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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
3
A humorous exchange unfolds in a grocer’s shop as Mrs. Brown confronts the clerk about eggs she hid last week. She mocks his almanac excuse and mocks the date driven hens, insisting the 1920 card misleads the fowl and hints at improper freshness.
A satirical excerpt shows a husband pressuring his wife to vote while quarreling about her ballot folding. The dialogue lampoons marital disagreement and suffrage expectations, highlighting gender voting norms.
An army of alley cats was released at the Highland Park Zoo in Pittsburgh to control a rat infestation. The move caused chaos as lions, tigers, leopards, and other big animals reacted fearfully while elephants, hippos, and rhinos showed caution.
Senator Sorgum faces a quip about money in politics with a dry reply about unequal sums. The exchange highlights persistent opposition to wealth influence in the political process.
A California grower designs a beet harvesting machine using padded wheels to lift beets, with groters loosening soil ahead and dual knives trimming tops as the beets are pulled. The drag replaces hand pulling to save time and effort in profitable beet crops.
The article estimates silo capacities for dairy feeding. It notes 40 pounds of silage per cow per day for six months yields roughly 7,500 pounds or four tons per silo. It sets feeding surface needs at four to five square feet per cow, with ten cows needing about 50 feet of surface and diameters of eight to eighteen feet for groups up to forty cows.
After army worms invade a field there is little that can be done once inside. A deep furrow about eight inches is plowed and squared on one side. Every ten to fifteen feet, a shallow posthole is dug and as worms gather in the trench they are sprinkled with kerosene. Prompt trench treatment is crucial and can be very effective.
The article notes that with good pasture and forage, feeding grain to ewes and lambs is rarely economical unless lambs are being prepared for a summer market. It also suggests pumpkins planted in cornfields as an ideal supplement for fall pastures.
An illustration shows a low cost home built clod crusher to smooth lumpy ground and kill weeds. Built from two by eight and two by six lumber with a four by four between the floats and teeth on its lower side, it can be bolted and operated by a lever. The device is said to work well in cornfields just before emergence and to shear weeds more effectively than a drag.
Doctor Pearl explains that among high producing hens two classes exist: those passing forth high laying ability to daughters and those that do not. Selection by trap nest identifies high layers and mating them to sons of high layers, testing progeny for egg production. Observers agree the male bird greatly influences offspring quality, and a good hen mated to a poor male yields poorer results.
An agricultural college guide says dig potatoes on a clear day when soil is dry enough to prevent clinging. Leave them in the field just until dry, then store in a cool, moist, dark place. For home storage, do not pile deeper than about three feet to reduce decay risk.
The guide states portable poultry houses require floors at least one foot off the ground with open space beneath. Permanent broader houses should have cement floors with doors and windows screened by one inch mesh wire. If these precautions are followed, rats and weasels usually cause little damage.
Farmers mix salt with air slaked lime to prevent indigestion and bloat when stock move to new pastures. Some farms dip tobacco stems in a strong salt brine and withhold extra salt for the sheep to control parasitic infection and benefit ewes and lambs.
A humorous tale from Herman recounts a small orchestra hired for dances and funerals. At a parvenu host’s gathering, the fiddlers tuned up before a guest complained the music was a rotten piece. The grandfather explains they are simply tuning.
An aspirin advertisement touts Bayer as genuine and safe with a long user history, urging consumers to buy unbroken Bayer packages with directions for headaches and other pains. The piece notes small tin boxes of 12 tablets and mentions larger druggist packages.
Mrs Minnie Mitchs Ell of Harrington Maine endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for backache bearing down pains and related symptoms noting improved regularity and ability to work The advertisement claims the remedy helps many women with displacements inflammation irregularities and nervous prostration and offers confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass
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