Weather stirs egg and dairy market gains
The article notes hot weather across the country reducing total egg butter and cheese production while strong demand lifts market values. Spring chicken movement rises as seasonal patterns return. It urges careful handling of poultry eggs and butter to improve products and consumer satisfaction. Gratefulness is greatness.
What Ya Mean This Monotony in Farm Life
A humorous essay contrasts rural and urban routines, arguing farm life offers surprising hazards and daily drama. It details mishaps with cows, calves, horses, and machinery, noting a farmer’s day is full of unexpected perils and fickle weather.
The Farm and Its Pests Lure Readers to a Farm
A rustic exhortation describes pests like digger squirrels moles field mice and shrews threatening crops. It warns of wasp nests and swarms of bees when plowing or spraying trees and urges readers to seek farming experiences and preparations for unpredictable hazards and thrills on any farm.
Crabs Climb Palms and Crack Coconuts on Fanning Island
On a tiny Pacific island cable station at Fanning Island two large land crabs, about 20 inches long, climbed coconut trees. One crab reached the top and dropped a nut, while the other crab cracked a falling coconut with its claws, illustrating remarkable climbing behavior.
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Crab tale of two crabs ends with shared meal
A brief fable recounts a crab that climbs a palm to crack a nut, while another crab descends to join the feast. The two then savor the meat and scrape shells clean, illustrating cooperation amid competition.
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