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Newspaper
Goreville Record
Location
Goreville, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1906
Page
1
A historical plan describes a chicken feeder built from 1x6 inch boards with V shaped middle partitions to allow feeding from both sides and adjustable height. It also covers shade strategy using plants like canna and morning glory to cool yards and protect feed. Additional notes discuss dairy economics, a current wheel irrigation diagram, and tips on timely hay hauling and storage practices.
A description from Farm Progress explains a self acting chicken feeder with a dry lid on hinges that keeps feed clean and dry. Each tin holds a peck and chickens can access feed at will without mud or waste.
The Wensleydale sheep, rare in America, is praised as a fine English breed with superior qualities. It is noted for its distinctive wool and status among fine-wooled flocks.
The Wensleydale breed has no equal in wool quality and value. Since the Royal Agricultural Society began prizes for wool three years ago it has secured first prize in the long wooled class each time. The piece discusses potato seed selection and the need to retain the best tubers to improve varieties.
Coal ashes lack fertilizing value but help in farming by loosening stiff clay when mixed well. They can fill wet spots, dust boxes for poultry, and form walks with gravel. Use fine ash around trees as mulch to retain moisture and suppress grass. For crops, apply quick fertilizers like nitrate of soda guano or poultry droppings near roots and cultivate frequently.
Advice on barnyard layout and sanitation urges keeping a country barnyard neat like the dooryard. Vines should cover walls and fences and trees shade animals. Lilacs and mock oranges may grow around the barn as freely as in the shrubbery.
A series of fifty two earthquakes over three days devastated Socorro New Mexico. The town deserted as buildings collapsed including the courthouse and school of mines. Rail links were cut, refugees fled to El Paso. damage spread to San Marcio Magdalena and Carlsbad area with heavy rains and rising hot springs noted.
A government report before the Rio Janeiro conference highlights U S dominance in western hemisphere trade. total commerce reaches 5 050 027 000 with the United States at 2 806 179 000 imports total 2 184 377 000 of which 1 179 135 enter the U S exports total 2 865 000 000 with Latin American imports 72 000 000 and exports 140 000 000. the United States supplies 189 000 000 of Latin American imports and takes 35 000 000 of exports.
Professor Archibald Coolidge of Harvard's history department is selected to represent the union as the Sorbonne lecturer in Paris next year. William L. S. Demarest inaugurated as president of Rutgers College with hundreds of alumni and college representatives robed and present.
An Illinois reform era report alleges the civil service commission will violate the state law by hiring teachers for the state school for the deaf from outside Illinois. It claims the national civil service commission supports the plan by reviewing alien applicant qualifications, deeming the move a conspiracy.
W H Schoot of Chicago met Charleston-Paris traction directors to plan a 28 mile interurban line. Local people will furnish 200000 dollars. Schoot provides the rest for construction and equipment. Preliminary work done. line will connect Indianapolis and St. Louis through eastern Illinois.
William Harrison Bushey died Saturday at his home 843 West Adams Chicago after a long illness. Born February 24 1839 in Vienna Ohio he was Civil War veteran who wrote dispatches from the front for his home paper and later pursued journalism in Chicago. He recently served as an editorial writer for the Inter Ocean.
Henry Johnson a Joliet penitentiary inmate from DeKalb county who escaped by hiding in a civilian carpenter coat was found in a nearby quarry hole after a search. A guard levelled a gun to force his surrender ending the pursuit.
A historical list recounts notable incidents and dates from 1191 to 1905, naming figures, battles, treaties, assassinations, explorations, and political changes across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa. It includes Acre, Henry V, Janet Glamis, William of Orange, Hudson, Aghrim, Portsmouth, Stony Point, Sumter, Williamson’s Plantation, Savannah, Morocco, and various other events with dates and brief notes.
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