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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1910
Page
3
The article argues that dairy efficiency depends on using seeds in proper amounts and quality beyond corn. It notes corn alone supplies insufficient nutrients, wastes feeding calories, and becomes less profitable as corn price rises. balanced rations improve digestion and profits for dairy cows.
The article urges dairy farmers to grow legumes such as clover alfalfa and sweet clover to balance corn based rations. It advises crop rotation lower corn plantings higher protein feeds like bran off meal gluten feed cottonseed meal and soybeans and stresses feeding management around freshening to maximize milk and butterfat with careful dry period care and silage use.
Dr Edwin Slosson editor of the Independent argues in Cap and Gown that literary professors face less risk than scientists and can influence without strict facts. He notes lectures on poets and novels shock audiences yet students rarely challenge or apply ideas to life.
Albany reports Commissioner Pearson of the state department of agriculture says he has arranged with Secretary Wilson in Washington for two trained scouts to search for gypsy and brown-tail moths. The effort aims to prevent these pests from entering New York state.
Walker Everhart of Huntington Pa captured a 24 inch five pound trout in Spruce Creek after line broke He jumped into the stream and seized the prize with a club as aid This reads as a late 19th or early 20th century local fishing note highlighting a remarkable catch by a named resident in Spruce Creek.
Chestertown claims the oldest horse in the United States named Samuel J Tilden. Owned by Joseph Guest the horse was foaled May 6 1869 and later renamed in honor of former president elect Samuel J Tilden by Thomas Van Dyke of Kennedyville then sold to current owner. Guest has searched for an older horse nationwide but found none as old and notes one Pennsylvania rival was younger. The horse will live out its days in pasture and good stables.
Alexander R. Peacock, a multi millionaire famed for the Carnegie melon venture, buys a $60,000 Plum township farm to house steam heated, electric egg production. He plans a high end chicken house with incubators and fancy breeds, aiming to end cold storage eggs for good.
In Villepreux les Clayes a group of pigeons were discovered in a field 300 yards from a recent train collision site. The birds were flung by the impact and survived by peering through cage bars at corn, taking flight as soon as released.
A Chicago report describes a so called antispooners trust of youths near Lincoln Park who ambush couples at shaded benches at dusk. The boys demand a fee from the seated pair after occupying benches, using deception to extract money from unsuspecting couples.
Harvard ichthyologist Dr Samuel Garman is among scientists proposing that goldfish and other species, if abundant in U S waters, could eat mosquitoes and help eradicate diseases like yellow fever and malaria by reducing the mosquito population.
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