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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1914
Page
7
The article urges selecting quality tools and keeping them in repair and well oiled. It stresses proper housing to extend life, avoid rust, and preserve investment, noting shelter saves money and boosts farm prosperity. It advises arranging shed storage by usage season and guarding even small implements.
A quotation notes that keeping implements in the tool house reduces hunting time. When tools are always in reach the hand finds the wrench, shovels, sweeps, oil can, and garden plow quickly, saving valuable minutes during work.
Keeping horses at work matters for health and safety. Idle horses on full rations risk overload of digestive and excretory systems, forming toxins in the gut that can enter the blood. When work resumes, those toxins may become active. A horse not working his usual amount should have a much lighter ration than normal.
California experiment station reports lima beans can gain 160 percent above average yields through selective seed and plant choices. Grow seed from chosen plants in a dedicated plot and repeat selection annually.
The text laments grain loss due to wide cracks in granaries and stables, noting wind and cold worsen conditions. It argues that preventing stock from accessing cracks avoids double suffering, framing both structures as threats to stored grain.
Officials warn against importing plants animals and seeds that may carry pests. A quarantine room in the Department of Agriculture conducts thorough microscopic inspection of living or preserved specimens before use. The first post establishment shipment, South American potatoes, carried a brown bug.
The Market Growers' Journal explains bagging grapes as soon as flowering ends yields the best returns. Bagging prevents fungus and insects by enclosing each bunch in a long bag sealed at the mouth, safeguarding crops with minimal labor.
Peahay made from cutting Canada field peas fed to fattening lambs at the South Dakota station yielded palatable roughage that the lambs highly relished. Except for two alfalfa and one sweet clover lots, gains were more uniform, underscoring the value of legume roughage for market readiness.
An Iowa station found that adding small amounts of oil meal or cottonseed meal to corn and oats improves the ration for work horses. A mix of 77 lb corn 15 lb oats and 8 lb oil meal performed better and cheaper than oil meal alone, while 79 lb corn 15 lb oats and 6 lb oil meal also reduced cost.
The article notes poultry and small fruits grown on the same land yield manure valued at 50 cents per hen yearly. It also suggests hens help destroy insects, nearly matching the manure value in benefit.
Two thirds of total losses in fertile and infertile eggs occur on the farm. Poor poultry management practices are identified as the basic factors behind this condition.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a brief notice about a product or item named separator cream with unclear descriptors. The readable terms include Rodate Cobt and anoney, but no clear event, date, or organization is identifiable. The record remains inconclusive on specifics.
A Chicago observer notes shrinking east of Missouri beef cattle supplies. Farmers rely on western feeders as western output declines. Home production rises prices for fat steers while overall cattle raising declines, threatening prosperity and meat prices for consumers.
Farmers should invest in seed grading and cleaning. Intelligent seed selection has increased corn yields by millions of bushels, and a fanning mill can remove weed seeds while handling all grains. Using proper cleaning improves small grain yields and keeps fields weed free.
The orchard needs thorough soil prep for years of use. After the first good fall rain, the subsoil is moist but not wet, ideal for plowing subsoiling and harrowing to a deep, lasting effect. This timing yields better pulverization and soil conditioning for subsequent planting.
A local grower notes Early Harvest Blackberry profits were strong in many areas but not guaranteed for others. He points to Cumberland as a total failure for him, attributing such results to soil quality in Marion county within Ohio's Black Swamp region.
The article advises rotating cow feed to avoid overreliance on a single material. It urges a sufficient ration for maintenance and milk production and warns that milking a cow at the expense of her health is false economy.
The text argues that no horse should be kept idle even for a day. It emphasizes that health depends on regular exercise and careful feeding. Owners must provide consistent physical activity to maintain well being.
L. J. Merideth in Homestead stresses careful lambing preparation with a well lit, dry, ventilated barn and ample pens. He urges light partitions, fastened mangers, and regular feeding of a grain mix alongside roughage to sustain ewes and unborn lambs through winter.
An article describes a device to lift barrels using a two foot long handle with six inch hand grips a metal hook above the grip and a hollow curved wooden cross piece at the bottom. For heavier barrels extend the handle six to twelve inches for extra leverage.
Gardeners widely install 3x6 foot sash frames for vegetables and profit. Proper soil preparation is essential, with level beds, ample sand and humus, and removable cross bars for summer work. Lettuce and radishes are especially suited to frame culture.
The rule requiring tobacco dips to have at least 0.05 percent nicotine and 2 percent sulphur flowers is amended to allow dips made from tobacco products with at least 0.07 percent nicotine. The new strength need not include sulphur.
Fruit of small size on berry bushes is usually due to poor culture and no pruning. Currants are largely borne on wood three or four years old. Wood older than this should be pruned out and young canes allowed to take their place. This may be done after the fruit is ripe. Maintain cultivation and fertilize with barnyard manure.
A preventive remedy recommended by the Iowa station is a mixture kept before hogs at all times. It consists of three parts Galuber's salts salsada copperas common salt and one part flowers of sulphur. The mixture should be kept dry and can be prepared at home cheaply in large quantities.
Fragmentary OCR notes suggest guidance on incubator eggs from top hens and eating advice. The text is garbled with phrases about eggs not to be eaten and unclear references to a 200-e86 mark.
Mrs Mary Gauthier of 21 Ridge St Montpelier Vermont writes she regained health using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after illness and fatigue. She endorses its remedies and offers to have her name used. The ad cites forty years of popularity and invites letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice.
Quick turning event as a small New York candy and nut shop notices pedestrians smiling at the opposite window. The owner crosses and discovers a mixed sign scene: a formal notice of new management and a bold claim of a new crop of nuts.
The Cuticura Soap and Ointment are promoted as pure gentle emollients for babies skin and hair. They claim relief from minor irritations redness roughness and chafing and help treat eczema rashes itching and infantile eruptions. The advert notes long lasting soap value and world wide sale with a free sample offer and a 32 page Skin Book from Cuticura Department L Boston.
At a Tammany dinner after Mayor Gaynor appointed Rhinelander Waldo as police head ex Comptroller Herman A Metz teased him about the job. Metz warned Waldo to rely on intelligence against his rivals as the luncheon ended.
An advertisement promotes Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills claiming rapid relief for stomach ailments biliousness and indigestion with a brief call to try the remedy.
A reader scolds housekeepers for placing tubs outside to collect rainwater during a heavy downpour, calling the practice foolish and impractical.
Defendant says he did not know what he had done without the help of his lawyer who replies that he would have faced prison time otherwise.
An old advertisement touts Putnam Fadeless Dyes as the brightest and fastest dye solution. The copy emphasizes vivid results and quick performance for home dyeing projects.
A terse note reflects on envy as a force that drives people to extraordinary acts, highlighting its psychological pull and the dramatic outcomes it can provoke.
The article notes thousands of men leaving urban work to return to farming, attracted by modern Canadian opportunities in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. It highlights improved machinery, vast plains, railways, cattle grazing, and 160 acre grants, citing R H Crossman of Kindersley Saskatchewan as an example.
Java supplies most of the world quinine while India consumes one sixth of annual production. Ceylon's exports have declined to negligible levels. India plants thousands of acres of cinchona to become a major quinine producer.
A Texas epileptic bitten by a rattlesnake reportedly recovered from epilepsy, inspiring medical trials. The Crotalin treatment, prepared by Boericke & Runyon of New York, is hypodermically injected and has shown satisfactory results in numerous cases. They offer a free booklet detailing the treatment.
A Puck excerpt portrays a colonel and a hopeful bunco steerer discussing luck in finding lucrative victims. The veteran explains he waits for a man to claim he is a good judge of human nature, knowing he has found his target.
A brief notice notes that Dean's Menthol Cough Drops relieve the tickle causing coughing. Druggists promote the remedy as effective for throat irritation.
In a Harper's Weekly fragment a tense exchange unfolds about a bank fire. One speaker references daily losses and a bold act, while another man repeats phrases like don’t cry and bank burned every day, conveying street talk and danger in a fragmented depiction.
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