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Newspaper
Pocahontas County Sun
Location
Laurens, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
5
Work horses fed well for day aid in service
The article notes that work horses thrive on limited morning and noon forage with generous grain, delivering better service. It also cites codling moths as the parent to apple worms, causing annual damage to fruit growing interests estimated at three million dollars.
Farming tips from a Nebraska observer aids birds
A farmer notes a simple method to keep meadow larks and other birds from drowning when they drink. He suggests floats placed in farm water tanks to preserve green food for hens, with a patch of tape laid out to encourage growth through summer and fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Rat catching and wrens in farmyard tips in Prairie Farmer
A Prairie Farmer writer describes trapping rats with a compartment trap using canned salmon bait and drowning them. He notes nesting wrens need a half dollar sized opening and praises wrens as valuable insect destroyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Farmer
Practical farm tips and home economics roundup
Patch quack grass thrives with shallow spot removal and roof cleaning. Wisconsin cranberry yields reach 4400 dollars per acre under clean cultivation with big gains. Heating stoves stay rust free with graphite coating and vaseline. New York milk firm risks 6 million bottles annually. America hosts about 20 million dogs, many too numerous. Rural schools grow, roads improve, milk laws modernize. Homemade fly poison uses egg yolk milk sugar pepper. bluegrass lawns favored over busy beds. Missouri to trial fruit trees along highways, Elberta route. Government bulletin on semi arid bean growing available on request from Washington.
Industrial growth fuels Iowa cities with vast factory output
In 1912 one Iowa city reported 36 million dollars in manufactured product value, supporting three state educational institutions for a decade or more. The city boasted 200 factories including the world’s largest cereal mills and a major starch plant, employing over 7,000 workers and paying more than four million dollars in wages annually. Half the residents owned homes. A second city, smaller, expanded rapidly due to factories, with school population rising faster than peers. Another Iowa city ranked eighth nationally in animals slaughtered under federal inspection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
State University
State Agricultural College
State Teachers’ College
Iowa
Courtesy at the Colorado mine ends in mishap
A mine owner in Colorado posted a polite warning at the shaft mouth asking visitors not to fall. One visitor ignored the notice and was found at the first level, suffering dislocated ribs and a broken hostler, uttering a humorous resignation.
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Colorado
Ile
Begg Parton
Beg Parton
New York Post
Weeded Fields Boost Soil Moisture Retention in Nebraska Trials
Nebraska experiments show weed growth is the main cause of soil water loss, and preventing weeds outperforms mulching. A loose rough surface best preserves moisture, while crabgrass, an annual, dies back in winter. In corn, shading by tall plants deprives crabgrass of moisture. Clean cultivation in potato and bean patches is still needed to stop seed set.
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Nebraska
Kansas City Grain Dealers Buy Iowa Corn in Big Flow
Grain merchants in Kansas City and across Kansas are purchasing corn from Iowa to feed state livestock. They estimate daily external purchases at about 160000 bushels, totaling around 95000 dollars each day for six months. The 1913 Kansas corn crop is projected at 25 million bushels, far below 1912’s 174,225,000 and the driest year since 1871. only 42,605,000 bushels were produced in 1901.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Iowa
Dreuth
Colorado vacation costs and rail travel offer
Two weeks in Colorado is priced at more than the usual vacation, with room and board from seven dollars per weekend. Rock Island Lines promotes direct daily trips by modern all steel trains to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo with superb dining car service. Travel experts offer planning, hotel and camp information and handle trip details, requesting Colorado literature from Hal S. Ray, Assistant General Passenger Agent in Des Moines.
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Asyay
Rock Island Lines
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Rockies
Hal. S. Ray
Des Moines Life Building
Des Moines
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