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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
6
A review of Herbert Quick's The Brown Mouse praising its practical farming and teaching ideas. The piece highlights Quick's wide experience and notes his other works Vandemark's Folly and The Hawkeye, crediting him with solid storytelling and authority on the subject.
Jim Irwin, a rugged, educated farmhand, debates with Jennie Woodruff about marriage and a livable career. She challenges his future, while his intellectual interests clash with rural expectations, as road work and teaching ambitions collide with family duty and social boundaries.
A quoted remark suggests frustration with schools, labeling opponents as stubborn. The speaker implies widespread disdain for schools, framing the issue as a clash over education. The tone appears critical and dismissive of local institutions.
A brief note compares modern drivers to ancestors backing horses, recalling how some people struggle to back a car out of the garage just as parents once did with the old horse and shafts.
Hungarian vetch, among several forage crops, was introduced by the USDA with seed first imported in 1905 and developed strain brought from France in 1912. Tested mainly on the Pacific Coast and in the Cotton Belt, it tolerates wet soils, resists aphids, and adapts to poorly drained lands. It is sown in fall in mild-winter regions and early spring where winters are severe. seed is grown in western Oregon, and no general distribution seed is available yet.
Poultry expert H Embleton of Colorado Agricultural College prescribes a worm treatment using a wet mash of ground brain or similar feed with finely ground tobacco at a rate of one pound per hundred birds. After two starved feedings on successive days, a third day adds epsom salts in the mash, one pound per hundred birds.
Seed corn selected in the field contains moisture and must dry before severe cold can ruin germination. Move ears to a barn or granary and store with free air circulation around each ear, using lath racks or tied on string. In winter, after drying, re sort field selected seed.
Brood sows pigs and boars require dry clean shelters and protected pens to endure cold winds sleet and snow. It costs less to keep hog pens dry and insulated than to try heating with seeds. Those unable to provide humane housing should dispose of animals and keep only worth keeping.
Nearly a quarter of U S oat acreage now yields 1 to 2 bushels more per acre due to the Swedish Select and Kherson oats. Introduced by the bureau of plant industry, these varieties were almost unknown before 1900 but now cover about 9,000,000 acres. Sweden Select accounts for about 10 percent of oat acreage while Kherson and selections cover about 14 percent.
Experiments show borax harms plant growth at 4 to 26 pounds per acre while 3 pounds or less may slightly stimulate some crops. With modern potash from Searles Lake California containing minimal borax, even large applications deliver only small borax amounts and remain safe in field practice. such potash yields satisfactory results.
Storage aims to keep potatoes marketable until demanded. Protect from heat cold moisture and light. Do not freeze potatoes as they become unfit for market. Maintain 40F to slow germination and fungus growth. 85 86F preferred to avoid dry rot. Light injures quality.
G. F. Warren of Cornell University notes global wheat acreage surpasses demand and prices favor redirecting effort. With U S farm prices at 64 purchasing power, farmers who can finance storage may profit by holding wheat into next year if prices don’t rise by autumn.
The piece explains how pests like chinch bugs winter in field trash, old corn hills, stubble and surrounding weeds. Removing these refuges reduces winter survival and threat level. In mild years they also shelter in wheat fields, but wheat offers less protection during severe weather.
Farmers seek relief from heavy draft as many still use dull plowshares. Sprouting two sets of shares allows use while sharpening. A rolling coulter set placed a half to five eighths inch from the land side improves scour and reduces draft.
Agricultural guidance says thin manure applications yield the highest tonnage per acre. Apply manure once in short rotations or twice in rotations over five years. Use 5 to 10 tons per acre in three to four year cycles with about 200 pounds of acid phosphate per year for strong returns.
A reflective line compares concise speech to sunbeams, suggesting that tightening language sharpens its impact. The quotation contrasts prosperity with fear and adversity, implying comfort and hope can emerge from hardship.
A lighthearted note recalls a moment where dignity vanished amid a picnic with seven children and a distant journey to Mars, illustrating a comical struggle to keep calm and organized.
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