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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
5
The article celebrates farming as a skilled profession in Canada with improved crop rotation and land stewardship. It notes education through experimental farms and government literature shaping modern agriculture, and cites advances in pest control and poultry coop care as part of professional farming.
A United States Department of Agriculture prepared report describes experiments to starve mites in abandoned hen houses after poultry removal. The tests show some mites remained alive after 113 days, with damp, decaying housing conditions fostering mite survival and strategies to break hiding traces and seal spaces.
A United States Department of Agriculture guide explains that cultivation loosens soil to aerate roots and release plant food while controlling weeds. It warns against deep cultivation that cuts feeding roots, notes the value of a dust-free surface after rains, and says wheel hoes and steel rakes speed work.
The USDA notes alfalfa is rarely ideal for silage due to mold, packing challenges, and high protein causing spoilage if air remains. It can work in wet weather or with partial wilt, fine cutting, and thorough packing, but corn or mixed crops often yield better silage.
Advice warns against overcrowding in brooders and with hens of any age. Young chicks left crowded at night may catch cold in the morning, risking inte rcup which is often fatal for the young.
N E Chapman University poultry specialist cites five major factors: breeding, feeding, housing, management, and care. He notes these essentials, when combined, put the poultry business on a practical basis, with hatching eggs, day old chicks, or a few breeding stock as a start, and growing into the business as the surest path.
Pop corn grown in 1922 is not marketable until June 1923 and remains an uncertain crop for the average farmer. The previous year yielded 26 bushels per acre over 13,000 acres. Production costs per bushel are higher than field corn, and unless a farmer has years of experience and a reliable market, it is advised not to plant this year.
Soy beans fit perfectly in rotation replacing oats in a four year cycle of corn, soy beans, wheat, and clover. They are more profitable as a cash crop and improve soil mechanical condition and fertility, requiring little wheat preparation on land once mowed.
A pocket flashlight using two or three dry cells evolved into a powerful battery searchlight with a range of up to half a mile on six volts. It features a seven and a half inch adjustable focus reflector and produced 453 candlepower in a photometer test, aided by a nitrogen-filled tungsten lamp and carefully designed reflector.
A timid man asks a chemist's assistant for hair loss help. The assistant, recently out of school, suggests a cardboard box as a solution.
A European preparation described as a water mix with sulfuric acid or formic acid is claimed to moth proof wool. Wool remains unaffected by the treatment and washing if no alkalies contact it. In tests, untreated wool was eaten by moths in six months while treated wool stayed intact.
A reflective note contrasts sap in baseball bats and golf clubs with long running habits. It hints that loafing leads to praising labor and implies broader cultural attitudes toward effort and readiness.
Cultivate and fertilize the asparagus bed so crowns develop properly during the summer and produce a heavy shoot crop next summer. Yield and quality depend largely on this year’s treatment.
Provides instructions to use arsenate of lead and air slaked lime against potato bugs and to apply ascotine sulphate for sucking insects like melon aphids and plant lice. Includes warning to secure small bottle of the chemical for garden use.
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