Question on Hog Rearing Costs and Sow Quality
A fragment questions whether rice and mites harvest eggs for hogs and argues that paying $50 for two first class sows is better than $100 for six scrubs, implying quality over quantity in breeding stock.
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Newspaper
Anita Tribune
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
8
A fragment questions whether rice and mites harvest eggs for hogs and argues that paying $50 for two first class sows is better than $100 for six scrubs, implying quality over quantity in breeding stock.
Reduce horse corn by about one third in winter. Use modest fertilizer for better returns. Selling grain and hay drains a farm’s underpinning. Feed roosts weekly January to January and spray the barn interior monthly with kerosene. Raise draft horses for profit. Tuberculosis in cattle and sheep scab spread from city steel yards via buyers who neglect proper checks.
Agricultural notes cover horse care and prevention of indigestion in mares, forage and crop rotations, sorghum planting, timber scarcity, soil washing, and bean harvesting. It discusses hospital flocks, calf care, and barnyard routines, plus a merchant rest room trend and detailed feed component data for cotton seed cake and corn.
A San Antonio letter describes severe catarrh with night sweats and chest pain in 1602. After trying remedies, the writer credits Peruna with relief and reports using it again for future flare ups. An unrelated note mentions a northeast passage expedition under the Russian ministry of marine, and a Kentucky editorial duel with Col Webb wounded below the knee after a stand up fight under Marshall Law.
A fragmentary exchange centers on a jest about walking in moonlight and a boast of dying for a beloved figure. A misbehaving sibling interrupts with a shouted reveal that the scene was merely a joke, heard as three blocks away.
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