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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
3
Six sections of good farming land in La Salle County are offered for sale in tracts of 160 acres or more. Located two to four miles from the I. & G. N. railroad station, prices range from 11.50 to 12.50 dollars per acre with easy terms.
The article lists three cabbage worm species, describes their appearance and behavior, and prescribes a Paris green and flour mixture with lime as a remedy. It notes safe use, rain washoff, and minimal risk to cabbage. It ends with a political critique about voter morality and corruption.
The bill would bar government officials from placing public funds in banks used for stock or bond speculation and require banks to keep reserves in their own vaults. It cites Wall Street squeezes and Treasury deposits used to tide over panics, enabling buybacks of securities at low prices.
Dr. Tait Butler of Raleigh spoke at the South Carolina Live Stock Association gathering in Columbia February 8 and 9, sharing practical, scientifically grounded feeding guidance. He urged replacing portions of corn with cotton seed meal for horses to build muscle, noting two pounds of cotton seed meal can replace four pounds of corn in a 14 pound daily corn ration.
A discussion of intemperance as a chief societal threat noting its harms to private and public life, crime, courts, prisons, and national strength. It cites an Indian elder’s warning and highlights education through school gardens as a remedy to foster love of agriculture and deter urban overproduction of shopkeepers.
The speaker quotes Dr. Butler detailing ration mixes for a thousand pound horse, favoring pea vine hay, clover hay, corn, and limited cotton seed meal. He argues cotton seed meal is useful only with other feeds and claims home keeping cotton seed meal benefits farmers while railroads gain from exports.
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