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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1921
Page
7
The article outlines duckling brooding methods and heat management. It covers hot water pipe systems, hover heat with gradual temperature reduction, and the use of individual brooders. It notes confinement around heat sources, seasonal adjustments, and layout details for single and double brooder houses.
The article explains plant nutrition, noting iron and magnesium are abundant in most soils while carbon hydrogen and oxygen come from air and water. It highlights five limiting elements nitrogen phosphorus potassium calcium and sulfur and their varying soil availability.
Foliage crops like lettuce kale and spinach tolerate partial shade but require at least three hours of sun daily. Fruiting plants such as tomatoes and eggplants need a minimum of two hours of sunshine per day.
United States Department of Agriculture issues Farmers Bulletin 1123 on a simple method for growing hardwoods like black walnut. A Indiana farmer buried nuts in a shallow pit through winter, then planted sprouted nuts in tilled soil in spring. Precautions include drainage, rodent protection, and frequent spring inspection to plant promptly.
Dr Seaman A Knapp who started farm demonstration work in the South advised field agents to accept farmers moon and star farming beliefs if they will still try new methods. He urged not to waste breath arguing over such views.
Sheep and large lambs trouble young trees and grape vines by eating the leaves. In an old orchard they help keep down grass and weeds. Both orchards and vineyards do better when the ground is kept cultivated clean.
Early interdrilled crop cultivation should be deep to prune roots, while later passes are shallow. Destroy weeds when small and soil is dry. The practice helps conserve soil moisture.
Windbreaks curb topsoil movement and reduce dust storms by slowing wind in sandy or fine soil regions. Their use is especially beneficial where soil is loose or highly erodible.
Farmers urged to focus on improved varieties and growing methods to produce marketable beets carrots and parsnips. The article notes quality differences arise from variety selection and cultivation techniques.
This lesson notes Jesus teaching in Nazareth on Luke 4 16 21 and the Judgment of the Nations in Matthew 25 31 46 stressing the gospel for the poor the freed captive and the spiritually blind. It urges applying the scriptures to transform society and warns against rejection of Jesus message.
A reflection urging teachers and worshippers to stay connected with humanity and divinity. The speaker warns that losing touch with people distances one from holiness, as expressed in Uncle Henry's Sayings.
Quoted Luke 8 11 urges sharing excess with the needy. The verse highlights the moral duty to aid neighbors who lack coats and food reflecting religious exhortation on compassion and almsgiving.
A Detroit Free Press quotation muses that if people remembered debts as well as they remember creditors, friendships would endure longer. The fragment reflects a reflection on memory, obligation, and social ties from the era.
The Cuticura Toilet Trio advertises three products soap ointment and talcum powder for daily use to cleanse soothe and fragrance. Priced at 25 cents everywhere with no toilet table complete without them.
Ten year old Maurice vies for the pretty new teacher by winning her affection with tickets. John offers a church concert ticket, Helen a dancing class party ticket, and Maurice finally presents a Mason supper invitation hoping for her company.
A Chicago hunter returns from a spring expedition and proclaims lassoing mountain lions a superior cure to sassafras tea for spring fever. The writer notes lingering doubt that the disease favors neither remedy and remains skeptical.
The shortest English monarch reign belonged to Lady Jane Grey who ruled for nine days in 1553 before her execution. Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII, then ascended the throne.
Guide advises using good soap and water with Red Cross Ball Blue to rinse handkerchiefs and revive their appearance after laundry.
Harvard experiments show dense crowds may load structures far more than engineers expected. Forty men 163 pounds each in a six by six foot box produced 181 pounds per square foot, suggesting New York elevated railways and similar spaces could bear closer to 181 pounds per square foot than the 45 pound estimate.
Sir James Barrie congratulates J W McLaren on his Edinburgh premier of Heir of Hermiston adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson. Barrie notes Stevenson wrote a long manuscript play The Hanging Judge that was never published.
Witty exchange in the St Paul Dispatch features a playful proposal about marriage and attire. The couple humorously debates keeping or losing clothes to avoid fashion loss and to stay in style.
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