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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
7
Mrs Mary Sends of Wyandotte Michigan says months of pain and weakness stopped after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She reports relief after three bottles of the remedy and two of the wash and urges other women to try it.
The Straits Times notes emeralds have become the rarest and most costly gemstones as prices quadruple since prewar levels. Scarcity stems from 95 percent of world supply coming from Colombian government mines stalled for seven to eight years. A five carat stone recently sold in London for 3500 dollars per carat, while Anakie Queensland yields velvety green sapphires seen as possible emerald substitutes.
United States Department of Agriculture investigators call for a central city terminal to group rural route operators. A joint stock terminal could cut overhead while improving transfer of goods between routes and reduce deliveries to congested districts.
The U S Department of Agriculture issued Farmers Bulletin No 1090 on rabbit raising care and feeding. It notes rabbits offer cheap meat for home tables and markets with examples from Kansas City Iowa and Ohio showing profits and demand. Recipes are included and the bulletin is available free from the divisions of publications.
Regular whitewashing should be a biannual care practice for barns and animal buildings. A government published recipe uses unslaked lime slaked with boiling water, salt, ground rice paste, and hot water, strained and applied by spray for sanitary coating.
In Pittsburgh Mrs. Ernest Hirsch reports a novel foster parenting experiment. Two doves incubated a full sized hen egg for weeks and hatched a chick. The dove pair alternated sitting on the egg and finally produced a chick that struggled to emerge from the shell.
Direct sunlight is a key disinfectant but its supply cannot be controlled and it cannot reach all parts of a building. Liquid disinfectants used as a spray with a force pump are more effective inside. Disinfectants that fail to destroy germs are useless.
Acid phosphate applied with oats in a five year rotation at the Ohio station increased crop yield by 944 bushels over 24 years of trials. Oats without fertilizer yielded 32 bushels, while a light acid phosphate boost produced 41 bushels. Other fertilizers proved less profitable.
The long serving Methodist preacher in Missouri, described as the Henry Ward Beecher of Missouri, recalls his first sermon told in Virginia mountains. An elder in the backwoods humorously preferred a small lump of sugar to a whole bucket of sap, illustrating local speech.
A motorist asks the correct time. a farmer replies with a plain answer and humor about time and math. The exchange turns on a simple 2 37 p m reading and playful math notions.
The article explains alfalfa should not be kept in the field past the proper maturity stage. In normal seasons it should be left four to six hours to allow evaporation of excess water, except during drought when dry matter is unusually high.
Instructions warn of currant worms on currants and gooseberries. Apply a green tinted mix of Paris green and air-slaked lime when foliage is moist, then dust over plants. Arsenate of lead spray is also noted as effective.
The piece argues manure money value equals bank dollars and urges spreading barnyard manure on fields soon. It warns warm rains quickly lessen fertilizer value and emphasizes timely application to maximize benefit.
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