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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
2
Poem reflects on choosing rest in death over life’s troubles. Lovers note life’s end, grave, and funerary calm. Speaker asks death to hold them fast if rest is best, trusting the giver of breath.
Ronald Bevan meets Ella Plympton a militant suffragist of the Woman's League. Their train journey to Rugby sparks a staged plan that collapses into real life as Bevan defends a baby and reveals true affection. He proposes after a dramatic clash of stage personas and public reform. Celia, Bevan’s sister in law, unwittingly facilitates a clever ruse that ends with Ella accepting marriage and a family alliance.
The article advises careful first shoeing of two year old colts to protect growth and bones, urging light weights and minimal alteration as training progresses. It discusses milk composition, feeding calves with skim or separator milk, cleanliness, and long history of dairy feeding, plus notes on horse and poultry nourishment and a strong 1909 ram market forecast.
The piece extols New York as a great technical hub noting deep foundations caissons and portable air plants. It cites rapid demoralization of engineering limits and praises ``web-foot engineers'' who transformed an island into a dense, affluent urban center with groundbreaking feats.
A column quotes H B Sando warning against overloading incubators and hens and warns that doubling egg capacity leads to waste. It notes poultry products form a large share of world food supply and argues poultry is highly profitable per dollar invested for farmers, with emphasis on balanced, economical practices.
Moisture tests at the Oregon Station used incubators set by makers with varied moisture. A tray of dry sand sat under the eggs, while maximum moisture machines kept sand wet. Results show a 32.6 percent increase in chicks hatched using moisture in incubators.
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