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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1917
Page
3
The article outlines factors affecting growth in livestock, noting that growth is driven largely by age, condition, gestation, lactation, and feed quality. It emphasizes that younger animals respond more to feed, while limited food reduces growth, retarding development.
F B Mumford of the Missouri College of Agriculture cites a Missouri station test showing a steer stunted by severe early underfeeding weighing 200 pounds at twelve months gained 841 pounds in the second year. Grain per pound of gain was 5.6 for the stunted steer, while well fed cattle required 9.8 pounds. The study concludes that long stunting does not destroy growth capacity.
The study compared alfalfa and prairie hay with a fixed grain mix of oats, shelled corn, and oil meal. Cattle were fed starting at one pound per head daily, rising to 2.1 pounds per head daily. Lambs on alfalfa gained 0.5 pounds per day on average, while those on prairie hay averaged 0.875 pounds per day.
Stock horses and mules should have a good daily carding and regular exercise. If there is nothing for them to do remove their shoes and give them a run for an hour or more. A well fenced adjoining the stables uses stout woven wire rail or a combination board and smooth wire. Barbed wire should not be used as it is dangerous.
A persuasive note argues that buildings for animals must maximize sunlight exposure. It recommends southern orientation when feasible to add winter warmth and to help destroy disease germs by letting in ample sunlight.
A Berne correspondent reports Vienna faces extreme hunger with prices up 105 percent since the war and large government relief costs. One in four residents receive aid. public kitchens feed over 38 million meals, yet food and fuel shortages persist amid cold, limited services, and widespread unemployment.
Two elderly women, Woontoonekanuske and Teeweelema, also Charlotte and Meund a Mitchell, claim descent from an Indian chief Masaysolt. They reside near Middleboro, Massachusetts, aged seventy one and eighty one, and are noted for belated recognition of the chieftain through a pension act.
San Francisco reports Elizabeth Clark, a young woman, serving as the first female boarding officer for the immigration service. She works daily from dawn to sunset, checking arriving ships from shore to tug and steamer lines, enduring all weather while inspecting foreign vessels.
Mantinwoc Wis Goodrich steamer Nevada built 1915, 212 feet, 18 knots, sold for about 750000 to Petrograd agent M Seekleshot. Nevada will travel via St Lawrence to Atlantic to load for a Russian port, cost to Goodrich about 275000, not duplicable today.
A Prussian cavalry officer narrates a dawn scene on the western front where a lone child crawls between trenches. Soldiers from both sides halt, share awe and mutual protection, and French troops cheer when a German soldier brings the child to safety, halting firefights temporarily.
Doylestown, Pa. farmer Edward Chittick of Plumstead township raised 269 bushels of potatoes on one acre at 19 cents a bushel and exhibited Murphys potatoes that averaged about a pound each. Thirty one tubers filled a half bushel basket. many measured six inches across and tipped the scales at around a pound, some at three quarters. He did most work himself, keeping costs low, and notes he can cut ton bushels in a half day with a knife.
Lew Castle Pa-ifike Liskas thanks cousin John Liskes and others after a brutal blow to his chin in a boxing incident. Mike had been mute for a year and spent hundreds on regaining speech. The impact caused bleeding, but Mike spoke, declaring the blow helped him recover his voice.
A summary of Idaho items notes a Meridian sugar factory plan, a -sized home at Caldwell, road and utility debates, and school garden efforts in Nampa. Reports include a YMCA Rotary installation in Holley, a Boise gas asset shift, land maps for county records, hay shortages in SE Idaho, new hotel and business blocks at Lava, and legal cases in Caldwell and Nampa.
Bruce Barton of Every Week recalls a friend about to deliver his first public speech and the mental cresting it provoked. A wife tests her husband with a setup where two chairs face each other and she sits to watch the anxious reaction.
For skin troubles the soap to cleanse and purify and the ointment to soothe and heal. They provide immediate relief for itching burning eczemas pimples and baby skin troubles. Using daily helps prevent small problems becoming large. Free sample by mail with Book. Address postcard Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
A Frankfort porter, well known in the city, recently divorced his first wife and soon remarried. A reporter in the clerk’s office questioned the timing until the prospective bride whispered to hide the details. The anecdote suggests reporters could end the game easily.
A misdial at an employment agency leads to a comical exchange as a caller asks for the free department and a manager corrects with the hire department. The mixup underscores confusion over department names and calls in a busy office.
The excerpt states that Latin is the father of Tes and matrimony the mother of excosos, implying a linguistic or genealogical relation. It presents a compact claim without broader context or actions.
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