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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1922
Page
5
Extension agents show how selective culling of non producing hens boosts egg output and saves money. Maine and Texas demonstrations eliminated thousands of birds, improving flock efficiency and delivering substantial feed cost savings.
The article explains that rich soil and rapid growth yield larger, sturdier cabbage heads. Slow growth from poor fertility or drought prevents proper head formation, wasting the plant’s energy. It notes Chinese cabbage as a distinct species from common cabbage.
The Flower Grower emphasizes keeping the pile top hollow or flat so rain soaks the material, preventing burning and fertility loss. A level surface aids composting as the heap absorbs rainfall rather than shedding it.
The article explains ways to tell male and female ducks by sound. Hens quack in a coarse voice while drakes do not quack. instead a sibilant sound is heard described as like an old man with brown keeters.
Windbreak planting started in Minnesota with state forest cooperation and has grown into a popular effort. Forestry experts led demonstrations using trees from the Cloquet station, with 72 demonstrations in 14 counties through 1920 and 1921. Plans for 1922 and 1925 plantings are already under way. A year of soil preparation precedes planting, include both conifers and deciduous trees.
Farmers can cut winter depreciation by painting wooden parts to prevent warping and rot and by oiling wearing surfaces of cultivators, mowing machines, or binders and greasing bright plow parts. Proper lubrication saves on spring replacements.
April brides said to be mercurial and capable mothers but difficult wives, a folk belief warned by many sources as a cautionary note for marriages in spring.
During the English civil war Charles II minted plate for his troops using rough crude methods. Coins varied in shape and metal from gold to pewter due to lack of proper machinery. Towns issued their own money as tokens often oval or oblong and made of base metals.
Professor Letterkink cheers a large audience while locals discuss science. A compositor’s error cuts the word Cosmic from the lecture ad about mile Forces, sparking humorous misreading in the town.
The text argues that a lunatic may provide valuable testimony in court. While delusions may concern self persecution, the witness rarely harbors delusions about others, making an inmate of an asylum’s charges of ill treatment worth hearing.
A patient recounts a near fatal brain and mental decline in 1917, with three doctors failing to help. After two boxes of Dr. A W Chase's Tonic Pills, health returned enough to feed themselves, and friends called the recovery a miracle. The ad urges buying only genuine A Chase remedies.
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