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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1913
Page
6
Community notes report a Saturday Ladies Aid dinner in Dalton with about twenty five dollars cleared. Various residents traveled to neighboring towns for work visits and social events. A Heart of local life snapshot includes a box social, anniversaries, and preparations for a debate on Philippine islands as a US benefit.
The literary Saturday evening drew a large crowd. Mr and Mrs Friend Dickenson returned last week. Will Taylor and George Booth spent a few days in Denver. F Gundle plans Sunol construction and to send his boys here to school. George Sager Georgia Sager and Myrtle Taylor visited Lute Allington Monday. R K Jorgenson took his family for a spin Sunday visiting in Dalton. Sundl men spent Thursday afternoon burning weeds on vacant lots.
Grand Prairie weather sees activity as Will Busacker and family move from the Witter place to Amelia. Will Gade and family visited I Olson on Sunday. Thomas Bard visited Sidney on Monday. Pete Stevens is erecting a house on the Fern. John Olson walked about in Sidney on Tuesday.
This piece argues farm women will lead modernizing farm life by expanding home management duties and embracing improved social life. It notes rural isolation fades with better travel, mail, telephones, and cars, boosting family well being, schooling, and culture while raising living standards.
Orchard grass grows best on deep moist sandy loam and in shade but yields more on rich soils enabling two crops per year. Sown with red clover and oats, plus bone phosphate and plaster, it yields 1 to 1.5 tons of hay per acre by late July. Regular topdressing with manure sustains heavy crops for years.
Advice urges frequent stable cleanouts and fresh air to prevent disease in cattle and sheep. Fermenting manure can cause blindness in sheep and tuberculosis in cattle. remove manure daily, dust floors with plaster, and ventilate by opening windows and doors. Whitewash stables with lime and additives for disinfection. outside walls receive a heat mixed wash with zinc sulfate and skim milk for protection and economy.
Fred Baird of Cass County Nebraska describes a movable hog cot design from the Missouri Valley Farmer. He notes the pen offers more room, ventilation without a draft, and sunlit warmth in cold weather with the cot facing southeast and the top door opened.
Market notes show active trade with a firmer undertone despite higher receipts. Cattle prices range from good to prime beeves at 8.50 to 8.75, with hogs opening slow and steady at around 70 cents, while Western lambs peak near 7.19 and natives reach 7.00, amid 14,560 hogs and 12,009 sheep and lambs on hand.
Chicago markets report mixed closures with Wheat at Dec 86 86 1 2 percent and May at 90s, Corn and Oats varied, Pork and Lard prices noted. Cattle receipts about 20,090 with steers around 5.90 to 6.65 and calves up to 10.50. Hogs 24,200 with wide ranges overall. Sheep receipts 28,000 with westerns near 3.90 to 5.00 and lambs up to 7.25.
A pregnant mare should be kept in a box stall as she fears lying down in a standard stall and may be unable to rise. In mild weather she should stay in open sheds day and night. Each mare needs a designated tie place for grain. Feeding from a trough can trigger feeding fights. roughage can be given from yard racks.
Fort y bodies of sailors lost in last week's lake Huron storm were washed ashore at Kincardine Ontario. The overturned freighter Charles S Price was identified. The disaster list includes John A McGean and other ships with an estimated death toll near 195. Several vessels were lost or damaged across Lakes Superior Michigan and Erie.
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