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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1895
Page
7
A narrated poem portrays a sheltered refuge named our castle in Spain, contrasting bleak rain with a warm firelit home. The speaker yearns for a loved one, inspects distant city life, and expresses enduring attachment amid universal wanderings. May Kendall, in N. Ledger.
A lively evening at the Hendersons country home features indoor amusements after a rainout sleigh ride. Guests stage candy pulling, glove and broomstick tricks, cracker crumb feasts, potato races, and hypnotic comedy. Blind lancers, open music, and a playful corridor exchange cap the night with humorous courtship mischief.
Agricultural hints discuss sheltering farm animals during severe weather and the need to repair poor buildings first. The author explains ten years of farm work, temporary stables, and avoiding borrowed capital while paying down debt to finance better facilities.
A rustic article by John L. Shawver details a newly added barn attached to an old structure. It describes timber frame, steel roofing, tongue and groove siding, twelve windows, and a large covered barnyard with multiple stalls and pens. The design focuses on animal welfare and streamlined feeding, housing twelve box stalls for four two-horse pairs and integrated feed chutes, water, and salt stations for minimal outdoor labor.
In 8914 a central station powered by a plaining mill supplied about six miles of lines to a grist mill dairy and two farms. Movable 1 horsepower motors on weatherproof carts operated threshers pumps and more across fields with bare copper wires and glass insulators. Winter use powers a brewery. fall threshing ends when motor cars return to yards. The system reduces fuel handling fire risk and transport effort and could aid small manufacturers and coal miners in similar districts.
The passage discusses feed quality and its link to manure, emphasizes using rich feeds for profitable stock, and advises breeding mature sires and dams. It notes cooling milk promptly, using straw wisely, avoiding burning straw, and gradual feeding for fattening. It ends with guidance to improve home contentment and self-control.
N J Shepherd argues diversified farming boosts fertility and profits by integrating grass and grain with livestock. He notes manure cycles, higher market prices for meat milk and wool, and that green manuring, fertilizers, or more livestock may be needed to sustain soil health amid drought. He adds drought prompts subsoiling to improve moisture retention and drainage, preventing root damage.
The agricultural department provides estimates of farm values for crops in the United States by year. The text lists figures for crops including potatoes and tobacco, with some values marked by asterisk as estimates for the year before the census. The figures and the comparisons they suggest are presented as interest.
A poetic meditation by EF. B. McGilgary in S. S. Times extols a baby’s hand as finer than sea shells and summer roses. It praises the hand’s gentle curves, softness, and tender, clasping grip as a warm, intimate wonder. The verse blends nature imagery with familial affection to elevate the infant’s touch.
In Alpena Michigan Mrs. Jas M Todd recounts years of disabling rheumatism and nerve trouble then credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for a rapid recovery. She describes regaining movement, strength, and independence after taking the pills, urges others with similar ills to try them, and notes availability through druggists or by mail from Schenectady company.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a Toledo ad bit montage with medical claims for Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, stray quotes, and testimonial snippets. It mentions J. Cuency company, notary A W Gleason, and seed supplier endorsements from Racine Wisconsin, all in a mosaic of period commercial copy.
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