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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
6
William A. Radford presents a detailed guide to a sturdy brick and stucco home with ample rooms and a warm design. The article describes interior layout, porch, sun porch, dining and living spaces, kitchen efficiency, and practical features suited for American families. It notes cost varies by location and advises consulting local builders for accurate figures.
The article weighs the value of hanging pictures in dining rooms choosing harmony and light. It cites examples from a Long Island country home with English hunt prints and a New York apartment with grass cloth walls and Japanese prints. It notes a large mirror can brighten a poorly lit room and a tapestry adds distinction with reproductions in soft tones.
Readings on room landscapes suggest paintings with rhythmic motion and color are ideal in music rooms. Corot Hobbema and Hokusai are cited as musical nature examples, while Burne Jones and Watts imply subtle melodies in medieval scenes. A row of composer portraits is deemed outdated.
The preferred method colors stucco using white portland cement and colored sand or stone chips. This yields delicate, permanent color effects and a texture that enhances the material combinations.
Shingles create an attractive vine clad cottage look for homes and age gracefully when weathered. New chemical treatments allow artificial aging before installation, making many colonial style houses feature shingled exteriors.
Fragment notes describe improvised kitchen steps that can be formed from a chair or inverted object. Mentions Germany with 250 beet sugar and a factor learn operation. Full context remains ambiguous and unsourced.
A poultry expert from Colorado Agricultural College outlines a chick rearing method. He details dark incubation during pipping to prevent toe picking, a 100 degree brood environment, gradual air access after fifty hatchlings, and careful chick transfer. The plan includes brooder setup with sand around the heater, roofing to create a slope, and a hovering thermometer at chick height. Training roosts are added after a week or ten days, with a four foot wide frame around the house and adjustable roost heights. The room is kept 75 degrees after roost use and the hover is raised as chicks mature. GC Krum, Toustry Specialist, Colorado Agricultural College.
Build plans on paper before any physical work. Farm engineers warn that mistakes with wood brick tile or concrete are hard to fix once built. Common errors include poorly placed chimneys steep stairs and windows set too low. Detect and correct errors early to save money.
US farm wages with board averaged 33.18 a month last year, up from 29.17 in 1922, per USDA. Increases occurred across all regions, led by North Atlantic and East North Central. Western states rose to 51.25, West North Central to 37.54, South Atlantic to 24.903, and South Central to 24.13 dollars. Industrial competition for labor caused the rise, especially in northern states.
A farmer with clover hay but no silage can use a mix of three parts corn and cod meal with three parts ground ants and one part linseed oil meal to replace silage. For timothy hay only, use three parts corn and cob meal with three parts ground oats and two parts flaxseed oil meal to boost protein.
A farmer explains that a definite crop rotation lowers cost per bushel and distributes labor efficiently. It increases soil humus, controls weed growth, and reduces risk from planting a single crop.
Plant potatoes on a different plot each year to reduce potato beetle pressure. Potato scab overwinters in soil where scabby potatoes grew, so crop rotation helps limit disease and pest carryover.
Keep chickens from tomatoes and berries by fixing or building a poultry-proof fence. It suggests practical steps and notes that clod throwing at hens is amateurish humor. The message encourages planning for a better fall state, county, or community outcomes.
United States Department of Agriculture issues bulletin 1222 Growth and Feeding of Honeybee Larvae by Nel son Sturtevant and Lineburg apiculturists. It details daily nurse bee visits about 1800 for eight days from egg to larva maturity and discusses theories on feeding within the cell. The two part bulletin includes graphs and tables and offers guidance to improve honey production.
Veterinary experts from the U S Department of Agriculture condemn wire-taped cattle hides as barbarous and useless, noting infection risk and damage to packing equipment. They advocate vaccination and offer free information on prevention from the bureau of animal industry in Washington D C.
A Nebraska survey reports 1 651 herds and over 20 000 cattle tested for bovine tuberculosis in four weeks. Of these, 346 reactors were found and shipped for immediate slaughter under federal inspection at Omaha.
The health of hogs from birth to sale drives profit or loss. Losses are mainly from deaths due to accidents and disease, with hog cholera causing larger herd downturns. The real cost is the gap between actual herd performance and potential earnings under healthy conditions.
Practical tips for clover and alfalfa care include timing for dormant spray and weed control. The piece notes seed cost quality, orchard focus on outputs over tree count, and methods to destroy overwintering insects with cultivators and harrows. It closes with musings on work and job satisfaction.
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