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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
12
A Western man visits his Eastern cousin and is shown a humorous heirloom gun. The exchange leads to a joke about shooting oneself and counting correctly. The Western guest, with a sigh, lays the gun away and buffs the ramrod as the cousin grins. A separate line notes that when a woman is in love she is a self appointed detective.
Horticulture notes the Paris grounds protection method for trees using root boxing and lifting to avoid damage. Apple markets face unsettled conditions from harvest weather, with Redstreaks sold to peddlers at 60 cents per bushel and winter varieties needed to stabilize exports to England. US and Canadian apples increasingly supply Britain while domestic crops lag. emphasis on planting winter varieties and utilizing hilly land for late apples. Also covers hog selection tied to score cards, and Japan’s millet crop as a staple forage with high yield fitting silos.
Wallace's Farmer quotes an observant Iowa farmer noting hogs appear finer and smaller each year, attributing part to the score card. Breeders, while admiring the score card type, say they still select for pork production outside the standard. The score card trains judgment by requiring detailed notes on each animal part.
At a Canadian fruit growers meeting cranberry culture was discussed with practical tips. Land should be sanded three to six inches deep and kept damp with irrigation essential, hooded before frost until May. A grower reported $300 net per acre from Cherry Bell. alfalfa notes cover feed preferences for horses and cows across first to third cuts, with suitability and nutrition varied by stock.
Jas Riley advises strict on farm cholera control if outbreak occurs. Exposed pigs should be confined to small lots to prevent spread. infected pigs in separate pens sprayed with chloro-naphthalene solution and lime kept on the floor. disposal by burning carcasses where feasible to prevent germ spread. His farm reports success stamping out cholera with such measures.
Agricultural Notes discuss drain depth in clay soil and aeration effects, road construction in wet weather, and manure pits in Holland. The piece covers beetle resistance to poisons and feeding habits, grape juice sterilization, and fall sheep fattening with emphasis on proper poultry care.
A new weekly through car service from Minneapolis to San Francisco via Chicago Great Western Railway connects Dallas San Antonio El Paso and Los Angeles with through sleepers at reduced berth rates. Departures Friday from Minneapolis 1646 and St Paul 21 20 reach Dallas Sunday San Antonio Monday El Paso Tuesday Los Angeles Wednesday noon San Francisco Thursday morning.
An early column advertises free treatment for dropsy by Dr. H. H. Green's Sons of Atlanta, boasting them as the greatest dropsy specialists in the world and prompting readers to view their advertisement in another column.
In a Chilengo News item, Ida questions why inventor Thinkman wears such long hair and jokes that his head holds valuable densities requiring locks. May corrects that the locks are alloyed, not metal.
The John M Smyth Co has solved the Christmas present dilemma by offering 5,000 guitars for sale at $2.65 each. The firm is presented as reliable and a mammoth catalogue is advertised elsewhere in the paper.
In a short exchange at a barber shop a customer responds with humor after a shave. The barber jokes about the man’s gray hair while the customer, startled by the ordeal, quips that he now expects his hair to turn white. The moment adds light relief to an otherwise tense scene.
Fragmentary text appears to describe an old weather prophecy and a caustic old column with garbled product names and snippets about a hard winter. It references laxatives, a signature, a prophet, and a county jail crowded with tramps, all in a disjointed, stray paragraph.
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