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Newspaper
Blackfoot News
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1901
Page
2
The Blackfoot News under Percy Jones solidifies publishing leadership. Local readership gains a steady voice, with continued community focus and reliable reporting.
The Poultry Keeper argues overproduction is unlikely but markets often show excess supply of poultry and eggs. Quality drives price, with top grades fetching the most. To win, producers must use superior breeds and improved feeding, as inferior stock cannot match the best.
Weaving poultry guidance from Mr E Cobb on hen and cock size influence and breeding strategy, the piece argues for prioritizing large hens over oversized males, with a caution against relying on overgrown cocks. It also notes Australian tuberculin trials by Mr Cameron showing strong test reliability when applied correctly in dairy herds. The column closes with a wry view on disarmament tradeoffs tied to imperial aims across France England Spain and their colonies.
The Walter Baker Company founded in 1780 along the Neponset river in Dorchester, Boston, grew into the world’s largest cocoa and chocolate maker. It stresses high quality at low prices, condemns adulteration, promotes La Belle Chocolatiere, and invites housekeepers to request a free Choice Recipes booklet.
A New Jersey judge proposes to squeeze water out of trust stock, a move viewed as not boosting prosperity in certain quarters. The remark frames debate over corporate control and local finance, with observers noting potential impacts on residents and investors.
Municipal ownership has seized Fulton Missouri residents who voted to buy a cemetery. The move risks putting municipal ownership close to collapse as the community integrates the property into city control.
Census figures reveal the Indian empire contains 294 million people. Returns show a ten million expansion of British territory and a three million decline among native states.
Returning lawmakers describe a range of stories from Cuba highlighting how persistent viewing shapes belief about the situation. The anecdotes illustrate how information selection guides perception among members.
The toy making industry in Germany has prospered in recent years. Cape Colony, British East India, Eastern Asia, North and South America and Australia buy German toys as demand rises year after year.
The Alabama legislature approved an appropriation to purchase and maintain the Jefferson Davis house in Montgomery, making it a feature of the state capital. Baron Sarge de Th rent dies at 97, oldest Legion of Honor member. he served in the French army, lived in Ireland, married there, and spent his final years on an estate in the Eastern Pyrenees.
A tile railway map at York Station by the Northeastern company contrasts with recent stone maps in Paris. White tiles form a six foot square display with black and burnt sienna lines, each tile eight inches. The firm plans similar maps at major stations on its system.
Prince Henry consort to the Queen of Holland gathers a stock of English sporting guns for his voyage to the Island of Java and the Dutch East Indies. He sails in June and will be away until year’s end.
Scores of old Ohio barns contain floors and mangers cut from black walnut placed fifty to seventy five years ago as pioneers cleared forests. Black walnut furniture is so popular abroad that English and French agents buy old barn timbers and fence rails. A remaining walnut grove was sold last month for export as lumber. The largest tree, eight feet diameter at the stump, brought twelve hundred dollars.
Secretary F D Coburn hosts remarks by Geo Morgan on using farm cream separators. Morgan argues home separation reduces costs, boosts profits, and eases skimming stations. He notes rough economics of creameries, patronage ranges, and benefits of on farm milk handling for calves and feed.
Guidance urges keeping only healthy fowls for breeding and using bone scraps as feed. It notes powdered charcoal helps poultry on wood-burning farms and warns against diseased stock. It reports exporters abandoning large egg shipments to England after prices failed.
The Tennessee Agricultural College reports eight native steers fattened in 1900 yielded a profit of 6 to 10 dollars each after care and feeding costs. Slaughter tests produced 55 percent carcase yield, superior to Knoxville abattoir cattle, with pea vine hay highlighted for high feed value.
C F Langworthy advises cleaning shells and grading eggs by size for market. Brown shelled eggs from certain breeds command 2 to 5 cents more in Boston than white shells, while New York pays more for white shells. Color does not reflect food value.
L E B Shannon reports poultry results for 1900. Hens on hand at start 45. eggs sold 225 dozen worth 22 dollars. chickens sold 112 worth 33 dollars. family use 55 worth 16.50 dollars. total 71.50 dollars. Beginning chickens 200. usable 90, double last year. Total income 85 dollars from 45 hens. Hens are Barred Plymouth Rocks.
The Philadelphia zoological garden superintendent will write an exhaustive treatise on North American snakes. The work will cover more than 150 varieties, detailing their habitats and characteristics.
Letters from Miss Rose Cullen of Butte Montana and Mrs G W Heard of Hempstead Texas extol Peruna as a life saving tonic. Testimonials claim rapid relief from nervous exhaustion backache indigestion and catarrh with repeated claims of cures and home administration. Dr Hartman’s address in Columbus Ohio offered for free advice.
In Naundorf near the Rhine a Roman temple is uncovered within a walled enclosure 220 by 300 feet. The central temple measures 60 by 50 feet and yields extensive terra cotta offerings including about a hundred goddess figurines and small bronze statues of Mars Jupiter and Mercury. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Sir Walter Hillier has been named acting first secretary of the British legation at Pekin. He is noted as a high ranking Chinese scholar who has spent most of his life in the Far East. Born in Hongkong to a British consul father in Bangkok, he learned Chinese alongside English.
Dispatches from London show Boer forces collapsing due to cold and starvation. Testimonials praise Piso’s Cure for throat and lung ailments. The Russian loan prospectus has issued and subscriptions are under way. A Canton river collision results in sixty drowned passengers.
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