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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1910
Page
4
A Texas breeder reports a simple 60 foot corral with two 46 foot breeding chutes that streamline mating of wild plains mares to a jack. The system reduces labor, protects mares and jack, and eases adaptation for the animals, per Stanley Turner of Tom Green County in Breeders' Gazette.
A veteran breeder describes a cattle chute setup used to impregnate range mares. The process uses a 60 foot test, a 16 foot holding chute, bars to secure the mares, and a jack stallion to cover each mare. The method aims to produce salable offspring and improve local stock after 25 years of use.
Horace G. Keesling shares 35 years of grafting experience on cherries plums prunes and apricots noting high success similar to apples. He describes the split-the-stump method slight side split and multiple scions plus timing before leaf-out and July budding of apricots onto peaches.
The Georgia experiment station finds phosphoric acid is the key fertilizer element for cotton. Nitrogen and potash follow in importance. Best results come from combining all three in a ratio around 313 parts phosphoric acid to 1 part nitrogen and 1 part potash, or by using 1000 pounds acid phosphate or 75 pounds muriate of potash or 300 pounds kainit with 700 pounds cottonseed meal or 105 bushels cotton seed. Apply to achieve 200 to 400 pounds of acid phosphate per acre.
Nitrate of soda is a combination of nitric acid and soda. It feeds plants by supplying nitrogen and soda, with about 17 percent ammonia. Sold as Chile saltpeter, it also yields soda for general use, while there exists a pricier nitrate of potash.
The writer urges farmers to keep work horses feet trimmed even if unshod, noting tools aid but a sharp chisel a knife and a rasp suffice. Proper trimming reduces workload and feed costs, keeping hooves in good condition for future travels.
A Victorian style advisory notes some horses with heaves may be cured by pasture for two to three months if mild and recent. For working horses, limit hay to night feeding and dampen dusty hay, feed clean bright hay, and offer roots. Limit water before work. arsenic in five grain doses for one to two months is recommended to ease bowels and relieve symptoms.
Refill salt box, plant strawberries in four by two feet rows, and hatch ducklings with an incubator. Remove brood saw from noise, fix leaking pump bucket with a town trip, and assess dairy cow qualities. Use dew on currants for worm control. avoid oil on sitting hens. success boosts local creamery and farming prosperity. Pineapple plants yield 5000–6000 per acre at about 20 cents each in winter.
Advice for farmers to plant an acre or two of sweet corn this spring to provide green forage during dry August pastures. A well supplied summer diet reduces winter needs, and extra corn can be sold or fed to work horses if available.
Cows should not be turned onto permanent pasture until the grass is well established. Young grass is immature and watery, offering limited nutrition and reducing milk yield. Walking on wet soil risks soil damage and compaction.
London observed the king’s funeral as the capital’s grandest ceremony with thirty thousand troops bivouacking in parks and streets. Crowds numbered hundreds of thousands at Westminster Hall and Windsor, while princes and foreign royals joined the procession and Queen Alexandra kept vigil beside her husband.
Agricultural guidance covers soil, weeds, and irrigation, with focus on dairy cows, poultry, pigs, and calves. Advice includes feeding, breeding, alfalfa, and pest control, urging careful pruning, proper nesting, and humane handling to boost farm profits.
A Columbus Dispatch note recalls a census enumerator exam scenario about Sarah Green and Jim Brown. The narrative traces their marriage in London, four years there with one child, emigration to the United States, a child at sea, nine years in New York with three more births, a move to Ohio and another birth, a divorce, Sarah’s remarriage and child, and Jim’s naturalization. The exercise asks how to place these facts on the census enumeration sheet.
A cryptic line declares that genius many times masks folly and faces public doubt. The remark hints at the paradox of brilliance and misstep in perception and judgment.
A temperance lecturer questions a working man about daily beer consumption. He replies that intake varies, noting some days he drinks 18 to 20 pints while other days he drinks much less, illustrating differing habits among workers.
In a brief witticism from Stray Stories two women at a concert discuss a social jab. Mrs Aristocrat reveals Mrs Nouveau Riche plans to adopt a nom de plume for her hat, prompting amused chatter about fashion and intrigue among high society.
A distressed speaker recounts a street incident where a man refused friendly advice then assaulted him after taking two dollars. The narrator notes he was forced to pay, illustrating a petty coercion episode in a tense public setting.
At Bethesda Maryland government experiment station six young zebrasses show promise as hybrid offspring of an African Abyssinian zebra and a Texas donkey. Their sire, a royal Abyssinian zebra gifted to President Roosevelt by King Menelik, yields yearlings larger than their dam and combining docility with vigor for various domestic uses.
A Brooklyn aunt leaves $30,000 in her will to the speaker, who notes the joke that it pays to humor the old folks. The narrator claims to have shown respect by going into half mourning when the aunt’s pet rubber plant died.
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