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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1931
Page
2
The article argues that home atmosphere drives personal and community welfare. It emphasizes small lot housing, attractive architecture, painting, maintenance, and landscape design as essential to neighborhood appeal and resident contentment.
Detroit Free Press argues times of economic pressure should prompt painting to preserve curb appeal and deter costly repairs. It notes paint boosts perceived prosperity and neighborhood pride, urging proactive upkeep despite downturns.
The Florida Times Union discusses highways built for public use and funded by the public. It argues that roads suffer damage when misused and that offenders should pay for damages or be restricted from using highways for improper purposes.
Trees and plants require careful care and nourishment as young growth. The lover of nature finds delight in watching flora mature, and modern science offers many aids to gardening to complete estate setting with planned landscaping.
A home benefits from well kept walks with lawns and trim, as concrete provides a clean, pleasing path. Colored walks offer low cost options to harmonize with the property, with flagstones and coloring additives creating new appearances.
The note emphasizes the importance of paint and tidiness to boost external respectability of homes. It argues that well kept yards and gardens reflect home-loving instincts and enhance overall life quality.
The article surveys U S and world events from 1931 including a trillion dollar deficit risk, Mellon’s long term bonds at 8 percent, evolving debt relief, DO X transatlantic flight, Lindbergh Orient cruise plans, state politics in Tennessee, Canadian tariff shifts, German British reparations talks, church and press freedom rulings, Mussolini Vatican tensions, and Catholic Action clashes in Italy.
C Teague one of the original members and vice chairman resigns after serving one year beyond his initial term. In his letter to President Hoover he defends the board and its emergency functions stabilizing wheat and cotton, noting its value to farmers cooperatives and the treasury. He cites two methods of stabilizing markets and suggests future benefits from the board’s work.
Premier R B Bennett unveiled the first budget to parliament detailing an 80 million dollar deficit. He proposed higher taxes including sales tax up to four percent, restored 8 cent postage, corporate income tax from 8 to 10 percent, and a new 1 percent excess tax on all imports.
The USDA reports about 40 of the several hundred strawberry varieties are grown commercially, with 19 making up 96 percent of acreage. Klondike Aroma and Howard 17 lead the market, while climate and soil dictate regional favorites like Missionary in the South and Blakemore gaining traction in the Carolinas and New Jersey.
Massachusetts Agricultural College experiments report growth gains of 8 to 15 percent at four weeks for 327 chicks under a dim night light. The light kept birds spread out, helped them return to the hover, and reduced chilling. A ten watt light is recommended where electric supply exists.
In 1929 the USDA used about 17 500 geraniol baited traps in lightly infested areas and raised to 25 588 in 1930. The department advises trapping only with light infestation as baited traps draw beetles from afar. Cost for bait and operation was 1 66 dollars per trap in 1929 and 1 63 in 1930.
The Massachusetts station outlines two feeding mixtures for poultry. Laying mash combines corn meal wheat bran middlings ground oats meat scraps fish meal alfalfa leaf meal dried skim milk and salt. Scratch feed blends yellow corn wheat barley and oats.
A dairy farmer feeds whole grain to his cows while noting low dairy prices. He argues feeding costly grain yields little profit and that dairying remains unprofitable for those who adopt such practices.
Fencing small irregular fields is costly says J L Falconer of Ohio State University Rural Economics. He recommends fields be at least 40 rods long and notes larger square or rectangular fields use less fencing per acre. Irregular fields waste land and fencing due to many corners and short rows.
Purdue University and USDA research show sticky seed coatings beat dry materials for inoculation. Sugar solution treats one bushel of seed with less than a pint. Soybean seed should be only slightly damp to prevent seed coat slipping. Beeson urges inoculating all land not previously inoculated.
Samuel M. Jordan of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture warns that buckhorn dock and pigweed seeds contaminate clover seed. He notes 30 clover seeds per clover seed but up to 2 400 buckhorn seeds, 50 000 dock seeds and 1 000 000 pigweed seeds per seed. He argues it is better not to sow clover than to sow weed contaminated seed.
The report notes surprise at the shortage of fruit among farmers who supply milk cream pork poultry bread and pastry. only a few strawberry plants grow in gardens. The fruit would make a dessert for the gods when smothered with abundant cream.
Practical advice on barrel storage, tool maintenance, cucumber pest control, grape arbors for landscape, fruit thinning after a June drop, and the importance of timely potato spraying to prevent blight and rot.
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