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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1927
Page
3
The article explains how a cow’s dentition reveals age from birth to ten years. It traces development from two temporary incisors at birth through multiple stages of permanent incisors, intermediates, corner teeth, and pinchers, noting wear and contour changes each year.
A guide notes flies disturb dairy cows in summer reducing milk yield. It prescribes a spray from coal tar dip, fish oil, coal oil, whale oil, oil of tar, and soap mixed in lukewarm water to spray 40 cows in five minutes. Two workers with a two wheeled cart can treat 40 cows twice daily for ten days at about one cent per cow per day.
Profit in dairying hinges on selecting economical feeds. State prices mislead. determine feed value locally by calculating cost per pound of total digestible nutrients and digestible crude protein. Use simple arithmetic and feed analyses for safe ration choices.
The notes emphasize fall freshening for higher milk and butterfat, inherited milking ability, and raising calves from lost cows. It advises silos for ten cows and green feed for winter, warns against dirty dish rigs, and stresses cleanliness, prompt cooling, and low temperature storage. It also covers feeding odor-producing materials after milking to avoid taint.
Agriculture expert Prof M A Blake of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station says fall planting suits cherries best but spring planting risks poor growth and winter injury for apples and peaches. Wet sticky soil or overly dry conditions ruin root setting, so firm dry packing is essential.
A Rural New Yorker writer notes a homemade grader is feasible but depends on mechanical skill. A crude V shaped belt trough with motor can move apples to bins as gaps widen. wooden frames provide necessary rigidity. Common grades include everything over 2 1 4 inches and a 2 1 2 inch standard.
Wettable sulphur sprays are increasingly favored across regions for better disease control and less plant injury than standard lime sulphur. Lime-sulphur moves in soluble form and can penetrate leaf and fruit tissues, causing interior injury if the skin is broken, while it forms compounds with arsenate of lead that burn, though hydrated lime can mitigate this issue.
A 1926 report shows fruit immersed for one minute in a hydrochloric acid bath to remove spray residues. Treated fruit stored up to five months with no injury and even improved finish on Rhode Island Greening. Acid cost per bushel under two cents, using simple splint baskets and hogsheads.
White pine blister rust is caused by a fungus and spends part of its life on currant and gooseberry bushes. To control the disease remove all currant and gooseberry bushes from near white pine plantings. The disease shows on pine as bright orange-yellow pustules breaking through the bark after establishment.
The advertisement touts Tetcher's Castoria as a safe substitute for Castor Oil Paregoric Teething Drops and soothing syrups used for babies for over 30 years. It stresses no narcotics and proven directions on each package with physician endorsements.
Thomas A. Dwer of New York Rotary Club recites a banquet anecdote about a sick businessman. The doctor offers a cure for 200 dollars, but the patient reveals a higher bid from the undertaker. The joke centers on priorities and marketing in business.
A new product called minute Jelly uses pure fruit or berry juice boiled down and mixed with fruit pectin to form jelly. Pour the concentrated juice with water and sugar as directed, boil briefly, and set in glasses for delicious homemade jelly. One bottle yields two glasses and a sample offer lists grape mint pineapple orange raspberry strawberry or blackberry.
John Brawley post of the American Legion raised funds and bought paint then wore overalls to repaint the Red Cross building in Charleston West Virginia in a single afternoon.
South Charleston, Ohio, a small commission city, asserts it is the smallest town in the United States operating under a commission form of government.
Advertising copy touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a powerful treatment for tender aching feet with relief from soreness odors corns and callouses. It claims rapid results and a money back guarantee for use on varicose veins and related foot troubles.
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