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Newspaper
Panguitch Progress
Location
Panguitch, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
2
Detailed instructions for building a tether tennis setup from simple materials. Includes crafting a water wheel model and paddle components, mounting the wheel, constructing a tether ball, rackets, and a pole for suspension. Describes court layout, serving, scoring, and play rules for two players on a porch or shaded area.
The US Department of Agriculture urges control of the stable fly with measures including the Hodge fly trap and protective coverings for livestock. It describes trapping design, protective mixtures, and bedding and straw practices to reduce breeding in the grain belt and safeguard horses cattle sheep hogs and humans.
A. C. Smith notes damp weather harms poultry health by moist litter. Ventilation helps, but during prolonged damp spells litter should be removed and replaced with dry material to prevent colds and roup, avoiding large losses in birds and egg production.
Plum trees require little pruning. For young trees shorten the strongest shoots that outgrow others to prevent unbalancing form and symmetry.
The advice recommends planting a wind-break on the north side of an orchard sited on elevated land to shield trees from cold winds and reduce windburn. It emphasizes selecting sturdy, closely spaced trees to form an effective barrier and conserve orchard health.
Advice on poultry care emphasizes separating an old mother hen from chicks at night and ensuring laying. It urges providing grit daily, offering a quart per fifty fowls three times weekly, planting green fodder in the yard, and selecting early chicks for winter layers. It warns against letting birds roost outdoors in summer to prevent freeze losses and stresses clean, ventilated houses.
A practical guide to mixing a dry laying hen mash using cornmeal wheat bran ground grains and alfalfa or clover. It suggests keeping wheat bran for laxative benefits and adding salt beef scraps and bone meal for egg yield. Feed in a hopper or a shallow box covered with half inch mesh to minimize waste.
The article advises evaluating your male birds for desirable traits and, if lacking, purchasing superior males from the same breed. It also suggests avoiding excessive inbreeding by introducing birds from another flock. For show stock tighter inbreeding is needed, while utility birds need less. Careful selection and study of matings are essential for best results.
Emphasizes the need for strong, vigorous breeding stock and reliable ancestry of breeding fowls to ensure they are good producers. Encourages buyers to select birds with proven vigor and proven lineage for better stock quality and productivity.
A passerby informs a cyclist that his headlamp has ceased functioning. The exchange unfolds with pompous phrasing about illumination and echoes a playful Tit Bits moment as a boy shouts the lamp is out. The scene ends with the cyclist realizing the simple truth.
A father disciplines Tommy for striking his younger brother and learns the boy’s reply about politeness during a spanking. The child quips that his violence was prompted by politeness he could not mention at the time, reflecting on manners.
Fragmented reminiscences show Grace noting seeds change color as her teacher has not taught, while Harold and William boast of a day’s sport. A visitor wonders if fish go in schools, joking about breaking up an infant class in a National Monthly vignette.
An Englishman at a New York boarding house overhears a boarder struggling for a word. A storyteller recalls a dachshund, unable to name it, and the Englishman exclaims with delight that it is a Frankfurter. The moment underlines humor over a simple misnaming.
A school girl wrote a 250 word essay about an automobile and the uncle narrates most of the content. The tale includes a farmer and a tobacco joke leading to a punchline about biting it in the next town, reflecting rural humor in the period.
The tailor asks Willie if the shoulders should be padded while Willie replies no pads the pants. This humorous exchange from the People’s Home Journal highlights a playful miscommunication about fit and fashion in a domestic setting.
A brief dialogue from Boston Transcript hints at a couple adjusting to married life in their new home. She urges him to check bills while he expresses disbelief at their status. The snippet reflects domestic life tone of the era.
A Harvard professor quips that a girl at a telephone booth is a charged witchboard. The line, populer in the Loulaville Courier-Journal, jokes about calling a telephone operator a live wire and decorum.
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