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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1936
Page
6
A farmer Thomas serves his new hand mushrooms for supper. The hand notes breakfast is better and the farmer confirms they are not toadstools. A light humorous scene follows with a bystander remark about a car collision.
A University of Illinois study shows big team outfits using five to twelve horses cut work horse costs to 6.4 to 11.8 cents per hour, compared with higher costs on ordinary horse and tractor farms. They rely on pasture, legume hay, straw, and corn stalks, with longer work days and efficient feeding.
The Soil Conservation Service promotes strip cropping to curb soil erosion. Forage crops like alfalfa and clovers better prevent erosion than cash crops such as corn and cotton. The plan uses contour plantings between self-depleting crops, aided by terracing and drainage to protect cropland in 41 states.
Alfalfa roots deepen soil humus and supply nitrogen and other nutrients. Dr. C J Willard of Ohio State University found an average two tons of alfalfa roots per acre in field tests. A good crop returns 125 pounds of nitrogen 25 pounds of phosphoric acid and 40 pounds of potash to the soil. This is about twice the nutrients of a ton of ordinary fertilizer and far more than red clover leaves or soybeans.
Advice from Rural New Yorker on preventing poison plant losses in livestock. Keep animals on good pastures and avoid areas with poisonous weeds. Do not allow access to broken wild cherry branches. Destroy water hemlock and white snakeroot and watch for perennial weeds such as European hindweed perennial sowthistle quack grass and Canada thistle. Eradicate new perennial weeds at once.
When legume hay and silage are adequate a dairy farmer can craft balanced rations. Feeding a cow 15 pounds of alfalfa hay and 25 pounds of silage yields 1.9 pounds protein. Many feed mixtures with silage and alfalfa are possible.
Three tested recipes using fresh fruit call for rhubarb plum grape strawberry raspberry blackberry blueberry or huckleberry pie filling. Peach and banana mold uses lime gelatin with sliced peaches banana and whipped cream. yields six servings. A pear jam with spice option and pectin describes boiling to set in jars labeled as about eleven 6-ounce glasses.
The phrase urges doing one’s tasks with perfect dignity and affection while embracing freedom and justice to relieve oneself from distracting thoughts and pursue a clear path.
Quotation notes that the mind's sweetness should operate upon the body clothes and dwelling, attributed to Herbert. It reads as a reflective line urging interior influence on external life.
A quotation attributed to Michelangelo emphasizes that trifles shape perfection and that small details matter in craft and art.
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