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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
8
A broad compendium of rural guidance covers sow and poultry care, worm prevention in pigs, orchard and dairy management, training horses, grafting trees, and piglet and calf nutrition. Practical notes advise clean barns, proper feed mixes, spraying poultry houses, alfalfa benefits, and careful selection of stock for profitability and health.
Professor Waldrow argues seed lots hide variability among hills. By digging 100 hills from one seed, farmers see multiple strains, with some hills yielding few large tubers and others several good ones. Open planting and selective seed saving could raise yields to about 155 bushels per acre, if hills with few good tubers are culled and the best three-tuber hills saved for planting.
Article urges pure water for cows, noting 1600 pounds monthly per sow as context. Advises easy access in pasture and yard, multiple tanks for large herds, a keeper to supervise drinking, and ordering timid cows first to prevent water loss and disease.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture champions attractive farm houses and a bureau of information on household topics. The department has produced bulletins on food and home making with circulation exceeding 10 million copies, including The Economic Use of Meat in the Home at 1.5 million. The bureau also assists agricultural education by guiding state plans for schools, training teachers, and organizing courier services.
Mrs Mary W Ramey recounts her three week old son's eczema starting on cheeks and spreading to arms and chest with boils during teething. After three months of doctor treatment no improvement, switching to Cuticura Soap and Ointment brought rapid healing. by seven months no trace remained and at age two the child was healthy with silky curls. A free sample offer and 32 page booklet available from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
A garbled OCR passage mentions Caesar, the Hudson River Tube, seven cents, Garford Ten, London as a healthy capital, tobacco ads for LEWIS, a woman’s physical culture notion, Winslow’s Syrup, gun-related bungled phrasing, reverend term origin in 1667, Garfeld Tea for constipation, and London street gas lamps first used in 1807, presenting a collage of historic and advertisement items.
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