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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1914
Page
2
The article explains plant nutrition, noting nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and potassium as key minerals. It describes how legumes use bacteria to fix atmospheric nitrogen and that carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen mainly come from air and water. The piece emphasizes nitrogen and minerals as the main difference between rich and poor soils.
A patent granted by the United States patent office introduces a tilting platform attached to barn timbers under a traveling hay fork. The device lets one worker scatter hay to the barn sides after unloading, directing it to lower levels and reducing the need for several laborers.
To keep fowls in houses and yards during summer, use four foot netted yards with top coverage and move them every few weeks to fresh ground. If range isn’t possible provide green food, such as cut grass or weeds, at night before roosting.
The author describes building a 16 foot 4 inch by 30 foot silo and filling it with seven acres of drilled corn and three acres of hill corn to produce 125 tons of silage for fifty cows and ten head of young stock. With four pounds each of gluten meal and wheat bran daily per cow, the dairy yielded bottle milk averaging 3.7 fat. Two silos are recommended for a fifty cow operation to cover the winter feeding needs.
Clover hay is now being put up in many parts of the country.
An early piece by F G Herman discusses nectar collection by honey bees and the process of nectar thinning as it is brought into the hive. It notes nectar begins thin and watery, then thickens with processing inside the hive.
Washington reports Sir Edward Grey assured Page that British policy will not seize cotton cargoes from neutral ships. Ambassadors say cotton is not contraband and will move to neutral or belligerent markets, including Germany, when destined for neutrals.
Philadelphia woman recounts relief from six years of menopause symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the remedy with stopping pain and enabling daily duties and recommends it to other women. The ad invites letters for confidential female guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Old Jake recalls fifteen years of savings to visit London. A grateful farmer funded his journey and he wakes in an unfamiliar room. His nephew calls from the door, asking him to set seeds and witness something described as a “black.”
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