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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1931
Page
14
Prunes raisins figs bananas and pawpaws boost nourishment in fruit soups with stock milk or eggs. Strawberry orange soup prune and peach soup and apple and rice soup are described with steps to prepare and serve cold or hot. A prune stuffed with cream cheese and celery makes a simple salad served on lettuce with dressing.
A humorous piece on gwibb hunting describes elusive lagoons and egg sharing between mates. The male gwibbs drop eggs onto hunters after shots, with outcomes depending on whether egg or bullet wins. Imagery uses paper shells, cloves, and beans for a fanciful bird anatomy.
A reflective verse by Douglas Malloch from 1931 urges that joy should be kept as a pure peaceful memory. It warns that greed and doubtful deeds leave lasting, shameful traces in the soul, even if the world forgets. The poem emphasizes personal conscience and lasting accountability beyond years.
In London near Hungerford Stairs a young Dickens works long hours labeling pots of paste blacking. He endures ill health and hides his father’s debtors prison behind a secret, while a rough fellow named Bob Fagin taunts him as he clutches his side in sudden pain.
Fagin accompanies Charles to guide him home despite threats of exposure. Charles reveals nothing of his bedraggled life as he avoids letting Fagin learn that his father is in Marshalsea prison. Night falls as he returns to his attic lodging, concealing the truth.
In a 1931 Bell Syndicate piece, prominent New York women testify in court they “cut” a friend after a scandal. The writer questions calling themselves “friends” while abandoning her, arguing true friendship would stand by her in distress, not shield public embarrassment.
A guide to making sour sauces as summer accompaniments, with steps for Sauce Hollandaise using butter, eggs, lemon juice, paprika, and salt over gentle heat, plus a method for a vinegar based sour sauce and a pink beet finishing variation. Includes cautions on not overheating and notes about fish pairings and beet usage.
An interviewer asks what constitutes a perfect government. Senator Sorghum answers with a paradox: a system that discovers a perfect population to govern.
USDA urged prompt immunization of all susceptible swine on premises with known hog cholera infection. Frozen ground delays burial of carcasses, risking spread as new litters arrive and external hogs mix with infected sites. Proper serum and virus administration reassures owners their dogs are immune and won't contract the disease.
Extension livestock specialist A Ib Engebretson of the University of Minnesota says protein is essential for profitable pork production. Skimmilk or buttermilk fed at three pounds per pound of grain or about a gallon per pig daily covers protein needs. When these are unavailable, a mix of tankage and oilmeal is advised, either self-fed or blended with ground grain to prevent overconsumption, using eight to ten pounds per 100 pounds of grain.
Ten years of Iowa based research shows barn and house flies carry cholera more than man or pigeons. Flies traveled up to 18 miles, six miles daily. horse flies two miles with a team. Dr. N. McBride of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry urges farmers to burn excess straw and keep wet straw and manure piles from barns to reduce breeding.
Skimmilk and pasture grass are bulky feeds with modest nutritional value for pigs. Pigs cannot efficiently use large quantities of bulky feeds, and these sources provide excess protein for normal growth, making gains seem cheap but costly. Adding barley or corn improves protein value and overall efficiency.
Mares fail to produce fine foals due to idleness and poor feeding says L P McCann of Ohio State University. Regular light work yields best foals while heavy pulling or deep mud work hurts them. A ration for brood mares should include liberal legume hay and grain with four parts oats to one of bran.
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