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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
2
The article urges farmers to prepare poultry for fall by setting clean ground free of poultry for two years and providing an open air range shelter in a field with green feed and shade. It recommends soybeans or corn as shade and green feed, constant fresh water, and liberal daily feeding of whole yellow corn, whole oats, and a high quality mash to slow maturity and improve egg size.
The Department of Agriculture yearbook highlights farm home production of dairy poultry fruits vegetables and meat as a two way aid for low income families. A survey of 84 farm families shows higher home food production lowers cash food spending with some producing over 400 dollars worth of food and spending about 160 dollars on food.
W. M. Hurst of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Engineering notes that a shift toward durable simple and faster field equipment has transformed farming akin to the earlier impact of the reaper and steel plow. He cites rubber tires pneumatic traction and adaptable tractors as key changes enabling row crop planting cultivating plowing disking and belt work with higher speeds.
A sermon reflecting on Psalm 19 contrasts God revealed in nature with His fuller revelation in Scripture and Jesus Christ. It urges repentance, Christ’s cleansing, and holy living, urging the meditation of the heart to be acceptable to the Lord.
Hamlin Galand recalls Edward MacDowell telling a story of a concert for a fashionable girls' school. After the performance he meets an elderly man who cannot identify him as the pianist. The man complains the noise was too much and leaves. MacDowell jokes he is tired of the accursed clatter himself.
The piece warns against hollow praise and counterfeit virtue. It notes that sincere effort matters more than empty rituals, while clinging to moral conviction when correct. It argues truth and morality should guide choices, and that surrender is not always dishonorable.
A quiz asking country for the Holy Land of three religions and questions on water temperatures on centigrade scales. It asks the site of the best known whirlpool the tactile sense location of the Hottentots the Aurora Australis and the pronunciation of aye as yes in voting.
A short meditation on youth quarrels and the effort to end them. It argues that mending one’s faults can demand as much energy as pursuing high office and that old friendships can be strained by stubborn disputes.
The remarks touch on Palestine as Holy Land for Jews Christians and Muslims. It notes temperatures 0 and 100 degrees, Norway maelstrom, sense of touch, South Africa, southern hemisphere aurora, and the pronunciation of sea as see.
The article notes that a president or vice president may resign by a written statement delivered to the secretary of state under a federal law from 1792. It recalls that only one vice president, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, resigned in 1832 to become a senator.
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