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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1894
Page
8
Detailed instructions describe a leather wrapped fleece packing box with a foot lever and twine system to roll and compress fleece for sale. It compares this to earlier designs and notes durability, cost, and handling advantages. The text shifts to pasture use for pigs, praising pasture rotation to improve health, growth, and manure distribution, with fencing and feeding changes for seasonal use.
Poultry advice notes lower moisture needs for duck eggs during hatching and stresses healthy stock not overfed. It favors geese over chickens for profit and urges setting hens to have fresh water fattening feed gravel and dust baths. Shipping coops must allow fowls to stand and endure rough handling while early marketing birds should be pushed. growth differs after six weeks with larger breeds gaining more.
A 19th century remedy for cattle horns is described using cartonseed or lubricating oil, carbolic acid, pine tar, sulfur, and copperas boiled and stirred. The mixture is applied with a whitewash brush to horns and affected areas, with repeated renewals as needed. Judge DeCamp of Allen Kansas is cited as endorsing the treatment.
A Swine Breeders' Journal description outlines escape pipes inside a hogs legs that vent excess heat and moisture. It notes these small internals remain active in fore legs, with hind leg ducts above joints. It explains sudden death in rapid exertion as heat overload, given narrow pipe capacity and remote heat source.
A period note describes a portable swine box to guide pigs into a wagon. It details a strong, end opening contraption that fits a doorway, uses a coin lure, and a rear door secured with a pug lock. The design emphasizes cleated inner corners for durability and claims five men can load a 200-pound hog into a wagon quietly.
Advice on poultry care in warm weather stressing cost benefits of summer, hens laying more eggs, feeding sparingly to avoid fattening, allowing hens to forage, avoiding grain when inactive, ensuring fresh water, and keeping birds off roosts on hot nights to prevent overheating.
Advice warns rookies to begin with a small flock and expand only with experience. Those who rush into large seed stock often fail, while careful, slow growth yields vigorous chicks. Choosing stronger shell quality is key to improving outputs.
In a pointed critique, the piece accuses Republican senators of persistent obstruction to tariffs, labeling them a close trading bloc. It claims leaders like Brice Gorman and Aldrich influenced metal and cotton provisions and blames eastern Republicans for derailing progress while Democrats push for a liberal tariff law.
In a訳 fragmentary editorial tone the piece rails at extreme protection, denounces McKinleyites, and notes Ohio Republicans push further tariffs while accusing them of favoring monopolists and heavier taxation. It critiques Republican vows for better protection as a cover for bigger bounties and oppresses American labor with protectionist plans.
The piece accuses Republicans of obstruction in Congress to protect McKinley tariffs while striking favors for trusts. It contends Democrats and Coxeyites allied with Republicans, blocking reform and arguing that tariff protection profits a few, with defense that the Walker plan would prolong plunder. It cites warnings from St Louis Republic and Louisville Courier Journal on party treachery and the danger to tariff reform.
The piece argues for open quarantine and protection measures amid tariff disputes. It comments on democratic actions and Senate self investigation, criticizing perceived self exoneration and challenging the country’s stance on tariffs and defense. It mentions Carnegie and others in a skeptical tone about armor plates and policy.
Fragmentary line speaks of assistance and counting apples and apps. The garbled phrase hints at a playful dialogue or quotation about providing seven apples to two apps. No clear event or人物 names identified.
A playful line from the Scranton Truth features a teacher asking if a jackass is a biped or quadruped. Johnnie replies that it depends on the jackass, swapping focus from the animal to the creature’s gait. The quip highlights classification humor in a classroom setting.
A vintage ad describes Atty tours in a forty eight page work with six maps and prices from three to thirty dollars. It offers free postpaid copies to any address and notes stamps by George H. Daniels Grand Central Station New York. The fragment includes garbled foreign phrases and names.
A chaotic collage of patent medicine claims, odd quacks, and comic snippets. It names remedies for cleansing, headaches, and fevers while lampooning ads and improbable cures. Interspersed are stray lines about schoolgirls and a medical jab at a bellwether product.
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