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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1917
Page
3
Rev. T. P. McDonough hails St Patrick as a foundational stone of Ireland, praising his humble beginnings, vast reforms, and enduring influence. The passage lauds Patrick’s role in learning, culture, and national identity, blending patriotism with religious reverence across fifteen centuries.
A lengthy letter debate weighs where St Patrick was born, Brittany Brittany France or Scotland. Authorities from O Sull ivan to Healy clash over Bannaventa and Bonnavem Tabernine while asserting Patrick was a Romanized Celt born near the Clyde or in Brittany. The piece argues the question cannot be dogmatic and notes Patrick's Catholic lineage across Gaelic and Roman worlds.
The text argues that Celtic literature and art embody purity and nobility while emphasizing equality, which shapes social ideals and hinders unified, decisive moves toward independence. It notes Irish sensitiveness fuels distrust of conquerors and perpetual vigilance against persecution, shaping national identity.
The piece traces the shamrock's ambiguous nature as a national emblem and its varied uses from sacred symbols in Greek festivals to supposed charms for luck, dream prediction, and protection from military service. It notes misnamed plants, the belief in four leaf clovers guarding against evil, and snakes avoiding the plant.
This piece surveys Irish folklore featuring the leprechaun as a fairy craftsman who guards gold and can be tricked, warns against betraying him, and presents a Shamrock of Luck invocation. It also opines on a noble moral character of the Irish, noting their emphasis on ideals and pleasures over future needs.
Rev Hugh F. Blunt recalls a verse about dance and song with lines praising an Irish tune. The poem contrasts music with money and evokes memories of dancing with the reader’s mother, expressing longing for bygone days and blessings.
The passage recalls 1691 treaty of Limerick and its neglect, then describes early 1700s Irish oppression under the code. It notes large waves of Irishmen fleeing to Europe and America, driven by English policies and a lingering memory of homeland.
F C Shllers, acting director, outlines a March 18 lesson from John 8 12 51 58 focusing on Jesus as the light of the world and the freedom from sin. He urges temperance framing and urges loaders to stress belief abiding in Christ, truth and liberty, with references to Genesis and Abraham preincarnate appearances.
A Farmers' Week lecture by C H Eckles argues that modern dairy cattle must be developed by continual selective breeding. He stresses purebred sires, culling inferior cows, and evaluating bulls by daughters and pedigrees. The Missouri University herd examples illustrate selecting sires through daughters and ancestry.
Dr. C W McCampbell of Kansas State College warns that winter feeding for brood mares is often neglected in high grain price periods. He cites constipation from roughages and risks of abortion, urging better rations with grain or supplements like bran and linseed meal to maximize foal production.
Farmers should keep a dry ground feed mix in hoppers at all times. Provide sour milk or buttermilk as a drink. Crushed limestone or oyster shell should be available before the hens, and hens should roost with full crops.
The Kansas College bulletin notes hogs thrive best when kept reasonably warm yet given outdoor exercise. Open-yard hogs cost more corn for 100 pounds of gain than well sheltered hogs, but daily outdoor work with feed racks and scattered forage keeps them active and content.
The text argues livestock farmers can boost profits through close calculation in hog lots and feed yards, advising well-built housing, a good flock, proper feeding, and common sense to ensure handsome profits. It notes pruning an old tree gradually reduces future work and keeps bearing trees vigorous, and claims the best time to learn is after reviewing a season's results and outcomes.
A Farm Journal piece recounts a farmer frustrated with winter access to town who improvised a snowplow. The device, built from planks and braces, attaches to a bob runner and clears a six and a half mile route quickly, enabling smoother travel even before a shovel crew arrives. The design features a longer left side for efficient plowing and a small four foot spread to reduce drag.
Francis M. Hugo secretary of state of New York argues for radical road treatment for heavy automobile travel. He notes only a small portion of road width is used, yet full width is patch repaired regularly. He proposes prepared tracks of special material, continuous and wide, to bear nearly all wear and lengthen road life.
Road specialists advise against bonds extending beyond one retirement period for county highway improvements. Long runs raise tax burdens and risk debt outlasting the projects. Borrowed funds should be repaid by benefiting users, not by those who gain no advantage.
United States roads outside towns totaled about 2 000 miles as of January 1 1915 with 277 000 miles surfaced. Surfaced roads grow by roughly 16 000 miles annually. Alfalfa prep requires minimal work after certain early crops. Silo use boosts dairy profits and crop storage.
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