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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1885
Page
6
A 1900s overview of Atlantic coast cattle quarantine stations at Garfield New Jersey and others, detailing procedures, herd separation, costs, and species imported for breeding. It notes a small death rate, government manure sales, and public viewing with permits.
A rich Pennsylvania farmer loses 5000 and his buggy to two pretend Texans in a skin game. Fraudsters pose as benevolent agents to obtain signed receipts. Farmers warned to avoid signing, beware of cheap machinery left on farms, and to arrest anyone offering free equipment. The note becomes a loan to unseen parties and paper signs lead to heavy losses.
A fragment suggests a warning about a deceptive contract that mutates after delivery, urging readers to consult the papers for guidance. The text implies a cautionary message on signing and transparency.
A narrator questions mothers who push sons toward law or medicine for prestige while praising farming as healthier wealthier and nobler. He argues for agricultural education to cultivate love of rural life and virtuous habits, warning against overemphasis on urban professions and their toll on health.
The article explains the feeding principle for cattle, distinguishing between carb hydrates to build bone and muscle and albuminoids to form fat and milk. It cites a balanced ration ratio and cites Hiram Smith on daily dry organic matter needs for a 1000 pound animal, guiding farmers to classify stock feeds and mix rations accordingly.
Delaware dairyman Henry E. Briggs of Franklin reports success with barley from one acre at thirty six bushels and excellent fodder straw. He also grew oats wheat and barley in a four to one to one mix, harvesting ninety two bushels from three acres at two and a half bushels per acre, with grain weighing forty two pounds per bushel.
Good bright straw may substitute for hay and corn fodder when plentiful or cheaper. It needs extra grain to compensate for lower nutriment. It suits growing stock better than milk cows or working horses, with colts and young horses thriving on it. A western jockey claimed to raise good colts on nothing but oat straw, hardly threshed.
An advisory warns farmers who have habitually carrying potato vines to barns to work them into manure to omit the practice this year. The rot, caused by a leaf-origin fungus, spreads most surely when infected foliage is added to manure.
Hand-picked beans sell best. Pullets for layers hens for breeders. Feed pumpkins to cows gradually to protect milk. It is a finable offense to let a Canada thistle grow in Indiana. Animals dying of disease should be burned. Chicago and St. Louis plague centers of pleuro pneumonia. Cabbages and roots packed for winter in saw dust. Mrs Mary Macumber raised a chrysanthemum with 400 blooms. Annual honey yield in the United States about 120 million pounds from 3 million colonies. If no ice house, build one this year and pack full. Every country neighborhood should have weekly literary and debating in the schoolhouse. An Englishman invents an atmospheric railway milk can. It seals hermetically and rolls on ground in England. Away with melancholy no more rheumatism or toothache St Jacobs Oil cures pain. Price fifty cents a bottle.
A London Graphic poem describes a child waking to a toy filled morning with wonder and fairies visiting then a noisy afternoon as the nursery toys are damaged by over exuberant play and the nurse withdraws the child after feasting and fun.
Short humorous vignettes from early 20th century life include a mother scolding Bobby for rough play with Ethel, jokes about trains and time, a dinner party exchange over poultry choices, and a child’s quip about the hour matching minutes, reflecting light social satire.
A terse moral note suggests a young man roams in cold without a coat claiming the bracing air builds manliness. The piece hints at pawnshop remedies and peer judgment, reflecting urban attitudes on health and appearance.
A brief note recalls an Iowa man who found a rheumatism remedy using maple sugar dissolved in apple brandy and claims the neighborhood soon limped. It also cites a claim that an Ohio man planted the first American flag in California in 1833, with light commentary on California’s climate.
A long digest of nostalgic reflections on music’s power to stir memory and emotion, from childhood tunes to folk instruments. It includes humorous vignettes, a tale of a miner and a donkey prank, and brief notes on journalism slang and a fall of Bill Nye.
A rabbit provokes a hornet swarm in a swamp and blocks the hornet nest only to be chased away at high speed. He returns home claiming a riot earthquake and prairie fire in the swan, delivering a cautionary moral about counting chickens and sitting on pests.
In a brief Austin exchange Col Yerger asks where his wife is going and she replies down Austin avenue to the drug store to buy four fresh bottles of snuff. She notes she has a chill and has already dipped into yesterday’s bottle.
An advertisement touts Rough on Pain plasters for cholera cramps diarrhoea and aches. Wells Health Renewer targets weakness and femininity. It mentions a $5,000 bank deposit challenge comparing Nickel brands to the 8. M. S. Five Cent Cigar sold by J. A. Rogers in Greeley.
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