feed crops and soft building crops like velvet beans cowpeas and soybeans. It recommends mowing weeds twice weekly disposing of garbage and manure to avoid file breeding and spraying potatoes with arsenate of lead. It also suggests Bordeaux mixture for beetles and nicotine dust for the tomato beetle and moisture conservation for tomato plants.
Michigan plans a 32 mile two 40 foot concrete pave ments separated by a 44 foot interurban corridor to create an ideal Lincoln highway section. The design includes high curbs gravel shoulders and 78 feet of travel width per direction to handle 20 000 daily vehicles consisting of about 15 000 passenger cars and 5 000 trucks.
An odd piecemeal exchange from a rural setting features Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge describing children affected by mumps and health quirks. A doctor figure speaks with a child about feeling well while noting breathing and a sensation like an elevator starting to descend.
Federal highway funds totaling about 1,000,000 will be allotted to Connecticut for 1924 and 1925 under congressional appropriations. Nationally, the two year apportionment totals near 130,000,000. Connecticut’s federal highway aid from 1917 through 1925 is projected at roughly 3,386,579.
Ten years from now the law in effect aims for 200 170 miles of completed well paved highways in the United States. Currently about 27 000 miles exist. The federal aid system will implement this effort in cooperation with the states.
The article notes over 1.25 billion dollars spent in 1923 on road construction and maintenance. It cites cumulative US spending of 15 to 20 billion on automotives in 15 years and more than 6 billion on improved roads. A Washington DC milestone yields a 2,500 mile paved route linking Baltimore Philadelphia New York Boston Montreal Buffalo Detroit and Chicago. It highlights Mrs. E B O'Brien of Oakland California as a female contractor who recently completed large projects including the Tunnel Trend on Skyline Boulevard.
A reflective line notes that while many can become a force for evil, it takes a true man among men to be a power for good.
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