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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1923
Page
3
Inexperienced cattle breeders are reminded that plain cheap steers with short corn feeding sell about as well as good quality steers in spring. Plain thin steers are cheaper than quality ones, but the quality steer responds better to a long feed and will outprice the long fed plain steer.
Dr. L. E. Card of the University of Illinois notes water heavily influences egg output. A standard dozen eggs weighs about a pound and a half with roughly two thirds water, and hens stop laying sooner if deprived of water than feed.
Farmers report clipping oats and wheat stubble helps control weeds and conserve moisture. The practice promotes soil health by reducing weed growth and may aid next-season cropping.
Early clipping prevents weeds from getting a start and smothering young grass and clover. A later clipping stops weeds from seeding and thickens the stand. Rag weeds spread by seed and can lay dormant. mowing pastures, fence rows, and un cultivated orchards helps check weed growth and spread.
Soy beans improve protein in silage over corn alone. Corn silage has 1.1 percent protein, soy bean silage 2.8 percent. Digestible protein in 30 pounds is 0.33 pounds for corn silage versus 0.84 pounds for soy bean hay, a gain of about 0.51 pounds. One pound of oil meal yields 0.383 pound protein. if silage were all soy, the extra protein in 30 pounds would equal roughly 14 pounds of oil meal.
New York reports show savings deposits in banks and trust companies rose from 8.43 billion in 1912 to 17.33 billion in 1922, an increase of 105.7 percent, with accounts growing 140.9 percent to 30.32 million. The rise is blamed on better bank services and aggressive canvassing for deposits.
The text presents a poem about social reaction to joy and sorrow, contrasting communal response to happiness with isolation in grief. It emphasizes that pleasure attracts crowds while pain is solitary, and that success brings life but cannot ease death, ending with a meditation on enduring suffering in life's final passage.
Landowners Henry W Holmes Geo I Roberts John M McKee Charles Agness W K Fraizer Fred Perdue Swan Wilson prohibit hunting on their farms at any day or night, directing trespassers to seek permission or face action.
Names appear warning against hunting on farms. Additional names to be added upon payment of 25 cents. J. Camblin, Charles Bechtel, Thomas Boller, Verlin Street, George Johnson, Fremont Doyle, John Bollhoefer, E. F. Harvey, Matilda Huff, Sadie Akers, Frank Swartz, Hamilton Baker, Kenneth Camblin, Adam Hilliard, Rosa Bollhoefer, John McKee, Howard Garigus, Henrietta Sanderman.
Notice to creditors heirs and legatees of Elihu G Scott deceased to appear in the Grant Circuit Court Marion Indiana December 27 1923 and show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved and to prove heirship and receive distributive shares. Clerk of Grant Circuit Court 30th day of November 1928.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports France produced 290 474 000 bushels of wheat in 1923, about 50 million more than 1922, due to a government backed campaign that increased planting by about 600 000 acres.
Everett Rockhill of Culver reports a cow test where 11 cows on alfalfa hay and silage shifted to a grain mix increasing income over feed cost by 122.8 percent. Milk output rose over 50 percent while fat and product value also climbed, with a 10 percent per cow drop in feed cost. The recommended ration includes 500 lb ground corn, 200 lb bran, 100 lb cottonseed meal with 10 lb alfalfa daily.
A public drive seeks to destroy chinch bugs by burning over meadows pastures ravines and roadsides where 9 percent are expected to hibernate. The plan argues that burning these areas will kill most bugs and community cooperation will prevent future infestations.
Mrs. B. Lee of 85 First St credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing kidney weakness and backache after a brief course. She first spoke in 1919 and reiterates in 1928 that her kidneys have stayed healthy since using the remedy. Sold for 600 at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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