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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1928
Page
2
Mr Yak recounts life among yaks from Tibet and Central Asia. He explains their work pulling carts carrying bundles plows and providing milk and rope. Billie Brownie joins with a winter song praising cold weather and friendship.
A discussion traces the word dresser from French dessoir meaning a kitchen sideboard until it became an American misused term for bedroom storage. Early colonists shared rooms and repurposed furniture, leading to the current popular but altered meaning.
The statement credits Harvard with introducing modern football to colleges, highlighting its early influence on the sport and its adoption by other institutions.
A reflection on postwar crime as natural and overstated, arguing public discussion drives reform. The author praises newspapers for informing officials and the public, notes tabooed topics fuel evil, and credits talk with stirring action and lasting change across history. Capyricht
A Farm Journal report notes Kentucky farmers demolish old limestone stone fences to crush them into lime for soil improvement. Led by Bourbon and Fayette counties, the movement shows fences yielding up to five tons of ground limestone per rod, reducing costs versus quarry lime and boosting crop yields.
An agricultural engineer from the New Jersey experiment station argues that draining wet lands is beneficial when areas are small. He notes draining irregular swampy patches supports larger rectangular fields, saves labor, and improves machinery use though overall drainage should be reserved for areas with clearly large returns.
Silage from corn cane kai r or sunflowers blends well with alfalfa hay and performs best when fed with a touch of dry roughage. Alfalfa makes an excellent hog pasture in lime-rich soils. A well equipped hay grower gains value and price from such inputs, while miniature tomatoes offer children and preserves appeal with red plum red cherry red currant and yellow varieties existing.
Calcium arsenate, known as an efficient poison for the cotton boll weevil, is highlighted as a top control for the Colorado potato beetle. North Carolina State College entomologist A Brannon says it is the cheapest option for growers, usable as a dust or spray, with proper application. Applications should begin as beetles appear and continue as numbers rise.
The Farm and Fireside Magazine reports a fireproof barn design tested at Iowa State College. The masonry arch barn uses tile and reinforced concrete with an arch upper story to resist fire, allow rapid stock removal, and reduce costs compared to frame construction by 25 to 50 percent.
The piece outlines alfalfa hay as a leading dairy cattle roughage, noting its high mineral and protein content, palatability, and laxative effect. It suggests alfalfa is best fed green but not pastured, and warns silage should wilt and avoid alfalfa if hay and other crops can be used.
Silage with alfalfa and hay plus a good grain mix lowers milk production cost to about $1.03 per 100 pounds, versus $1.14 with more hay and no silage. Cows fed silage gained about 0.5 pounds daily. doubling hay without silage raised weight loss to about 1.5 pounds daily for dairy herd profitability.
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