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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
8
A guide urging farmers to grow alfalfa instead of buying protein, outlining financial and resource benefits and presenting charts that compare cost, yield, and soil impact to encourage self-sufficiency in forage production.
A farm extension note argues alfalfa and bran have similar protein content. It states wheat bran costs about 2200 per ton while alfalfa is shown at 5.15 per ton. The piece questions buying wheat bran when alfalfa offers equal or better feed value at a much lower price.
Missouri crop conditions on June 1 show widespread May pest damage including Hessian fly and armyworm decimating wheat and pastures. Rainfall varied by region, with drought in parts of state and harvest forecasts about ten days earlier in the southern tier. corn planted at 93 percent with varied seed quality and oats and hay meadows suffering from army worm and dry weather.
The YWCA of Springfield Missouri organized six years ago now has 1200 members. A 24 member board guides affairs from Walnut Street opposite Landers Theatre. Ground floor hosts a cafeteria and news table. second floor houses offices and a large parlor with books and music. a gymnasium, restrooms, and a dormitory support girls and visitors. Travelers Aid assists at the station under YWCA and Federated Brotherhood. Last year 122 people received aid, including 1155 young girls, 14 were taken to the YWCA, 195 were sick or afflicted, and lodging was found for 27. Light Bible and current events classes plus sewing, painting, gymnastics and factory laundries noon hours are offered. The association invites all to visit, eat, and become acquainted.
The notice describes a trustee sale in Wright County Missouri. Sheriff Walter U Reer lists the sale by Henry Woolland and Beg Wade Jamd with the property located in Dincovuile. The bid amount is seventeen dollars and twenty cents with the sale published first on a date in January.
Missoula district court within Wright County Missouri issues an order of publication for John Rye administrator of Theatre Bree estate. The petition seeks sale of real estate to settle debts unpaid due to lack of assets. Notices list heirs and parties, with target date for next term and publication in local papers.
Announcement from pastor Sev. N. Find ley at Ashley church urging preaching each fourth Saturday and Sunday. Singing every Sunday night. All day singing and dinner on the grounds on the fourth Sunday in June. Everyone invited, bring song books and a well tilled basket. Katie signs off.
The Mansfield Mirror and the Weekly Kansas City Star each offer a one year subscription for 1.15 dollars, providing readers in the region with regional news and national coverage at a combined promotional rate.
The readable fragments show a letter style notice praising general health and civic virtue, with names and places barely legible. It references a preacher Meridia, a person named Daisy, and visitors who are friendly when asked. The tone is informal and quixotic, urging better behavior and faith in government.
Notice to correspondents asks them to sem) Heme Motuliy or Popotis and call the Gext we ko Phage pened ites Monday at all possible.
An obstinate father blocks lover Jack Worthson from Margie, while Margie’s friend Marela Dutch sings for peace. A ploy by Lou and a bold storekeeper leads to a rushed wedding, and the town’s rigid norms are briefly softened by a comic, if sly, resolution.
Detailed recipes for arsenate of lead and Paris Green formulations, kerosene emulsion, Bordeaux mixture, and spray outfits. Includes ratios for arsenate of soda, arsenate of lead, copper sulphate, lime, and sulfur to prepare dormant-tree sprays and dusts.
Mount Pleasant section notes a Pleasant Baptist Church gathering with services Saturday at 7 30 pm and Sunday school at 6 pm led by pastor, longtime superintendent Md Taylor. The column also reports social visits, farming notes, and local comings and goings amid a rainy forecast and quiet news week.
A garbled excerpt contains scattered lines about travel to Rome and gardens, interspersed with broken phrases and nonsensical terms. The readable portions reference seeing aqueducts and gardens, but overall content is incoherent with no clear event or outcome.
In an old orchard ground should be broken between trees avoiding trunks to protect surface roots. For year one after renovation plowed wiripa sown to a quick crop and soil aeration emphasized. Remove dead wood, burn loose bark, weed trunks, and discard debris to destroy hiding places for pests.
Prof H F Wilson of Oregon Agricultural College warns that four bud weevils damage young fruit trees especially prune scions. Spraying with arsenate of lead is ineffective. shaking trees in cool mornings and applying sticky substances around trunks can prevent much injury.
Instructional note on raising chicks includes roosting outside brooders near Moor, keeping doors covered, avoiding Hak widest, and using clean litter. Advises daily replacement of litter, proper incubation, and careful feeding with tepid water before introducing feed.
An old agricultural bulletin outlines first and second sprayings for codling moth to protect apple crops, urging calyx by calyx coverage and thorough top-branch checks with a magnifying gaze. It notes vermorel nozzle use ten days to three weeks after the first spray to coat fruit surfaces. Also included is Anatole France on Journallam about journalism’s craft and a New York governor study on ancient seed banking in southern Italy where grain stores lend seed to farmers without cash payments.
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