New Mexico News Review draft on dam work and road progress
Reports from Roswell and Cimarron detail ongoing dam construction near Eagle's Nest, with new machinery arriving to impound water for irrigation. Road surfacing advances and weather conditions affect travel. Local incidents include a large hog weighing 611 pounds and a significant parcel post shipment of 1,800 pounds of groceries and dry goods to plains buyers.
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Toltec Oil Company
Eagle's Nest
McEvoy Canyon
Roswell
Cimarron Valley Land Company
Harrison
L. F. D. Farm
Porker
Redi
Pecos Valley
Cimarron
Parce'l
Here
Las Cruces Gains Federal Building and Sugar Beet Industry
The Las Cruces area welcomes a federal building project and a practical sugar beet factory. Construction will start soon after site vacating, boosting town appearance and government operations. Farmers must adopt careful irrigation and scientific beet cultivation to capitalize on steady income and attract capital. The Mesita and Rincon valleys look toward a brighter future.
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Las Cruces
Mesita
Rincon
Luna Probes Large Soil Tract Near Deming
Buckle of Los Angeles arrives in Deming to begin investigations and study soil conditions on a 42 000 acre tract located twelve miles south of Minsie and east of the Marta mountains with efforts coordinated by local officials and attorney Shirley Ward.
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Deming
Work at Eagle Nest Dam progresses steadily
Bedrock was struck about twenty feet deep at the Eagle Nest dam site, enabling rapid concrete work planned to impound over 50 000 acre feet of water. Seventy workers are on site, a concrete mixer and cement carloads are ready, and weather permitting the concrete construction will run through winter with a spring rise.
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Eagle's Nest
Mar
Cimarron River
Natal
Pulverizer Use Described In Agricultural Illustration
An old cutter bar from a hiner is bolted to the front member of the ordinary rewd to form a pulverizer for crushing clods and pulverizing the ground. The illustration demonstrates the device in action as a useful tool for soil preparation.
Practical Clod Crusher. drag. This bie is picked at an ante so
A hazy note from Popular Science Monthly describes a crude field tool called the practical clod crusher. It envisions dragging and placing a device to lift soil, pierce a hut’s foundations, and anchor ground with elastic leverage. The language is archaic and unclear.
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Hopular Science Monthly
Colony Houses for Winter Stock and Poultry Shelter
Instructions discuss colony houses for wintering geese turkeys and ducks. Notes emphasize open fronts for wind protection and better results when dividing runners into flocks, with shelter adequate for cold weather conditions.
Trying Out Sheep Business Amid Rough Start
Unclear text describes attempts to enter the sheep trade and learn the industry. Narration notes poor quality stock and discouragement, with the author expressing patience tested by setbacks and uncertain prospects.
Inside bathing with limestone phosphate cure
Historic health ad suggests drinking hot water with limestone phosphate to flush stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Recommends morning washing and a quarter pound purchase from a pharmacist to cleanse and purify the alimentary tract. Improves digestion and relieves constipation symptoms.
Plan to Eradicate Chinch Bugs Threatens Next Year’s Crops
Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station notes widespread chinch bug complaints and warns of potential severe outbreaks in the central state’s corn and wheat belts. Dry conditions, mild winters, and dry springs favor the pest, urging farmers to take action now to reduce wintered populations and prevent costly damage in coming seasons.
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L. Hareman
Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station
Holding Wood in Sawbuck
A Popular Mechanics sketch shows a simple supplementary device that attaches to a sawbuck to prevent the stick from rolling or curling as the saw blade is pulled back for the next cut. The device promises easier handling and cleaner cuts for woodworkers.
Stirrup Tangles in Mourning Wood Bay Mystery
Unclear scrambled text hints at a local disturbance or event involving stirrups and a bank or finance issue. Names, dates, and precise places are unreadable, leaving a fragmentary report of a troubling scene and a possible investigation.
Beware of Crown Gall on Raspberry Plants
The crown gall disease now frequently attacks raspberries and can spread to nearby fruit trees. It is safer to use blackberries as fillers among fruit trees rather than raspberries.
Wisconsin horticulturists value bees as pollenizers in orchards
Wisconsin horticulturists recognize bees as essential pollenizers in orchards boosting fruit and berry yields. Despite questions about honey production, their role supports significant annual fruit value and crop quality across regions.
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Wisconsin
Concrete flooring protects poultry houses from rats
Concrete floors and foundations provide strong protection against rats in poultry houses. A chilled trench below the frost line supports a six inch spacing foundation. A mix of Portland cement sand and gravel forms a durable floor, finished with a 0.75 inch veneer and kept moist to prevent cracking.
Fatten Cattle for Profit and Market Timing
An older farmer weighs risk and reward in fattening cattle. He notes that feeding costs, market timing, and husbandry determine profit, with baby beef production shaping decisions if prices align with costs. The article discusses months to milk and feed costs, predicting earnings per head under various market conditions.
Special Attention to Oil In. A Farm Era Wariness
Fragmentary OCR discusses oil in industry and farm machinery with scattered terms about departments universities and operations. It mentions attention to job rotation and parts, with unclear references to equipment, fuel, and writing terms.
Caring For Asparagus Beds In The Garden
The guide advises cultivating the asparagus bed and keeping grass from crowding it out. Apply liberal amounts of well rotted manure. Some authorities suggest salt as a fertilizer at this season, but its use is questioned and not advised if any other good fertilizer is available.
CAREFUL HANDLING OF FRUIT PREVENTS INJURY TO FRUIT
The passage emphasizes careful handling of fruit to prevent skin breaks that invite fungi and damages. It urges utmost care in all operations related to fruit handling to avoid bruises and mechanical injuries.
Leftover bread recipes keep and use up supplies
Old bread pieces can be stored in waxed paper in a stone jar for up to a week. Crumbs dried for stuffing and meat frying, croquettes and poultry stuffing, or dried and ground for croutons. French toast from whole slices, bread custard pudding, and bread jelly for invalids. Sterilized bread crumbs aid children and household meals, with bread mixed into various dishes if fresh bread is dangerous.
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Mo Mae
Brea
Fragments of Homemaking and Miscellany in Aged Text
A garbled excerpt blends cooking tips with home preserving and household instructions. It mentions cider use, fruit coverings, spice additions, jelly, and a variety of nonspecific household tasks, interspersed with references to amonia, ammonia handling, and a dated style. The text is fragmentary and lacks cohesive narrative or clear events.
Spate of Sew Meri Mates From Puig Incident
A garbled report references Colfax County New Mexico and Dallas County, detailing a legal action and appraisal context. It mentions court proceedings, land purchase terms, per acre prices, and cash disbursement requirements, with scattered names and dates obscured by OCR errors. The readable fragments imply a property or inheritance dispute with formal notices and financial terms.
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Colfax County
Raion
Dallas
New Mexico
Rome
Acre
Ancesatul
Asd Tree
Bent En Vent
Bearn
Erie
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