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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1901
Page
10
A compact era piece highlights cement silos as a new practical feature and reflects on weather, crops, and agricultural ethics. It covers plum quality, soil fertilization science, corn yields, seed corn demand, dairy fly protection, aging farm practices, and a cooperative creamery gift, all in a rural Rockford context.
A cautionary note on sugar granulated sugar as bait to trap grangers and sharpers. The piece warns that offers combining sugar with a dollar value of groceries mask fraudulent schemes and suggests checking current market prices for granulated sugar.
The fall season prompts farmers to sort and thin flocks and herds. Apply the strict test of winter profitability to dairy herds hog yards horses barns and poultry yards. Remove old or unproductive animals before snow to secure bargains and reduce losses.
The article warns that many local West papers promote syndicate schemes aiming to take farmers surplus cash. It suggests instead investing in reliable farm land to preserve principal and avoid poor high interest returns.
The piece notes the success of a new cold storage curing method for cheese taken directly from the press and stored for maturation. It claims quality improvements over the traditional method and predicts wider adoption soon. It also ponders whether a farmer who shares half his raised chickens with a town sport two weeks before hunting season could be prosecuted under game laws, questioning ethics and law.
The text notes that both Dakotas now enjoy bumper crops after previous droughts. Early and late rains, stored fertility, and timely showers produced strong yields in wheat, flax, barley, potatoes, and corn, with high prices expected in less favored regions.
A woman with a farm hires three men and schemes to marry one to take over the house and exclude others. The plan foiled when the man refused to risk the arrangement, revealing the hired man’s limited role to milk cows.
The article extols telephone service for rural homes as a social and practical asset. It argues that where a town and local exchange lie within ten miles, farmers can join to obtain affordable service, illustrating with a friend's link to four market towns and sixty fat hogs kept nearby.
A farmer sold a group of hogs for an even twenty dollars at a town away from his usual trading point. The quick profit nearly matched the total cost of installing his telephone system.
A spring wind shattered the central elm branch. A longer lateral limb gradually straightened over months and by August 15 rose to form the new central trunk, illustrating nature’s repair after damage.
A writer argues that widespread cultivation reduces water in lakes and rivers. They claim cultivated soil absorbs more rainfall and crops evapotranspire, preventing extra rainfall from forming, leaving rivers drier despite unchanged rainfall. The piece invites alternative explanations.
The article explains a distinct market for high quality farm produce priced above standard quotings. It cites a western dairy with 40 cows earning five cents per pound more than western extra butter and a puderyman selling well-bred eggs at 24 percent above current legno quotes. It concludes that producing the best pays, while average quality rarely does.
A historical overview recounts the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and James A. Garfield in 1881, highlighting the political violence surrounding the era. It also details the 1893 Chicago mayor Carter Harrison's murder by Prendergast, noting the trials and execution that followed.
The president of the Berlin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals issues a public proclamation urging cab and wagon users to employ drivers who do not use blinders on horses, a practice blamed for shying and cruelty.
A London Mail feature portrays the isolation of lighthouse keepers along Cornwall and other coasts. It recounts harrowing conditions at Longships Buddy Stone and Bishop lighthouses, including seas washing above lanterns, bodies left after deaths, and the mental strain of perpetual confinement.
European reports claim Denmark will accept a US offer of 3.5 million dollars for the Danish West Indies consisting of St. Croix St. Thomas and St. John. Congress must approve the sale and appropriation before final steps occur. The islands lie east of Puerto Rico and hold strategic value for naval coaling and defense.
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