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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1910
Page
3
An ad promotes Orange Blossom as a safe flax seed poultice claiming positive cures for inflammation congestion and various womb ailments including anteversion retroversion prolapse dropsy ulcers polyps tumors leucorrhea and menstrual issues. It asserts worldwide testimonials and urges women to treat themselves with a $1 product plus a book and free sample from druggists.
On Wednesday EF Krampe presents Henry Elmer and Gerhard Hollinden. Thursday features E Janson Valentin and Mary Hoffmann. Friday honors B M V with Mary Kunkle. Saturday lists Gertrude Seger and Paul Wagner.
Timetable fragments show various times such as 7 40, 9 30, 10 10 and 6 30 P M with additional unreadable figures. The text appears to be a damaged OCR segment listing schedules without clear context or destinations.
The article stresses careful selection of mother beets for seed, focusing on perfect, typical types with optimal sugar content. It warns against too large or too small roots, divided tap roots, or deep, long-tapering roots that break during harvest. It notes a visual pick may fail to match chemical desirability where one beet shows 24.8 percent sugar versus 14.2 percent in the other.
The article stresses frugal farming, using varied stock to utilize all foods, and avoiding waste in feed. It advises feeding concentrated and bulky foods together, underfeeding harms growth, overfeeding wastes resources, and profit hinges on production cost time and price received. It advocates proper care and targeted labor to maximize returns.
Brown advises on oat planting in Grundy County Illinois soils. He recommends choosing early ripening oats for sandy loam ground previously in corn with clover sod turned under and suggests drilling 200 pounds of ground rock phosphate before sowing. He notes farmers thin seed oats to five to eight pecks per acre to achieve stiffer straw and cleaner oats.
A 12 by 30 foot ground plan divides into three 12 by 10 foot sections. The right side serves as winter roosting and laying space, the center as scratching shed and rain sun shelter, and the left room for winter exercise feeding mashes and dust boxes. Details describe window placement netting curtains roost poles nests and floor materials. The design can be built cheaply or costly depending on materials and finish, with 9 by 7 feet rear height and adaptable to hand materials.
Advice from the Maine State Poultry Exhibition weighs two routes for a spring start. A $10 baseline buys either a trio of birds or eggs from prize stock. Eggs may yield sixteen chicks with range feeding, while well-bred stock can pay for itself by selling surplus birds. For tight budgets, begin with a trio and grow through selection, buying brooders as needed to expand next year.
A simple mash recipe uses equal parts bran shorts and corn meal for laying hens. While dinner cooks, simmer kitchen scraps in a kettle until done and season. If meat scraps are unavailable add a small amount of beef drippings every other day.
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