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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1936
Page
9
A Louisville Courier-Journal item notes a professor remarks that people of an easily adjustable nature can fit into tight spaces and even into a car seat, implying humor about crowded seating.
The Ferry-Morse Seed Breeding Institute reports seed varieties with enhanced growth traits at stations in Rochester Michigan and Salinas California. It touts cucumbers eight inches longer, red beets, coreless carrots, rust resistance, and drought tolerance. The firm offers tested germination and purity foundation stocks through its Home Garden Catalog and displays in local stores.
A testimonial from Miss J Zebrowski of Peristal Conn describes relief from pimples after trying Cuticura products. The ad touts Cutienca Ointment and Soap for various skin irritations and invites readers to request a free sample by mail from Malden Massachusetts.
An old Louisiana reminiscence recounts a dramatic Napoleonic tale and frontier living. Albert and Herman Cook, Louisiana relatives, share frontier exploits from Morehouse Parish to Terrebonne, detailing wild game hunts, lumber work, canal building, and a loggerhead tale learned in youth.
Article by E R Gross, professor, explains how pressure water systems boost dairy milk yield by increasing cow water intake and ease of milking, cooling, and cleaning. It covers poultry pens, fruit and vegetable washing, spraying, irrigation, and optional fire protection. Discusses gravity supply and key design factors like pump size, storage, well capacity, and freeze protection.
Missouri Farmer notes experts recommend sowing Korean lespedeza with oats and applying about 125 pounds of phosphate per acre. The practice avoids plowing, protects soil from washing, and yields grain feed for horses along with fall pasture for cattle and sheep. Early grazing or mowing optimizes leaf production.
A Hoards Dairyman excerpt explains daily feed guidelines for fattening cows. It suggests 6 to 10 pounds daily of a mixture including ground corn oats bran with 50 pounds of high protein concentrates, or 12 to 14 pounds of alfalfa plus 20 pounds silage and 2 to 4 pounds of milking herd grain for excellent condition. It notes a goal feeder uses cow appetite and flesh gain to regulate grain, and poorer hay requires more grain and protein.
A Minnesota university authority states that animals intended for home slaughter should be healthy and reasonably fat. Government inspectors at packing plants ensure diseased animals do not enter the food supply, but farmers must use judgment. Well fed animals that have good finish yield better meat. meat from thin or fat animals varies in tenderness.
Prolonged wet weather last summer damaged oats used for seed across regions. Thatcher of the Ohio experiment station advises using two-year-old oats if in good condition and free of musty odor, while a writer in the Ohio Farmer notes JM crop was light in weight and much may not be suitable for seed.
A set of garbled lines mentions molasses for pies, a 21 pound weight, calcium gliconate in medicine, and a note about 860000 acres of cultivated land in the United States. The text mixes food items, medical ingredients, and agriculture without a clearer narrative.
Fashion notes describe blue silk dresses trimmed with red and blue printed silk on white. Bodices feature front button rows, collar, and fitted cuffs. skirts show a printed panel. novelty shoulder and hip yoke highlighted. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1851-B offered in sizes 14 to 42 with busts, price 15 cents. Orders go to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept in Chicago.
E. G. Mealer a sixty seven year old farmer of Jonesboro Arkansas begins school with his grandchildren. He hopes to learn to read and write driven by a love for the Bible and the ability to quote entire chapters learned by memory through being read to.
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