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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
8
Comanche merchants report large carload buys of oats and peanuts since January, enough to form a 15 car train if shipped together. The piece praises cooperation between merchants and farmers and expresses hope for a bounteous 1915 harvest.
Diversification with Hog and Hominy aims to make Comanche county a leading Texas agriculture and stock raising area. Opportunities arise for peanut growers as prices rebound to about $1.00 when fed to home hogs. The message urges rebuilding fences and creating hog pastures in the remaining weeks of winter.
An advertisement extols W A Irby hog fencing with seven wires and 16 foot posts as superior to woven wire at lower cost. It promotes hardware including painted and galvanized barbed wire and cable, touts low prices, and notes Prof Eaton’s claim that a peanut patch can fatten two hogs per acre with harvest.
The feature describes Ellwood hog fence widely used, combined with plain barbed wire, creating a fence that is completely pig-tight and capable of turning large stock.
The piece argues fences unlock waste resources by allowing hogs and other animals to feed on lost grain and waste. By directing animals to the waste places, farms gain fattening opportunities and increase overall farm value, with improvements paying back their costs.
Owen Wetzel left Monday for Brownwood to take his youngest daughter Merle to the sanitarium for an operation feared to be serious. She was resting well and the operation seemed a success and if nothing transpires she may return home today. Cas paid for eyes butter poultry.
Short note mentions Floyd Carpenter with directions two doors south of Atwood's second hand store.
Miss Willie Sanford died January 10 1915 after an eight day illness of pneumonia. The bereaved family laments her loss but prays for strength given by God as they mourn the living relatives and friends. A Friend.
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