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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1923
Page
7
The article urges women to escape duties by spending time in the open and features practical outdoor outfits and service suits designed for activity. It notes organdie frocks for younger girls, emphasizes simple lines over frills, and highlights furbelows, sashes, and versatile fabrics like organdie, swiss, and voile for vacation wear and outdoor usefulness.
A nutrition advice column urges readers to focus on calories and energy when buying groceries. It argues to avoid out of season items, favor nutrient dense foods, and warns that many housewives overspend on appealing but nutritionally weak produce.
A temperate note on how to treat a close friend. It urges printing faults in small type and virtues in large letters to honor loyalty. The quotation by Robert Burdette underscores selective praise within friendship.
A list of everyday advice covers cooking hacks and preservation methods. It suggests adding sugar to rinsing water for stiff fabrics, adding egg white to fix whipped cream, using cheesecloth under fish when pan cooking, cooling chocolate sauce with hot rice, and guidance on canning safety, fur care, icebox cleaning, oven maintenance, broom storage, odor control, stain removal, fruit rhubarb preserves, dampening garments with hot water and towels, and serving leafy greens to boost nutrition.
USDA survey on 3 025 litters in 1922 across Illinois Iowa and Indiana shows spring farrowed pigs lose 36 percent before weaning vs 24 percent in fall. Major causes include piglets crushed and weak born, with feed and care during gestation and farrowing critical to reducing losses.
The text describes docking lambs in the second week of life using two men and a sharp knife or a docking fron. One man restrains the lamb while the other locates the tail joint and cuts off the tail about one and a half inches from the body. A tight cord stops bleeding for eight to ten hours, then removed to avoid sloughing. An alternative uses hot docking irons to sear the tail and cauterize the wound.
Farmers neglect hens during summer or feed only scattered grain. Hens may lay well now but will perform poorly and lose profits in the next fall and winter without proper feeding.
The two main things are feed and moderate exercise. Wheat bran and oats form the best grain rations and are best fed together. Excessive corn and kafir can cause trouble at foaling time.
State and government stations across the country have proven that pure bred sows yield more efficient pork than grade or scrub sows. The finding was confirmed on a major hog ranch in the Northwest.
Terrance L. Hagen of Belview Redwood County raised a 450 pound Poland China barrow on a 50 by 50 foot lot and won grand champion at the Junior Live Stock Show in South St. Paul. He earned 60 cents a pound at auction, a $258 check, a gold medal, silver medal, silver trophy, a free trip to Chicago’s International Live Stock Exposition, and $80 in prizes.
USDA declares poultry kept in towns need not be a nuisance. Regular cleaning of dropping boards and reasonably clean yards prevent odor. No rooster required unless hatching is planned, and a rooster can be disposed of once hens are set. Eggs from a roosterless flock are infertile and store well.
A U S Department of Agriculture Beltsville farm study finds hens lay more eggs when allowed to select their own mash. Preferred mix for Leghorns is 66 parts cornmeal 26 meat scrap 4 wheat bran 4 wheat middlings. General purpose breeds respond to a milder mash higher in bran and ground corn.
The article stresses that Sudan grass yields depend on a well prepared field. It argues fall plowing and careful field listing before planting boost profits, noting hardiness does not justify shoddy treatment.
Cull pullets closely during August. Sell for fryers all those lacking proper development. Birds with soiled plumage long legs and shallow breasts belong in the poor class. Cull molting hens. They will molt till next spring. The best layers are still laying and will molt till fall.
Corn growing problems are studied by agricultural experiment stations in 36 states and three possessions. Principal lines of investigation include corn breeding adaptation of varieties tillage rate and date of seeding and use of fertilizers as reported to the USDA.
Dwarf Essex rape can be planted on rich soil in early summer and will provide a large amount of green feed for pigs chickens and other small animals. Avoid planting on thin land without generous barnyard manure application.
A bride recalls a kitchen disaster when she forgot shortening while making pies for guests. She overworked the dough, baked flat cakes, then filled tough crusts with peaches hoping they would rescue the dish. Guests nearly choked on the crust as embarrassment overwhelmed her.
A family learns three babies arrived at a house in the next block. Jane shares the news with excitement, telling a playmate that a batch of babies had come to the nearby house.
Milwaukee Journal notes a rake will seem light after a hard winter using a snow shovel, illustrating the strain of cold season chores.
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