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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
8
An unfinished humorous vignette recalls a day on the Run with the Teetertalls as Chunk Bart Hod White hog the best spots and bait fails, threatening a planned party as tensions rise. A later jape about bouillon and absent minded colonels adds light anecdotes and quips.
In a Saturday Evening Post piece William McAdoo recalls a cold Albany trip with Mrs. McAdoo. A park walk leads to a fortune telling weighing machine whose card proclaims his second marriage will be happier than the first.
Mrs Jack J Warren the Vermont reformer cites gamblers claims and exposes their methods in a Burlington discussion about New York movement to end race track gambling. The tale of Colonel Toddy of Tin Can and a fumbled trump play underscores the theme of honesty in games of chance.
A New York World reader resents editorial sadness over a third term and compares New York papers to a satirical Adventist tale. The reader quotes a Times joke about wanting the world to end to beat Grant, implying a preference for Roosevelt over Bryan.
Representative McGavin denounced a proposed 25 percent duty on dowries paid by American girls marrying foreigners. He mocked the foreign groom with monocle and vacuous look and warned against selling nobility for American dollars. The exchange referenced Count Cash and traced lineage back 800 years through bankruptcy court records.
Advice on using woodlots as a key farm resource notes that even small woodlots yield frequent cuttings and may exceed timber tract output. It recommends reserving one eighth of farm area for timber, protecting homes from wind, shielding livestock areas, and using waste land like slopes and river banks for growth. It cites Circular 138 from the Forest Service on woodlot management and protection from grazing fire wind and cutting injury.
The New York Zoological Park conducted a venom collection from Lachesis triganocephalos for medical use. Dr Ditmars led the procedure with keepers restraining the snake and a glass beaker capturing venom. The 172 grain yield was processed into a powder mix, with a single dose under a millionth of a grain.
Massachusetts experiment station tests show molasses and ground grain feeds perform similarly to wheat based mixes. Some seeds contain weed seeds. digestible organic matter cost matches home mixed feeds. Best benefits are tonic and appetite stimulant for horses, with good dairy and pig results using soy bean ensilage and hay.
W L Houser told the Wisconsin State Institute that a colt can be weaned at about four months if it has learned to eat grain. Skim milk aids growth, with liberal feeding of oats and bran until a year old, aiming for 850 to 1,000 pounds and minimal trouble thereafter.
H E H Dunlap of Wheeling reports Western Ohio inventors receiving patents including Behrend Norwood for a direct current turbo generator Bender Harpster for a rail fastener Brown for heating and bending pipes Dana for voting machines Frankenfield for multiple voltage distribution Lathrop for clutch and corn planter Lyman for seed separator Schirmer Stern for autographic register Smith street cleaner Tuttle for horsepower Wagner for hitching device Weston display rack Weed for bending machine and a trade mark registration Cincinnati Tool Norwood for tools.
The Police Trustees of Crawford County Ohio file a petition for construction of Ditch No 1 in Crawford Township to drain and reclaim lands along a route from near Hope and section 12 to lands owned by John Kessler. Petitioner GEORGE WEIß and others request tile drainage and a branch through Mertz lands with hearing to decide. Benefited landowners named include Flora Chamberlain Gudhep Mertz Bails Needa Shearer Platt Keal ler Hickle and Crawford Township.
A teacher explains philanthropy to her class in Woman's Home Companion. She asks Tommy Saunders what title she would have if she gave freely to the needy and the boy shouts a confident answer, a cinch.
The article advises farmers to build a workshop if possible or at least maintain a good set of tools. Outdoor work is possible in good weather, with a barn or other space in bad weather. A dedicated shop with light and a stove is favored, storing both wood and iron materials and the tools.
Ample watering helps milk flow and clean ventilated stables aid health and profit. Farmers should ensure cows are comfortable as overheated, foul smelling facilities reduce appetite and productivity, making poor housing costly in the long run.
The up to date farmer enjoys celery cabbage salsify parsnips beets onions dried lima beans navy beans and other crops from his own garden. These foods enhance comfort and health and the garden blesses both summer and winter with little trouble and care.
Professor Haywood at Pennsylvania station warns that crowding pigs mirrors chicken crowding and triggers disease outbreaks. He cites that many outbreaks arise from overcrowded young pigs, whose weakness makes them susceptible to cholera and swine plague present in all herds.
Lessee notes a preference for chess players as tenants noting they move infrequently and settle in for longer stays.
J A Smith advertises weekly lists of farms for sale in Warren Ohio with prices from 15 to 125 dollars per acre. Offices offer refunds to buyers and urge quick visits to view properties including a 9 room house with new barn near the Catholic Church, a 7 room Clay Street house, a 120 acre farm four miles from Carey on the Pike, and an 87 acre Carey farm with brick house and large red barn.
A dairy study compares two cows at the Ohio experiment station. One cow costs $40 for feed and yields a $50 profit after feed. The other costs $34 for feed and yields only a $25 profit after feed.
Professor F. C. Minkler of New Jersey Agricultural College notes that sheep rank above dairy cows as money makers. Sheep graze marginal land, consume diverse fodder, destroy weeds, and provide high returns with proper care.
A swine breeder notes ashes are essential for hog bone development and suggests burning corncobs to ashes if wood ash is unavailable. Hogs should have constant access to ash in a clean place, removing need for special feeding. The piece then shifts to Persia relying on lithography for book and journal production, making materials scarce.
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