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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1925
Page
3
An USDA prepared guide describes a permanent outdoor vegetable cellar built of concrete with self supporting roof, proper forms, and thick walls. It covers site choice hillside excavation sizing, forms, ventilation, earth cover, air ducts, and temperature control. Suggested dimensions fit garden yields and provides bulleted references to Farmers’ Bulletins for further details.
The USDA urges wider barley adoption in northern and western states for livestock feed. Barley yields more pounds per acre than oats or wheat and can be sown after spring wheat planting. Best soils are well drained, with early seeding and proper harvest with a binder. Leading varieties vary by region, including Tennessee Winter, Manchurian, Oderbrucker, Coast Hamdhen, Club Mariout, White Smyrna, Chevalier, and Trebi.
Soy beans can be threshed more efficiently with a pea and bean separator than by any other means. An ordinary grain separator, properly adjusted, will thresh the crop well, with adjustments depending on variety and condition. Using oats screens for all varieties and a slatted straw carrier improves performance.
Farmers ignore rat and mouse damage in hog houses feed rooms and yards, despite losses from rodents. Many see them as a nuisance and believe they will always return, failing to grasp the extent of feed waste and health concerns.
The main challenge in ensiling corn fodder and corn stover is attaining the proper moisture. Use equal weight of water to fodder as a starting rule, adjusting for wet weather. Run a hose from the top of the silo to sprinkle as loads are added, ensuring surplus water can be drained.
Pullets confined indoors need a balanced dry mash with equal parts corn and oats ground, plus 80 pounds of mash to 20 pounds of high grade tankage. Feed in a hopper at all times and provide scratch grain twice daily at 12 pounds per 100 hens.
The article urges using fertile soil, studying market conditions, and selecting seed corn now for next spring. It warns against selling sick chickens, advises burying them, and endorses safe consumption standards. It notes barley as hog feed, but better with corn and a 5 percent tankage ration for pork production.
A high class pharmacist promotes Joint-Ease a compounded remedy claimed to ease rheumatic swellings and stiffness. The license states the salve soaks to ligaments and joints delivering quick relief for ankle knee hip elbow spine or finger. Available at druggists for 60 cents.
An Indianapolis News item notes Donald and his grandmother returning from a circus. In a brief moment Donald tells his grandmother to punch anyone who calls her a funny sap. The remark underscores a sharp, playful family dynamic.
A concise proverb-like line asserts that a bluff with inconsistent timing is unlikely to refer to a real person, implying the mythic status of a boast or legend rather than a factual figure. The remark frames credibility through linguistic ambiguity.
Advert promotes Cuticura products for soothing baby rashes. Hot baths with Cuticura Soap, then Cuticura Ointment, finishing with Cuticura Talcum. Claims purity and fragrance, price 25 cents each.
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