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Newspaper
Bedford Free Press
Location
Bedford, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
10
The Breadwinners' college in Boston aims to help workers while its football team faces tests of success. A wife seeks divorce citing excessive kissing by her husband distracting him from work. A new Russian law will let natives discuss politics, though many discuss it noisily or not at all.
An invitation requests readers of the department to submit new ideas and offer information on discussed subjects. Correspondents may address M J Wragg at Waukee or Des Moines Iowa.
An experiment at a State College station tested whether a universal laying type exists among hens. Despite photos and egg records, the highest and lowest producers resembled each other, showing no scientific laying type. Farmers should monitor all hens and breed from the best layers. A dairy feeder’s year round succulent feed, including silage, is increasingly seen as profitable for cows, with blue grass pastures ideal in summer.
A dialect verse describes a bird singing at dawn, boasting to wake the speaker. The gray hawk soars in the sky, claiming its advantage as the sun rises and a chicken is sought, a playful exchange about rising early and chasing prey.
A guide urges visiting nearby orchards this season to study fruit varieties, soils, and protection methods. It suggests inviting a neighbor, asking questions, and noting location, soil, and natural advantages to avoid common amateur failures while learning from successful growers. It then cites Swift & Co. live stock slaughter totals to illustrate industry enormity.
A guide to building a thriving dairy operation outlines six pillars. It emphasizes a committed dairyman, a purpose-built cow for specific tasks, three market divisions in butter dairies factory milk and city supplies, adoption of milk and cream tests, ample home-grown feed, and barns designed for year round comfort and economy. The piece urges clear goals market understanding and strong ethics, ending with a call for more religion in politics.
The article urges careful planning for a year round garden starting in fall manure handling. It stresses saving fine manure, using flue material, applying it late fall or early winter, and choosing a large garden with efficient implements to turn gardening into enjoyment rather than labor.
The piece argues for local cold storage plants built by cooperatives near orchards to keep vegetables year round, improve prices, and ensure steady supply. It cites foot and mouth and bovine tuberculosis as costly disease problems and urges livestock breeders to support disease control for town best interests.
The article urges farmers to cut remaining weeds before seed set using mowing, scythes, and other tools to reduce next season's weed crop. It notes Canada will export butter and cheese worth 30 million dollars and bacon 15 million, with the government promoting creameries in the far northwest.
An old feature discusses how cows, like people, suffer homesickness when moved to unfamiliar barns. It notes that milk production drops initially and that acclimation varies, especially for cows moved from warm to cold stables or fed less to more. It argues well-bred and well-marked calves gain value through familiarity and breeding nuances.
A reader from Kentucky asks about applying surface bacteria to improve crimson clover and rye on poor land. Advice suggests using soil from a field with clover, harrowing it into new seeding, and combining cowpeas or clover with potash and phosphoric acid. The discussion notes nitrogen from air helps but potash and phosphoric acid are needed for a paying crop.
A correspondent explains onion planting methods, detailing November sowing, mulching with straw, and March removal for spring cultivation. It notes this method suits onions from seed and questions its applicability to sets, suggesting spring planting if mulch is thick, and adds that onions tolerate frost and seeds may be worth trying.
A discussion on building cleanly regulated poultry houses shows that well built, properly arranged facilities cost no more than poorly planned structures. It notes small doors nests feed boxes windows and other features can test patience, yet good design reduces hindrances and feeds efficiency for cattle and poultry alike.
The article advises mulching spring blooming bulbs with leaves or brush, cautioning against rushing to uncover on the first warm day. Crocus and snowdrop need less cover and can be uncovered earlier, while tulips and hyacinths should be uncovered gradually, leaving the finest litter on the bed.
A farmer and his wife board a train and discover an old paper dated after the last presidential election. The husband realizes Roosevelt won, but struggles to understand the year. After a moment he proclaims a long eloquent conclusion, revealing his confusion about time and paper dating.
Andrew Lang describes a temporary hallucination on a country platform where he saluted a young man namedJimmy believing him to be the house son. He later learned the father, taller and older, had been mistaken for Jimmy, prompting him to question the reliability of perception. The anecdote ends with Lang noting his capacity to doubt any such hallucination afterward.
A Chicago Inter Ocean item recounts a pupil who seized his father's revolver and 'held up' classmates to enforce order, prompting a stern rebuke for discipline. In Baltimore a tale of social climbing ends with a wary father’s approval as a daughter’s suitor vows to work graft to prove himself.
Manchuria may hold vast mineral deposits and rich farming lands experts say capitalists could invest in mines and exports yet securing clear titles and reliable operations remains a hurdle. In a sanitarium a terrified patient cries for help as nurses, assistants, and doctors rush to respond to a cold pack incident and a playful request to scratch the nose.
A compact note explains the term terme as a court reminiscence of a courtyard scene where justice sat. It links the dock to a German word for receptacle and the bar to a Welsh word, outlining linguistic roots of courtroom terminology.
A bystander explains that there is nothing essentially new in wooden fiction as Old Mortality sharpens legible inscriptions on ancient Lombstones and, in a calm aside, clarifies the purpose to curious onlookers.
An old medical advertisement warns that over work weakens the kidneys which purify blood. It links kidney trouble to rapid heartbeats and fatigue, claiming that modern science ties many constitutional diseases to kidney issues. It promotes Swamp-Root as a cure and offers free samples from Dre Co. in Binghamton, NY.
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