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Newspaper
The Spanish American
Location
Roy, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1917
Page
7
The piece explains timing for weed control in corn, stressing light shallow cultivation early when weeds are small and avoiding deep work after corn reaches a foot high. It notes benefits of timely cultivation for moisture retention, soil warming, and erosion prevention, while warning against root damage and excessive clod formation.
The article details control of wire grass like couch and Bermuda in pasture by deep tillage and repeated Harrowing, followed by fall subsoil, spring cleanup, and a yearly Bordeaux mixture spray to treat blossom end rot and fungal infections. It advises removing affected fruit, spraying weekly, and using blue stone and lime in Bordeaux mixture.
A Swine World advisory urges forcing each farm acre to work by its capacity and eliminating loafers. Pigs are proposed to harvest fall crops by consuming corn, rape, rye, and pumpkins, reducing harvesting labor costs and increasing seed value.
Farmers face real risk from moldy feed such as old corn or hay stored improperly in spring and sewer areas. Moldy or spoiled fodder can cause serious health problems and even kill stock before issues are detected, so use of questionable feed should be avoided.
Weeds including perennial grasses threaten alfalfa once started under good soils. This is why sod land is not advisable for alfalfa. To reduce weed danger, a clean cultivated crop should precede alfalfa for one or two years.
Maj. Gen. Wood outlines a twofold appeal to women and men to aid the war effort through industrial work and joining the American Red Cross. It emphasizes preparedness, rapid mobilization, and expanding civilian relief, with nurses in short supply and the Red Cross as a central wartime support, relying on volunteer women to build a nationwide relief army.
A league to train army cooks organized by Miss Georgina Roberts and other prominent women has headquarters in New York City. It provides standard kitchen gear plus an army range and materials. It offers immediate instruction for men seeking to qualify as army cooks or to become instructors, using the Army Cooking Manual by qualified teachers. The photo shows Miss Georgina Roberts who organized the league for the famine relief effort.
Portland residents may buy horse and other equine meats under a new city ordinance. Meat must be inspected and plainly labeled by city inspectors. The first shipment of twenty two wild range mustangs, rounded up by Indians in eastern Oregon, arrived for sale with prices quoted from four cents to twenty five cents per pound.
Esther Dittenhawer and Virginia Clippinger, students at the College for Women in Cleveland, volunteer to lower the campus flag at sunset and raise it again at four each morning before sunrise, demonstrating daily patriotic duty.
Lafayette and Paul Westphal’s face is his fortune. He worked as a night clerk earning about 10 a week when a movie company spotted his resemblance to President Wilson. He signs a war drama contract for 250 a week.
Pennsylvania is the only state in the East to furnish over half of its quota with detailed figures for the states given.
Nearly 100 of Washington society girls and young matrons have qualified as American Red Cross ambulance drivers. The feature highlights Miss Ethel Harriman and Mrs. W. D. Robbins as examples of the new volunteers.
A conversation tableau questions Green's character. One speaker praises him as fine and trustworthy, another notes generosity and careful lending, while admitting personal borrowing from Green, not lending. The exchange contrasts impressions of reliability with informal credit practices in a terse, character sketch tone.
They joke about Venice canals and Salvation Army tactics for corners. The editor notes the Poets Club meeting was unanimous as the reporter records the I's seemed to have It.
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