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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1916
Page
3
A concise weekly digest of Nebraska state government news and Doings in state departments. Summarizes official actions, policy notes, and departmental updates gathered for Journal readers.
An article argues that planting better trees improves air quality by cooling and purifying air, absorbing harmful gases, and increasing oxygen. It notes urban street trees suffer from poor soil and water, advising larger root beds or iron gratings, laws for protection, and a park board to oversee street-tree care for communities.
A Wisconsin agriculture note describes a wire fence stretcher's setup and advocates rearranging farm buildings to minimize motion. It cites McCormick on planning plants for efficiency, applying the concept to farms with house placement, horse barn, shop, office, and feed areas laid out for direct access, future growth, and consolidated movement.
A historic note explains how to maintain work horses by watching teeth to ensure proper chewing and digestion. It recommends filing sharp edges to prevent irritation and describes saddle collar adjustments to protect shoulders, including using two collar sizes and a zinc oxide salve to treat shoulder galls.
The text explains that milk secretion hinges on blood delivered to the udder. Heavy milkers show large veins indicating strong blood flow. weak circulation or poor serum reduces output. Cows with rich food and strong digestion carry more nourishing blood in arteries, enabling abundant milk production.
Bridles should be adjusted to bring the blinds opposite the eyes and the bit resting on the bars of the mouth opposite the low mood in the lower jaw where the curb chain bears. Keeping pigs shut in pens and fed swill marks backward farming. Healthy pig broods thrive in colony houses.
A brief note indicates horses are worked during the day and kept idle at night to protect their health. It mentions supervision and conditions under which work occurs, suggesting careful scheduling and rest periods for equine athletes.
The piece argues profit in peach marketing hinges on labor efficiency and advance investment. It notes labor costs tie up capital until sale, warns large crops raise expenses, and suggests wood ash potash and sweet clover as valuable soil aids to offset costs and boost yields.
Calves fed whole cow’s milk grow best while skim milk stunts growth and causes indigestion. If skim is used a touch of flaxseed meal or cornmeal helps but is not a true substitute for butterfat. Early separation from the cow is common in dairies and feeding calves artificial foods requires careful handling to avoid digestive issues. Warm milk and limited skim milk feeding prevent scours, and a small amount of formalin with restricted diet often controls diarrhea.
The piece notes strong market conditions for sheep producers with live mutton and wool fetching top prices. It urges buyers to purchase cows and sows and to focus on crop production to feed livestock.
Read note on yard care showing how annual plants and vines can swiftly mask a dull fence or pile of rubbish. Tips emphasize rapid growth and easy coverage for small spaces.
A compact note urges support for song birds as allies of farmers. It emphasizes their role in pest control and ecosystem balance on rural lands, calling for conservation actions and mindful farming practices to protect avian allies.
Breeders should avoid using eggs smaller than the flock's ordinary size for hatching. Though small eggs can be fertile, they may yield chickens biased toward laying amaN Sees, potentially influencing future production.
Green manures such as cowpeas soybeans clover alfalfa and rye have roles in corn belt agricultural practice. The note highlights diverse legume and cereal options used to improve soil as part of field management.
Official dispatches recount Captain Lewis Morey and Troop K of the Tenth Cavalry escaping amid extreme odds at Carrizal with Captain Boyd killed and Lieutenant Adair missing. Morey dictated a desert report under heat and thirst, carrying it after being wounded, while four troopers saved him and carried his message to General Pershing. The narrative, from El Paso to San Antonio, details machine gun fire, determined rear defense, and a perilous breakout against Carranza troops.
The Kurds shifting allegiance from Turkey to Russia after Erzerum’s fall alarms Constantinople. Tracing roots beyond Carduchians to Turanian Kurds, once a powerful Medes era nation. They are alien in religion to Persia and language to Turkey, seen as wild yet brave and not fanatical. Saladin was Kurdish.
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