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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
2
Practical tips on homemaking from May Farm Journal cover thrift and safety. Advice includes keeping a wife’s socks mended weekly, using milk and water to clean wood, three piece mattresses for illness ease, and a cautionary kerosene fire method. Also discusses good wife traits, medicine use with water, and a home soap making recipe.
May brings frost and floods risks to fruit trees. Mix varieties to aid fertilization and reduce self sterility. Promptly treat injured trees with grafting wax or manure. Do not pile wood ashes around plants. Sow ashes before planting and incorporate into soil. From May Fars Journal.
Practical guidance on poultry care urges clean brooders and feeding, no swimming water for young ducks, and keeping hens off neighbors crops. It warns May as the latest safe month to set hens in northern latitudes and stresses house cleaning and soil management to avoid vermin and diseases.
The contest promises fair play with a top prize of a $400 piano and additional prizes. Any local woman can compete, votes come from subscriptions and coupons, and tie winners share prizes. Voting rules cover counts, transfers, bank storage, secrecy, and an awarding committee to finalize results.
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