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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1878
Page
4
The page includes marriage and business notices, authorized agents, and farm guidance. It discusses rates for announcements, seeds and yields, fodder and water in feed, and various agricultural practices. It also features anecdotes, poems, and local society notes alongside references to public notices and weathered commercial items.
The Victoria Advocate reports a cotton worm treatment used by Mr. Sells. Arsenic at 124 cents per pound, combined with lime and other materials, was dissolved and sprayed over rows. About two pounds of arsenic covered ten acres per day using a fountain pump and two boys. repeat applications protected the crop, with total cost under 1.50 per acre.
The piece urges farmers to improve swine stock through crossbreeding with Essex Berkshire Suffolk and Yorkshire to produce smaller, well fattened pigs ready for market sooner. It notes large breeds are coarse and slower to mature and highlights breeding stock selection for early spring offspring. Also mentions a distemper remedy in dogs using strong coffee with milk and a recipe to prevent skin blisters with a mustard plaster mixture.
Bertram Geanor meets on the Saturday before the first and third Sunday of each month at 2 o'clock p m in the Opera House. James M Paesiet is Master and O H Gannert secretary. Victor Emanuils funeral held in Rome with imposing ceremonies.
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