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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
4
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A severe outbreak of foot and mouth disease has emerged in New York and Pennsylvania and more recently Michigan, prompting strict quarantines. The disease affects domestic and wild animals and can spread to humans via milk, with fever, blistering, and swollen feet or mouth. Recovery ranges from ten days to a year, and mortality varies from 1 to 3 percent in mild cases to about 5 percent in severe outbreaks.
A reader asks about feeding sheep with ensilage. Iowa station experiments show silage can yield larger gains than dry feed and that gains are cheaper when silage is combined with the grain ration. Sheep eat 1 to 3 pounds of silage daily and will take hay if offered. The station uses corn with clover or alfalfa, while prairie or timothy hay prompts corn with cottonseed meal or oil meal to supply protein. Readers with more experience are invited to share results.
The article surveys the present value of the American mule at £16,939,000 and discusses how interest costs affect machinery deterioration in sheds. It links home life issues to work efficiency, urges reading better papers, and reports experiments on snow as poultry drink substitutes. It also covers drainage tiling in Ohio Michigan Indiana and advises mixed tiling strategies for newer western states.
The article argues animals need dry clean resting quarters and fresh air for health, noting hogs are clean despite reputation. It shares a dairy farming angle: milking machines and silos save labor, increase capacity, and reduce dislike of hand milking. It laments shady real estate agents and urges buyers to inspect land before purchase.
The article urges prudent farming with reduced hauling of finished products, the silo to maximize corn value, and soil fertility. It advises housewives on baking soot, snow plows for paths, orchard winter care, and pest protection. It weighs whether feeders should keep stock or sell at high corn prices amid depressed feed markets and fears of price declines.
A deacon attempts to adopt a girl from an orphan asylum to keep horse and provide company. The plan unravels as the girl rebukes him, rebels at breakfast, and wrecks the house. The parson counsels gentleness, but chaos escalates until the barn burns and the girl leaves with a defiant note. The parson later suggests marriage, which the deacon rebuffs, ending in a decade of silence.
Miss Maude Patterson and Miss Gertrude Crosby of Des Moines visited the Taylor and Easton homes. Many locals— Jennie Pisk from Emmetsburg, Margaret Carroll, H D Bennett in Cedar Falls, Earl Leary of Sanborn, Grier family from Oklahoma, Mrs Honebreak of North Dakota—spent holidays with relatives. Several teachers and students are on vacation, trips include Emmetsburg, Mallard, Rolfe, Sac City, Sioux Falls, and Bates City Missouri. school closed for two weeks.
Douglas Wyoming visitor Bernard Rulthven left Saturday for Davenport en route home west. Minneapolis guests Mrs. and Mrs. W. H. McCane arrived to spend Christmas. Miss Sadie and Mayme Keenan returned from Minot for the holiday. Mr. Richardson of Guider in town Monday. A Chicago resident returned home for Christmas. Mr. Barrett and two daughters departed Saturday for McGregor. Mr. Sorenson from Crystal Lakes visits the city. J. P. Dooley of Fort Worth sent two sprigs of mistletoe and offers them to a capable young woman next Friday.
A New York Press excerpt describes a physician prescribing a strict regimen for insomnia. The patient is told to set an alarm before 2 AM, wake, dress, and walk at least two miles, avoiding bed or naps. If the pattern persists, repeat with adjusted times and continue nightly walks until sleep patterns improve.
A humorous Penragon Weekly tale recounts sailors who flee a persistent shark by tossing overboard a chair and a box of oranges. The shark swallows both. after an absurd plan to draw lots, an old woman is tossed, only to be found alive on the chair selling oranges three a penny when the shark is finally hauled aboard and opened.
For some time located in the building three doors west of the St. James hotel. offers a full line of bread pies cakes and bakery goods. Farmers and others urged to call for good meals. Also advertises two fine cameras a 4x5 with anastigmal lens and a 4x10 with Gundlach symmetries lens. Call at Stones Studio Burt Stone.
Ellsworth College Iowa Falls Iowa will start two short business courses on January 4 and January 25 designed for students who can only spend two or three months in school. No other school offers these courses.
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