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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1930
Page
6
Kansas State Extension soils specialist F B Wells explains green manuring to boost soil organic matter and fertility. Legumes such as red clover and alfalfa fix nitrogen from the air via root bacteria, while non legumes like rye and barley feed soil organic matter but rely on existing soil nitrogen.
The article explains that most potash in farm stock feed is excreted, with over 90 percent in urine. It notes that urine contains higher potash and nitrogen, is fully soluble, and thus has immediate nutritional value for crops. Minor exceptions occur in sheep wool and dairy cow milk.
Dr. W H Martin of the New Jersey agricultural experiment station warns that damping off in seed beds causes losses and can be prevented by sterilizing or replacing soil. He advises avoiding crowding and over wet soil, maintaining moderate air temperature and moisture, and ventilating. If disease occurs, ventilate, dry surface soil, and remove diseased plants with surrounding soil.
Experiments at Wooster Ohio station show mulch with clean straw raised potato yields. Mulched plots produced 866 bushels per acre while unmulched yielded 275. another mulch timing gave 823 bushels. Doctor Bushnell notes straw could be economical if cheap.
The notes discuss feeding bees with sugar for strength before clover honey flow, soil humus improving plowing, soybeans as an imperfect forage due to limited regrowth, and manure increasing yields in alfalfa corn and wheat rotations worth $8.26 per ton. It also covers top dressing alfalfa, ordering trees for spring planting, and preserving manure by covering piles to prevent washout.
G. T. Klein of Kansas State Agricultural College warns incomes from farm flocks depend on housing conditions. A modern poultry house combines scratching, feeding, laying, and exercising in one clean, well ventilated room with a 20 foot depth, partial south exposure, and a 10 inch straw ceiling to regulate temperature and keep litter dry.
A farm column suggests using lanterns to extend day length for laying flocks in winter. Gasoline lanterns with proper reflectors can safely illuminate poultry houses for those without farm electricity, aiding warmth and rations. The practice is growing on non electric Iowa farms and deserves trial.
Poultry advice covers turkey care in damp houses to prevent colds and losses, incubating turkey eggs, brooding poults at 80 degrees with warm water, antiseptic water cycles, and the value of pal milk in chick feed. It advises selecting breeding cockerels, using shavings for nest material, culling unproductive pullets, and preventing blackhead through artificial hatching and ground isolation.
The USDA report notes hard surfaced roads in Ohio boost motor truck use for hauling wheat from fields to country elevators. Trucks cut trip times to about two and a half hours, carrying 85 to 145 bushels, with weather less of a factor. Elevators provide delivery trucks, dates of threshing arranged with farmers, and night handling by commercial carriers, while railroads shift to larger 80 000 to 100 000 pound cars, raising carloads from 1100 to 1400 1600 bushels.
A column presents Q and A on dangerous driving in China and Canadian tourism. It notes capital punishment for reckless drivers in China, 12 million American motorists in 3.7 million cars visiting Canada spending about 180 million dollars, and tips on jack placement and oil filter renewal at 10 000 miles.
A practical dash light sensor uses a 1.5 volt flashlight bulb connected across the stop light wire to read voltage drop. If the stop light bulb is out the flashlight cannot glow, but the stop light still operates. extending the wire length increases brightness as needed.
The article discusses feeder road quality, weather readiness with skid chains, and the need to drain the carburetor to clear water from the fuel line. It notes U.S. highway costs in 1920 totaling about 1.675 billion dollars, with the federal share around 75 million.
Dr Caldwell based his remedy on treating the cause of constipation with herbs and pure ingredients. The syrup became the world’s popular laxative, praised for gentle action and pleasant taste, used for sluggish bowels in all ages and sold in drugstores.
Locust swarms turned on aircraft as pilots attempted to drive them away. Airplanes were attacked, radiators and engines clogged, forcing several descents. One aviator trying to scatter the swarm was forced down and found a locust in the air intake.
Mrs F H Walkinshaw of Lincoln Nebraska testifies that she has used Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for six years as a tonic and that it never failed to satisfy her. She states their whole family uses the remedies and recommends Favorite Prescription for weak women. She invites readers to send 10 cents to Dr Pierce's Clinic Buffalo NY for a trial bottle.
Deer have been brought from the West to replenish the big game population of eastern forests, but without marked success. Transfer of game from overstocked areas to places where it is needed is being done wherever practical.
A concise meditation on removing effort from daily life. The piece titles an approach to leisure as a mindful practice and suggests that true rest may require deliberate restraint and quiet reflection.
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