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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1921
Page
7
The USDA notes moisture and ventilation are linked and neither always fixed by rules. Hatches succeed with varying moisture strategies including spraying eggs, water pans, moist sand, sponges, or damp floors. Too much blocks chick movement. too little dries the chick.
The article explains moisture needs for incubators in different locations and climates. It advises removing moisture trays from non moisture machines before hatch, notes room conditions affect moisture, and suggests using glass door water as a moisture indicator. It also proposes testing evaporation by incubating two hens and comparing egg development on days seven and fourteen.
Soy beans grown as hay have risen in use over the past decade, especially on sandy soils where clover and alfalfa struggle. Soybean hay offers high digestible protein comparable to alfalfa, though curing can be a bit difficult, its palatability and feeding value make it a desirable forage crop.
The Agriculture Bureau reports the 1920 potato crop was the largest on record at 480,458,000 bushels with 145,286,000 remaining with growers by January 1. By January 1 this year, 285,172,000 bushels moved to market, three times the per capita consumption of 1919, while prices fell from 3.09 to 1.0 dollars per bushel by January 1.
Specialists from the bureau of markets of the United States Department of Agriculture explain that grading should not rely solely on size. Knobs and surface defects can misrepresent quality, and diseased or frozen tubers may pass size tests yet be worthless. Field conditions largely drive losses seen at market.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns that rotten, frozen, or undergrade potatoes reduce growers’ profits and waste time, labor, and car space. Through its market inspection service the department aims to eliminate this waste and lessen losses to the community.
Ruth Paige and John Gregory feud over window shopping on a Sunday afternoon in a small town. They quarrel about art versus practicality but their love remains, until Ruth discovers John secretly works as a window trimmer at Hecksteeth’s. He reveals he changed jobs a month ago and offers to walk with her again, ending their bitter rift.
English act of 1919 mandates women serve on juries alongside men. Comment centers on the horror of mixed juries and the prospect of a woman being summoned, leaving husband and children without her company and services.
The piece explores salt need versus desire in humans and animals. It notes that many wild animals naturally seek salt at salt-licks used by buffalo herds east of the Alleghenies and west of the Mississippi. It mentions Native American knowledge of salt and ash ingestion with food containing saline matter.
The American Forestry Magazine praises the West Rosebud area calling it a camp like visit with a passable wagon road to Emerald Lake. It notes excellent scenic values good fishing and abundant mountain huckleberries around the lake.
The article advises dusting each book separately with a fine soft brush and keeping transparent adhesive tape and sharp scissors in the library. It suggests mending torn magazines and book covers, repairing bent playing cards, and using tape to secure corners as needed.
Mrs. W. Osborne of Lexington Kentucky describes years of nervous weakness dizziness and headaches and says Tanlac improved her appetite digestion sleep and overall strength after unsuccessful treatment in Cincinnati. She urges other suffering women to try Tanlac sold by leading druggists everywhere.
Two farmers argue over whose wife saves more money in household spending. One claims his wife spends little and invites him to stay, while the other boasted his wife makes money vanish, leaving none for him to see.
A coin lodged in a Pennsylvania girl's throat for two years was removed by surgeons without instruments. The piece’s removal evokes a desire to hire those same surgeons to coax others to cough up coins that have rested with them for more than two years.
If your room is small avoid yellow and red furnishings as they feel warm and shrink space. Opt for grays and violets to create a roomy effect. Untold agony is a secret a woman can't repeat.
A Buffwe Express item describes a lively crowd gathering for a journey to the underworld. Charon shelves reservations and jokes about the heat as the food profiteer complains no call was made.
A street peddler in a Tit-Bits blurb proclaims a magnetized keyhole plate that supposedly attracts a steel key from two feet. The crowd rushes to buy and three men are injured in the melee.
A sarcastic quip from the Richmond Times-Dispatch mocks the phrase "Mother, may I" and cautions against risky questions, framing the line as a centuries old admonition in a light editorial voice.
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