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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1919
Page
7
USDA guidance urges poultrymen to clean up yards by marketing surplus cockerels as soon as marketable. Early sale boosts profits while keeping choice cockerels for breeding, and mentions fattening methods with grain mixes, milk or substitutes, and a home fattening trough setup.
A report from the U S Department of Agriculture compares wage gains for farm labor with the rise in prices for crops and livestock from 1914 to 1918. Wages rose 1 percent in 1915 while prices fell 8 percent. 1916 saw wages up 10 percent and prices up 12 percent. 1917 wages up 27 percent and prices up 74 percent. 1918 wages up 65 percent and prices up 96 percent, with convergence beginning that year. The article notes farm labor wages are generally more stable and questions future normal levels after the war.
Through their county agent John V. Helper Ford county Kansas farmers near Dodge City are organizing a pure seed growers association. The group aims to plant and sell pure seed of standard varieties, keep stock pure, advertise products, and attract buyers in the heart of the Kansas sorghum district.
The notes urge continued battle against lice and praise charcoal in poultry rations. Blackhead is identified as a major turkey problem. Geese require similar care to ducks. Warnings warn against losses from using inferior quality grain.
A 19th century study explains fleas as potential carriers of bubonic plague and other diseases. It notes larvae may take up pathogens from filth, and adult fleas can transmit bacilli via bites or scratched-in fecal matter. Flea-bite transmission can infect many germs, with rats as common hosts.
A garbled reminiscence notes a debate among liberal peers about Scully the leader of parliament and Lord Moneke. The text hints at hesitation before a critical division and a retort about future action and personal regard in parliamentary matters.
After a day spent in cold rain the fishermen return with empty baskets. A large dog lunges at them in the village. one man kicks it. His companion laments that he would welcome a bite to go home and tell his family.
In a Chicago Herald and Examiner note, attendees discuss a youth spectator who seems dazed after a golf ball strike two years ago. The floor manager notes the youth has earned over a million, while another asks how one learns to play golf.
Market notes list futures and cash prices for corn, oats, clover and timothy, along with butter, eggs, live poultry, cattle, hogs and stockers. Prices cover No 2 white and yellow corn, mixed grains, sound timothy per ton, clover, standard trainle, butter varieties, eggs, broilers under two pounds, fowls, roosters, cattle classifications, hogs and pigs with stated ranges. Market activity reflects regional wholesale values and assorted weights and quality grades.
An advertisement urges maintaining kidney health to prevent Bright’s Disease and premature degeneration. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Capsules as a remedy with immediate relief and a money back guarantee, urging readers to buy only the genuine product.
The Wanendenkin household hosts a dinner party where a bird slips away during carving. Pa Wdetethus remains calm while the knife balks at its task and the fowl ends up on the lap of the principal guest. Mrs Wyntenkins blushes as the moment unfolds.
A fragment from the Boston Transcript quotes a bride remarking on the venue and the bridegroom’s appearance with a humorous or provocative line. The readable text is limited and lacks full context or names.
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