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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
2
State council of defence lifts restrictions on retail shops for the holiday period enabling evening hours and necessary staff. Springfield merchants report strong stock, broad selection, and readiness to meet postwar holiday demand. The armistice brings cheerful mood and expectation of a return to prewar holiday customs.
The 1919 fertilizer supply for spring crops is imperiled by a labor shortage hitting factories. Seasonal work and shipyard demands constrain output, forcing early orders to maintain a year's supply and prevent half crops. Full-year operation would help, but storage limits pose a barrier. Early ordering now supports next spring's availability.
An article discusses hard versus soft corn, noting soft corn bends and spoils, while hard corn stores and markets better. It explains early planting with cold soil and depleted nutrients leads to weak growth, and highlights how high available phosphoric acid and ammonia fertilizer at planting speeds growth and improves rapid ripening before frost.
A census shows Europe wide drops in cattle 17 percent beef animals 38 percent sheep and 40 percent hogs since December 81 1913 Italy reports 21 percent horses 18 percent mules 8 percent swine hauls. Germany Austria and Russia likely suffer far larger declines. A reliable estimate puts European livestock loss at half Americas daily tonnage.
Editor Collingwood of the Rural New Yorker warns that gasoline destroys organic matter and soon there will be little stable manure available. He argues proper fertilizer use and cover crops can match results with less labor, higher profit, and greater satisfaction.
Analysis notes a prewar decline in meat consumption per person and a wartime drop in exports. It argues America can avoid a permanent shortage by boosting farm output after the war, using fertilizer and better feed practices to increase livestock capacity.
The potato remains a staple in American meals with vast yearly consumption and high yields through intensive farming. It urges early fertilizer orders and ample soil nutrients to assure large crops, noting preparation costs dominate seed and care, and a big crop is needed whether peace comes or not.
The piece traces rising prices to urban growth and land expansion since 1840. It notes new virgin lands in the West and overseas regions, cheap labor, and affordable transport as factors. It argues urban diets were fed by crops whose costs and plant nutrients were underpriced by past production.
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