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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1938
Page
3
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Jap refusal to reveal naval plans triggers talk of a world arms race led by the United States with Britain France and Japan in competition. The President may push to enlarge battleships to 43 000 or 45 000 tons and to push a Nicaragua canal to avoid Panama locks while Congress debates naval limits.
Japanese forces reportedly smashed a Chinese army of 15,000 in central China and forced its retreat across the Yellow River during one of the era’s fiercest battles.
Spatches from Salamanca report General Franco assembling an army of a million men for a spring offensive to end the civil war. Observers expect a southern push toward the Mediterranean to split government-held territory as Britain weighs Mussolini links. Roosevelt asks Congress for 250 million dollars more relief to aid three million unemployed as a relief bill moves.
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, 59, head of the American Red Cross and close ally of Presidents Roosevelt Taft and Wilson, dies in Washington. Also noted is O. McIntyre, New York writer, passing away. The House adopts the conference report on the administration crop control bill 263 to 135, sending it to the Senate. The measure expands soil conservation payments and uses acreage allotments and marketing quotas to stabilize prices, with a granary system and loans to farmers in bumper years.
Senate debate centers on Senator Bulkley’s eight billion dollar toll highway proposal to build ten superhighways funded by tolls and land leases. Separately, a drought year looms as early dust storms hit Kansas Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle, threatening wheat yields and moisture needs. Joseph Ryan of ILA accuses CIO of ties to the Communist party prompting a $50 000 investigation by a Senate committee into subversive influences in the merchant marine.
President Roosevelt urged mass producers to lower prices without harming wages. United States Steel extended its wage and eight hour day terms with the CIO. Simultaneously, the firm cut the price of cold rolled steel sheets by $4 a ton, marking a first price break in the sector.
United States Department of Agriculture researchers report two of the tested hybrids may be valuable for farms. A Rhode Island Red x White Wyandotte cross and a Barred Plymouth Rock x Rhode Island Red cross outperform poor breeding stock, with higher egg numbers, heavier eggs, and reduced broodiness. Red Wyandotte females and white males allow easy sexing at hatch.
A Wisconsin Experiment Station study cited in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association reports that mastitis most often involves the two rear udder quarters in milk cows. No significant difference exists between right and left halves. rear quarters show higher infection due to proximity to barn filth, greater movement, and higher milk output contributing to susceptibility.
W. R. Chapline of the U S Forest Service told the International Grasslands conference in Aberystwith Wales that 728 million acres of range land support 55 million head of livestock and are depleted by overgrazing. Restoration will take years of determined cooperative effort.
The article explains that eggs should be stored at about 55 degrees to prevent germ development and preserve interior quality without causing sweating. A well ventilated basement is usually the most desirable place to hold eggs on a farm.
A Wallaces' Farmer writer urges flushing sows beginning about ten days before breeding. Keep them in a rising nutrition state with corn or similar feed plus tankage skim milk buttermilk or mixes. A flushing blend uses tankage linseed oil meal and alfalfa meal fed up to three quarters of a pound daily.
A fragment argues that certainty builds character and direction in life. It claims half‑knowing leads to doubt when challenged, while firm belief enables progress, bridge building, tunneling, steering ships, and avoiding tragedy.
A short quotation by Bovee on planning with vigor and mapping possibilities as probabilities.
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