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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1913
Page
7
W M Kelly argues spring foals are best due to natural breeding, abundant grass, exercise, and mother milk. He warns winter confinement harms feet and digestion, advocates ample room for foals, gradual weaning as mares go dry, and stresses care, space, and milk-rich feeds for healthy development into grass.
Kentucky Experiment Station discusses deep plowing from eight to sixteen inches. Cautions against broad claims without data, recommends small scale trials, notes high cost but potential benefits, urges farmers to report results to help others evaluate profitability and practicality.
There is a knack in feeding hens that must be learned by experience. Hens must be well fed yet slightly hungry, fed in the evening after a half hour of cleaning up. Evening feeding is preferred. with meat and greens, mash can be dropped, and grain variety used. Proper litter provides exercise and warmth, deeper litter yields more exercise. Larger breeds and old hens require more exercise than smaller ones. Leghorns are active and need space. Ensure comfort and freedom from disturbance for best laying results.
An old classifieds style ad for Roy C Parks Co offering real estate and fire insurance services. It promotes quick sales, confidential handling, nationwide land options in the U S or Canada, specialty in Michigan farm lands, city properties, and policy renewals. Offices listed in multiple cities including Alms Mich and Des Moines.
William A. Radford offers home building guidance citing his expertise as editor author and manufacturer. He discusses backward stair layouts chimney placement and room flow in wide lake shore suburb houses urging lots of at least fifty feet frontage and noting common mistakes in narrow lots.
The article discusses variations in window seat designs and the importance of careful construction for comfort and draft prevention. It emphasizes supervising outside boarding and plastering, noting that a handmade house may resemble a barn but expert work will yield an attractive street-friendly result.
A mock editorial laments the flood of societies in modern life. It satirically catalogues varieties from healing to noise suppression, urges restraint, then proposes a final “prevention of Useless secretion” society as humanity’s grand battle cry, ending with a quirk on Spasus.
A society event featured private theatricals with Mrs Van Clows eager yet anxious about her tights role. She frets over public reaction while her husband Wilfred muses that onlookers will claim he married her for money. The exchange hints at social scrutiny and marital dynamics.
By EG STARMAN assistant in Patr ology Minnesota College of Agriculture. Preventing disease in soil and seed is key to large next year’s crop. Potatoes face scab and internal brown rot, spread through soil and tubers, while beans cabbage onions and beets also suffer. Rotation and spraying help, with disease-free seed crucial for sustained yields.
The ten leading butter producing states are Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, New York, Texas and Indiana, listed in that order.
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