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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1923
Page
1
In a woodland tale Billy Possum hides in a tree near a stream. A beaver crew cuts the tree causing a fall into water. Billy survives by swimming to safety and learns to avoid homes near water. The fox mocks him for his bath.
A sum trots through woods to find a new home away from water. He settles on an old hollow tree, believing the Beaver brothers will avoid using it for building their dams.
The U S Department of Agriculture urges a permanent rise in rye production across the United States. Rye outperforms wheat in many regions and is hardier in northern and sandy soils, with uses as winter cover and green manure boosting soil health. demand fluctuations spike sowings, notably during wartime.
Kansas State University experts explain rats favor varied diets and that a balanced bait using meat, vegetables, and cereals mixed with barium carbonate is more effective. Distributing three food varieties on paper tempts the rat as it travels, often reducing the population with a single course appeal.
The article explains squash bugs are very hard to eliminate. It advises removing dead leaves and trash from under the plant, placing lime around the stem, and laying a board at night to crush adults in the morning. Early start is essential to prevent a near impossible eradication.
The 1922 world's champion sow in Ilustration Liberator's Best I farrowed twelve female pigs in April 1923, with mates also holding world titles in 1921 and 1922. The article argues the best hog is the one performing in the farm and feed lot, not just in shows. It notes the sow weighed 852 pounds at the National Swine Show in October 1922. It then describes pest control methods including hellebore spray and arsenate of lead for cabbage worm control.
The article discusses sleeping sickness as an African mystery illness not contagious in the ordinary sense but potentially transmitted under certain conditions. Symptoms vary and may include periods of wakefulness rather than sleep, with researchers seeking to understand the exact modes of transmission.
The article discusses gossip as a natural part of conversation in business, clubs, and home settings. It argues gossip can be delightful when courteous, contrasts well bred and ill bred talk, and notes wise gossip minimizes self mention while highlighting social norms.
The excerpt cautions servants to avoid spreading or acting on acquired gossip about others. It condemns sharing personal details learned indirectly through observation, letters, or telephone conversations and stresses restraint and discretion.
Analyzes Puritan branding of female appellatives as pure symbols, noting the spread from New England to the nation. Discusses the social weight of female names, their perceived virtue, and the unusual claim of a baby holding as a social oddity linked to purity symbolism.
A rustic tale from the butcher's shop features Bam the apprentice and a boastful tongue remark. The master cuts meat while the lad notes a tongue that tells the truth, contrasting it with the bullock's silence. A quip about marriage and patience follows. Thoughtful daily wisdom concludes the snippet.
A Wheeler Syndicate health note explains how nail color and marks predict traits and events. Red tones in the moon area suggest combativeness, white or black spots on various fingers imply fortunes or misfortunes in love and business, while bluish nails hint at poor circulation and low nervous tension.
An enormous amount of water is needed during midsummer dry weather. Level cultivation helps save water by holding moisture on the ground. Crusted hills and ridges drain water and cause plant wilting. Cucumbers melons squash and pumpkins demand ample water due to vine growth.
Cabbage fields suffer widespread damage as numerous small green worms lay eggs on leaves. Eggs hatch quickly, producing feeders that burrow into leaves and heads. Prompt, consistent control is advised with white hellebore, a vegetable poison available at drug stores.
Tomato plants tied to stakes yield larger heavier fruit and better quality though may reduce total fruit count. Stake supports reduce crowding and improve sun exposure for vines within a garden.
Soy beans build soil while providing a profitable crop. The key to higher farm profits lies in lowering production costs through crop choices and soil health practices.
A guide notes sour docks and burdocks are among the most troublesome weeds and hard to eradicate once established. It recommends a sharp spade, cut well below the sprouting line, and timely spading in corn fields and along fences to prevent seed and reinfestation.
The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station answers when corn is ready for silage. Kernels must be hard with the lower three or four leaves brown from maturity, and husks starting to dry. Cutting greener yields sour silage. cutting riper reduces packing and may cause moldy pockets.
Sound hides free from defects, properly salted and cured, command high prices and make good leather. Summer salting and curing require extra care by farmers or country butchers with occasional hides. Partly decayed hides are nearly useless. Detailed directions are in Farmers Bulletin 1055 from the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Disregard of this precaution is likely to promote blight among the vines. If this pest appears it is best to destroy the vine and spray the remainder with bordeaux mixture.
Garden exercise is described as a cheaper option than golf exercise, with the text noting it is as good as or better in value and effort.
Mr. William A. Radford offers free or paid advice on farm building work for readers. He urges poultry kept in units of 100 birds for profitability and invites inquiries to his Chicago address with a two cent stamp for reply.
The article explains using ship lap siding and high quality prepared roofing paper for roofs. Two coats of white paint on the sides improve appearance and durability, making a substantial, attractive building suitable for farms or suburbs.
A first-person account describes near collision with a phantom steamer seen in the sky as water and light scenes unfold aboard a vessel. The unnamed narrator, Tull at the helm, recalls misty black smoke, a submerged hull, and the eerie ascent and sinking of another steamer.
A historic poultry house plan details a scalable setup with two identical 12 foot deep units, each with 16 nests and three roosts. The design emphasizes sunlight, ventilation, easy litter removal, and dry, moisture resistant concrete floors.
The narrator recalls a seaborne scene, blinking at a bright cliff. Questions arise about whether a woman saw them, if it mattered, and if she was blind. The iron cliff looms as they drift, distant yet close, until she passes beneath their hull.
Eminent scientists declare two bone harpoons unearthed under peat in East Yorkshire genuine Maglemose relics. After initial doubts by Hull expert T Sheppard the British Association Anthropology section and the Royal Anthropological Institute both affirm the find as authentic. Dating places the artifacts at 10000 to 12000 BC as England’s earliest human traces in Yorkshire.
In Travancore women dominate婚 marriage rules differ from Hindoo practices. Women select husbands, host homes, and head households. Divorce shifts to mutual consent, and women may own property in their own right. Upon death, property passes to children or, for men, to the mother’s kin. No child marriages in Travancore.
The New York Sun quotes a dialogue between Madge and XfurJorle about church attendance and a new hat, highlighting a humorous clash over social notions of vanity.
Americans allocate ten and a half percent of income to clothing amid shifting fashion costs. The note cites a paradoxical consumer pattern and references a Confucian quote about fault.
Popular Mechanics describes a compact home golf exerciser with a square steel base a rotating top plate twin springs and airplane wire to a ball. When struck the ball swings around the base for a stroke dependent time. Also notes on feeding young animals with bottles and diet details for tiger cubs elephants and camels.
An old Castoria advertisement touts the remedy's 80 year history for constipation wind colic and diarrhea in babies and children. It claims to ease feverishness regulate stomach and bowels and aid digestion leading to natural sleep without opiates. The genuine bottle bears signature.
The passage claims the province has the lowest literacy in India yet asserts its people are progressive, prosperous, and happy. It contrasts literacy with perceived social progress in a provincial context.
A vivid, if imperfect, fragment depicts Yellowstone Park with turquoise skies and crystal air. It describes vast pine forests, tents, terraces, and splashes of red yellow orange against blue pools, sunset hues, and cascading waterfalls as a luminous, dreamlike landscape.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls a first romance ended by punishment at school with a mother and cousin visiting. The faded notes mention a gorilla like figure described as four feet tall with extraordinary strength and a piercing image of bending a strong metal object.
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