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Newspaper
Pendleton Times
Location
Pendleton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1923
Page
3
Farm Life advises that goslings a month old are hardy but need warm dry care early on. Begin with a corn meal and shorts mix, bread scraps, and eggs, plus starter grass. Move goslings to fresh ground daily, then free range by a month. Provide ample clean water and grazing, feeding twice daily early, then once daily. Fatness boosts market value, with corn and oats feeding ahead of holiday sales.
Geese and chickens do not breed well together. Geese dip water pails, dirtying water and driving hens from mash hoppers. A field near a pond suits geese, offering needed water for washing and easing feeding during summer.
Poultry points stress rapid cull practices, clean drafts, and fresh milk for chicks to prevent digestive troubles. Americans demand more poultry, making hennery work highly profitable. Start with a standard breed rooster, address equipment gaps, and delay feeding hatched chicks for up to 48 hours to boost egg production.
A USDA survey shows the average cost per head was about 100 dollars with six horses on 160 acre farms totaling around 600 dollars yearly. Feed and bedding dominate costs at about 60 percent, while labor, depreciation, and miscellaneous items follow.
The United States Department of Agriculture conducts experimental livestock work at 26 principal points outside Washington. It studies feeding and breeding, pest and predator control, and other livestock welfare topics under farm and range like conditions to ensure results are readily applicable by livestock producers.
A dozen rhubarb hills and a 25 to 50 foot row of asparagus are essential in every home garden. They provide large yields of tender shoots early in spring and supply laxative elements commonly needed that season.
Federal inspection records for 1922 show an average of one hog in seven with tuberculosis lesions among 39,416,439 hogs slaughtered. About 5,640,061 hogs were affected, with losses to pork value topping $2 million under lines of infection and control efforts.
Ohio experiment station results over three years show soy beans plus corn yield more grain per acre than corn alone when grown for hogging down. For silage the mix yields 11.2 tons per acre versus 8.2 for corn alone, with higher profits especially on poorer soils.
United States Department of Agriculture issues Farmers Bulletin 1314 by Tolley and Church based on over 500 grain and five stock farmers in the Corn Belt. It reports truck size, operating costs, hauling data, and pros and cons of ownership for farms with more than two years of motor truck use. Copies available from the USDA in Washington.
The San Jose scale draws increasing notice across Rhode Island, Ohio, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Idaho, Texas and New Mexico. The sulfur spray is less effective now, except in well-treated orchards. some states advise lubricating oil sprays. In Idaho heavy infestations line the Snake River shores and nearby islands. Emmett Parma and Boise reports show scale on apple, currant, pear, cherry, and rose despite care.
Farmers overlook the garden yet it can be the most profitable acreage. A good garden will nearly support a family and yield surplus cabbages for sale. The front door market offers a convenient option for buyers traveling by automobile.
The guide emphasizes placing ewes in strong condition before lambing to ensure robust lambs and higher milk flow. pasture and roughage strategies, supplements, and exercise are outlined to prevent weak lambs and reduce cull prices, with notes on feeding and management practices.
The article advises docking lambs and castrating males at ten days to three weeks to minimize shock. Do the procedure on a bright warm forenoon, monitor for weakness from blood loss, keep a well bedded pen, and ensure clean hands and a thoroughly disinfected knife.
Farmers battle hog stomach worms by restricting water and feeding swill laced with copperas. Give each hog one teaspoon of dissolved copperas in the swill twice daily and let them drink freely. Use a palatable base to mask the copperas taste if too strong.
Officials say all farm animal carcasses and offal from slaughtered animals should be burned or buried at least four feet deep to prevent attracting dogs that may carry infection. In areas with cholera present all dogs should be confined.
The passage blends diverse snippets from a periodical: a harsh critique of poachers in a poem, wartime price boosts for cotton and linen with a laundry cue, a short humorous note about a young recruit in barber shop banter, and an advertising line about Red Cross Ball Blue.
An old time advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Medicine with an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation. Sold by J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio.
A lighthearted note reflects golfers’ optimism for a strong season. The speaker hopes for solid play and predicts a good year ahead.
Reports to the U S Department of Agriculture indicate chinch bugs overwintered successfully and now threaten large areas of southern and central Illinois in 65 counties, southern Nebraska to Fur nas county, Boyd county in Nebraska, and eastern Kansas with above normal temperatures and dryness. Burning hibernating quarters is noted in Kansas.
Joseph, a factory worker in downtown Indianapolis, faced a broken washer on wash day after a blast at the Light and Heat Mill Street plant cut power citywide. He spent two hours diagnosing the flaw, then arrived late to work to find the outage explained his delay.
A Chicago Tribune quip shows a small boy starting school mishearing division as “divide up what she tells us with an awful lot of children.” The joke highlights early arithmetic confusion and classroom humor.
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