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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1915
Page
3
Water is a carrier and waste remover not a food, and proper intake depends on diet. Fruit juices aid digestion and kidneys, while apples, when eaten raw, serve as a tonic. many recipes include apples and almonds, gelatin, and various fruit based desserts.
The passage explains diminutives for height with terms like below five feet and five feet five, and defines tall as six feet or more. It notes English Life Guards formed after the Restoration from Cavaliers, organized into three troops in 1661. It mentions juvenile readers and London libraries lending many books, and includes quotes from Kipling and Goethe about personal responsibility and happiness.
This piece urges selective breeding and disciplined husbandry to improve farm draft horses. It warns against indiscriminate breeding, stresses soundness, proper feeding, early colt education, grooming, and steady work. It cautions against incompetent handlers and poor maintenance for winter readiness.
A Maine Agricultural Experiment Station bulletin shows that properly preserved fowl droppings from 1000 birds can yield at least $300 yearly. Daily collection mixed with sawdust or loam, acid phosphate, and kaiut creates a balanced fertilizer, with measurable nitrogen phosphorus and potash, usable by manure spreader and applied before plowing.
Practical farmer’s notes advise keeping rock salt around the stable with an apple sized piece in each grain box to soothe horses. Baking soda in water weekly helps prevent bowel trouble. A steer or two turned off the farm each year helps cover groceries. Avoid driving on smooth roads and ensure proper bedding for stock.
Instructions on winter manuring for vegetables. Use rotted coarse manure for broadcast or drills, with ratios for acre coverage. Green manures like rye and cow peas used when manure scarce, plowed down to form humus. Include bone fertilizer with green manure for roots and corn. Build compact heaps near use, cover with cattle manure and plaster, to minimize ammonia loss.
Turkey hens yield profit up to five years of age while gobblers should be changed yearly. It takes 28 days to hatch a turkey egg and seven eggs constitute a setting. Nests should be placed on the ground.
The piece argues that stock must be kept comfortable to obtain accurate accounting of their food and feed efficiency. It highlights high meat, grain, and roughage costs, urging farmers to ensure animals are comfortable to maximize returns.
A weather driven health ad advises Deans Kidney Pills for backache dizziness and irregular kidney action. It includes a testimonial from Edwin Gucker of Mattoon Illinois describing kidney failure relief and recovery after using the product.
In a county, Mr. Crane and neighbor Mr. Fuller are rivals who seldom meet without quarrel. Fuller asks the difference between a crane and a meadow hen. Crane answers the meadow hen is fuller in the body, neck and breast, indeed fuller all over.
An ad touts Cascarets as a quick cure for bilious headaches and digestive issues, promising overnight relief and regular bowel function for a 10 cent box. The piece also notes 1915 grazing authorization for California national forests, detailing 212,280 cattle and horses, 505,750 sheep and goats, and 7,950 swine, with about 835,000 forest acres removed from permits that year.
A vintage ad style passage extols Salzer Seed Co offerings including Grimm Montana Liscom Agr College dampested Dakota Registered No 30 a hardy alfalfa variety and a mail order catalog with samples. It promotes Cabbage Carrot Cucumber Lettuce Radish Onion seeds and vegetables along with a mailing address in La Crosse Wisconsin and a modest 20 cent price for the collection. A conversational interruption follows between Mr and Mrs Nage.
An advertisement touts Cuticura for dandruff and itching on the scalp. It highlights emollients for skin hair and hands and offers free samples by mail with a postcard to Cuticura, Boston. The promotion ends with a humorous line about a cook leaving without spoons.
The piece argues the U S may import wheat soon and Western Canada lands could rise in value. It notes 12 million acres currently producing wheat with five times that arable, suitable for grain and grasses, plus livestock agriculture. Free grants and easy terms entice settlers, while climate and soil support dairy farming and profitability.
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