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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1927
Page
7
Denver artist Mrs Pansy Stockton uses leaves grass stems weeds and plants to create sun paintings. She gathers foliage on Colorado summers trips often through snow and draws on Mesa Verde park scenes using natural colors like moss for texture and gray hills.
A fragmented excerpt notes a London hospital idea for ailing creatures and mentions a “Public Land Strip” also called the Panhandle of No Man’s Land within Oklahoma. The Organic Act of 1890 established the Oklahoma Territory, incorporating the strip into state history.
Winchester Rotary Club hosted Handley High School graduates at a luncheon. Principal speaker R Gray Williams urged community support for Handley Schools and education as the safeguard of democracy. The event included a class song and news of Dr. E D Davis’s death.
The notes discuss legume bacteria as a waste, fire extinguishing means for farms, doves as weed destroyers with one bird eating 9200 seeds, and ten minutes of labor making a bushel of wheat. It advises locally grown crops as economical feed, soy beans for hay harvest timing, and rape as a garden crop with greens potential. Stubble fields after grain offer cheap sheep pasture, with rape sown there as pasture.
Prof EB Good of the Kentucky College of Agriculture notes daily salt needs vary by stock. Working horses need about two ounces, idle horses one ounce, cows on milk or steers one ounce, sheep half an ounce, and pigs one eighth ounce. A suggested mix is salt limestone and bone meal. Six level teaspoonfuls of salt weigh about an ounce, so a horse needs about a dozen teaspoons daily. Keep salt available in boxes at all times and avoid withholding it to prevent dangerous overconsumption.
The article stresses correct collar fit for work horses. A proper collar should slip on shoulders with no force, rest evenly from top to bottom, and avoid seesaw motion. It should leave space for fingers between neck and collar and prevent sidewise movement to avoid sore shoulders and neck injuries.
In brooding chicks successful poultrymen take pains to keep them active says EL M Black assistant extension poultry specialist for New Jersey. Active chicks avoid toe-picking feather-picking and other vices. Emphasis on room, mash hopper space and drinking fountains. avoid overfeeding and sluggishness by feeding to satisfy appetite only in the evening.
Hubam is as good as white clover as a honey plant and may surpass it in some views. It grows rapidly, yields abundant forage per acre, and helps soil fertility while smothering weeds. As an annual, it shortens crop rotation versus biennial sweet clover red clover or alsile clover.
Farmers overlook improving old blue grass pastures. Experiments at Ames Iowa show discing, reseeding with alsike clover red clover and scarified sweet clover boosts carrying capacity. An application of 100 pounds per acre acid phosphate helps but basics alone give cheap gains.
A Capper's Weekly snippet notes a woman searching for a missing can opener while the man blames a rest cure as the cause for the absence. The light exchange captures domestic humor of the era.
Jud Tunkins comments on human greed noting that selfishness drives men to seize money before earning it, reflecting a moral stance on money and integrity.
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