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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1897
Page
8
The notice touts Golden Rind Watermelon as a sensational freak of nature with a yellow rind and crimson flesh. It claims 600 prizes in 1896, high earnings from quick ripeners, and urges readers to buy seeds from Salzer’s Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin, plus a seed book offer.
The Saint Paul Union Stockyards Company announces the removal of a longtime South St. Paul packer to New Brighton. It states the move will not affect livestock prices, as new buyers with capital will fill the vacancy and keep the Northwest market open and competitive. Endorses open, independent markets and warns shippers against misrepresentation to divert to weaker markets.
An old advertisement touts No-To-Bac as a tobacco dearl regulation aid with cures promises. It cites cost figures 600 and $1.00, claims health and manhood benefits, and lists druggists for purchase while noting railroad workers in England favor third class travel.
A broad exposition on dairy farming stresses three essential steps: good Jersey cows, a properly bred Jersey bull, and a skilled farmer to manage the operation. It argues dairying offers steady profits, even with midrange bloodlines, and describes feeding routines, bone scraps for chicks, butter flavor as a key value, and cattle statistics in Utah. It also notes calls for a veterinary college in Illinois, horse conditioning for sale, and a rudimentary gapes cure for chicks.
A guide to profitable poultry farming outlines egg yields and profits per hen, with winter eggs pivotal to income. It stresses early hatching and steady care, noting April first as ideal hatch time for fall and winter layers.
A poultry writer outlines chick starting feed of coarse oat meal moistened with sweet milk and dried bread crumbs, plus water and grit. At six weeks, chicks move to BamMo grain fields and receive four daily feeds of mixed meal with cornmeal oats shorts and middlings, plus about 10 percent meat or beef scraps moistened with milk or water.
A collage of quotes and notices from a 19th century miscellany mentions a dance with Miss Plumpersquat, a Salzer seed catalogue offering farm samples, warnings about rheumatism with patent bitters, California voting photography debate, tobacco adverts praising Star Tobacco, and a poetic quip on aging and steam pipes.
A jumbled 19th century advertisement fragment offers Hall's Catarrh Cure from Cheney & Co Toledo and wholesale druggists. It touts internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces, with varied claims and prices, plus assorted notes on artists and other remedies.
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