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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1920
Page
2
A bureau guidance outlines monitoring and prevention for roup chicken pox and scaly leg in fowl. Key measures include clean ventilated housing, isolation of purchased birds, and regular treatment with petrolatum mixtures and kerosene linseed oil for skin lesions.
The text provides treatment steps for poultry diseases including iodine or carbolic acid applications, sulfur mixes in mash, and thorough disinfection of houses, coops, drinking fountains, and feed dishes. It notes timing during summer and recurring sprays for incomplete recoveries, and mentions chicken pox and scaly leg with brief descriptions of symptoms and mites.
Special groups already formed for farming clubs or social and educational work can educate members and encourage discussion for cooperative marketing but are often unsuited to marketing duties. Such associations can aid planning and understanding as a preliminary step.
The Arkansas state college farm earned about $15,000 in produce sales last year with $1,250 from Yellow Transparent apples, 22 pigs sold for $538.20, and a potato crop bringing in $1,520.80. Despite high overhead, the experiment station demonstrates that scientific farm management can yield profit.
Reports from the bureau of markets indicate most small vegetable seed crops will drop sharply this year compared with 1918. Spinach leads with a 98 percent reduction, lettuce down 12 percent, while garden pole beans, garden peas, and onion sets rise. Early alfalfa seed output in the Southwest is slightly higher, and timothy is forecast at about 80 percent of last year due to light yields.
The text advises culling the flock to remove poor layers and keep good producers. It notes broody hens are undesirable and classifies blockheads as the most destructive turkey disease. Fertile eggs are worse for marketing and winter packing than infertile ones.
Governor Hobby signed an emergency appropriation bill and a labor commission bill, creating an five member panel with employer and employee delegates and three public members. He also changed the wild turkey open season to November December, kept the gobbler bag limit at three, and signed multiple school district and county road laws plus suffrage and ports bills. The emergency fund totals about 318000 with 122000 for militia in Galveston and strike duties, plus 10000 for cotton market studies and 1500 for text book commission per diems. The capitol dome painting gets 2000, and numerous claims from Longview and pink bollworm losses are funded.
The census bureau released numbers showing Texas population at 4,601,027, up 764,485 or 19.6 percent. Houston city population revised to 136,276, up 59,476 or 75.5 percent. Harris County, containing Houston, shows 186,667 residents, up 70,974 or 61.3 percent.
After a Danderine massage hair gains life and beauty, appearing thicker as each strand fluff's. A 5 cent bottle freshens the scalp, checks dandruff and loss, and gives thin dull hair youthful brightness and fullness. Ad text urges ignoring unfounded gossip.
An advertisement touts Pape s Diapepsin as the fastest, surest relief for indigestion gases flatulence heartburn sourness fermentation or stomach distress caused by acidity. A few tablets give immediate relief and stabilize the stomach allowing eating without fear. Large case costs only cents at drug stores. Millions helped annually. Best stomach corrective known.
Mrs. Peevish jokes that Mr. Peevish will never quit bad habits as he spends all waking hours practicing them and shares in sleep. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills claim gentle vegetable ingredients act as tonic and purgative by accumulation. An ad urges hiding family skeletons and suggests steady employment as the best antidote to sorrow.
Governor Hobby plans to meet President elect Obregon and Provisional President de la Huerta in El Paso and escort them to Dallas for Texas State Fair events on October 16 and 17. He will invite the visitors to Austin as official guests after their Dallas visit.
Dalton Mass former U S senator W Murray Crane died Saturday at Sugar Hill family home. Crane long shaped New England politics as a Republican leader and national figure in his era.
Wichita packers on Friday announced an immediate price reduction for wholesale pork from 2c to 4c a pound, cutting about 10 percent.
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