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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
19
A 1924 Western edition showcases home cooking hints from a Mother's Cook Book. It includes step by step honey based recipes like Honey Ice Cream, Baked Honey Custard, Honey Pudding, and Farina Spoon Bread, plus notes on Grilled Egg Plant and Honey Salad Dressings. The text blends practical directions with period kitchen tips and measurements.
A fragmentary dream interpretation notes luck and social guidance. It claims seeing certain figures predicts pleasure or travel, warns against overindulgence with friends, and suggests moderation to avoid misfortune. The piece cites seers and emphasizes restraint in dream social behavior.
A discussion of how the word whist might derive from chants, attention signals, or tramps. It surveys Latin, German, Danish, Swedish, and related terms like wieeh visie wikka and whist broom to trace possible roots. The piece notes competing theories and connects historical usage to the game term.
A fragment shows a parent insisting on taking Wille to the circus while Wille and another child named Smith are mentioned. The dialogue hints at a family debate about attending the event this year, with emphasis on responsibility over desire.
A historical column advises individuals to self-evaluate using a point system to improve employment prospects. It describes a 26-item chart totaling 1,000 points, with highest scores for Responsibility and Trustworthiness, and lower marks for some traits. The piece encourages self training and self knowledge as pathways to better opportunities.
A garbled fragment from Florida Times Union hints at a dialog with miswritten lines about a Russian youth burglar. The readable portion suggests a conversation between two speakers, mentioning fear and mistaken actions.
In Europe goats are called the poor man's cow and in America have been mocked despite their value. The article argues goats suit families with limited space or food, noting suburban homesteads and some farms could profit from keeping milk goats.
Personal canvassing can build city trade for farm products when the canvasser is neat and clear about the business. A Baltimore poultry producer found success by visiting nearby homes, delivering eggs by parcel post, and earning steady customers through quality products and reliable service.
A guide discusses dairy goat qualities and milking potential. It notes typical yields, from two quarts daily for seven to eight months for a poor animal to three quarts as excellent, and outlines diet, feeding schedules, and care. It advises observing does during the fatting period to judge udder development and conformation for dairy suitability.
The Scientific American describes an outdoor adaptible chicken brooder invented by R. R. Murray of Milford Texas. It aims to aid poultry raising with special emphasis on the care of young chicks and benefits for outdoor use.
Description outlines a hollow pyramidal chick support containing a heat source at its base, with hanging fabric strips and an open mesh ceiling. A roof is provided and the combustion products are vented outward through a new channel or conduit.
Tests at the South Dakota experiment station show steers fatten well on corn silage alone with no feed shortages or adverse results. Each year cattle were sent to the Chicago market, sold as killers, and brought within a few cents of the market. Director Wilson calls gains remarkable, often exceeding those on pasture, suggesting many cattle winter on silage instead of starvation rations.
The article notes that fattening baby beeves requires no more skill than fattening mature cattle, but emphasizes that good breading and quality are essential to achieve the best returns from hairy beeves.
Readers are urged to place premium on the best quality rather than a second rate option. The message emphasizes striving for top quality when possible and notes that consumers may accept the second best only if the best is unavailable or unaffordable.
Farm guidance on handling balky horses, diagnosing causes of balking, avoiding punishment, and steps to train older and younger horses. Emphasizes rest, harness checks, and progressive restraint like trip ropes and a guy line, with commands and safe starting procedures.
A methodical breaking of a stubborn horse is described using repeated commands and severe use of the bit and lines. The process includes starting and stopping with the gag, using trip ropes, poles, and penalties to force submission, then gradually introducing harness components while maintaining control until the horse no longer responds with balking or kicking.
Missouri College of Agriculture study shows two year old steers fed silage with inseed meal and clover or alfalfa hay can produce about 7,508 pounds of beef and 11.8 pounds of pork per 40 bushels of corn or eight tons of silage plus 1,788 pounds of fineseed meal and 1,810 pounds of alfalfa hay, while full shelled corn with higher meat and alfalfa gives 291.6 pounds of beef and 88.5 pounds of pork.
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