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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
7
The article outlines weed control for bindweed stressing suppression of top growth to starve underground parts. It favors clean cultivation, alfalfa farming, and hog pasturing, noting weekly or ten day soil work for two years or one year if roots are shallow. It warns against reliance on quick fixes and mentions irrigation and orchard practices, including a wide-beam knife implement for weed cutting.
Willow growing offers high margins as demand shifts from imports. American farmers can expand if quality and culture improve. Planting stock requires moist sandy loam, good drainage, fall deep plowing, and careful bed management. Choice willows include American green and Welsh varieties, with cuttings eight to twelve inches long depending on soil. plant closely yet with cultivable space.
James Dryden argues in Farm Press that keeping poultry in orchards allows large scale poultry keeping with no land cost. Trees shade fowls in heat, and ample green food is needed year round though apples on the ground can cause harm if birds overeat. Poultry also aids in worm and pest control for orchards.
The New York legislature approves a $25,000 appropriation for the commissioner of agriculture to cover one third of the appraised value of livestock destroyed due to foot and mouth disease and to fund disease suppression and eradication efforts.
An old passage extols right living and timely remedies, touting California Fig Syrup Co. laxative as a preferred product. It then shifts to a joke about an aviator’s fall, followed by a testimonial for Deans Kidney Pills from Mrs. Elizabeth Wolf of Tipton Missouri, advertising the product and price.
A multimillionaire philanthropist explains that costly library buildings are unnecessary since education needs only five feet of books. Porters inquire why he stops funding grand structures, and he questions the value of building vast libraries when compact collections suffice for learning.
A compilation of miscellaneous texts and snippets includes Castoria ad phrasing, jokes, cartoons, and fragmented captions. It mixes product slogans with humorous exchanges about domestic life and a few stray sayings, all in a cluttered newspaper filler style.
A lengthy notice lists labor unions and fraternal orders totaling millions in membership who joined the tuberculous battle in the past year. It promotes Quaker Oats as a low-cost nourishment source for workers and cites Yale University nutrition studies. The piece also includes humorous anecdotes and medical notices from the era.
A prankish theatrical manager mocks vain actors while a Hamlet performer boasts of praise yet recalls a grave misstep. A shy Mary faces three dance suitors described as a long panter. A townsfolk tale features a snakebite remedy causing comic mishaps. Bits on rats and poisons echo sly ads and a Bengal prison TB statistic.
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