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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1910
Page
2
A jumble of era notes and clippings laments war fears and rationing while skimming science, politics, and society. It cites robins eating cherries in New York, Maharajah Sir Bayo Gaekwar of Baroda, and a New Jersey divorce case beside New York’s 22 story razing to make way for a high value structure.
Practical guide for barn construction detailing dimensions for ventilation, stalls, feeding areas, and drainage. Describes ample windowed sides, 24 foot wide barns, mangers, swing stanchions, and front ventilation openings to ensure warmth, cleanliness, and efficient cattle handling.
Col Fitch of Colorado Agricultural College discusses potato growing, stressing moisture, soil prep, and timely planting for strong stands. He notes common causes of weak sprouts and warns heavy rains damage tubers. A separate item claims Charles Volz of Mission Texas set a world onion profits record from 24 acres, yielding 22 cars and netting over nine thousand dollars after costs.
The first creamery is identified as built in Middletown, New York in 1863 with a second in Binghamton, New York. The creamery business remained regional for many years and did not expand to the western United States until roughly 25 years later.
The Shropshire ewe owned by George McKerton & Sons of Wisconsin is hailed for quality. A champion at the 1905 International in Chicago, she is regarded by judges as among the finest animals shown, noted for development, broad back and compact frame.
The author argues for dry farming across the western plains from the Dakotas to New Mexico and Wyoming. He notes scarce rainfall, moisture conservation, and fallowing as key to enabling mixed farming with modern machinery. Local showers in May to July supply most moisture, with snow contributing during winter, and notes the region’s pasturage from autumn grasses.
The article cautions that hatchable eggs should come from lean, well fed fowls rather than fat birds. It emphasizes avoiding flocks with coarse ailments and stresses selecting a healthy, vigorous breeding male and ensuring breeders have good health, flesh, bright combs, and alert demeanor.
The note urges saving garden vegetables now to stock for fall and winter. It emphasizes using surplus produce promptly to ensure supplies remain after harvest. It speaks to prudent preservation and storage strategies for a family garden.
Pigs help reduce insect and fungus disease by eating fallen fruit and uneaten matter in orchards. Advocates say pigs improve orchard hygiene and pest management, though some concerns about soil impact and management remain to be addressed.
One or two acres of rape should be put in for ill pasture or for polling purposes. Rape helps out well in feeding sheep, pigs, and young stock, and may be pastured or cut and fed green.
The article notes irrigation and seeding practices for alfalfa on about 100 acres in Lincoln County Colorado. It describes planting timing from spring to August, soil and weed considerations, and reports varied seeding rates from 1 to 10 pounds per acre with some farmers favoring 18 to 22 pounds in certain conditions.
Advice on clover hay use for laying hens and growing pullets, with tips on sanitation, water, disease prevention, and nest cleaning. Emphasizes regular feeding, fresh water twice daily, sunning brooders to disinfect, and the value of charcoal and Russian mulberry trees for health and shade.
The article discusses selecting early maturing corn for silage to maximize yield per acre and improve feeding quality. It cautions against crowding, notes the need for proper spacing and air, and advises rows spaced to permit cultivation and ear development for fodder value.
Beet sugar factories now operate successfully in 16 states led by Colorado California and Michigan. The largest plant handles 3000 tons of beets daily growers receive 5.35 dollars per ton and acreage has grown eightfold in ten years. By products pulp and molasses feed stock boosting cattle in factory districts and farm land values rise.
The notice warns that worm eaten plums must be cleared from beneath trees to prevent plum curculio depredations. It urges destruction of fallen fruit if pigs are available to eat and warns against allowing breeding of the pest for greater damage.
A stark directive urges selling or culling unproductive fowl in poultry operations. It targets hens not contributing to profits, calling for immediate removal of those laid-off birds to reduce losses. The message emphasizes identifying underperforming birds and taking swift action.
A playful line compares a single night raid by Varmints to the cost of weather tight coops. The verse suggests that poor protection matters as much as a good rain, tying mischief and shelter quality in a compact moral note.
A humorous exchange depicts landlady and Mrs Slowpay debating a price reduction for Mr Hall Roome over his lost two teeth. The scene centers on a stubborn tenant and the landlady asserting the beard as the basis for rent adjustment.
A bachelor asks a married man for the most unanswerable argument. The man replies that a wife saying If they can afford it we can has no flaw and never will. This quick quip from Youths Companion reflects marital finance banter.
At a London Authors' club dinner Mr Owen Seaman recounted how an English dentist amused himself by pulling a painful tooth without anaesthetic. The dentist held the tooth to the window and laughed, declaring the gag was that it was the wrong tooth. The remark ends with a quip about freedom and the red dog that howls.
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