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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1914
Page
2
The best silo form is round with walls perpendicular to resist winds and silage pressure. Round silos avoid corners where spoilage occurs and offer maximum capacity for wall material. Tall silos yield similar storage per wall area. avoid thin walls to prevent freezing and spoilage. Square silos fail to keep contents from air exposure, leading to rot.
The article advises on managing stable manure to prevent waste and pollution. Spread fresh manure on fields when possible, store in a cement bottom pit if feasible, or under a shed in layered piles. Cover exposed piles with boards and, if needed, use hogs to mix layers and rough boards to keep rain out. Ensure protection from the elements.
Farmers plan to fill silos as more silage will be fed this winter, signaling higher storage and feed usage than in previous years.
The piece notes a bias against sheep in many neighborhoods but argues profits arise when animals receive proper care and management. It highlights that with the right attention, sheep can be valuable farm stock and contribute to agricultural income.
A low-wheeled truck eases hauling green corn and reduces expense in harvesting. The work is hard and skilled, so adopt practices to lessen effort. Cut low so corn drops, and consider self feeding cutters on Handy Rock for hauling green corn.
In St. Louis, district court, suits against the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad directors totaling 14 million dollars were dismissed. Receivers say dismissal preserves option to sue later to challenge a 26 million dollar bond issue linked to the New Orleans Texas and Mexico railroad.
A cellar based mushroom venture can yield profit with temps 60 to 70 degrees and ample ventilation. Build conical beds from manure and loam, costing about ten dollars per bed, with a three month harvest of around 20 bushels and potential profit of fifty dollars per bed.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company failed to recover more than 61 million dollars for 3 million acres in Eastern Oklahoma within the Katy land grant. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Holmes, upheld the Court of Claims ruling that the land never became public domain and the grant conditions were unfulfilled.
A Chicago report notes initial misdiagnosis by the Washington bureau delayed containment of a foot and mouth outbreak. The error, around September 18, postponed control until October 10 when the disease was confirmed and linked to hides from Argentina. Quarantines on two packing firms were lifted amid 41 new dairy cattle cases.
The article notes straw can absorb liquid manure, equating its fertilizing and mechanical value. English chemists estimate straw’s manor value at seven shillings per long ton and its land application value at about seven more, totaling just over $3 per short ton.
The notes discuss seed and soil balance, preparing winter quarters for breeding hogs, yearly pruning of currant and gooseberry bushes, valuing idle acres as a tax on productive land, maintaining good tools and teams, pasturing fields to harvest waste, milking aided by gasoline engines, identifying a cattle feeder as a dairy thief, rearing heifer calves to expand dairies, starting plowing for wheat after harvest, and caring for horse dental health with a veterinary surgeon.
Miss Mary Calquitt, daughter of Governor O B Calquitt, delivered the token of the people of Texas to the battleship as Captain A W Grant praised the silver service as the finest in the American navy. Thousands attended the event in Galveston with harbor lights glowing and Father J M Kirwin recounting Texas heroes.
Field agents of the department of agriculture urge Southern farmers to plant winter gardens to provide fresh vegetables through fall winter and spring. They advise girls canning clubs to set aside a 50 by 20 foot plot for winter crops and plant spinach lettuce radishes and cauliflower or cabbage in a four-vegetable reserve. In the South these crops grow year round. in northern areas greenhouses or cold frames are needed in the coldest months.
Austin Texas Governor Colquitt Saturday issued a proclamation naming Sunday Nov 29 as Hospital Sunday in Texas. Similar proclamations have been issued in other states naming Nov 29 as Tuberculosis Sunday Disease Prevention Day Health Day. He calls on Texans to support county hospitals and disease prevention efforts.
The little German cruiser Geter, repaired at Honolulu, was interned for the war when the American government set midnight Saturday as the deadline for her to interne or leave port while a Japanese squadron waited outside the harbor.
Judge W L Davidson of the court of criminal appeals filed a dissent in the George Barnes case from Harrison County known as the Elks club case. Barnes was fined 6000 dollars for violating cold storage and liquor laws and sentenced to 180 days in jail, later reduced to 250 dollars by the governor with jail remission.
Eagle Lake residents approved the stock law by a 42 vote margin, rejecting a proposition to repeal the ordinance and permit animals to run at large within city limits.
Announcement Friday set freight rates at 1 per hundred pounds for cotton to Scandinavian and continental ports. Liverpool and Italian ports are exempt from the increase.
New York man B Doran Killian a lawyer soldier and poet died Saturday at his Brooklyn home at age 78. He came to this country as a boy from Ireland.
The attorney general's department Friday approved a local road and bridge bonds issue for Garsa County totaling $50,000. The issue is in ten series at 5 percent.
The department of agriculture released itineraries for farmers institutes led by Joe E. Edmondson R. H. Taylor B. L. Nance J. O. Allen and Co B White. Dates run from November 16 to November 21 across towns including Normangee Iola Shire Madisonville Eustace Athens Malakoff Kerens Grandbury Tolar Oakdale Stephenville Tom Bean Whitewright Randolph Bailey Roxton Deport Paris and Ben Franklin.
Eugene Arthur Hudson, King Retaw 1, leads the No-Tsu-Oh carnival as Houston's fall celebration opens. Cannons thundered and steam sirens cried while nearly a thousand Cadets from A and M College joined the parade amid the city’s noisy welcome.
The warehouse division of the Texas Department of Insurance and Banking on Friday issued licenses for warehouses at Golden Wood County with manager George W. Jones and at Pittsburg Camp County with manager J. T. Warwick.
A $25,000 residence owned by J. P. Pierce in Palacios Texas was totally destroyed by a Friday fire. Nothing was saved.
A fragment notes G. C. Hanford Mfg. Co. Syracuse N Y selling Balsam of Myrrh in two sizes 60c and 1 00 with an advertising line Truly Spoken. It also contains a quote about war from Thomson highlighting its folly.
An advertisement touts Capucine as easy to take and fast acting for headaches and colds. The copy highlights Hicks’ product and mentions Ady and Twobble in a brief, promotional exchange about striving for perfection.
The Red Cross 200 bed war hospital near Torquay, set up by American women, is called the best arranged in England by Sir Frederick Treves. Americans including Paget support its operation with a $25,000 fund for motor ambulances to sustain it for another year.
Maude Marie, twenty summers, wanders with a gentle sigh as John Henry muses on a sublime night. She speaks of wonder while he bluntly quips that it is the kind of night to shoot cats, revealing a contrast between sentiment and practicality.
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