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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1923
Page
11
A fragmentary verse caption notes the speaker's routine and daily sights. It contrasts the bustling world of business, new people, and novelty with the monotony of domestic items and tradespeople. The piece presents a vignette of everyday life from the back yard.
Extension professor F G Churchill notes Marion County farmers can use soybeans to improve soil and as a high protein supplemental feed for livestock. Planting with corn, hay, silage, and seed production are covered, with variety recommendations and yields.
A devotional meditation on the hunger for human contact and the incarnation. It argues that true humanity is shown in Jesus who shares all human experiences, including temptation and sorrow, yet without wrong choice. The piece likens God coming as Jesus to provide a tangible, relational path to know the Father, referencing a storm and a child seeking “skin on.”
An Iowa agricultural report notes 230000+ acres of corn with soybeans planted in 1912, up 122 percent from the prior year, based on 79 county agents. By 1922 seed soybeans reached about 9000 acres in Iowa, roughly double the year before. The report highlights future soybean use for oil and meal, with Farm Bureau efforts and county shipping associations pooling orders for 20000 acres in Marion County.
The article extols Mr and Mrs Bobwhite and their many young as valuable helpers to farmers by consuming waste grain, harmful weeds, and insects. It notes their diet includes crabgrass and other weeds and lists pests they reduce, estimating each quail’s value to a farm in weed seed and insect destruction.
The article debunks the belief that black newborn pig teeth signal harm and urges not to remove them for that reason. It notes teeth are sharp and can injure sows or piglets, so they should be nipped off at birth with careful handling.
The note explains that broodiness reduces egg production and can be ended by close confinement. A wire bottom coop under a shade tree, about three feet high, is used with ample feed and water. Do not starve the bird, as she must be fed again before recovering. With these conditions most hens abandon broodiness in three to five days.
Rev L R Bobbitt of Glenwood recalls visiting the Little Brown Church in the Vale near Bradford Iowa during a summer tour of Iowa Falls and Cedar Rapids. The piece recounts the church history 1855 founding 1862 building 1864 dedication and notes the hymn The Church in the Wildwood written by Dr William Pitts in Wisconsin then taught in Bradford Iowa. It highlights 25000 visitors last year 98 weddings and that the church doors stay open for travelers with pictures and manuscripts on display.
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