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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
7
The catalpa sphinx pest threatens catalpa groves in expanded plantings. Hand removal works for visible caterpillars, or spray with arsenicals and Bordeaux mix for larger infestations. Encourage natural parasites, notably a four winged wasp, to reduce late season caterpillar numbers.
To hatch 100 chicks use 12 hens to brood them all at once. Test eggs on day four and remove infertile ones. Limit each hen to 20 chicks and transfer excess chicks to a quiet hen after hatching. After hatch, chicks rest 12 hours before feeding resumes.
A Wisconsin Agriculturist note describes a drier installed in tobacco barns. Plants are strung on lath, placed on the top rack, and raised successively as racks are filled. During removal the lowest rack is cleared first, then the next, minimizing labor.
A rapidly growing chick requires ash for bone development. The main mineral sources are shell and grit, with beef scrap and granulated bone serving as animal sources. Beef scrap should not be fed in excess. bone provides the bulk of the necessary minerals.
Advice on feeding young chicks limits overfeeding in week one with four to five feedings daily and gradual reduction by week two. After week two crack grain can be offered three times daily while dry mash remains available. Avoid sloppy wet foods to keep chicks healthy.
The article stresses real satisfaction in milking and handling cows with well shaped udders and teats, criticizing poorly built cows. It urges dairymen and breeders to start improving udders now, as it is not too late to begin.
The most personal problem in fruit farming is choosing varieties. This decision affects orchard performance, market fit, and long term profitability, requiring careful evaluation of climate, soil, disease resistance, and customer demand.
Advice from Charles S. Cutting on drafting a secure will. He outlines twelve Do points including planning property, using skilled draftsman for complex wills, proper formalities, and witness rules. He warns of eleven Don'ts such as delaying a will, misinterpreting widow’s rights, tying up estate long term, and improper executor or witness choices.
Annual losses on national forest ranges exceed 500000 dollars with about 75 percent of sheep losses blamed on coyotes. Mountain lions are reported to kill only a few head of cattle and sheep.
The passage notes that pleasing everyone is impossible as people grumble at perfect weather unless it exactly suits their needs. It reflects on universal dissatisfaction and self interest affecting public sentiment.
Porto Rico presents its valuable vegetable wool used to fill pillows and upholstery. The dried fiber from seed pods is soft silky and resembles wool or fur. English hat makers use it in a material called castors.
Uncle Eben says a man with an ax to grind is more useful than one who only wants you to listen to funny stories. He warns against passivity and favors practical, direct approach.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch New York correspondence paints a single night out as a chain of stops from 7 p.m. dinner to 7 a.m. hotel departures. The writer visits theaters, Follies, Reisenweber’s Hoola Hoola, Healy’s fox trot, and Jack’s, noting the late crowds, light pockets, and sunlit return to daybreak.
In an address Doctor Smellie of the Original Secession church recalls a toast from a Scottish regiment at Edinburgh Castle in the early 1800s. The toast was A clean sword and a dirty Bible, meaning a sword drawn only for honorable causes and a Bible worn by constant use as the foundation of chivalry and lasting peace.
Fragrant emollients claim to treat skin pimples blotches redness and roughness scalp dandruff itching and hand chapping. Offer free sample by mail with Book send postcard to Cuticura Dept Boston for delivery. Sold widely through advertisements.
John Sharp Williams authored a book and repeatedly set dictation records by devoting long days to the work. He dictated for eleven or twelve hours at a stretch, with brief lunch breaks, and once spoke from seven in the morning until two the next morning, resting less than half an hour in total.
A Yonkers Statesman note quotes a thin boarder and a boarding-house keeper debating energy and the dinner bell as weather sharpens brisk movement. Jamaican cane losses average five percent yearly due to rats. Over 12,000 US college students study agriculture. California faces a fall vote on prohibition.
Mrs Wa Green of 532 S Addison St Indianapolis credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her health from a weak 109 pounds to 133 pounds after five months. She now handles all housework and washing and urges other women to try the remedy. The ad invites letters for advice from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.
A thoughtful man gives free counsel yet mutters in private about his own storms. Many women admire wealth but keep their true feelings unspoken, subtlety shaping quiet yearnings and social games.
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