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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1923
Page
3
Horticultural notes describe pear blight as a highly destructive bacterial disease affecting most regions. It enters through blossoms, kills affected twigs, and resists spraying. control focuses on pruning out diseased wood, burning trimmings, avoiding excessive nitrogen, and disinfecting cuts with corrosive sublimate solution. The best long term fix is resistant varieties, not yet available.
A Popular Science Monthly note explains using a 15 watt lamp and simple tin container heater to keep poultry drinking water unfrozen. It suggests a pall or pan with riveted can heater, watertight lid, and a metal socket to warm ten-quart water, enabling two eggs daily in cold weather.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture home economics note advises shoe care to extend life. Use shoe-trees or paper stuffing, slow drying, two-pair rotation, and regular cleaning. Rub leather with vaseline, apply proper polishes, and maintain shape to prevent wear and cracking.
Le Roy Cady, associate horticulturist at University farm, says fruit must be clean and neatly packaged to fetch top market prices. He notes appearance drives sales and cites the Ben Davis apple as an example of red color and good look that masks lower quality, yet it outsells many better varieties.
Red raspberry propagation uses shoots from old underground stems. Dig up these shoots in fall or early spring and plant them in the new patch. Handle shoots carefully and lift with a spade to avoid breaking the root ball.
A fragmented note warns that washing and injudicious spraying fail to prevent borers that damage young trees and discolor bark. It advocates mulching strawberry beds and using clean straw or hay as winter cover for grapes raspberries and even roses to protect plants.
The guide instructs poultry keepers to provide abundant green feed, especially in winter, with cabbage, turnips, beets, and potatoes among suitable options. It notes cooking some roots, using clover and alfalfa meals, sowing small green patches, and feeding fowls once daily the amount they will eat.
A home made powder can control lice on hens by mixing three parts gasoline one part stock dip and enough cement to make eight powders. Hold the bird with its head down and apply the mixture by working into the feathers.
Farmers are urged to stop selling pallets in fall as they are worth more for winter storage of meat. Officials advise keeping pallets for winter use to ensure ready eyes for seasonal needs and avoid market depletion.
A USDA prepared notice describes a hard honey cake and honey bran cookies for long storage. It provides ingredients for Hard Honey Cake and Honey Bran Cookies and instructions to test and adjust batter, bake, glaze, and cut for long keeping.
Iron colored things while still damp. To clean stains from steel knives rub them with powdered bath brick. Worn tablecloths may be cut into squares and hemstitched to make extra napkins. Olictottaprons are work sivory. They are wiped with a damp cloth when soiled in place of being sent to the laundry. Eggs boiled seven minutes are more nourishing than boiling three and a half minutes.
Wideawake dairy farmers report rising demand and adopt sanitary milk handling. The article describes building a modern milk house with monolithic concrete, proper foundation, ventilation, and a cooling tank to maintain clean, safe milk from cow to market.
Guidance from Harold Mieldman of the Colorado State Dairy Commission emphasizes purebred sires testing all cows, culling the poor, keeping top heifers, and feeding to achieve economical results. It advocates a test for tuberculosis and producing four clean dairy products while staying up to date with current practices.
The policy discussed aims to remove lazy workers and then feed the remaining better cows a ration to boost production and profits.
Readers are reminded that dairy cows endure tough labor, contrary to the common belief of an easy life. The piece argues cows perform strenuous tasks daily, challenging notions of domestic animal ease.
The report highlights dairy cows that freshen during the autumn season as top milk producers. It outlines breed, lactation stage, and management tips for optimizing yield.
Mrs G W Hall of Lima Ohio says years of illness were eased by Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports regained energy and ability to wash and walk longer distances, praising the remedy for relief of dragging fatigue and run-down feelings.
A gardener questions the idea of social equality by comparing hedge trimming to human potential. The orator argues against uniform suppression of differences, noting that some branches grow better. The scene collapses into a critique of self service success and individual variation.
Doctor R V Pierce highlighted for studying Nature's remedies and Indian practices. His Favorite Prescription, a female regulator, is praised for purity and results. A trial package is offered for 10 cents from Dr. Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo.
An advertisement touts Cuticura products including soap ointment and talcum as a complete beauty routine for face baby and dusting. The copy claims perfumes become superfluous and urges reliance on Cuticura Trig items. The snippet also references a light comic exchange about love and divorce.
Fragmentary quotation appears to reflect on self deception with a Latin phrase and philosophical phrasing. No clear article context or named entities detected.
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