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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1914
Page
6
Agricultural note advises keeping manure in a screened box with drainage to prevent pests and produce liquid manure. It links hog hind leg paralysis in swine to phosphate deficiency and suggests cod liver oil with phosphate and nux vomica in the diet as a preventive treatment.
The biennial weed Bordeck has a deep tap root and fuzzy large leaves. In year one it builds a root system, year two it sends a tall branched stalk with purple tipped burs that cling to wool and horse manes. Continued cutting and deep root destruction with salt or fuel can hasten extermination.
The article notes mangels are good cow feed but not high value for horses, containing about nine percent wiry butter and 91 percent water with 1.1 percent protein and six percent carbohydrates. They aid feeding when silage is unavailable, especially for milk cows on dry hay. Strates are best horse root feed, with tuwar beet for swine and turnips for sheep.
A barrel sprayer covers five to ten acres costing 12 to 30 dollars. A bucket sprayer for small tasks costs 3.56 to 8 dollars. Hand compressed air and knapsack outfits spray potatoes nursery trees berries and vineyards costing 5 to 15 dollars. All sprayers should have brass working parts resistant to acid damage.
Summer heat reduces appetite so pigs need a lighter diet. Feed thinned meals with whey, kitchen slops, or waste milk. Pigs will drink it with a relish and it is better than heavy, hick food for welfare and growth.
The article lists fertilizer ratios for berries including tankage or Peruvian guano 600 pounds per acre fine ground bone 4 600 pounds sulphate of potash 600 pounds nitrate of soda 100 pounds and fried blood 200 pounds per acre. It notes mixing options and timing after plowing before setting plants and soil incorporation.
Practical advice on fencing outlines how field shape governs required material. A ten-acre square field measures 40 rods by 40 rods and needs about half a mile of fencing, while a top-acre oblong 80 by 20 rods requires 200 rods, showing squares use less fencing than longer, narrower fields of the same area.
The spread of hog cholera across hog producing areas calls for cleaner, saner hog houses and yards, wider pasture and forage use during growth, and vigilance along other lines to control the disease.
Quote reflecting restraint in wealth pursuit and the value of life. Emphasizes that a splendid farm is valuable only if it does not require sacrificing everything else worth living for. Warns that life is short and excess is a costly bargain.
Hot lime and sulphur dip is fatal to young nursery trees. Have your nurseryman guarantee to send trees that do not need dipping. But guarantees are not reliably good.
A call to monitor sheep well being during the current period, with emphasis on the health of lambs and flock conditions.
The corn grower embraces the motto Early and Often as a successful cultivation approach, emphasizing timely planting, frequent care, and consistent attention to soil and moisture to maximize yield.
A farm workshop with a portable forge anvil vise and drill can cut repair costs and save time on 100 to 160 acre runs. For under 40 dollars initial tools plus cheap substitutes like a racket drill or chain drill reduce the outfit to about twenty eight dollars. Now is a good time to install a farm tool shop.
A farmer recalls planting pod corn and shows how easily mixed seed can occur when crops are grown near each other. He notes neighborly variety preferences hinder pure seed and concludes pedigree seed breeding is mainly experimental, with affordable, easily available seed from specialists reducing his effort.
Critics of science in farming say some farmers cling to old methods and should be forced to continue with crooked sticks, manual grain cutting with a sickle, and threshing with cattle to relearn traditional practices.
Stable manure spread with a manure spreader on the meadow yields good results with a very thin coat. The hay crop uses part of it, and the remainder remains in the soil to benefit the succeeding corn crop.
New York tests on strawberries under canvas reveal shade protects leaves and buds from frost, yields higher with light Bombay cheesecloth. Heavier cloth reduces yield. lighter cloth increases berry size but lowers total count, with 13 quarts under cloth yielding 1102 berries vs 18 quarts in sun yielding 1452.
Sunflower stalk ash with high ash content raises manure value. Composition shows 22 percent phosphoric acid, 4.4 percent potash, and 1.2 percent lime, indicating fertilizer potential from the residue.
Early September sowing of crimson clover wheat and sand vetch on mellow ground yields the earliest green feed according to agrarian notes.
A Texas study shows 86 072 more poll tax receipts issued this year than 1912 but only 44 587 more than 1908. In 21 large counties with 10 000 plus population 14 counties added 8524 receipts while 7 declined by 4172. Overall urban counties up 17680 and rural counties 16784.
A 37 500 barrel Gulf Pipe Line steel tank at El Vista containing about 8 000 barrels of Caddo crude oil was struck. About half the oil will be saved with a loss near 4 000 dollars and the tank. The other tank, belonging to Tex as Company, lies a mile below Nederland ten miles south of Beaumont. It holds 55 009 barrels of distillate valued at about 3 dollars per barrel. Ten to fifteen thousand barrels may be saved, leaving a loss around 120 000 dollars.
In a special election held Wednesday voters approved a new $50,000 bond for Bastrop district roads and a concrete low water bridge across the Colorado River at Nashs Ferry. The tally was 275 for and 18 against.
Terrell Texas fire gutted H B Keith’s stables on Monday. Livestock buggies and feed were worth about 10000 dollars. Among the animals burned was Sir John Patch, son of Dan Patch, valued at 2000 dollars.
In Palestine Texas the Ryan Lumber Company sought 90000 dollars. After plaintiffs presented evidence the court directed the jury to find for the defendant, marking the case as an important civil suit.
In Nacogdoches Texas a negro church and school building in the Swift community about eight miles east of town was blown to atoms by dynamite recently.
W S Barnett mobilizes a crew to rebuild his 102 ton silo after it was blown over in April near Caldwell Texas. Local workers clear debris and lay foundations as he plans the reerection of the structure.
Pickling plant in Pearland Texas has increased capacity to threefold versus last year and business has risen accordingly.
The Texas secretary of state approved an amendment filing for the Waco company increasing capital stock from 60000 to 260000 dollars.
Comic exchange about a man who reveals he receives $10 a week and notices a woman’s grin. The punchline: she married a millionaire after their broken engagement, highlighting social shifts and humorous pride in altered fortunes.
Geo C Crook of Thomasville Alabama describes years of eczema on hands and feet with water blisters that crust and itch. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment he reports a perfect cure with daily washing and overnight ointment application. Sample offers offered through Cuticura Boston.
A playful exchange in which a freshman asks a mathematical professor to compute the probability of passing the course after the discussion on probability theory. The dialogue features a humorous tone with a Dartmouth setting and a pun on Jack o Lantern.
An old advertisement touts a prescription “specially for Malaria or Chills and Fever.” Five or six doses claimed to break any case, and used as a tonic to prevent recurrence. Price 25 cents.
Idle Thoughts from the Pittsburgh Post muses whether men could someday tango up and down walls, as a fly skims a pane and sparks flight into fanciful possibilities.
Fragmentary text presents a dated plea about care and affection. A terse exchange quotes lingering implied sentiment, with a vintage tone suggesting a literary or catalog entry rather than a current event.
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