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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
6
Readable farm guidance highlights cropping, grazing, and animal care. It covers weed control, dairy sanitation, breed selection, sheep and poultry management, crop rotation, soil fertility, feeding, and the economics of diversified farming for higher profits.
The text warns against crowding hogs in sleeping quarters due to coughing lung fever and suffocation in weaker animals. It labels hogs as mortgage lifters and argues that overcrowding undermines their lifting power, urging restraint to prevent harm.
This piece outlines the Indian Runner duck, noted for high egg production and cited as the Leghorn of ducks. It covers origin, behavior, utility, non setter nature, flesh color, and detailed physical description including head, bill, neck, body, wings, tail, legs, and standard weights for drake and duck.
The article stresses sanitation and vermin control for fowls, calling for open but screened windows, careful feeding, and seasonally aware care. It warns against poor air, dampness, and ill breeding while urging separate housing for growing cockerels and pullets and growing as much feed on the farm.
Ironton Missouri hosted Gen. Ulysses S Grant’s first general headquarters in a Lindsay cabin. Lincoln signed his brigadier general commission, telegraphed to Ironton, as the James Lindsay property became a campaign planning site. A movement seeks federal purchase of the site and nearby Fort Davidson as a national park.
Specially arranged for this paper the August 27 1911 lesson on Judah's exile to Babylon from Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel. It contrasts Babylon siege methods with prophetic warnings and moral reflection on the way of transgressors and Gods desire to save.
An Irish coal buyer from Baltimore travels to a city mine and faces a contractor asking for British thermal units. The Irishman retorts that his coal has none, highlighting the mismatch between traditional pricing and BTU rating in a sharp, humorous anecdote from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Mrs Nelson jokes her husband is absent minded as he goes fishing and discards the fish but brings home the bait in a witty exchange with Mrs Bilson.
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