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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1931
Page
6
Illinois experiment station results show silage preserves about 40 percent of corn nutrients, with normal silage yielding nearly twice the gains of stover silage in calves. Harvest at proper stage for ensiling prevents nutrient loss, keeping corn in peak feeding condition.
Nebraska experiments in 1930 show trench silo waste at 6.75 percent of 106.4 tons of good ensilage. Proper covering and packing can keep waste below 6 percent for cattle feed though some top cover methods spoiled the silage. Bottom and sides show almost no waste, while wet straw and roofing paper coverings underperformed.
The article advises comfortable winter housing in a dry, well bedded shed with good forage to save costs versus grain fed stables. It urges shoe removal when turned out, weekly hoof inspection, rasping of irregularities, and care of teeth with guarded rasp to prevent mouth sores and decline in condition.
Michigan Farmer warns against feeding unclean screenings or wheat on land planned for gardens next year. The grain may carry wees that complicate cultivation. if feeding poultry, use troughs and burn small seeds chickens won’t eat to reduce risk.
USDA Leaflet 73 L explains that common cattle warts lower hide value by up to 25 percent and can spread infections. It urges removing warted cattle, disinfecting pens and equipment, and gives treatment tips from clipping small warts to veterinary removal for large ones. Leaflet 75 L offers free copies from the Office of Information.
A winter to spring feeding test at the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station found calves outperformed yearlings and two year-olds in gain per feed. W H Peters reports calves yielded the best returns, gaining 100 pounds with less feed, though results depend on market margins and conditions. The test fed three lots under identical regimes with barley oats ratio and later shelled corn.
The Washington experiment station reports that twenty to thirty leaves per fruit yield commercially sized apples, while forty to fifty leaves per fruit are needed for buds for next season. Vigorous growth requires adequate nitrogen organic matter and moisture, with moisture being limiting in the East. A twenty five year old apple tree with 60 to 100 thousand leaves can support about 1000 to 2500 fruits for optimal size quality and annual production.
The article advises transplanting conifers in fall as the foundation of poultry stock health and vigor. It notes Bermuda onions grown in Florida this year rival those from Bermuda Island in quality.
Kansas City man Scan dell thirty three is arrested in Jackson ville Florida on request of the local sheriff for the murder of his sixty three year old father John E Scannell a poultry farmer near Dinsmore Florida. Sheriff claims an eye witness saw the slaying.
A World War romance began at a Jeffersonville quartermaster depot when Anna May Miller pinned her name and address to a shirt she made. A soldier in Hawai who received the shirt replied, but the correspondent later becomes Mrs Harvey Deering a mother of three children.
Two of three eaglets hatched in the Western Reserve prological laboratory died after their foster-mother, a setting hen, stepped on them. The remaining eaglet thrives, marking what may be the first successful captive hatching in the area.
In Utica a fifteen year old girl Agnes Winkleman was running with a celluloid doll in her mouth when a gun fell. The doll’s leg became lodged in her nasal passages and was removed from her lung. Authorities report the strange accident.
A Turkish commission in Angora struggles to craft a new Turkish language based on the French Larousse. The dictionary lags as the grammar nears release, with over 10 000 new words in A alone. Critics say the terms are unpalatable and risk diverging from vernacular usage.
Washington reports aviation growth with 417 more airplanes in use by July 1 versus January 1. Licensed pilots rose from 15 280 to 16 238, including 445 licensed women pilots and one women mechanic. California, New York, and Illinois lead in aircraft and pilots. gliders are most numerous in California.
Sulphur Oklahoma veteran sportsman J L Young found a large water moccasin on his hook one evening and left it there. The next morning a forty pound catfish had eaten the snake and taken the line.
East Kingston New Hampshire veteran Joe Lawrence switches from sole blacksmith work to a combined garage and blacksmith shop serving motorists and horsemen as demand shifts with motor vehicle popularity in the area.
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