Practical Farm Hints From The Iowa Experiment Station
Writings cover crop management dairy feeding and animal care from sheep to fowl and hogs. Advice includes grazing shade trees on pastures, silos for corn, copperas in troughs, tangles and beets feeding risks, pruning grapes, alfalfa, and winter feed planning. It emphasizes steady stock health, proper housing, water, and timely harvesting for profits.
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Handy chicken feed trough plan for dry rations
Mrs M L Dean outlines a ceiling access trough system for hens to store dry feed such as grit shell and bran. The trough runs behind a cut ceiling panel with hinges and a front edge above the opening to prevent waste and fouling. Boxes on the outside shed rain while filling from outside.
Indian Runner Ducks Offer Profit and Ornament
Indian Runner ducks excel as egg producers and feather savers during moulting, preventing feathers from being scattered. They forage well, return home reliably, and combine practicality with ornamental appeal. Rearing them is easy, clean, and profitable.
Poultry Keeping Needs Simple Business Records
The poultryman should run the business along proper lines with some system of accounting. Keep records of income and expenses to determine profitability. An elaborate method isn't required. a cash account may suffice to gauge financial health.
Raising Chickens On Small Farms For Profit
Raising chickens is profitable on small farms with 200 to 300 birds. Ample range and self supplied feed cut costs, with corn and wheat as good feed and cabbage boosting winter ration value.
Madonna painting stolen from Italian church as Morgan offer cited
An oil painting of the Madonna reportedly valued at 20000 dollars by J Pierpont Morgan was stolen from St Johns church in Piscenza Italy. Rear Admiral Lucien Young retired and dies in a New York hotel from an intestinal hemorrhage after a 20 hour illness. The Los Angeles Times opens a new building on the site of a previous dynamited structure. Wholesale milk prices drop to 8 1 2 cents per quart with a 40 quart can cost 1 81 effective October 1.
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Lessons on Ceremonial Cleansing from Mark Seven
A historical lesson outlines Jesus rebuking Pharisee traditions over God’s law. It highlights ceremonial washing as external, while true purity is heart cleansing, urging daily confession and living faith over lip service and ritual.
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Almanac Quips From The Rube Land Past
A fragment notes a 1905 farmer almanac joke about durability and wear, preserved as a light historical aside with playful regional voice.
The Greatest Woman Prize Goes to a Farmer’s Wife
Two hundred teachers answered who was the greatest woman in history and the judges awarded the prize to the wife of a farmer of modest means. She cools, washes, irons, sews, raises a family of boys and girls, and finds time for self-improvement.
Castoria Reminder Protects Infants and Children
public notice urging mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the genuine Fletcher’s Castoria signature, a trusted remedy in use for over 30 years, as children cry for it.
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Mrs Winslow’s Syrup Teething Teaser and Saying
Advertisement notes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething reduces gums pain cures wind colic at 25 cents per bottle. A proverb states at forty a man begins to live and unlearn.
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