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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1929
Page
3
A historical essay outlines Flag Day origins and the official flag code issued after 1923. It covers flag display rules, handling in parades and ceremonies, and federal laws protecting the United States banner.
In this reminiscence the Happy Youngsters of Longfellow Home 1 describe living in a poet rich atmosphere. The Longfellow children joke about poetry and recall their grandfather a poet and Rev Samuel Longfellow a hymnist. They remember buttercakes called poetry cakes and the playful family culture around poetry.
A playful fragment from Henrietta Dana Skinner’s An Echo From Par nassus reflects a father’s affection. The verse hints at warm memory and humorous homage to family life in a compact, light tone.
The Mexican embassy states 14,000,000 Mexicans reside in Mexico with 12,000,000 speaking Spanish. Half of Spanish speakers read and write Spanish. the remaining 2,000,000 speak a dialect and few read or write either language. Washington Star.
North Carolina dairy expert John A. Arey urges treating pasture as a crop and improving land with fertilizer and weed control. He notes many fields are underused woods or rollings hills that wash or overflow, and that well managed pasture can yield $6 to $10 per acre when butter is produced, higher if milk is sold.
Pennsylvania cow testing has expanded 250 percent since 1924 per I O Sidelmann of the state college dairy extension service. Cows tested rose from 8 224 in 1924 to 20 212 last year as five year milk output per cow climbed from 7 309 to 7 776 pounds. Butterfat per cow passed 300 pounds in 1928 with 303 7 last year. Value per cow rose from 217 59 to 246 87. feed cost hovered near 100. Returns per dollar feed rose from 2 20 to 2 41.
Colorado Dairy Herd Improvement association reports dairy cows lose minerals during lactation and do not store minerals. Adding a mineral mixture extends production, improves calf crops, and reduces breeding issues. a mix of steamed bone meal, crushed limestone, and salt is suggested.
The article notes that a bull's breeding value cannot be determined until his daughters begin lactation. It explains many bulls are sold before their daughters can prove production, and suggests farmers exchange sires with neighbors to compare and optimize outcomes.
A carload of grade cows sold to an Eastern buyer at an average of 182 dollars. The article hints the final delivered cost likely exceeds this amount once freight and buying expenses are included, though one sale alone may not prove all grade cows are worth such prices.
The article portrays Szechwan as a self-sustaining region of about 60 million people living in a rugged, mountainous area where half the land is nonarable. It details farming practices from tenant livelihoods to rich estates, rice cultivation with terraced fields, and irrigation from glacial streams. It highlights the salt industry at Tszuu-ching, Chengtu’s historic role and irrigation system, and concludes with a note on a Christian college rising near the ancient city walls.
Pathfinder Magazine notes Marshall Islanders as expert navigators using breadfruit canoe trunks, sails, and rib belib charts of thin wood strips to map island positions and wind directions, enabling precise pacific ocean voyages for hundreds of miles.
Great Britain France Italy Portugal Spain and Belgium maintain African colonies and sphere of influence amid imperial competition and expansion activities.
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