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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
3
The article describes a one-man friendly barn design from Wallace's Farmer. It outlines a twelve by thirty eight foot building with fourteen cows and twelve horses capacity, box stalls, a calf pen, and a long four foot feed and silo chute. It emphasizes easy manure handling, sanitation, and phased construction.
A detailed description outlines barn layout for cows and horses with feed and milk rooms, hay chutes, and ventilation aimed to control odors. It covers stall sizes, cement floors, and manure pits, plus hens housing to improve egg production through proper feeding and occasional meat scraps. A compact smoked meat device using a barrel is also described for small one time butchering.
A fragment from Matthew Arnold expresses longing for a dream visit to ease daytime sorrow. The speaker asks the beloved to appear in dreams or in reality to comfort and soothe, transforming the day through a night time promise.
Winthrop Masier, an unsure, plain man, pursues Daisy Considine amid jokes from coworker Spink. Masier grows moody and confesses he may love Daisy, and later questions if she truly suits him, despite being engaged.
A historical account notes that rats and mice cause about 15 million dollars in annual damage in the United States. It mentions rat catchers selling skins for around 1 million dollars and furriers multiplying that value fivefold. A full grown rat is estimated to consume six bushels of corn each year.
A Success magazine essay notes Americans waste extensively and fuels a thriving junk trade. Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, and New Jersey dealers accumulate millions from discarded scrap. A New Jersey buyer acquired a vast Panama junk lot once costing about 20 million, with profits undisclosed.
A terse dialogue hints at whispered chatter about a sugar trust, as a caller jokes about asking a first wife a question and a second wife’s mince meat recipe. The snippet blends social banter with a tease of press or gossip tone.
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