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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
6
Reading the article, foreign pests threaten American crops with vast yearly losses. It notes a $100,000,000 annual damage, mitigated by the USDA and federal boards. It covers pests from Europe, Asia, and Mexico, including the cotton bollworm and Japanese beetle, and calls for public cooperation with quarantine rules and inspection to prevent spread.
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines steps to curb crow damage in fields and yards. Recommendations include use of deterrents seed dressings, guarding grain with fences, watch lines, frightening devices, and restricting access to sites. Some locales permit poisoning where legal, and trapping or hunting may be used with caution.
A fragment from a United States Department of Agriculture notice outlines a discovery enabling sweet potato syrup production. It states the department will soon explain how to make syrup at home and how to use it in cooking and candy making, aiming to inform consumers.
Fragmentary text discusses cooperative marketing and livestock, urging not to starve animals. The readable lines suggest a campaign-like message advocating organization and support for farmers to prevent livestock starvation. Entities are not clearly identified due to garbled OCR.
A long readable portion details tomato and pear salad scalloped fish braised salmon and nut based dishes. It covers methods for preparing pear salads with cheese, fish entrees with butter cream sauces, and nut stuffed vegetables plus Brussels sprouts and chestnuts as accompaniments.
An in depth guide stresses constant care with poultry detailing profit through meticulous culling and feeding. It highlights continuous flock evaluation, removing nonproducers, and prioritizing breeders, with emphasis on proper animal feed such as green cut bone and meat scraps to boost egg production and flock health.
A New York area farmer reports selling nearly all his fruits and vegetables directly to consumers at the gate, aided by roadside markets. Secretary Morenth urges expansion of roadside selling, noting hundreds of such markets exist and often fetch higher prices with no middlemen taking profits.
A quoted harsh view from the United States Department of Agriculture argues corn quality never remains fixed. It either improves or regresses, urging farmers to avoid lax practices and noting no tolerance for subpar corn relative to cattle stock.
A sketched summary notes improvements in colt weaning versus running with a dam and suggests pasturing horses need shelter on cold nights. It recalls a forgotten belief about green corn and hog cholera and highlights self feeders as economical in hog lots, promoting feed savings.
A playful tale features Mr Sun explaining why he stays cheerful. Billie Brownie asks why Mr Sun is always sunny, and Mr Sun describes his busy, joyful world of seasons, blooming hollyhocks, butterflies, and happy friends that keep his disposition bright.
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