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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
6
A garbled Beaver Herald page vents on fashion, longevity germ tales, and social quirks. It ridicules women in harems skirts, notes a Reno divorce joke, mentions a sculptor Dutensky, a Los Angeles suicide, and a New York judge scolding Vanderbilt. The piece also jokes about detective fiction’s value, wages, and a crusade against long hatpins.
The report notes a $5,000,000 blow to this year’s peach crop and questions whether the community would shoulder the burden if additional losses occur from frosts or floods. It reflects on farmer risk and potential financial impact on growers.
An exposition extols breeding pedigreed livestock at a country home with land. It argues markets for quality stock, satisfaction from showing animals, and success with horses, ponies, cattle, sheep, and poultry. The piece urges wealthier Americans to pursue homebred stock for profit and recreation.
Weatherston notes lice outbreaks rise in spring when stock housed indoors. Advice covers destroying infested animals, oil and carbenic acid wash, application methods for cattle and hogs, and using blankets to rub hogs. Lamb care stressed, newborns need help, and a wheat flour and raw egg remedy is offered for scours.
The article explains how disk harrowing creates air spaces in plowed ground to prevent compaction, aiding moisture retention. It describes multiple figures showing pre and post plowing disked soil, noting improvements in seed bed firmness, capillary action, and resilience to wet or dry conditions.
The term dry farming originated in the irrigated belt where land was cultivated above ditches before irrigation. It explains rainfall use, soil choice, and farming methods to conserve moisture, noting shallow rain, deep percolation, and surface evaporation. It stresses selecting loam soils with water holding subsoil and practices like deep plowing, packing, and drag harrowing to reduce evaporation.
The article explains soil mulch to reduce evaporation by covering the surface with foreign materials or natural oil modifiers. It describes two mulch types, explains why mulches conserve moisture, and notes finer mulch yields better results. It warns wet conditions reduce effectiveness and that improper watering harms mulch performance.
Hon W Mondell advocates dry farming as a scientific agriculture method. Deep plowing and thorough soil pulverization to six to eight inches retain winter moisture, while poorly prepared land loses rain to runoff, undermining crop growth. The concept aims for maximum, consistent yields under limited rainfall.
The text discusses improving a flock through careful selection of Ike bred specimens. It emphasizes testing with full knowledge of their browsing tender, cleaning and mating them properly, feeding with the best nourishment, and ensuring every need is met to foster variation in the defects we are rocking.
The article offers practical dairy farming tips on calf rearing including keeping calves clean and dry, feeding alfalfa or clover hay early, cooling and cream handling for butter, and the advantage of cooperative creameries. It discusses breeds like Hereford Jersey and Holstein and notes temp effects on milk and the value of exercise during seasonal feeding transitions. It emphasizes proper cow management, milk yield, and breed considerations for dual purpose stock.
Fragmentary text speaks of sin, loyalty, and beauty, mingling with odd phrases and references to tubes, eyes, and streams. It hints at philosophical ideas about change and identity, with repeated motifs of water and transformation.
Ad copy warns against adulterated bluing and water dilution. Promotes RAD CROSS HALL BLUE as the pure option. Claims other brands fail to deliver value and leaves laundresses with poor results. A large package costs five cents at general groceries.
A newspaper invited tenders to name the most beautiful thing in the world. First prize went to the reply The eyes of my mother. Second prize praised a dream of the unknown. The most rusting remark claimed the beauty is sending a man bearing his mother across a dangerous river without dropping her.
In a brisk street exchange an old man is interrupted by a boy claiming Sech, the famed challenger, will never claim the 45 pound championship of the Thirteenth ward. The terse dispute hints at local pride and boxing bravado.
A clergyman testifies that switching to Grape-Nuts breakfast with cream and Pontus improved digestion, headaches, and mental stamina for sermon preparation. He notes sustained energy and general health gains, adding that others were helped similarly by the product from Postum Company of Battle Creek, Michigan.
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