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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1912
Page
10
A guide to massing one color across pink blue and red borders for year round effect. Emphasizes white as a unifier, lists compatible perennials and annuals, and suggests progressive selection to improve the display.
A five year comparison at the Ohio Experiment Station shows rotation outperforms continuous cropping with manure or fertilizer. Rotation yields 24 bushels more corn, nine oats, 13 wheat per acre on average, with total treatment costs recovered by crop gains. Water for poultry noted as essential to prevent souring feed.
The English sparrow, prolific and adaptable, harms crops and native birds yet can aid in curbing certain insect pests. It destroys fruit buds, vegetables, and grains, damages nests, and displaces local species, with overall evidence favoring protection of native birds but ongoing debate on its net value.
A newly identified pear thrips pest endangers pear orchards in New York and the eastern states. The small brown insect damages buds blossoms and calyx cups, with larvae feeding before ground pupation. Control relies on timely spraying with nicotine preparations and kerosene emulsion or soap, timed to bud break.
The article warns buyers to beware of over fattened boars at fairs as fat hides defects. It notes fat breeding stock often sells first and rough ones last, and stresses judging by quality and shape. It highlights head shape, stating long narrow heads with tight ears usually indicate poor sires.
A poultry guidance piece argues gapes arise from poorly kept quarters and worms in soil. It urges good feeding, dry conditions, frequent yard changes, and sanitary coop care, plus a carbolic acid treatment for affected chicks and immediate disinfection of housing to prevent outbreaks.
Musk melon leaf blight is a distinct problem in muskmelon with some relation to cucumber leaves. Prevention relies on thorough Bordeaux mixture sprays and concurrent care of dowry mildew, with careful timing before and after August. Anthracnose affects stems and fruit surfaces. early and repeated Bordeaux spraying on young fruits helps limit damage.
The article describes steps and measurements for making excellent cheese at home using six gallons of milk, rennet and color tablets, heating to specific temperatures, cutting curd, draining whey, pressing in a mold, aging for three to four weeks, and finishing with butter to prevent molding. It also notes a method for cream cheese using one fourth cream.
The piece argues that honest preparation and truthful packaging are essential to selling produce. It warns that deceptive practices like masking spoiled fruit damage buyer trust and harm long term reputation, citing historical forgeries and emphasizing that integrity builds lasting wealth for successors.
A white poodle in a street car accident lost a front leg and was adopted by a farmer. A doctor fitted an artificial leg with a glove top and pad, allowing the dog near normal movement though it occasionally loses the limb during wanders. The text warns about raising too many hogs.
A detailed description explains building a two box ice chest from tangied lumber three fourths inch thick. The inner box fits inside the outer with one inch clearance, joined by inch strips and building paper. Lined with zinc or galvanized iron, it includes a drainage pipe and dead air space for insulation.
The hog lot should be long and narrow and plowed frequently to reduce disease germs. Alternate pasture sowing helps soil health while roosting quarters must be well ventilated. Pure air, free and inexpensive, is essential to profitable poultry keeping, as close stuffy quarters are damaging.
A historical note lists hereditary unsoundness across horse structures including vision defects roaring heaves ridgling stringhalt and bone enlargements with entries such as boneapavin ringbone bidebone rogspavin and thoroughping card among others. It discusses softer structure faults and marks some unsoundnesses as less strongly hereditary.
Instructions discuss removing peeling trees with stump pullers or cultivation, burning or dynamite for destruction, and killing sprouts after trunk death. It also advises adding a disinfectant to whitewash for poultry house interiors to eradicate Hea and mites on contact.
The piece outlines key points for breeders including avoiding rheumatism and tumors while focusing on correct conformation. It advises breed with a definite plan and to patronize only sound pure bred sires and sound mares. It stresses avoiding mixing types and sticking to one breed when possible. It also warns to read the stallion’s license and seek soundness, size, quality, and action based on draft or light horses.
Advice on increasing income by feeding better animals and expanding poultry. Recommend raising two to three hundred chickens with good range and homegrown feed like corn and wheat. Warn against treating sick fowls with drugs, suggest culling low-value birds, and note soil management when planting potatoes.
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