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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1917
Page
3
A USDA prepared guide explains preserving and canning, noting preserves use more sugar and longer cooking. It details syrups Nos 1–5, cooking tips to prevent shrinkage, packing, sterilization, and specific recipes for watermelon rind, gingered watermelon rind, peach preserves, and tomato preserves with step by step directions.
The text explains limited record availability for dairy cows and proposes selecting by physical traits. It notes extreme angular form with good condition, prominent udder and veins, and large barrel capacity as indicators. It cautions about uncertainty and suggests using type selection until more records exist.
When soil is heavily infested with wild carrot use a brief rotation including an intertilled crop such as corn potatoes or beans. Give the intertilled crop extra attention late in the season after laying by to prevent any weed survival. Before seeding to grass improve soil fertility by plowing under manure or other organic fertilizer.
Guidance on mixing wood ashes with salt for hog lots. Recommend four quarts of salt to a bushel of ashes with coal ashes avoided. Store in a trough or self feeder to prevent trampling and keep year round.
Feeding calves separately during milking time prevents ear sucking and stomach indigestion. Use a stall with a grain box and a hay rack to guide the feed, and provide a milk ration first to reduce wind on the stomach.
Excess milk goes bad quickly when left uncovered in warm kitchens. Strictly keeping perishable foods clean and covered reduces waste and lowers family food costs.
A Missouri agricultural note explains a simple litmus test for soil acidity. Mix soil into a mud ball, insert blue litmus strips, and compare color after five minutes. Pink indicates sour soil, blue means not sour enough. Repeat across field for representative results.
A cost-account study from the Ohio agricultural experiment station reports 18 of 26 dairy herds lose money raising veal calves, with an average loss of about 1.95 dollars per calf across 323 calves and 6.90 dollars for the first year for 861 calves in 30 herds. Only five dairymen profited, and higher milk prices favor selling calves. purebred calves may yield profitable breeding returns.
An excellent gate for use where four lots meet is a turnstile gate that replaces four gates. End posts are 2 1/2 feet from the center post. An 18 inch long iron pin fits into the framing post and ground to allow solid turning.
The article urges farmers to avoid selling the largest pullets in fall and keeping the small ones. It notes mature birds lay earlier and stresses planning to winter over large flocks. It warns last fall's pullet sacrifice created an egg shortage and should not be repeated.
Treatment recommended by an experiment station for apple tree canker involves painting the trunk with a mix of one pint whale oil soap, three pints slaked lime, and four gallons of water. The solution is thickened with wood ashes or with Bordeaux mixture thickened with lime to a white wash consistency.
An old advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel mercury. It claims calomel harms bones and sours digestion, while Liver Tone cleanses the liver, prevents salivation, and improves energy with a vegetable formula.
An old advertisement touts Roman Eye Balsam for eye infections or inflammations to be used at night and claims Renovine heart and nerve tonic can fix weak heart and hysteria. Prices listed at 50 cents and one dollar.
Nellie and Tommy in Charlestown discuss torpedoes while celebrating Bunker Hill Day. Nellie questions how Germinians could blow up a ship with such devices, and Tommy explains torpedoes are far larger and deployed with a derrick to lift and drop on the ship.
An impatient man crowds into a New York subway car at Brooklyn Bridge station colliding with a thinner man who protests. The aggressor boasts he will punch, and the other quips about being drafted, triggering a chorus of laughter from riders.
Advertisement claims Capudine provides quick relief for headaches. It touts a pleasant liquid form and links relief to reducing nervous strain while urging readers to mind their own business as a method for brain development.
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