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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
8
A fashion-forward look at midsummer dresses, blouses, and bridal hats. Designers feature cotton voile blouses with organdie collars, black edging, and embroidered cuffs. Bridesmaids receive chic hats with braid, crepe, and velvet ribbons, while tailor-made gowns grow longer sleeves and refined necklines.
A historical cooking section offers honey based dishes such as Honey Jumbies and Soft Honey Cake with instructions for blending ingredients. It also covers soy bean as a profitable crop and includes Black Bean Soup and Baked Beans with Sour Cream, plus Kidney Bean Salad and Mustard Butter for varied meals.
University of Minnesota expert HH H Kildee advises farmers to guard calves against scours by providing warm clean well ventilated pens fed at 80 degrees Fahrenheit with regular milk and grain schedules. Keep pens disinfected with quicklime and coal tar dip spray, and allow winter exercise in a sheltered yard.
The record outlines a grain blend for valves using oats 50 parts bran 30 parts cornmeal 1 part and oil mead 10 parts. It also advises keeping a pen dry clean well lit warm in winter shaded in summer vermin free and convenient for feeding. A well bred dairy calf becomes the best cow when raised properly.
Purebred Holstein cows remain valuable up to about twelve years, with some yielding over 10 000 pounds of milk annually after twelve. Farmers who keep purebreds know ages. those without them estimate roughly. A cow is kept while profitable and is dried off to fatten before slaughter.
The article argues that dairy herds improve best by raising helfer calves from the best cows rather than buying cows. It warns against feeding costs exceeding calf value and emphasizes measuring calves raised for market milk cheese factory or condensery sales.
The fragment hints at a discussion of heat effects on thinking during a long evening. It references someone inclined to spend time in a straight line and to recall past effects of heat on the mind. The context and complete details are missing from the extant text.
The piece urges patriotic Americans to farm more, noting two dollar wheat and grain shortfalls. It highlights Western Canada’s lands offered near free to settlers, promising better wheat yields and independence. It calls for land ownership or rental to support war needs and national prosperity.
A 1936 reader testimonial from Berkey Ohio praises Dr Kilmer swamps root with fifteen years of use and no complaints. It claims strong results for kidney troubles and offers a sample bottle for ten cents plus a booklet on kidneys and disease. Air and sale terms noted.
Mrs. Bianca Jefferson of 763 Lyon Street Des Moines recounts a life saving recovery after doctors warned of surgical need. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and enabling her to resume housework.
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