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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
3
Six year old Johnnie Wilson wandered into a Shapperton on Thames drain pipe while playing with peers. He crawled ten feet to a junction, missed it, and continued deeper despite alarms. After searches found him at eighty feet, caught by the feet as he crawled past. He suffered mud but no serious harm.
The article outlines economical dairy feed strategies focusing on balanced rations. It highlights corn meal and cottonseed meals as effective supplements, stresses alfalfa and ensilage for near perfect feed, and notes skim milk requires careful handling for digestibility. It warns milk handling, cleanliness for shipping, and fire protection to save feed costs.
Past Grand Master Frank T. Lodge lauded aged Masons as saints not poor, praising their rich love and lives spent. He urged honoring these pioneers whose sacrifices built the state and the Masonic fraternity's standing, hoping for their happiness in remaining years.
Worshipful Senior Grand Deacon George J. Lusk addressed the gathering on a message from Grand Lodge praising the Michigan Masonic Home. Governor Osborn attended unexpectedly and urged support, stressing wide Masonry backing and a pledge that the Home will continue to rise through charity and steadfast fraternity.
Past Grand Master John J. Carton lauded the Eastern Star for aiding the Masonic fraternity and the Michigan Masonic Home. He urged living by giving, dismissed war as useless, and called the home a magnificent privilege rather than a duty. Also a real estate ad for a sixty acre farm with house, outbuildings, orchard, timber, and water, offered by Sharrar & Moore.
W. W. Clark of Panama designs a bottle that cannot be refilled after its initial fill. The device seals the inlet against forced refilling by a pump and holds liquids of any density. An illustrated longitudinal section shows the bottle emptied with parts adjusted to seal the inlet against introduction of liquid.
An analysis explains Holsteins as large efficient milk producers whose size and feed capacity make a quart of milk cheaper than from any other breed, despite lower butterfat content. Incomplete milking harms production, while shelter improves calf gains in winter and rough weather hurts unprotected cattle more than cold spells. Herd management removing poor cows to favor good ones is crucial for profits.
Winter snows endanger fruit trees and shrubs as cottontails lose ground cover for food. Small trees face damage while larger ones stay safer. Suggestions include feeding with apple trimmings, using poison or 50 bark applications, and securing veneer protectors deep in the snow to block rabbit access.
Practical garden tips on houseplants and bulbs. Weekly plant rotation, pot washing, ample air, and weekly showers. Canna and dahlia start indoors, root pruning and repotting steps. Tree care covers white lead paint and grafting wax, avoidance of coal tar, and winter paint pots. Snow protection suggests ashes or sand to ease snow crust and prevent branch damage.
An agricultural note discusses Bordeaux mixture as a fungicide only and its lack of insecticide effect. Lime sulfur washes are noted as good for both insect and fungal control. The piece advises contrasting flower colors, notes general pest life cycles, and suggests spraying during periods of least resistance while keeping orchards weed free.
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