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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1925
Page
7
The article details a well built dairy barn planned for 88 cows with two rows of stalls and a central feed alley. It highlights carrier tracks for feed, drains, gutters, manure disposal, wide doors, many windows, and ventilation shafts to ensure cleanliness, light, and air for healthy cattle and high milk yield.
Warns varnish drying slows in cold or damp air and in hot weather. Recommends maintaining about 70 degrees Fahrenheit, adequate ventilation, warming during cold work, and avoiding chilled varnish. Emphasizes drying times, proper undercoat dryness, and avoiding additives that impair finish.
The article notes a wide range of precast concrete products from lighting standards and fountains to architectural details and farm items. It highlights growing use by builders and expects continued volume growth along with improvements in permanence and fire resistance of American buildings.
Statistics from the New York Paint and Varnish Association show white houses exceed all others in the United States. Ted emerges as the next most popular color among small-house owners, while red and gold tones appear less favored and green ranks third with bone owners and decorators.
United States Department of Agriculture explains that hay color largely drives price and feeding value. The Munsell color system is applied to alfalfa and timothy, using spinning disks to measure color by blending hay pigments for accurate lot grading.
Rat-killing drives are underway in many areas, praised by poultrymen as helpful in eradicating pests. Prevention is key, with buildings raised on high foundations to deter rats, and repairs to seal floors where possible.
Sour soils should be limed before sowing alfalfa. Apply ground limestone at 1 to 3 tons per acre after plowing and disk into the soil. Often add 150 to 200 pounds of acid phosphate per acre in addition to the liming. Fertilizer costs about $27 per ton in bulk or about $30 per ton in smaller quantities.
Advice on keeping Orpingtons Plymoth Rocks Rhode Island Reds and other breeds urges flat bottomed coops to break broody hens and discourage broodiness to avoid low egg production. Broodiness is natural and inherited and should not justify starvation or inhuman treatment.
Seed alfalfa should be sown by August 10 15 to ensure a strong winter stand. Avoid sowing after mid August as stands may be poor under average conditions. Use at least 15 pounds per acre and ensure proper inoculation for best results.
Early fed lambs reach 70 pounds by ninety days and earn prime market prices. A diet of six parts ground corn three parts bran and one part linseed cake is recommended for rapid lamb growth.
Veterinary specialists from the U S Department of Agriculture urge clean, sanitary calf quarters and feeding equipment. They note milk as a growth medium for bacteria and warn adult cows tolerate bacteria calves cannot. Emphasized are clean utensils, ventilation, sun light, daily cleaning, and periodic disinfection to prevent common calf diseases.
The U S Department of Agriculture urges dealers to candle eggs before shipment to ensure freshness. Under the federal act, eggs with yolk on shell mold black spots mixed rate and black rats are adulterated. Candling helps avoid law violations or rejection at destination amid state controls.
The corn borer draws heavy attention from farmers and experimenters in Ohio and southern Ontario. A burial test at Ohio Agricultural College buried 1,800 borers under five to six inches of plowed soil with normal cultivation, killing all borers and preventing moths from emerging. The result suggests thorough plowing and stubble coverage as a key control method.
The article urges poultry keepers to move brood coops to new ground to combat norma and coccidiosis in young chicks. Reusing old ground year after year leads to poor chick viability, while relocating coops is often the simple remedy.
Rhubarb thrives in mellow fertile soil to a considerable depth and dislikes high subsoil or hard pad. Large leaves and stems need ample moisture so irrigation is advised. Warm south facing exposures help with earliness.
The Bell fertility specialist urges using oyster shell to supply eggshells for hens and warns about potato land and Timothy sod plowed. Weeds appear early on farms. sweet clover is praised as a hardy legume for hog pastures, supporting bone and muscle growth in pigs with one acre feeding twenty spring pigs.
A noted person named Bennie ends a prayerful wireless program with good night and Amen. In another town a parish council marks the unveiling of a war memorial with a joking remark about dress and deportment, suggesting a clean shave and contrite heart.
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