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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1918
Page
5
Los Angeles Times calls for a city run tree commission with full control over all street planting and a corps of trained experts. It argues private owners should lose authority over street trees and asks when real reform will arrive, urging immediate charter change to create a single, expert body.
United States Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin 818 outlines efficient small garden methods to maximize food production. It covers core gardening principles, detailed culture of common vegetables, seed quantities, planting times, and supplies. It urges intensive use of space, succession planting, and careful preseason planning with a written garden diagram to guide current and next year’s cropping.
In Riverside residents are urged to organize and involve the local press and the City Beautiful department of the Times to arouse public interest and document progress. Reed praises decade of aid and asks for notices of humble community improvements to receive support and publication.
Landscape gardening has not received proper attention here. We have not studied which roses thrive locally or prepared soil to support thrifty growth and blooming. Many simply dig holes and plant roses without adding essential elements, then wonder why flowers are not fine in bloom.
A large Michigan city experiments with a new street build. Pavement 18 feet wide is laid between concrete headers forming the center foundation. Earth and gravel fill strips along both sides and the curb, also used on rural highway shoulders.
The Ontario experiment farm reports egg totals for Plymouth Rock Leghorn and Minorca hens. Leghorns produced 32 eggs in December through March, Plymouth Rocks 17, Minorcas 16. Leghorns appear best winter layers, though overall totals were modest due to care levels.
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture the guide urges keeping hens confined to one’s land not housing a male bird as hens lay well without roosters. It covers housing ventilation yard cleanliness feeding routines nest setup green spade yard maintenance and seasonal egg preservation.
An agricultural notice urges hatchery timing to boost flocks. Early spring incubation or natural hatching yields mature birds by fall and winter egg laying, while late hatchings delay maturation and winter laying and postpone sitting to the next spring.
The larger the farm, the larger the flock and such a flock should be maintained largely from economical reasons. Poultry will pick up 90 per cent of its living from scattered and wasted grain. They act as scavengers in consuming a large part of what would otherwise be lost. They will be valuable next summer in eating obnoxious bugs and insect pests that would destroy valuable food crops.
Practical advice on economical meals using leftovers and versatile ingredients. Includes buying large chickens, making soups from bones, cheese value, and step by step recipes such as Cornmeal Muffins Coconut Indian Pudding Fig and Nut Pudding Rabbit Fricassee and Rabbit With Carrots. Also covers Luncheon Dish from fish leftovers and custard puddings.
In a sharp exchange, Mr Urban cites German government tactics to quell a labor strike by threatening to fire workers. Mr Suburb condemns the method as unjust and warns of legal consequences if similar measures were tried locally on a household staff.
A first grade pupil answers a teacher’s prompt with Guess U or Ulrich. Eugene triumphs in the end. The exchange is set against light banter about Palm Beach and a house warming with comments on decor and clothes.
A collage of witticisms and caricatures riffs on politics economy and society. Jests touch on congress officers and governors with punch lines about money marriage and fame reflecting a satirical lampoon of public life and high society.
A quirky dialogue contrasts practical advice with a joke on aging. A centenarian claims daily apple consumption and continuous chewing tobacco, prompting wifely skepticism about sustaining such habits. The exchange plays on exaggeration for humor and everyday wisdom.
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