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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1899
Page
7
A historical plan for hog housing by farmer J N Hilton proposes a hog barn sixteen feet wide eight feet high with a three and a half foot passage between pens. Pens measure six by five feet with grooved partitions that slide out to adjust pen size and allow a larger feeding floor. The barn is to be floored throughout and designed for easy reconfiguration.
A design for a model hog barn with hinged pens that can be slipped out and laid overhead to create a feeding floor. Each pen includes an inside door to a central passageway, an outside door to an outdoor pen, a high window for light, and a corncrib access for corn. Features include a hydrant, an elevated water tank, a loft for straw, a ground feed bin, and a movable chute to load hogs into the passageway for easy handling.
American Cultivator notes farmers lacking stable manure should apply it mainly to crops receiving most labor. Do not fertilize poor land. Mineral fertilizers differ. 150 to 250 pounds per acre fits grain crops, with some left for clover. Insolubility quickly follows, so small annual dressings are preferable.
Advice on weaning spring colts before pasture scarcity and introducing small grain rations. Recommends oats as best for growth, mixing ground oats with cornless cob meal and wheat bran for a better feed than oats alone, and warns against feeding corn and cob meal to young stock due to poor digestibility and low nutrition.
Dr Slaughter asks about Jarlick's health and the conversation reveals a native man claiming to be lazy. He jokes he is neither sick enough for bed nor well enough to work, too rich for a vacation yet too poor not to want one, and admits he is honest about being lazy.
A tall husband and a short wife visit a large downtown restaurant. The wife asks for a hassock while ordering oysters. The waiter, puzzled, asks if the hassock should be boiled or fried, revealing his inexperience.
An assortment of old advertisement snippets extols cough cures and pain relief products. Kemp’s Balsam promises instant cough stopping, St Jacobs Oil claims cures for rheumatic pains and stiffness, Hale’s Honey of Horehound aids coughs, and Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in a minute. The clippings wrap in generic quips and humorous lines typical of era advertisements.
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