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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
2
A light road drag is praised for improving ordinary earth roads with minimal labor. Advocates say frequent use after each rain yields surprising, steady gains and that early spring dragging offers the most marked improvement.
The Good Roads Year Book of the American Highways association reports the United States has 31,000 miles of good roads, 6,000 miles more than France. About 5,000 miles were built in 1912 and 6,000 in 1914, totaling over a third of national mileage. New Jersey pioneered state aid in 1891. Massachusetts and Connecticut followed, with wide adoption only in the last decade.
The joint congressional committee on federal aid to road problems presents the most extensive data and a bibliography on all aspects of the good roads issue. The report, printed as House Document 1510, Sixty-third Congress, Third Session, is available by contacting members of Congress.
Advice urges completing road work in spring or early summer to allow settlement before winter. Late fall projects leave roads rough and uneven through winter, so the emphasis is on delaying heavy work until conditions improve.
The text notes that rich soils and good cultivation yield the most from a fruit and vegetable garden. It claims farm work, when done well, pays best yet endures the most strain from imperfect practice, emphasizing soil quality and proper care.
A Michigan gardener started grafting tomatoes onto eggplants and red peppers in 1898. The Kaiser is the first achievement, yielding fruit weighing 1.5 to 2 pounds and about a bushel per plant on good soil.
To cure hog cholera one must prevent it. The idea applies to many diseases affecting humans, cattle, and swine, emphasizing prevention as the key strategy rather than treatment after infection.
The article argues dairy cattle breeding is complex and uncertain due to artificial rearing conditions. It stresses that well-bred cows must receive proper care, grazing, and steady growth of calves to build a productive herd. A purebred bull strongly influences progeny, and timely support yields healthier, higher-milk dairy stock.
Alfalfa is a hard crop to start and needs protected land. Apply 20 to 30 pounds of manure per acre and work the soil for ten years to remove weeds. If soil is acidic, add ground limestone and inoculate with bacteria from an old alfalfa field or sweet clover. Sow the last of July or first of August.
Water for stock is vital in summer heat. Judge forage crops, sowing last spring, to sustain milk flow. Keep pigs in clean pens, avoid cruel confinement of horses at night. Wash horses after fieldwork, feed outdoors, turn to pasture, and spray cows with fy-repellent to curb flies.
Horses frequently die from forage poisoning due to molds in straw or corn. Switch to good hay, sound oats and wheat bran to prevent toxses. Keep horses off pastures. If no attack occurs, give a full dove of phyelc at onset, but prevention is crucial and no specific remedy has been found.
An illustration advises one open nest per four hens as optimal. Nests should be light, partly wire, and built in pairs for easy removal and cleaning.
Instructions emphasize cleaning poultry quarters this season and applying white wash coatings with additives such as crude carbolic acid cresol or similar compounds. This guidance mentions interlore traditional coatings and a disinfectant approach for sanitation.
A historic note on bagging grapes to prevent rot and bird damage. It discusses timing after bloom, use of grocery paper bags, cost of bags, pinning technique over the cane, edge folding to exclude rain and insects, and the advantages for preserving ripe fruit. It also notes varietal differences in susceptibility and market considerations for full-crop bagging.
The New York experiment Station reports testing lime-sulphur against Bordeaux mixture as potato blight remedies. Lime-sulphur reduced yield by about 25 bushels per acre while Bordeaux increased yield by 29 bushels per acre.
A harsh note urges no mercy for wild barley foxtail as it spreads across raw prairie amid old alfalfa and tame grasses. Neglected roadsides and fence corners are flagged as prolific sources of infestation and are urged to be cleaned out.
Stakes driven 12 to 14 inches into firm ground outlast those set two feet deep and will hold barbed wire just as well, according to practical guidance. This suggests shallower stakes can be effective in fencing projects, saving effort while maintaining support.
The lesson portrays Elijah, the northern kingdom’s prophet, as a real, faith-empowered hero. It traces his obedience from Cherith to Zarephath, illustrating trust in God’s word, daily provision, and the miracle of sustenance for him and the widow's family amid drought.
Detroit physician J F Hartz told New York delegates that war raised carbolic acid to 1.65 dollars a pound from nine cents, urging hospitals to be thrifty. He quipped about Old Josh Lee’s oatmeal habit as a parable in frugality, recalling a Washington Star anecdote.
Joseph Be. Widener, the wealthy sportsman, says in Newport that in Philadelphia homes north of Market Street are socially out, while those south downtown are preferred. An Englishman questions the importance, but Widener insists place defines social personality, citing Diogenes in a tub as a remembered contrast.
A famed essayist attended a Washington Square artistic tea with near artists including poets sculptors painters and novelists. Ladies wore green burlap djibbahs and gentlemen sandals as a vegetarian collation pleased the gathering. He quipped that artistic longings center on long hair teeth and faces rather than purses.
A hungry man pleads for a meal to a woman named Lady. She threatens to call her husband, who is discovered plowing in the next field. He reveals the husband’s presence, prompting the man to retract harsh words and request aid.
A wife teases her husband about staying out late while he concedes he hopes to wear better bandis than last night. The excerpt notes 1915 as Christian year 5676 in the Jewish calendar and mentions the silkworm thread diameter of one thousandth of an inch.
A collection of short phrases and quips references misdeeds ancestors comfort red crows ball blue wash day go to table demonstrate dignity Maine fishes carbon emissions judged dialogue about war and pedestrians. The readable parts include mentions of Cordelia a female bookkeeper and a catalogue of Maine fishes species fit to eat and commercial value.
In a rural exchange, a father jokes his college son learns many things like yelling, dancing, and sports, but he hopes college yields a skill to extract more from an acre of land than the father has achieved. The dialogue hints at practical farming insight and generational aims.
A Judge ponders a verbose, tongue in cheek riff on proverbs and household animal behavior. It playfully describes attempts at repetition, evidence of intent, and the ease of moving a beast toward water while noting the animal’s inclination to drink, all in a mock formal tone.
The Southern planter replies that the backward season has affected the cotton crop but expresses confidence in being able to bale it out. The exchange highlights agricultural struggles and resolve in the face of adverse weather conditions.
In a brief Office Chatter exchange the inkwell asks how the job is liked and the new blotter replies that it is a dirty but absorbing work. The dialogue hints at newsroom hustle and daily grind within a paper office.
A millionaire is described as worth around $100,000 with taxes based on a $20,000 valuation. The remark notes a life compensation that one cannot study oneself under a microscope. Berlin and Vienna each have populations over 2,000,000.
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