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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
3
The article offers practical farm advice urging clean poultry yards and sturdy fences, attention to feed and water quality, and proper seed selection. It highlights the benefits of pruning, proper pruning, and soil care, plus the value of keeping hogs, sheep, and cows well managed. It discusses new plow tech, fall tillage, and the goal of higher yields with careful grazing and seed choices.
Practical notes on feeding cows and hogs, poultry health, and crop practices. Emphasizes clover, whitewashing stables, grain ratios, salt needs for cows, and early plowing for oats and corn. Warns against neglect, highlights pasture management, and urges continued soil and tree care.
A New Jersey man designs a rake with adjustable teeth that can be placed at various angles and spacing. The handle pivots on a pin with a nut to hold positions, enabling conversion from rake to pitchfork. The rake head uses a framework to hold the adjustable teeth.
The device uses screw-adjusted teeth to form a tight rake or spaced configuration. It can straddle rows of plants with the arched head, preventing damage while sweeping. Teeth can be set to point in opposite directions or in various pedunular arrangements as emergencies may require.
A description of a braced gate using first-class lumber and a wire hung balance weight. An iron Rising Gate bucket is filled with stones to make the gate slightly heavier so a pull will trigger it to fold back into place.
Farmers are urged to rake and save autumn leaves to enrich soil and furnish bedding for animals. Leaves fine in exposed areas should be protected to prevent loss, and used for mulch, compost, and poultry litter before reuse as soil amendment. Also notes on evergreen planting, seed cleanliness, and U.S. rice and barley markets.
Agricultural engineer G A Ocock describes the King ventilation system for barns with two flue sets to supply fresh air and remove foul air. Fresh air flues should be exterior wall located and spaced over ten feet apart. outlets arranged for rapid air movement. Central chimney links lateral flues. a ceiling ventilator shaft aids hot weather cooling. Flue construction details and placement aim to minimize moisture, frost, and lung waste near the floor. The system emphasizes nonconductive walls, proper air capacity, and wind-driven draft for efficiency.
An old warning urges frequent checks of wagon and farm machinery axles to prevent wear from dry wheels. It emphasizes testing axle grease quality, noting cheap clear grease wears quickly and increases friction, costing money and harming teams. Regular lubrication avoids costly failures in the field.
Instructions discuss methods to anchor posts using concrete poured in a ground hole and a dead man design with concrete and a screw. The text also notes land availability in the United States and Belgium, citing 28% acres per citizen and 142 acres per family in the U S, and about 1.1 to 5.5 acres per person or family in Belgium.
A fragment describes a cold remedy mixing two ounces of glycerine with a half ounce of concentrated pine compound, shaken in a bottle and dosed every four hours. It notes the pine concentrate comes only in small bottles labeled Concentrated. The scene shifts to a merchant and a messenger exchanging lines about a robbery and a receipt, with the messenger reassuring not to worry.
Patient details a 12 month struggle with intense itching and widespread eczema. After trying many remedies, two or three applications of Cuticura Ointment, with Soap and Pills, brought relief and full cure. Also notes social issues on consumption and humorous assorted clippings from a penny press era.
In a late night encounter a blank faced assailant blocked a path and demanded payment with a pistol and knife. The baritone produced carbolic acid from his coat and offered a drink before the mugger fled after collapsing on the sidewalk. He explains he carried the bottle to aid his hair treatment.
A mother credits Resinol with curing her baby's eczema in three weeks after other remedies failed for four months. She notes the skin improved rapidly, returning the child to a rosy, healthy appearance and praising the ointment and soap for the dramatic turnaround observed in Sunbury Pennsylvania.
Mrs Elizabeth Well of Tipton Missouri touts Doan s Kidney Pills with claims of rapid relief from severe backache frequent painful urination and constant fatigue. She notes after a few boxes she was cured and remains well. Fowler Milburn Co Buffalo NY seller. The rest of the fragmentary text switches to misc humor and a short anecdote about an author and a box-office curtain gag.
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