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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1916
Page
7
A speaker urges residents to extend personal hygiene to surroundings, highlighting backyards, yards, barns, and public spaces as unhealthy and dirty. Emphasizes health risks, flies, and disease, urging collective action to elevate town cleanliness and avoid filthiness.
Customer near Rolfe Iowa cannot finish payments on piano contract. The piano will be turned over to the first satisfactory party who will pay the balance in cash or at $5 per month. Schmoller and Mueller Piano Co Omaha Nebr 4-11.
An old advertisement promotes Kickapoo Worm Killer lozenges as a laxative candy to treat worms in children. It urges calm care, plain food, exercise, early bed, and monitoring stools, claiming the product will remove worms.
Iowa State College animal husbandry experts urge good care for pigs with pasture and liberal corn feeding. A mix of alfalfa, rape, clover or bluegrass plus grain supports growth, with 3.5 pounds per 100 pounds live weight. Young pigs may include meat meal or tankage, or wheat middlings, and by 125 pounds can gain well on corn alone if pasture is ample. Shade is important, with tree shade best though straw or shed shade can substitute.
Iowa State college advises farmers to start a corn breeding plot this spring to select the best producing ears. The ear-to-row test compares seed ears side by side, one ear per row, aiding selection. Information on plot layout available from J. Buchanan, secretary of the Farmers' Co operative Experiment Association in Ames, Iowa.
The guide notes how room size affects wallpaper impact. It recommends pike paper for brightness in light rooms and cautions against it in small or dark spaces. It suggests yellow for northern exposures, green on blue for sunny rooms, and pink night shade for warmth, emphasizing background role over furniture.
Clay county adopts a comprehensive road improvement plan based on local gravel. The 163 mile system will be graded and gravelled over 1916 and 1917 with farmer labor and county funds. Each mile costs about 1500 dollars, funded by current county finances and local contributions.
Iowa State College researchers urge farmers to plant alfalfa, noting it pays and should be grown. Trial plots this spring are advised with spring sowing and nurse crops to ensure a quick, reliable start. Alfalfa offers strong yields, vigorous pasture in hot weather, and boosts dairy milk supply.
Renewal of State Certificate No. 835 describes the Percheron stallion Jumeau Neuf 79514 owned by G. W. Murray Estherville IA and F E Seaman Bradgate IA. Registered in the Stud Book of America and of France, color grey with specific marks foaled 1909. Examined March 28 1916 by Dr R G Ross and certified free from diseases. Terms $15 to insure mare in foal service fee due when mare is in foal. Owners Murray and Seaman. Bradgate Iowa.
The text highlights alfalfa as highly nutritious for young animals and notes its long productive life of seeding every five to six years. It explains alfalfa improves soil nitrogen, drainage, and aeration, and urges testing soil acidity and applying lime if needed. It stresses proper seed and soil selection and cautions against neglecting soil or seed quality.
Farm pointers urge breeders to rear sows for fall litters while dairy calves should be taught to eat grain early. They note sows carry corn cucumbers melons and squash this week and plan another vegetable planting. No mention of Villa this week.
pedigree details for Young Martin II and two Captains with stud-book numbers and health certifications issued by the Iowa State Department of Agriculture. location Rolfe Pocahontas county Iowa deadlines in April 1916 and insurance terms for horses and mares.
Mr. Ford states he does not seek the presidency and warns others to be cautious about his intentions. The remark suggests political risk and public scrutiny as he faces leadership questions.
Mrs S Grimes of Crooksville Ohio reports her daughter suffered a hemorrhagic coughing fit from whooping cough. She used Chamberlains Cough Remedy and saw immediate relief. After two bottles the child recovered completely. Sold by HL B McGowan.
A historical horse registry entry describes the Percheron stallion Seare 71578 owned by B F Appogers of Rolfe Iowa. It details origin Frances import in 1910, breeding to sire Wastillian paths, dam Castifte, and second dam Biche. It notes state certification No. 411 and Stud Book registrations in America and France, with inspection by Dr George J Howell in 1916 and terms to insure calls to stand.
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