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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
6
Grenville faces money limits and marriage plans as he pursues a legal practice and a fortune. Maude teases yet supports the match while Grenville pettily weighs a risky wager and a future with Pearman, Dallison, and Coriander in a web of betting schemes and social pressure.
Uncle Hank and Uncle Plank board a train car where a porter sweeps him with a whisk broom and asks for a quarter fare. Hank negotiates, offering a nickel while the porter accepts a quarter, joking about the broom.
The dialogue hints at a conflict over a pull log in a rural setting. Johnnie Jump declares the bells signal action while a passerby questions their purpose. The exchange centers on a tense moment framed by a local dispute or prank.
A religious exhortation urges love as Christ did and warns against excuses. It stresses faith with works, constant truth seeking, and trust in God’s promises. The speaker cautions against mere church attendance and warns the devil attends church.
A narrator recalls a dog named Shep that chased a book agent, illustrating the belief that barking means biting is a fallacy. The tale, set in Kansas, pivots on the farmer and the milk pail episodes and ends with the dog pursuing the speaker.
On a Saturday Mrs Cushman helps her son Bobby after dressing for a photoshoot. He writes a letter to his mother asking to visit friends across the street, adds a postscript and then vanishes from his room. The scene ends with a reflection on how there are many sides to every story.
A durable guide advises placing fresh water near the apiary daily to aid honey dilution for larvae and wax pliability. Protect hives from north winds with hedges or fences and keep front weeds down with a 6 foot mulch. One hour weekly on bee care yields higher returns than other farm labor. A Chicago area beekeeper sold 226 dollars of honey to three hotels with minimal weekly effort.
Chicago area readers are advised that spring is the proper time to prepare fields for alfalfa to be planted next fall. Do not plant small grain or corn before alfalfa as woods and grass will invade. cow peas or peanuts are suggested preceding crops with thorough cultivation to prevent grasses.
Feed chicks on day one with a mixture of grated bread and finely chopped hard boiled egg. Provide a small fountain for water to prevent immersion. In a few days shift to rolled oats finely cracked corn and small seeds. Add a protein source as needed.
An article notes a tiny Sacramento trout stream dammed to create a 100000 cubic feet reservoir supplying a $1500 plant. In one year it produced $700 of electrical work for lighting washing cooking and home heating for the owner.
A portable device described for farmers to prepare and can fruits vegetables and other produce. The article notes its use for canning tomatoes beans and similar farm products and mentions its applicability in rural settings.
The article explains how draft on horses in a team varies with lever arm lengths. Diagram (1) shows equal lever arms A B and A with straight alignment, giving equal pull. Diagram (2) places pins behind the draw pin, widening the ahead horse lever arm A C and shortening A B for the behind horse, giving the ahead horse more pull. Diagram (3) places pins ahead, shortening the ahead lever arm and lengthening the behind lever arm, causing the ahead horse to pull less.
A Denver Field and Farm note describes two dry feeding methods. The first uses little beef scraps and whole wheat over two weeks. The second mixes two parts corn meal one part wheat bran and one part beef acrapa with boiling water to form a dough. It should be fed warm or cold, never hot.
The article explains cheapest gains come from the sow. A sow with strong digestion converts grain and pasture into milk, enabling piglets to gain more than a pound per pound of sow weight removed. It advises feeding sows for high milk yield and keeping piglets with her until they eat a full grain and pasture diet.
Forty years ago Morgans were the favorite road horses tracing to a single ancestor Justin Morgan fouled in Vermont in 1709. His blood blended with thoroughbred lines producing the Mackhawk Bashaw Golddust Ethan Allen Ben Franklin and other descendants. The Morgan type is short of leg thick in the barrel and known for intelligence courage and endurance.
Farmers in the North Atlantic states produced about 984 dollars of farm crops in the last census year while Southern farmers averaged 464 dollars. Southern farms averaged 108 acres each, versus 96 acres for Northern farms.
A wheel barrow mounted machine allows moving between orchards or patches to heat water with a kerosene burner. The device is described as portable for transferring from tomatoes to cornfields and other crops.
Guidance on capturing geese by the neck and turning the body with the back facing the handler to prevent struggling. It suggests supporting the body by the first wing joint and warns against holding a goose facing the handler as it may strike with wings or feet.
The Oberlin Times cites Prof. Bown of the Minnesota Agricultural College on nine summer hours and four to five winter hours for farm labor. It also mentions Prof. Nailey of the Farm Life Commission describing a schoolgirl who worked 9 to 4 and then from 4 to mending chores and marrying a farmer.
Advice on transplanting vegetables recommends doing it in the evening if possible. Press soil firmly around roots and water well. After watering, cover the wet soil with dry earth to prevent soil balking when sun returns.
The piece argues exhibition size vegetables win prizes but do not reflect what average consumers want. It emphasizes quality, uniformity, and evenness as key to market appeal and willingness to pay freight.
The text describes a disturbance at a cafe involving de Bourmont and others. Deputies punish participants while noting injuries and a later withdrawal to quarters. Names such as Sempf and Cy Gand appear amid a neighborhood context and a described dragoon involvement.
Fragmentary legal notes discuss Ponce v Homan Catholic Church and related cases. It references the treaty of Paris, church legal status, funds, and questions of rights, agency salaries, and election contest jurisdiction in a district court context.
A damaged OCR style fragment presents garbled dialogue with phrases like how do you eae clack and firat rave. It includes partial alternations and stray quotes suggesting a broken speech sample lacking clear narrative or identifiable subjects.
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