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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1924
Page
7
A Nebraska expert notes that high egg production hinges on healthy stock and bright eyes. Poor layers fall inactive with poor appetites and pale vent and skin tones as fat reserves drain. Begin culling the lowest producers in early June and continue through summer and fall to maximize egg output.
Agricultural guidance warns against chilling eggs during gathering to ensure viable hatch. Store eggs moderately cool and dry, avoid washing, and test for infertility using a simple homemade lantern device to improve hatch success.
Fragmentary OCR notes read as a local item naming Marie Conee in connection with a health program. The text mentions a pope of Loree, a title or role, and a name Mb ld, with references to money and a fainting incident.
Farmers shift from open mud runs to concrete feeding floors that prevent feed loss. The concrete floor, four inches thick, uses a Portland cement mix with sand and crushed rock, laid level on prepared ground. It eliminates trampling waste, offers easy construction by the farmer with common forms, and includes features like curb edges and damp earth top to control hardening.
Expert guidance from New Jersey State College of Agriculture stresses ventilation as key to preventing tuberculosis, odors, and milk taint. It explains air expansion and contraction principles, the need for fresh air intake and foul air exit, and warns against improper layouts that chill cows or restrict airflow.
A young feeder who failed to give sheep proper fodder faced losses while others profited. He had knowledge from a feeding course, but his methods yielded a net amount around 3000 dollars. Emphasizes attentive care, clean feed, water, bedding, salt, and humane treatment as essential factors in livestock well being.
Weather protection for Hows um Revere Winker has been approved in Cheepintinie with timely measures. Officials say the plan covers safety, durability, and cost efficiency for residents and businesses.
A Power Farming note promotes sun sterilization using a rack for milk cans and pads. Cheap, easy to build with two by fours and braces, the setup exposes cans to full sun rays as shown in the accompanying sketch.
A discussion of dairy cow profitability notes that high feed costs do not guarantee low profits. In a Town test association last year a cow with feed of $84.58 yielded $128.28 profit, while a mixed breed cow with $34.95 feed produced only $5.89. The piece cautions that generous rations do not ensure high returns and stresses that well fed cows perform best.
The young calf is often neglected. If a calf is worth raising develop it. Leave it with the cow for two or three days. Feed nine to ten pounds of warm milk daily. Keep suckers clean to prevent scours. At three weeks substitute skim milk gradually. By seven weeks old the calf should be on skim milk alone.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses dairy barns and milk, mentioning cows and related farming terms. The readable portion is jumbled and lacks coherent facts, names, dates, or regions to form a reliable summary.
Abstract readable facts not provided.
In the West and Midwest small streams can surge after rain. Low water concrete bridges, high enough for ordinary floods, keep water and drift from piling against piers. Extra water can still push debris and pressure, threatening higher bridges.
The bureau of public roads argues highways pay for themselves. A Connecticut traffic survey on the Boston post road shows 1140 tons daily, rising to 1520 with a full day. Gasoline costs favor paved roads by about 14.74 per day, saving 4422 yearly at 300 days. At 5 percent, a 10 cost per mile would be retired in under twelve years.
State Highway Director L A Bou ay reports progress on the Ola river road from Hamilton to Belmont, a 300 mile stretch, with work under way and full route opening planned by Wednesday. Roadbed is being prepared with gravel and crushed stone, while other Atlantic coast projects move forward with anticipated completions.
An armored car carrying a fictitious paymaster and two imaginary aides was fired on by three imagined bandits at Otsego and Lorraine streets in Brooklyn. Police stood by as the test aimed to prove bullet resistance, tear gas and sneezing gas protection, with no damage or injuries reported.
The Englishman boasts of a youth who quickly owned a hotel after securing a city job. The Scotsman coolly notes that cash registers were invented since then, implying real success is harder to achieve. The exchange ends with a wry reflection that thinking diverges from knowing.
The New York World reports rising demand for platinum despite substitutes. Platinum-clad nickel steel and nickel alloys are replacing platinum in teeth blades and gas mantles, asbestos threads in laboratories, and fused quartz ware in chemical use, yet prices keep climbing due to sustained interest.
The text notes James Chalmers of Dundee invented adhesive postage stamps in 1834. After the 1840 Uniform Penny Post, envelopes with an impressed stamp were suggested by Rowland Hill but unpopular. Chalmers’ adhesive stamp aided penny postage, and stamps reached America in 1847.
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