Artist Clara Fears Her Painted Cow Is A Flop
Clara, an aspiring painter, paints a Thornapple hill landscape featuring a cow and a duck on a pond. Burt Delevan, a real estate agent on vacation, intrudes, misjudges the scene, and earns an admonishing glare. After a quicksand incident, their bond grows as Grandma predicts a future romance and painting partnership.
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Mies
Clara Pagent
America
Clara
Thornappie Hill
Red Farm
Bunkers Hill
Thornapple Hill
Burt Delaven
Mr. Delevan
Grandma
Villian
Ong
Alps
Dearie
Dearie. That’s What First Made Me Think You Were A Born Artlat
Burt
Delevan
Thoroapple Hill
What She Thought of Them
Kate Wiggin praises Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books as superior to other young people's works of the past decade. She says they soar beyond others, though some readers may find them dizzying, yet they invite readers to adventure and imagination.
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Kate
Douglas Wigelh
Rebecca
Rudyard Kipling
Mrs. Wiggin
The Preacher and the Dog
An aged southern preacher overhears two young clergy in a heated dispute waking a sleeping dog. He calmly sips tea, then kicks the dog and tells them to be quiet while claiming they know little for arguing about the matter.
Excellent Food for Stock and Root Crops Use in Stock Feed
Practical guide on feeding roots to livestock. Beets potatoes carrots turnips and mangels are digestible and healthful. Feed preparation includes shredding slicing cooking or steaming and mixing with hay. Rates vary from 40–60 lbs for dairy cows to 100 lbs for fattening cattle and 4–20 lbs for pigs. Roots stored in 20 bushel piles with straw and earth for winter.
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France
Trough for feeding sheep by W H Underwood
Construct a 16 foot trough using 2 by 4 posts four feet long with two feet set in the ground. Build a one foot from ground trough with 12 inch boards, bevel top board, and slats of common fencing boards set eight inches apart to give each sheep fourteen inches feeding space. Thirty sheep can feed at the trough. The trough can feed grain or roughage.
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W. H. Underwood
Providing Coal for Hogs
A nineteenth century farming note advises feeding coal or charcoal to hogs in frequent doses, warns against overcrowding and harsh weather causing pileups among piglets, and suggests dividing pigs into small lots. It also notes a sow farrowing at one year could yield about 500 pigs by year four if there are no slips, deaths, or runts.
Building Up Good Herd
Advice for breeders to select a few top ewe lambs each year and mark them clearly. Provide best pasture, promote their development, and sell equal numbers of older ewes annually to steadily raise the flock’s quality.
Indication of Mineral Need Among Hogs
When hogs gnaw plaster in foundations or root in the ground it signals a craving for bone material. Charcoal hardwood ashes or pulverized hard coal will usually curb this waste of hog energy and provide a safe remedy.
Combination cow and hog housing under one roof
A Farm and Home writer describes a multi purpose barn design uniting hog pen, straw loft, wagon shed and granary under a single roof. Concrete pens with sliding doors streamline access, and deep granary bins maximize storage. This setup saves time and labor by centralizing feed, bedding, and stock housing.
Healthy Quarters for Pigs Amid Damp Conditions
Rheumatism in hogs stems from damp filthy and poorly ventilated quarters. Use ventilation that avoids direct air blasts while letting sun reach the houses. Dry sanitary sleeping areas prevent rheumatism. remove damp bedding and cold floors. if cement floors exist add false wooden floors in sleeping areas. Prevention through dry clean yards pastures and houses is essential.
Wheat Shorts Feed For Young Pigs Preferred
A writer in an exchange advocates wheat shorts for young pigs as a superior feed. A mixture of wheat shorts and finely ground corn chops in half and half, soaked in water for 12 hours, yields a fine thick slop. Pigs should also have access to pasture if available.
Farm notes on linings of sheep and cattle care
The text discusses lamb health and care for horses with curry and cleanliness, feeding cornstalks to hogs, and sheep improving soil. It notes autumn rains bring coughs to sheep, explains widening gaps between common and good cattle, cites Professor Smith of Nebraska on corn fodder for fattening steers, and advises on stock bedding and alternative materials if straw is unavailable.
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Professor Smith
Nebraska
Nearly a Scandal in a Small Town
Neighbors gossip about a wife suspected of leaving her husband after rumors swirl around a midnight departure. Will Twitchell claims his wife returns home tomorrow after a sister’s wedding dress delay, while townsfolk debate patience, fidelity, and divorce as Phyllis documents the evolving tale.
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Elmwood Street
Mrs. Keene
Phyllis
Phylis
Will Twitchell
Mrs. Keen
Goodby
Elma
Will
Twitchell
Mrs. Twitchell
An Ideal Man Snubbed by Weary Life View
A fragment from Life quotes a disagreeing Young Woman who says a man needs a sharp snub to shake his colossal conceit. A listener proposes a theater box office worker who spends winters there and summers as a resort hotel clerk as the ideal snubber.
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Ceit
A Hard Nut to Crack Harper’s joke noted
A humorous exchange from Harper’s Weekly features Willie asking if it takes sixty minutes to make a man of the hour after reading about Lexington. Pa replies he hopes so, framing the joke around time and readiness.
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Willie
Lexington
Harper’s Weekly
What'll you have for breakfast boss in small town
A Washington Star humor snippet about a waiter in a tiny town asking what’s for breakfast and the reply listing three dishes bacon and eggs with a tease about beggs.
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Washington Star
Attorney at law in Atlantic Iowa handles wills and probate
T. B. Swan offers will drafting, probate administration, guardianship reporting, and appointments. Specializes in probate work with general law services in Atlantic Iowa.
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4Th and
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
Iowa
J. B. Rockafellow
John H. Wood
Ben U. Wood CG. W. Savery
Sixth and
Chestnut Sts
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D. O. Herbert
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C. G. Clark
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