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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1916
Page
4
The notice indicates mail transmission through the post office at Diller Nebraska as second class matter. It records official handling for postal distribution and archival indexing.
Residents of northern Kansas towns near Lanham Nebraska protest a saloon opened just across the line in Lanham. The Kansas side remains dry but cannot stop the Nebraska establishment, which holds a $1,250 license and can ship drinks into Kansas. The piece argues such cross-border saloons boost prohibition support and cites broader wet-dry boundary issues.
The article notes that steel cars now comprise almost all new railroad rolling stock. More than a thousand passenger cars are under construction with 98 percent steel. Last year 73 percent of new coaches were steel, and about seven thousand wooden cars have been retired in three years.
The government reclamation service completed a monumental dam on the Rio Grande in Southern New Mexico. Standing nearly 400 feet high, it will impound about half more water than the Assotian dam on the Nile, previously the largest ever built.
The piece notes 12 million farmers with farms mortgaged for about 3 billion dollars paying 84 percent interest or 255 million yearly. It says an upcoming rural credits bill, expected to pass, would cap rates at 6 percent, saving farmers around 75 million annually.
Charles E. Hughes a U.S. Supreme Court justice and former New York governor was nominated for president by the Republican National Convention in Chicago on the third ballot. Chas W. Fairbanks of Indiana was chosen for the vice presidential slot on the ticket.
The report notes Washington remains sanguine about policy despite ongoing strains while Mexico remains sanguinary in tone as regional tensions persist.
A contemporary piece argues Japan must stop worshiping Western civilization and embrace internal scientific development, commercial growth, and sea power. It contends Japan is capable of independent thought and invention and urges shifting focus from European imitation to homegrown progress.
Pennsylvania dairy and food commissioner James Foust urges farmers to adopt modern methods, grow twice as much grain per acre, increase dairy cows, and use fertilizers to raise yields. He notes foreign farmers' efficiency and warns current US fertilizer use sends money abroad, suggesting domestic stocking could keep wealth and milk production at home.
G E Thompson reports Sudan grass, the sorghum variety, shows strong performance across Kansas trial plantings. It yields four to five tons per acre, serves as a reliable hay and pasture crop, tolerates drought, matures quickly, and is favored by livestock, promising a permanent role in state agriculture.
The method uses about ten pounds of quicklime with two gallons of water. Lime is placed in a pail and water poured over, then covered to stand an hour. Too little water scorches lime. too much water slows slaking. Scorched lime is lumpy and transparent, so correct water amount yields a brushable hydrate.
A home built seed corn tester is described with a two inch by four foot plank drilled with ten one inch holes. Place four grains per hole, cover with cloth and sawdust, moisten, and wait four to five days. Edge boards hold the cloth. the device holds about three bushels per tester.
Lice are a major nuisance to laying hens and young chicks. Dust the hen with lice powder before nesting and weekly during sitting. Keep nesting material clean and wash dirty eggs in lukewarm water.
Kansas State soils expert R I Throckmorton advises lime on fields set to summer fallow for fall seeding to alfalfa or clover. Use finely ground limestone 2 to 4 tons per acre as a top dressing, applied a year or more before planting and integrated with harrow or disk.
A comic snippet shows Iva Line remarking on a dog that bolts for the door after being kicked. Ivan Other questions the claim as the exchange hints at a humorous misunderstanding.
Cattle receipts near 163 loads with strong demand for heavy beef and high marks set. A prime 1,482 pound beeve drew 11.90, top prices for cattle locally. Hogs up a dime with bulk at 9.35 to 9.45 and top 9.50. Lamb and sheep market steady with Idaho lambs at 11.49 and varied prices for lambs and ewes across grades.
Advice urges adding permanganate of potash to poultry drinking water at signs of colds or bowel disease. In usual strength it colors water a light wine hue and is claimed to prevent infection by destroying germs in water vessels, safe for chicks.
The article outlines methods to control cutworms with poison bran mash or by hand, and suggests ample planting to survive damage. It notes that earworms are harder to reach but fall or winter soil turning reduces moths, and early planting helps harvest before worm damage peaks. It stresses many pests affect corn and other vegetables beyond these two.
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