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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1926
Page
6
A USDA review warns farmers about lax practices in hog care. Isolate new stock for two weeks, fence and burn carcasses, and avoid hiding infections. Preventive serum helps but is not a cure, and careless handling risks large losses to swine operations.
A dairy extension specialist from the University of Illinois notes price patterns for feeds. Wheat bran prices typically bottom in June to August, oil meal in May to July, cottonseed meal in August to February, and gluten feed in May to July. Dairymen should budget and buy feeds at these times to cut costs and improve rations, balancing home-grown grains with high protein feeds.
Kansas State Agricultural College engineer GC Shedd argues the farm shop is as essential to farmers as division point and terminal shops are to railroad management. He predicts higher machinery prices will end wasteful one year use of obsolete equipment and force farmers to adopt better practices.
Prof. Joseph Oskamp of Cornell outlines pruning grapevines beginning at planting. Plants are cut to two buds and staked, then a cane is trained to the top wire of a two wire trellis with five and three foot heights. In the fourth year two four-bud canes are tied to wires at right angles and grown to four buds.
Developments in orchard implements aim to protect trunks and branches while plowing or disking. New low framed plows avoid lever interference and allow precise tractor control under trees. Disk plows outperform moldboards on very hard or sticky soils, reducing tree damage and snag risk.
Tennessee home demonstration agents promote naming farms as a long running program. Over 3,000 farms have registered names with extension services or the state agriculture department. The state now allows registry and urges careful selection for mailboxes signs and letterheads to boost home improvement and product quality.
Proper ventilation of farm buildings is necessary for profitable dairy and stock raising. Dark, poorly ventilated quarters devitalize stock, stunt growth, and invite diseases. A good oxygen supply aids milk, beef, pork, and overall vitality. Sunlight is the cheapest disinfectant. provide ample light for poultry houses.
The peach is propagated mainly by budding while grafting, though possible, is more laborious and less reliable. Root grafting in nurseries or crown grafting in fields are used, but budding yields better success. Peaches grow until late fall making late season buds for budding feasible only in August or September.
Pruning is crucial for a small fruit garden and should occur every spring before growth. Remove old and unproductive canes from currant and gooseberry bushes and burn any canes that have fruited to prevent disease and promote new growth.
Farm tips underline animal care and market trends. Beef cattle numbers in Kansas exceed three million, while feed shortages push fall stocking. Watch fowl tuberculosis and cholera, feed baby chicks after 24 hours, and delay sow’s return to full feed after farrowing.
In Tillamook County Oregon a junior farm accounts club for older boys proves a success. Led by a local banker and with the state farm management demonstrator assistance, members over fourteen with three years of club work completed a year of study. They covered farm layouts, depreciation accounting, dairy profitability, banking methods, and inventory practices, presenting at the state fair and bankers meetings.
Fruit tree bark beetles attack trees in poor condition from weak fertility or disease. Boost vigor with cultivation fertilization and spray control. Remove and burn dead wood. Severely infested trees should be cut back and fed and cultivated. Apply whitewash with salt thrice yearly to deter egg laying.
Do not be in a hurry to turn cows out on native pasture. There isn’t enough grass on most farms now to supply even one cow and tether concerns arise. The farmer who avoids early pasturing and overstocking native grass typically gains more pasture per season. A cow that tastes pasture early will produce little else. A good milk cow cannot sustain milk flow on early April native pasture without additional feed. The farmer with sweet clover pasture avoids these issues.
Practical advice for small fruit fertilization before blooming and hayfield rolling to save effort. It covers sorghum seed treatment, green feed for chicks, beef price optimism, and buyer timing. Also includes vegetable combos for sandwiches, phosphate fertilizers, worm control in pigs, pasture timing, and easing horse work.
A vintage feature exposes English pedigree peddlers who peddle forged or inflated family trees to wealthy Americans. It details pricing from $50 to $3,750, methods to access records, and schemes such as inserting mythical ancestors.
Printing mistakes in postage stamps boost collector value. A sheet misprint in Great Britain spread glue oddly and few stamps survived, now fetching high prices. In the United States a rate-change error re stamped 2 cent envelopes, with around 100 mis-stamped items sought by collectors at auctions.
Dr Charles H Mayo remarked after disembarking from the Columbus that the Cone treatment thrives in Europe and often cures patients like Ferguson. Ferguson’s daughter phoned their doctor saying he suffers acne arthritis apoplexy adenoids ague anemia angina and asthma after buying a used medical dictionary.
A Glasgow constructor unveils cast iron plate bungalows erected in groups of 100 with brick walls between units. The designer says these can be built at two per week with minimal skilled labor. Plates measure 516 inches thick and 3 feet 7 1/4 inches long by 2 feet 6 3/4 inches wide with interior bolts and pockets cast into the plates.
Recent medical observations indicate scarlet fever episodes tend to destroy diphtheria antitoxin in circulation and cause the Schick test to turn positive, signaling reduced immunity.
Marquette Tribune notes that lighthouse keepers remain among the scant survivors not yet run over by modern motorists, reflecting on safety and progress.
Harrisburg Telegraph recalls a boy’s showoff recitation of The Charge of the Light Brigade and a girl’s recitation Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight as a snapshot of school life longtime past.
A photographer reassures a nervous subject to stay calm and natural while posing. He promises to enhance her appearance and asks her to keep still as the shot is prepared.
A Milwaukee Journal editorial recalls a lecturer’s warning about cottonmouths and a hunter who fears imagined venom. After a brush with nettle pins mistaken for bites, he learns distress was imagined, not fatal. The piece urges turning imagination to empower rather than terrify.
Judge Charles Simons’ crystal water pitcher with US arms vanished from his courtroom eight months ago along with its crest bearing glass. Anxious for replacement, Norris bought a simple pitcher from a downtown five and dime while the court’s formal request for a more dignified vessel winds through Washington red tape.
Francis J. Marston, once a blueberry picker for John Greenleaf Whittier, still roams the mossy Danvers grounds barefoot. Though aged with a full beard, his tan cheek and whistle echo the poetry that inspired Whittier’s Barefoot Boy long ago.
A Philadelphia doctor named Vance treated a scalped patient by boring holes through the skull using a shoemaker's awl. The procedure drew reddish fluid, then proud flesh grew in the holes and the wound slowly skinned over, marking an early attempt at scalp regeneration.
Four hundred eleven year old coin silver watch owned by TH T Cheney of Penacock New Hampshire. Family history says it was bought in Liverpool England by Cheney's great grandfather and passed to his son. The present owner, eighty one, gained possession forty years ago after a visitor had it cleaned and found the date engraved on the works.
Long in missionary service is Mrs. Mary J. Bnawards who for fifty seven years has worked among the Zulus in South Africa. Mrs. Edwards is now ninety five, crippled and almost totally blind.
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports confidence in a marriage match described as certain, noting input from the duke's lawyer who discussed the settlement and the duke's pressing debts amid the deal.
Six chicken corpses from Malden Essex England revealed a disturbing find in their crops including sixty half inch brads two screws a ring a wireless terminal and three buttons Neighbors fear malicious pranksters may be involved in the deaths and police investigate potential cruelty.
The guide explains decorating door panels should suit each room’s purpose with appropriate motifs. It suggests floral designs for bedrooms nursery tales for nurseries and pure design scenes for wing rooms, emphasizing harmony with the room’s function.
The Macon Telegraph notes a whimsical idea: the best prize should go to the scientist who lost the comet, a lighthearted reflection on misplaced items and clever rewards.
Francis Gow Smith, an American explorer, recounts in World's Work how tribes in northern Mato Grosso, Brazil, nearly killed him after he shot a deer near a Bororo village. A Catholic missionary explained the deer’s ancestral status to the locals who feared the hunter.
A witty comparison from Detroitree Press and Louisville Times contrasts past and present female experiences. The Detroit item notes that pioneer women lacked cigarette stains on fingers and chapped knees while the Louisville note jokes that modern women lack snuff stains on teeth and whalebone corsets.
The article notes golf properties in the United States are valued at about 1.8 billion dollars with over 800000 acres devoted to the sport. It cites contrasting opinions, quoting La Rochefoucauld on praise and reproach.
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