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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
8
The item surveys Spain as home to 3 500 000 dairy cows and discusses milk production. It mentions planting trees with crops, labor campaigns in Oregon, silage usage, disease in horses, and various agricultural notes from 1912 including shellfish, sea birds refuges, and onion seed treatments.
The article fragment discusses feeding older cattle and preventing gut and bowel issues. It references sprays or tank treatments for pests and a bacterial disease called seabies, with notes on nutrition, protein, and maintaining proper bowels and skin health.
A writer notes varied results from hog cholera tests among farmers. Some used serum treatment and saw fewer deaths, others inoculated many hogs with little effect, or did nothing and avoided spread. Experts say serum purity and veterinary competence determine effectiveness. if unavailable, abstaining may be best.
A man named Dave devises a dangerous rat extermination using carbon disulphide. He fills inhabited holes after checking them, pours the chemical, and ignites it to release an explosive vapor that kills rats in seconds. Caution urged due to explosive risk and flames.
A landowner notes a river bottom tract once deemed useless now valued highly after eight years of catalpa trees. A sample tree measured eight inches in diameter and thirty five feet tall, showing strong timber potential for posts and other uses.
Bulletin 561 from the federal Department of Agriculture reports 15 years of trials in eastern Washington eastern Oregon and northern Idaho showing beans following summer fallow can raise a good cereal crop. At $6 per acre cost bean yields about 28 pounds per acre and at 3 cents per pound or 1 per acre revenue, leaving an $18 per acre margin in favor of growing beans.
A reader accuses skunks of raiding bee hives in a Rural New Yorker note. The writer reports hives depleted of honey and mentions catching three skunks as suspected culprits. Readers are urged to review the department for guidance on the issue.
A fragment notes a plan to drive nails into a shoreline log about three inches apart to form a rack for drying corn. Ears are described protruding from the waist area, with a large rack to hold many ears.
The article covers stock judging results from a Portland show with judges’ scores and placements, notes on court conduct and propriety, and a health warning from agriculture officials about potato disease risks and sterilization of secondhand packaging materials. It references Washington and Eta teams, and U.S. investigators examining a poultry feed scam.
Director Evans of the Alissowel fruit experiment station in Mountain Grove Atadias succeeds after years of crossing Jonsthin and Bon Davia. The aim is a tree to withstand the colledaers and provide a hardy fodder source for horses cattle and hogs. The first spineless cactus variety from California is set to be tested near El Paso Texas with 700 plants ordered.
An insect larva nicknamed leaf roller has caused orchard damage in the west for two to three years. The worm eats tree leaves and feasts on small fruit, with winter pruning and kerosene or insecticide sprays as the main control methods.
Ninteen hundred and thirteen figures in U S coal output about 570 million short tons. Remarks on horseradish pest resistance and dairy feeding values accompany notes on buckwheat yield drought impacts and a Melba related dairy venture in Australia. Advice covers window sun for foliage plants, fowl sun exposure, wild plants as rubber sources, and cautions about cassava and cactus feed claims. Green fodder by sprouted grains is outlined with a two inch depth, seven inch shoots ready for feeding in two weeks.
Analysis shows a ton of wheat straw holds 290 pounds nitrogen, 50 pounds phosphoric acid, and 240 pounds potash, while oat straw has about 24 pounds nitrogen and 260 pounds potash. Burning straw wastes these nutrients and harms soil vitality.
A Victorian style guide explains steaming as a tender cooking method for puddings as an alternative to boiling. It details utensils and long steaming times, then provides recipes for Steamed Apple Pudding, Steamed Fruit Pudding, Steamed Bread Pudding, and Steamed Chocolate Pudding with step by step ingredients and steam times.
A local testimonial from Mrs. D. Van Pelt of Orange City praises Doans Kidney Pills from De Kruif & Lubbers drug store. She reports relief from kidney trouble and urges others to seek the same remedy backed by home testimony. The ad promotes Foster Nilburn Co. as the maker and Buffalo New York as the company location.
Paul Mahtulka of Buffalo hails Dr King’s New Life Pills as the king of all laxatives. He says they are a blessing to his family and that he keeps a box at home. Sold at druggists or by mail for 50 cents from Pfeiffer Chemical Co Philadelphia or St Louis.
Yeast works while we sleep fermenting dough and brewing.
Henry D. Sanders of Cavendish Vermont credits Dr. Kings New Discovery with relief from a stubborn winter cough linked to pneumonia. He endorses it as the best medicine for coughs colds or lung trouble and recommends a money back guarantee on the 30 cent and 1.00 to 1.4 bottle.
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