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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1923
Page
5
A health and husbandry guide for Daviess County farmers notes that well managed poultry yields rise in hot months. The piece emphasizes ventilated housing, feeding with bone meal and oyster shells, and proper nest care to avoid losses while outlining seasonal adjustments for flock productivity.
The article argues every dairy farmer should own a cooling tank to protect product quality and reduce losses. It discusses using ordinary water as a simple refrigeration method, cost considerations, and the shift toward grading cream and paying for quality. It stresses cooling tanks as essential for modern, efficient farming.
University of Missouri College of Agriculture conducted a demonstration on draft horses. The horses averaged around pounds weight and labored about 4.8 hours daily, requiring about pounds of grain and hay daily. The study notes higher costs per unit of work compared with geldings or mares and tracks daily ration changes during the working period.
An old text discusses using whitewashing to keep a flock healthy by cleaning and disinfecting the quarters. It claims whitewash purifies and freshens spaces, improving air quality through a simple coating process.
The article advises slow bottling water to ponds or streams for better fertile eggs, ample pasturage for breeders, and warns that too high or too low incubator temperatures produce weak chicks. It notes helper chicks are not worth keeping and emphasizes roaming, morning feeding, and placing feed water grit near roosts for nine week olds.
W L Buzzard of Oklahoma A and M College urges breeders to feed and rear young bulls properly. He warns undersized, underfed animals deter buyers and hurt prices, stressing that quality bulls in thrifty condition command better value and stronger sales.
An agricultural experiment begun in 1907 shows native Arkansas scrub cattle graded up with purebred sires. Granddaughters of the scrub dams averaged a 4 471.7 pound milk increase and 186.60 pounds of butterfat.
T. J. Maynard of Colorado Agricultural College advises sow exercise as farrowing nears and careful pen setup. Use bulky rations with oats alfalfa or skim milk, include wheat bran and linseed meal, and provide a dry ventilated pen with straw. After farrowing feed gradually increases over 24 to 30 hours while water remains warm.
The plant combo lowers pork costs and harvest labor while boosting soil fertility. Waste matter fed back enhances land productivity with a even fertilizer coat and burnus matter deposits.
Pork production relies on ample pasture during summer for sows and piglets. A balanced, consistent ration for both sows and pigs is essential to efficiency and cost control.
Connecticut highway commissioner Charles J. Bennett urged roads be designed for year round motor travel and praised standard signals at crossings and reflective signals on curves. He condemned truck overloading and called for tighter speed and weight rules to improve safety and road design.
The Bureau of Public Roads considers spraying crude oil to stabilize shifting sand along 53 miles of the Columbia River Highway east of The Dalles. Oil is heated and sprayed through a nozzle to atomize it into a fine mist, mainly with the wind, to fill and halt dune movement where cuts and fills are exposed in volcanic ash terrain. The method aims to protect roadbeds without excessive cost.
Experts note most road destruction comes from heavy motor wheel impacts. They contend trucks should pay taxes proportional to road use to fund repairs. They add that pneumatic tired passenger cars cause little damage.
Modern paved roads replacing macadam use concrete with brick or bituminous facing on a concrete base. The most expensive types are reinforced with steel. State engineering departments favor railroad like design with low grades few curves and no grade crossings.
A county farm bureau promotes spraying with new power sprayers as profitable, citing Karl Meier’s test orchard. One tree sprayed yielded 273 pounds of apples with 58 percent clean fruit after costs under eighty cents per tree, far surpassing an unsprayed tree’s 808 pounds but only 41 pounds clean.
In bush fruits spraying is impractical for disease control. Remove and burn all old canes after fruit removal and remove diseased canes at first signs. Choose disease resistant varieties. Caterpillars on raspberries and blackberries can be controlled with arsenate spray. mildew with potassium sulphide. plant lice with nicotine sulfate applied before leaf curl.
Severe infestations require burning all vegetable matter in the bed. Light infestations use straw to aid thorough burning. Burning is most effective in mid July after mowing or pulling vines to dry them. If ground is firm, burning will not injure plants and new growth should be pest free.
The write up discusses where currant and gooseberry bushes should be placed for optimal growth and treatment, stressing the impact of location on cultivation.
Instructions specify cutting tops of gooseberry bushes or currants so they stay around eight to ten inches above soil when planted or set, shaping growth and maintaining bush height.
A historical note recommends dusting strawberry plants with powdered sulphur to control the strawberry weevil. The advice emphasizes a straightforward chemical treatment standard to the era.
In Minneapolis and Chicago testimonials a woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from long standing pains and backache after years of illness and weight loss. Other readers are urged to consider the product as a health aid for women facing weakness and discomfort.
A compact aphorism notes that conceited men, by their inflated self regard, relieve others from the burden of respecting them. The quote attributes this harmless effect to their overbearing dignity as a social fixture.
A grocer's advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as the true blue for snow white clothes promising durable results and urging continued use. The copy emphasizes stain removal and reliable whitening.
A brief Life style quote contrasts extensive travel with rapid movement. It suggests speed as a defining trait versus breadth of journeys. The line features playful wordplay on have versus have not and emphasizes velocity over travel scope.
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