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Newspaper
Roland Record
Location
Roland, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1930
Page
8
A summer boarder declares love for the farmer's daughter and asks to marry her. The farmer interrupts, saying share your troubles later while he handles two ailing horses. The scene captures rural quarrel and romantic tension in a terse exchange.
A comic exchange where an actress boasts she is wanted in big cities and an amused actor quips about charges as he conforms to the banter. The piece reads as a light theatre skit and showcases wordplay on being sought after.
A reflective verse notes cats respond to nature with sharp or flat sounds but the most cherished sound remains a cat’s purring. The speaker rhapsodizes over the familiar familiar comfort of a cat beside them.
A dialogue questions if a movie actress is vain and superior, noting she appears so only to live up to the sensational reputation crafted by publicity experts. The exchange hints at performance vs. public image.
Ernest recounts a street rumor about a stage door confrontation with a chorus girl. He says Jerry waited for a performer, a rival grandson attacked him, leaving a black eye.
Citizens greet a familiar figure as the local member of the secret police becomes a widely known presence in the community.
A playful dialogue shows a man asking a woman to dinner with a lighthearted reply about eating heartily. He comments on price, and she agrees with a humorous warning that she eats like a horse.
A speaker laments having his writings repurposed by another, expressing disdain for the person who reuses his punchlines while praising the value of original work and the satisfaction of seeing his own words in print.
A gleeful exchange unfolds as an elderly lady joshes a man by claiming descent from Eve. He blunders in return, receiving a humorous compliment about his appearance. The lighthearted toast reflects social etiquette and playful banter of the scene.
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom from perennial weed pests, says Charles I. Rogers former assistant botanist and deputy state entomologist at Colorado Agricultural College and author of Canada Thistle and Russian Knapweed and Their Control Copies of the bulletin may be obtained by writing to the Colorado Experiment Station. The bulletin notes Canada thistle and Russian knapweed as among the worst weeds in agriculture and urges clean seed, cleaning equipment, and preventing seed production through mowing spraying burning of mowed weeds selective cultivation clean fallow crop rotation and smother crops.
The USDA explains cutworms, the caterpillars of night flying moths, damage young tomato, cabbage, lettuce and melon plants near ground. They feed mainly at night and over winter in soil. Remedies include poisoned bran bait using dry bran white arsenic or paris green syrup or molasses and water.
A historical note explains the onion maggot pestffects onions year round. The maggot is pale and footless, feeding inside onions until it becomes a small fly. The remedy recommended is Bordeaux oil emulsion with a 1% oil to Bordeaux mix, used to spray young plants weekly for five to six weeks.
Practical tips from a rural paper cover mulching to boost yields in dry conditions. Advice includes avoiding deep planting for soybeans, killing mustard to prevent seed spread, early control of cutworms with poison bran mash, and destroying screw worm maggots by burning carcasses. North Dakota introduces the Golden Bantam hybrid corn Golden Sunshine.
A terse dialogue reveals an employee boasting of chasing two customers in a car sale setting. The boss assigned the task, leading to a fatal or near-fatal incident minutes later, prompting investigation into the workplace conduct and safety.
A beggar asks for shoes from a well dressed woman. She notes his current shoes look fine, while the beggar complains they undercut his trade. The exchange captures a sharp social moment in a crowded street scene.
A playful line contrasts an absent minded professor with a Godiva reference as Yolande recalls lending ten dollars that the lender forgot. The quip highlights memory lapses and easy money notions in a humorous exchange.
Dr. J Willard of Ohio State University says Sudan grass offers a promising emergency pasture and hay crop. It grows rapidly resists drought and can feed dairy cows on nearly one acre per cow on good land, with sowing rates of 20 to 30 pounds per acre and ready for grazing by mid July.
Farmers increasingly recognize matching load to tractor power. Most implements hook easily for full loads while wide spike-tooth harrows complicate field transfers. Manufacturers offer simple on farm hitch plans and folding eveners of steel to pass through gates and handle unusually wide equipment.
A decade of Iowa based research shows barn and house flies spread hog cholera more than humans or pigeons. Colored flies traveled up to thirteen miles, with six miles in 24 hours. horse flies followed a team two miles. Dr. C N McBride notes wet straw and manure piles provide breeding sites and advises farmers to bale straw and plow under remaining litter.
Wisconsin experiment station field tests show barnyard manure on ground loses up to 60 percent of nitrogen in four days due to evaporation. Losses rise in warm or windy weather and with partly decomposed manure. Plow and disk promptly to work manure into soil, with disking within 24 hours after spring spreading on corn stalk ground.
The article promotes alfalfa as the best hay plant for all livestock classes and discusses soil needs for alfalfa and corn yields. It notes sweet clover as biennial and unsuitable for permanent pasture, and stresses planning production and marketing to raise farmer income. It cites historic use of legumes since Roman times to maintain soil productivity.
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