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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1904
Page
10
An article discusses using nitrogenous meat scraps and byproducts as feed to boost egg production, noting beef scraps from Chicago, hogs’ hearts, and waste fish as rich options. It also shares a method to prepare colts for shoeing, involving a neck strap and gradual leg handling to ease training and reduce stress.
The Arkansas Experiment Station reports results on feeding cotton seed meal to pigs. Conclusions indicate limited economic viability due to pig mortality, with maximum feed around one half to one pound daily for young to large pigs. Deaths linked to acute dropsy of pleural and heart sacs, lung compression, and congestion of liver and kidneys.
The article explains dwarfing methods for fruit trees, including slow-growing stocks and grafting, making pears along with apples, cherries, plums, and peaches feasible. It describes training forms such as bushes, pyramids, espaliers, and garden walls to fit small plots and to utilize building supports for crops like apricots and grapes, noting location advantages.
The excerpt covers winterizing poultry houses, remodeling old buildings, and storing vegetables to feed fowls. It urges renewing breeding cockerels yearly to improve flock health and growth. It also discusses sheep fattening, grazing, and the value of mixed farming to avoid waste and sustain flocks.
A Odessa technical society discussed using electric discharge to kill grubs in soil. Lok wejowski described a method where a dynamo moves on a wagon or vehicle, current excites an induction feature, producing a discharge that runs poles to metal brushes and kills pests in the field.
A Cleveland woman contends that a wife should have the right to discharge her husband as one dismisses a refractory cook, though the sentiment is described as not yet widely advanced.
A rough Iowa pages report outlines progress in farming with Prof Olden promoting seed varieties and drought resistance, noting vast potential gains for farmers. It also covers a Moores detective case in Des Moines over a cafe poisoning plot, a twenty-year prison sentence for Clarence Durfee, a missing boy found dead near Osceola, and a Goldfield schoolhouse fire causing property loss but no injuries.
A mixed set of town notices. Insurance agent Steve Huxex applies for bankruptcy benefits. Printer William Raffenaperger killed in an attack near Adnir. Des Moines man Miller sought for worthless checks. Salvation Army aids Marshalstown clothing drive. Reverend Hock of Gettysburg accepts Parkersburg church call. Kinner of Mibevon assaulted on freight train. Noah Garwick called to Chris Xjayvelmech pastorate at Waterloo. Penpercance Rankin active in temperance causes at town labor. Reverend Goring to presbyterian pastorate at Garrison. Allee Guaifellow injured in runaway. Northwestern brakeman injured at Watkins. Emil Weire 10, kicked by horse at Long Grove. Cooperative elevator planned at Salsburg. Farmers' cooperative supply stock in Milford. Corn quality lower than expected in NW Iowa. Reverend Buchtell dead at 70. New delivery of mail to Chariton area planned. Judge Mathon says sober men can become intoxicated quickly. Iowa’s population in institutions rising. +248 last year. Tinney Waite, 15, from Dunlap, commits suicide by hanging after neighborly marriage rejection.
A chaotic scan of Iowa items reports diphtheria outbreaks in Coltas Ter and Neola, a Keokuk murder, a wedding cancellation in Jewell, and missing Des Moines funds. It notes Tad Sharp field trials, a burned residence in Dedham, and a Des Moines federal case against men for vanishing an office.
The nation confronts a flood of notes and finances linked to Mrs. Chadwick. Reports credit an indebtedness exceeding a million dollars, with projections reaching tens of millions. Banks and federal investigators probe the alleged fraud as Carnegie denies any involvement. Estimates place notes tied to Chadwick at over $1.2 million with vast sums held by Cleveland figures and others in Becket country.
Stocks worldwide collapse as Amalgamated Copper and major rails lead losses amid rumors of market failures. Copper and steel shares drop sharply while the New York exchange suspends operations after heavy trading and frantic margin calls. Japanese and Russian casualty figures spar over wartime losses amid cross border claims.
The United States Urick Company, capitalized at 5 800 000, organized in Reading Virginia by combining four pions. Georgy J Bror, formerly assistant puslmaster at Kins City, was prone to death under wheels of a tram in the city. Whomax WC, Meuregor, clerk in the LDostotiiea Department, convicted of defrauding the government on a pouch contract, begun two year term in Maryland penitentiary.
A garbled retrospective mix recalls events from distant eras including trade, taxes, and territorial boundaries. It mentions Napoleonic figures, colonial ports, a Virginia minister, a Georgia Creek treaty, and the Okmulgee river boundary, all rendered in an unclear, OCR-like fragment.
Seventy-five years ago the U S government sent a messenger to Georgia to map Cherokee and Creek boundaries. The British abolished widow immolation rites. Calcutta built extensive cotton factories. Twelve mutinous slaves aboard the Lafayette faced Louisiana court. Tusain ordered evacuation of allied lands. J K Mitchel of Philadelphia devised a method to thin Indian rubber sheets. London papers debated Westminster Abbey renovations amid neglect.
Fifty years back Admiral Eamelin resigned Copemagel of the French Blnels. The US steam frigate Susquelmont reached Acapateo to quell water. The Roman Catholic conference in Rome adjourned Amstel concluded a convention with western powers. Santa Anna was proclaimed governor by annya balloting. The TPanning Terald claimed a US Ecuador treaty ratified ceded the Galapagos for 43,000,000.
Forty years ago a treason trial in Lis trabapolis Indiana ended with evidence taken against several defendants linked to the Knights of the Golden Circle. In Chicago the first fire alarm box appeared at Polk and Cannstreeta as sixty Southern natives residing in New York were arrested for questioning about a plot to destroy the Union and influence the presidential election amid state bank tensions.
The text recalls a century-old panorama with references to the Lackawanna valley and Pennsylvania. It mentions crime and misery under a historical lens, a free publication policy, President Grant addressing Congress on specie payment, and Supreme Court tensions over confiscations from the Confederacy. It also notes a London dispatch about a czar and a Washington tale of a famous case dismissal.
A historical note recalls a blaze at the University of Wisconsin in Madison twenty years ago. The incident caused hog losses estimated at 250 dollars and highlighted campus risks from fires on campus property and livestock holdings.
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