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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
2
The piece urges local citizens and capitalists to back a railroad, calling it a top investment. It also lists advertising and subscription rates, notes advance payment for publications, and argues that publishers should collect in advance to avoid losses.
Readers are urged to inform customers about the poor quality of goods sold by mail order houses and to question the reliability of their catalog guaranty. The notice calls for spreading awareness of evaded guarantees and urges disclosure of unsatisfactory merchandise.
A neighbor circulated a harsh circular denouncing a Chicago mail order house after a thirty day trial of a cream separator proved defective. The firm delayed response and gave unfitting advice. the man kept the inferior machine and used personal funds to publicize the fraud to neighbors.
All persons in debt to the late Amadus Woerter are kindly requested to come and settle all accounts with the undersigned on or before September 1 1906. Mrs A Woerter.
Cottage in the south end of Ferdi nand with about 4 acres, a good well and a young fruit tree stand including grapes. The house has three finished rooms and three upper rooms unfinished. Price 1250 dollars. Inquiries at the News office.
A Farm and Home correspondent advocates a 32 foot wide piggery with a six foot central passage and pens on both sides. The structure can be any length but 80 feet long suits brood sows and progeny. A frame building with 14 foot studs allows a loft above.
The plan describes building a warm storage and housing unit with rough lumber exterior, felt paper, and matched siding. A south side divides into 8 foot pens for brood sows, while the north side includes a 6 foot feed room, a 10 foot boar pen, and two additional finishing pens.
An undated fragment notes a sleeping P incident involving Uberti Tly Ta 7. No clear location or scope is provided, leaving the event details unclear and requiring further verification.
The description outlines a hog house with eight foot spacing for windows, ample light, cement floor plus a plank sleeping platform raised four inches. Partitions use plank due to hogs breaking lighter lumber. A feed trough in front of each pen is noted, brood sow troughs should be no more than three inches deep. Building includes constant running water.
A humorous attribution traces a boy from birth to a country newspaper editor at eighteen, then notes marriage at twenty, a large family by thirty, and final death at thirty-five as hundreds of delinquent subscribers attend the funeral, remarking he could not save his money.
The Farmers Review notes intensive sheep farming has not suited the nation as land is abundant and prices favor extensive stock raising. It says western competition and rapid land settlement delayed profitable wool and mutton output, but new methods may now pay, including selecting top quality sheep and productive pastures with low-cost supplemental feeds.
Advice on hog health and feeding from clean conditions to oats and qats for bone. Emphasizes cleanliness, pasture efficiency, and using alternate feed to avoid fattening too early. Notes breeding sow nutrition, two profitable crops per year with good hogs and care.
A note emphasizes a dedicated pig trough design to prevent access by the boar or other hogs. The plan aims to ensure each pig has a reachable feeding space, avoiding competition and crowding during feeding time.
The author argues hogs should not be crowded. He describes a 7 by 9 foot hog house with a single doorway, sloped roof, and two wooden runners for easy moving. The setup keeps sows separated and faces the door southeast to resist rain, per a Farm and Home correspondent.
Guidance for housing pigs from birth to eight weeks, then moving to open range. Prepare a feed trough at two weeks, keep sow out, use ground oats wheat and corn ration, add charcoal salt ashes if scour occurs, remove black teeth with pliers, wean at ten weeks with ear corn, provide salt water and shade on clover or rye pasture.
The American Cultivator extols raising home stock for dairies, noting calves grown on the farm can form a ready milker and avoid large upfront costs. It warns smaller retail routes need steady supply, favoring buying and trading cows to match conditions, and cautions against hurried trades that cut profits.
Writers urge buyers to be brave in investing in cattle while sellers push honesty. Those unable to raise cows should purchase wisely as top quality stock, if secured, yields the best value at fair prices.
Advice from agricultural guides covers feed, fencing, and breeding for profit. It notes short feed and poor fences reduce cattle quality, while best profits rely on wool, mutton, and lamb. Fly control for horses, and pumpkins as feed show yields. use kerosene on fly eggs and carbolic acid as deodorizer near pig pens. Look for breeding rams with merit to improve flocks.
The Southdowns are small hardy sheep that subsist on scarce grass and fatten on minimal forage. They are believed to be England’s oldest sheep breed with references dating to Sussex in William the Conqueror era.
Farmers know weight affects price with heavy draft horses earning 20 to 80 cents more per 100 pounds. Proper feeding and fatness yield higher sale value as horses must be fat, clean, and well groomed for market readiness.
The dealer argues fattening and grooming elevate a horse’s price. Proper exercise and hardening in a box stall before sale, plus a month of blanketing, increase appeal to buyers who prefer a well groomed energetic animal ready for heavy city work. Farmers should finish horses to protect profits.
The article explains that young animals gain weight more efficiently from milk solids than older ones. Lambs convert six pounds of milk solids to one pound gain, while calves show the same pattern. It argues feeding now is more profitable than buying feeders, and notes high prices for feeder lambs. It mentions eastern farms switching to beef and mutton for advantage.
Fragments indicate charcoal is beneficial for animals, poultry, and swine with suggested feeding or treatment under discussion, though details are unclear.
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