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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
10
A White Plains supreme court judge urges husbands to treat wives as during courtship, avoid spats, and show kindness even when it costs a golf game. The judge reprised his message by telephoning his wife during a trial for their forty second wedding anniversary. Bell Syndicate 1931.
A 1931 Western Newspaper Union column urges women to master thrifty meal planning to feed six to eight on a 15 cent soup. It stresses nourishment, home economics, and shopping training for girls, noting men work and women manage household budgets while seeking communal aid and shared strategies.
A 1931 humorous note from McClure Newspaper Syndicate via WRU Service cautions readers to avoid sitting in a rocking chair while playing cards. The superstition warns of inevitable bad luck and misfortune.
A guide to chowder types from fish to corn and tomato noting two main classes milk and non milk. It covers stock making from fish heads and tails, seasoning with onion celery parsley thyme and Worcestershire sauce, and using salt pork for cost effective nutrition.
Dorothy Edmonds presents a tale where a boy and Mr Jogalong observe a tiny ruby throat hummingbird near honeysuckle as the creature vanishes and reappears. The lesson shows wonder is everywhere when one pauses to look, with the boy returning home to supper and realizing the Land of Wonders lies in perspective.
Colorado Agricultural College extension outlines a fair share feeding contract for cattle and sheep amid low prices and financing challenges. It covers inventory value, feed pricing, ration, handling, interest, labor, stock losses, and joint sharing of shipping and selling expenses, with examples for 1,000 lambs, 100 two year old steers, or 100 calves.
Kansas farmers adopt pit silos as a cost effective feeding method. Guidance covers foundation three feet deep, concrete walls, above ground protecting wall, plaster with cement and sand mix, added hydrated lime, reinforcement if needed, and hoisting requirements to remove silage efficiently.
Trials at experiment stations show skimmilk worth about 29 cents per hundred pounds when corn is 56 cents and tankage is free, rising to about 32 cents at 70 cent corn. Whole milk is roughly twice skimmilk in value for fattening hogs, but less suitable for young pigs due to fat content and digestion issues.
Soybean hay cut at the right time provides good nutrients for fattening lambs. Do not feed an entirely bulky ration. include concentrate. A mix of corn and oats with soybean hay yields a strong ration, and with corn silage a protein-rich grain carrier like oil meal or wheat bran improves economy.
A reader proposes an easier fly deterrent for sheep using a salt trough lined with pine tar. By smearing tar at the entry openings where sheep lick salt, flies are repelled and labor reducing catching intervals emerge as the tar contact discourages gadflies.
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