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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1925
Page
3
A Courier Journal report quotes a person asking why $100 in golf sticks were ordered to a hotel when clothes were needed. The reply says the sticks were to make an impression, highlighting a tension between expense and practicality.
Advice from CO. Krum, Poultry Specialist at Colorado Agricultural College stresses selecting robust breeders for hatch quality. Keep breeders well housed, clean, well ventilated, and fed a balanced ration. Avoid late maturing, overfat, or sick stock and provide exercise and dry litter.
Instructions on using garden fences to support crops and improve yields. Notes on training tomatoes against board fences, using cloth loops, and nailing chicken wire for cucumbers beans and peas. Describes warmth from boards and climbing tendencies of gourds for decorations.
Ohio experiment station tests over six years compare fall and spring plowing for corn yields. Fall plowing averaged 70.74 bushels per acre while spring plowing averaged 70.81. Director Williams notes variations with season but no clear advantage for either plowing time for this soil and climate.
The catalpa tree, valued for durable wood used in posts rails and telephone poles, faced hazards from the catalpa spinx. Large plantings are not recommended in Indiana due to the damage, while historically it supplied many posts and cross ties.
The 1925 outlook urges co-operative marketing while stressing it cannot replace solid industry. It warns lime is essential for alfalfa and clover, recommends plowing Sudan grass stubble to destroy chinch bugs, and stresses clean disinfected poultry houses to keep flocks healthy.
The article surveys salt's essential role in digestion and health, noting salt forms hydrochloric acid in the stomach and acts as a mineral feed. It provides daily intake guidelines: dairy cows about 1.25 ounces, yearlings 1 ounce, hogs 0.25–0.33 ounce, working horses 1 ounce, and sheep 0.5 ounce, with a plan to mix one pound salt per 100 pounds grain to prevent deficiency.
The Iowa station reports mineral supplements improve pig gains. A two part flake salt and 80 parts ordinary sand mix gave best results, with a basic ration of shelled corn and 48 percent protein meal. Further sand tests will study effects in hogs and cattle.
The ewes require proper feeding as an investment not an expense. Flocks fed thriftily and with the right feed stay vigorous and productive, yielding heavier fleeces, larger lambs, and better milk. Stingy or improper feeding reduces wool weight, lamb size, and overall profits, with ewe losses marking the heaviest cost.
The text argues roughage alone is of little value for inferior stock but gains substantial value when combined with silage or succulent feed. It emphasizes full farm utilization and states this is feasible only with maintaining a certain level of livestock.
Scientific feeding supplies food in correct proportions to meet diverse animal needs. By studying digestion proportions in different animals and conditions, and requirements for nutrients at rest, work, or production like milk wool mutton beef and pork, feeding principles are developed.
The advertisement touts Boschee's Syrup as a longstanding remedy for coughs and lung inflammation. It claims quick relief, ease of expectoration, and better sleep during colds bronchitis and other lung troubles, with widespread sale in stores worldwide for 58 years.
A university president lamented the worship of wealth in modern times. He recalled a young man asking which is more estimable, riches or brains, and answered that brains are valued yet wealth often seems the only proof of intellect.
Demand Bayer aspirin only when the package or tablets show the Bayer name to ensure genuine, safe aspirin trusted by physicians for 23 years. The ad warns imitators may be dangerous and instructs buyers to say Bayer when purchasing.
Renowned teacher Roderiguez Madera, noted as a leading elementary educator in Spain, refuses to teach under electric lights. He argues that glare harms pupils eyes and distracts from studying and demands restoration of candle light in classrooms.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap promising double razor efficiency and skin health. It claims no mug, slimy soap, germs, waste, or irritation even with twice daily shaving and notes the soap for shaving bathing and shampooing. A separate line compares a good Arabian horse’s endurance in desert heat.
An advertisement claims Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills serve as both medicine for indigestion and a purgative. It argues people push for regulation under the guise of protecting others, suggesting laws to compel usage.
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