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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1895
Page
3
The article explains constructing brush and stone drains, noting Troggy land drainage limits and the use of planks in ditch bottoms. It advises starting with brushes in pioneer work to bring marsh land under cultivation and recommends digging drains about 3 feet deep and half filling with brush.
The article describes building brush drains with straw and coarse material to prevent soil entering, stressing longer life if constantly immersed. It compares brush to stone or tile drains, advises depths of 3 to 4 feet, notes mice risk, recommends spacing 30 to 40 feet, and mentions possible rot unless water remains submerging.
Instructions for soaking hides and making a curing paste from milk and grains appear in a Farm and Home excerpt. The piece also notes widespread concern over seed corn quality, urging careful selection and discussing plowing depth and moisture conservation. A correspondent reports plaster use improving potato yields and cleanliness.
The text prescribes a bean based feed for hens three times a week. Boil beans in a pot, add chopped meat, thicken with ground oats, and feed warm to hens each morning. If hens refuse, the issue is not insufficient food unless clover with grain is omitted at night. Beans supply nitrogen and nourish poultry.
A writer in American Bee Journal urges beekeepers to maintain unsealed stores during brood rearing and sudden honey flow checks. Failure may cause starved brood, dark unable to fly bees, and misleading impressions of aging colonies.
Guineas are a cheap, effective farm helper feeding on insects and weeds. They roam fields, rarely returning for food, and a balanced flock of twenty can dramatically reduce pests while keeping near the house when eggs hatch under hens. Eggs incubate in four weeks and the flesh is dark and juicy.
A plan shows a feeding and watering rack for fowls to keep dirt and waste away. The base is a 4 by 1 foot board with an upright 1 by 1 foot post set 6 inches from the end. Edges are bordered with 2 inch boards and three 1 inch square slats run along the top of the verticals. Vertical slats line each side with openings described.
The article describes a cheap feeding rack extending from the bottom board to an outer strip to let hens reach food without getting necked. It covers soft versus hard food benefits, best feeding times, and the role of labor and intelligence in farming profits with quotes from Miss Nannie Calle and Rural World.
Do not pay high prices for a few pounds of a new potato variety that may have many claims. Wait until it has been tested for several years as reliability varies by region. Novelties in seeds fruits and vegetables appear yearly but may be old varieties with new names. They seem novelties for a season and fade away in a few seasons.
A collection of vintage recipes including Boiled Dressed Beef served cold with acid jelly, Fig Cake with layers and boiled icing, Monroes fried with a spiced syrup, the Directory inspired Night Gown style note, Cocoa Jelly with vanilla, and Amherst Pudding steamed with molasses and raisins from Harper's Bazar and other papers.
Practical warnings on metal cookware and foods that can poison. Copper vessels require retinting, and vinegar left to cool can dissolve copper. Zinc, lead, tin, iron, steel and nickel carry varying risks. Green potatoes and eyes contain toxins. mushrooms need expert verification. decomposed animal foods and tinned fish pose danger. Tall wire-frame guards offer child safety around stoves and tubs.
The clipped text quotes a poem by Frank B. Welch on fortune and fate and critiques British education up to date. It contrasts urging action with doom, and mocks Danish, trigonometry, and language learning while condemning rote knowledge and eroding common sense.
Grand Rapids businessman Charles H Hackley famed for lumber wealth and philanthropy in Muskegon. He describes recovery from years of neuralgia and rheumatism after using Dr Williams Pink Pills, noting improved health and willingness to help others with the medicine.
The exchange centers on a count who asked a maid to truthfully report if Miss de Riche was home. The maid replies she told Miss de Riche, who then gave her a dollar to say she was out. Brooklyn Life.
Fragmentary OCR combines a fake medical oath about Hall's Catarri Cure with speculative ads and jokes. It includes a sworn statement by Frank J. Crexry, references to Toledo and Hall's remedy, plus travel tickets and a patent medicine pitch for Syrup of Figs and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
An illustrated catalogue from the J. L. Case Threshing Machine Co. of Racine Wisconsin promotes their large threshing machine plant and implements. The firm, established in 1842, offers wide ranges such as wind stackers saw mills and self feeders with mailings available free.
The New York Tribune notes a growing habit of women using headache powders laced with opium or other drugs. It cites stomach and liver trouble as the cause, promotes laxatives and liver tonics, and endorses Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and Beecham’s pills as remedies. It advertises pills 10¢ and 25¢ and free literature from B F Allen Co.
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