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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1909
Page
6
Practical farming tips cover hog fattening stages, feed mixes, and timing to maximize profit. Emphasis on corn for final weeks, alfalfa and peas as protein sources, and selling at 6 to 8 months for best returns. Also includes an Ingenious Hay Rack Lifter design and notes on desirable milch cow traits for buyers and breeders.
The article argues birds are valuable farm livestock and should be protected. It notes grain eaters help by consuming weed seeds and insects, with meadow larks eating more insects than plants, and urges farmers to defend all birds on their land.
A collection of agricultural notes discusses smuts in wheat and barley and their control by hot water seed treatment based on a U S Department of Agriculture bulletin. It also covers barbed wire fences, end post placement, the dead man method, and woven wire fencing for livestock. Additional items address alfalfa as pasture and cleaning milk utensils and separators to prevent spoilage.
The excerpt records Gifford Pinchot in Denver claiming no immediate forest famine and predicting perhaps the next season may bring adequate timber supply, while urging long term plans and careful use of wood resources. The text shows distorted OCR but indicates a cautious, forward looking stance on forestry.
The Republican county central committee met at the Paddock hotel in Beatrice, projecting a victorious ticket this fall. Dr. J W Kalkus took the Washington state veterinarian post and pathologist chair. Northwest District Dental Association meets in Kearney October 19 20 with cavity preparations a key topic. Owl Judge Leslie G Hurd of Harvard opens Clay County court at Clay Center. Burlington RR plans a large interlocking plant costing 10000 between Lincoln and Denver. Additional items report horse and human accidents, farm sales, and local industry updates.
Detailing the capsize and loss of life aboard the George Stone near Point Pelee and related hurricane casualties, the report notes twelve saved from the wreck and multiple crewmen drowned. It also mentions Florida East Coast railway officials confirming hurricane damage and the sinking of two tugs off Shell Key, with eleven crew fatalities.
Four men were killed and one fatally injured, with others hurt, in a collision between a freight and a passenger on the M K line near Greenville, Colliston. Ballas Pexas reported the deadly crash with multiple casualties and unknown details of the core cause.
A farmer six miles south of Nebraska City was thrown from his wagon and injured, paralyzed from the shoulders down, with fears for recovery. Charles Otis, longtime Grand Hotel landlord, goes to Omaha to open a rooming house. Dr J W Kelkus leaves to become State Veterinarian for the university pathology department.
President Taft traveled across deserts and reached the Grand Canyon rim after a dust filled journey. He planned a brisk day of rim sight seeing with sunrise color effects and a limited canyon hike. Postmaster General Hitchcock, sunburned but improving, accompanied the party as Arizona statehood speculation looms.
Police hold Thomas Johnson a suspected killer of Henry Frank at Union Station area. Evidence links him to selling Frank’s watch for $6 and being seen with Frankland on the day of the crime. Johnson, a Chicago escapee and former waiter, claims to be a cook and denies strong violence.
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