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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
6
A discussion by Prof. Themar Ilaw outlines converting dry land farms to mixed production. It advocates using rough grazing lands to support cattle and poultry, enabling grain crops like wheat or flax, fodder crops, and dairy options. Calves raised to market in 14 months could fetch high prices, with grazing and supplemental feeding managed to balance pasture and winter needs.
The text outlines early chick raising notes covering housing, flooring, bedding, nest setup, incubator use, water management, and feeding. It suggests keeping floors covered, using clean paper for incubation and nest areas, proper water handling, and maintaining readiness before chicks hatch to ensure safe rearing.
A reader describes a shallow wooden box for window use, two feet by one meter with four inch depth, assembled with small iron brackets for easy attachment and convenient use for gathering garden produce from the window.
Fragmentary rural note references a hog in a wood setting and charcoal production tied to houses. The garbled text mentions grinding and keeping bogs healthy, suggesting a local tradition or slang about hogs, wood, and charcoal use in farming.
The text discusses Swiss cattle breeds focusing on milk and meat production, work capability, and regional management differences. It highlights Bodwys and Schwys as variations, noting weight, fertility, and climate influence on cattle size. It observes Alpine and Mittelland exchange, milk cow traits, and the impact of long-term work on cattle, with remarks on conformation, strength, and aging effects on balance.
The article discusses cattle quality, fattening, and spots on hair, noting middle forehead white spots once common in shows, later discounted. It observes weather effects on color, discusses body form and attire of well cared-for cattle, and highlights perceived purity of conformation in rationally reared stock.
The article advises farmers to provide abundant green pasture and forage to keep ewes in vigorous condition through late summer and fall. It stresses avoiding run-down flocks at mating and highlights that ewes producing the best lambs at weaning are the best breeders, requiring careful care and proper nutrition after weaning.
The text explains rickets caused by malnutrition and inadequate feeding in pigeons and hens. It recommends stopping corn slop and middlings, using screened oats, flaxseed meal, and milk with lime water, plus a daily remedy of precipitated phosphate of lime. If worms appear, add iron sulfate to the slop for five mornings in succession, scaled to 1 ounce per 100 pounds of pigeons. The piece notes weak germs won't hatch if a hen is in poor condition, stressing variable hen health and chick outcomes.
Dr. Bima Woodhead of Cambridge University reports that even tiny amounts of alcohol drive away leukocytes, hindering immune response. This leaves infectious agents able to invade tissues during fever, allowing diseases to entrench and cause severe, sometimes fatal illness.
In Dew Moines Iowa the city’s saloons were temporarily shuttered by order of the state supreme court. The piece argues that prohibition removes liquor as contraband, condemns licensing as wrong in principle, and questions federal,state cooperation with alcohol commerce. It claims arrests rose without saloons and critiques the legal stance on liquor as contraband.
The article notes that Captain Hobson warns liquor interests hold sway in colleges, with 3,000 students in 100 institutions having studied the liquor problem this year. Projections expect 6,000 students. 30 to 40 colleges have curriculum credit toward degrees, others may follow. Also includes a culinary recipe for yellow croquettes with hot mesopot slam?
A shaky recipe fragment describes mixing three cups brown sugar and milk with butter, heating until it forms a ball, adding one cup chopped pecans, stirring until smooth, and shaping onto plates for serving. No author or date shown.
A miscellaneous vintage piece discusses the toad as a useful garden ally against insects with practical notes on husbandry and humane pet-keeping. It weaves in anecdotes about insects, market tics, Chesterton, and humorous quips on poetry and daily life in a fragmentary collage.
A drawn out remark about the ambition to write a play so impactful it would provoke national discussion for a decade. The speaker contrasts easy creation of a bad script with the demand for a truly significant work.
Vague excerpts show dialogue about people living together and time altering appearance. Characters debate reunion or funeral, with fragmented phrases implying social or emotional themes and a dated New York setting. The passage lacks clear event or names.
Fragmentary OCR shows a stray plea about placing something at Ite Place with a sleepy bol and carpet nap phrase. It hints at informal ads and a call to tell Konsip about needs without cost. The unreadable text limits clear entities or events.
Municipal councilor Adrien Milh ouard oversaw the discovery of Tintoretto Adoration of the Magi among old canvases stored in Auteuil. The painting had been nearly obscured by grime until a scrub revealed the masterpiece.
A fragmentary item notes a light exchange about choosing remedies and dialogue as a cure for weariness. It hints at a humorous or rhetorical dispute over what is best to ease fatigue and promote conversation. The text reads like a clipped humorous aside from a larger discussion.
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