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Newspaper
Lynden Tribune
Location
Lynden, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1917
Page
5
Tribune readers are guaranteed sellers advertise exactly what they offer in columns. If a merchant misrepresents, The Tribune will refund your money promptly. Truth through news, editorials, and advertising.
Mrs Paul Henderson of Lynden stayed with Mrs Nelse Henderson while Lynden hosts W C T U convention. Birthday surprise for Mrs Henry Vanderyacht features many relatives. Sunshine School activities include pop corn party and a school exhibit. Community meeting May 11 at Sunshine School announced. Various visits, dinners, and cards fill weekends as members travel to Bellingham and Dutch Harbor.
A stern customer at a sporting goods shop requests six drivers brassies midirons niblicks mashies and putters for himself claiming a plan to learn golf after joining a country club. He cites help from a Scotch professor and a gang of cadies to destroy all links courses.
Mrs Blottingbook, registrar, reviews a cook-general applicant noting a honeymoon couple's sloppy ways. She offers a vacancy with a married couple of fifteen years, but the applicant rejects the long marriage tenure saying it would not suit and prefers peace and quiet in work.
George and Howard Worthen of Lynden work for Willis Wor currently. Herbert Crabtree, who sold his dairy interest to his brother, bought a ranch near Sumas. M Freigthner hauls children to school by auto. Jennie Handy returns from Seattle to summer at home. Richard Meyer returns after years in Montana. Vivian O'Brien dislocates a knee while playing at school and will be bedbound for some time. James Thomas clears land on his ranch. Mrs F M Bloom hosted the Willing Workers meeting last Wednesday.
United States Department of Agriculture notes that calves may be fed skim milk until six months, with weaning timing tied to milk availability and cost. When milk is scarce, protein comes from legume or grain mixtures, plus ample roughage and seasonal silage.
Guidelines advise up to fifteen pounds of silage daily and present several grain mixtures. Recommended rations include three parts cracked corn with one part bran, or combinations with ground oats linseed meal and blood meal. Hay should be fed in addition, and grain amounts vary by growth, with a rule of one pound per hundredweight and half a pound for each extra hundredweight.
The national dairy show will be held in Columbus from October 18 to 27, 1917. The event promises to be larger more valuable and interesting than previous years with broader exhibits and increased public interest.
General Manager W. E. Skinner says a coliseum will be built on the state fair grounds in Columbus with a $200000 appropriation from the legislature. Jewel Pontine Segis, a junior two year old Holstein, set world records by delivering 473.6 pounds of milk and 17.655 pounds of butter fat in seven days after freshening, and holds records for fat and milk in sixty and ninety day periods. she is owned in Minnesota.
The College of Agriculture at Cornell sold one Holstein bull for 1200 dollars and three of his sons for a total of 1200 dollars. The bull sire cost 1200 dollars to acquire.
A farmer recalls using scarecrows then a gun loaded with powder and pellets to fight birds ravaging his corn. He says a boy shouted hundreds of birds, he tried tacks as shot, and the birds flew into a tree where they were nailed. the tree and birds later flew away, leaving him disgusted.
A reader notes that sending subscriptions directly to publishers wastes money. Hoards Dairymen at 1 year costs 1 dollar but can be bought for 90 cents at the Tribune office, illustrating savings by purchasing locally.
An advertising blurb announces a five month subscription for $1 to The World's Work magazine through The Tribune office. It urges readers to subscribe now and mentions a price deal arranged via the newspaper office.
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