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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1907
Page
4
A collage of agricultural tips and observations urging soil rebuilding, manure spreading, crop care, poultry health, and dairy stock quality. It highlights practical farming methods, disease control, seed use, diary keeping, and the need for careful soil and crop management for better yields.
Detailed notice on the Hessian fly origin, spread, life cycle, and damage to wheat crops. Highlights include larval development, symptoms in wheat, impacts on straw and yields, and recommended controls such as selecting resistant seed, thorough soil cultivation, timely sowing, fertilizer use, early planting, and stubble management to reduce infestation.
Advocates of the metric system cite a year book from the British Auctioneers Institute showing numerous British weight measures. Wheat and cereals are sold in many forms and units such as quarter comb road boll bushel barrel hundredweight cental windle hobbet, with bushel weights varying by region. Confusion spreads to meat iron cheese hemp and acres, illustrating seven standards for the acre and bewildering liquid measures.
A home remedy claims to relieve rheumatism backache and urinary disorders using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Kurgon and Compound Syrup Sarsa parilla taken after meals and at night. Also notes Agricultural Research Institute of Bengal tests a flea destruction mix of crude petroleum and whale oil soap applied to floors to kill fleas and ease animal discomfort.
Advert says Brandreth’s Pills stimulate the blood and purify the system by cleansing the bowels kidneys and skin. One or two nightly doses recommended. Pills contain solid extract of sarsaparilla with other vegetables and are sold widely. The passage ends with a broken scene of a woman and a girl discussing charity and wine.
An old fashioned medical pitch promises a cure for deafness caused by catarrrh with a $1,400 reward offer by CREWRY & UG of Toledo. The fragment also references ear ailments, throat issues, and a note on universal peace linked to global power. Several unrelated items mention turbine propellers, a toy product, and Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup.
A Detroit woman tells how six years of neuralgia caused severe headaches hair whitening and weight loss ended after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She gained ten pounds in three months and remains in good health. Pills sold by druggists or by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady New York.
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