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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1911
Page
9
James Dredin argues that farmers should focus on egg type and robust production over pure-bred fancy traits. He urges using crossbreeds to boost results then grade up with pure-bred males, stressing market needs and practical flock improvement.
Farmers locating poultry houses facing the army aide will keep fowls supplied with extra food and balanced rations and be protected from damp and chills at night. Drain any settled water to prevent foul conditions. Build with light soil for scratching and dusting and shield the henhouse from the north wind. Aim to make winter surroundings as close to summer as possible.
A reader suggests burning meat bones in a stove until crumble tender then grinding with a batchet and feeding to hens. The bones serve as a substitute for meat and charcoal, providing a healthy, edible protein source for poultry.
Charcoal is valuable in the poultry yard, broken into small pieces and placed where fowls can access it, or pulverized and mixed with soft food to aid digestion and health.
Figures show Winnipeg last year yielded 83,269,330 bushels of wheat versus Minneapolis 1,111,410, placing Winnipeg first among North American wheat markets. The article catalogs numerous high yields across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with farms reporting 25 to 60 bushels per acre, including 60 at Mr Muir and 43 at Mackenzie Mann farms, plus record district totals and notable harvests in Edmonton and Rosthern areas.
The notice touts Salzer's Rejuvenated White Bonanza oats yielding 80 bushels per acre on a Lewis County farm and lists other strong yields. It promotes Salzer's pedigree barley flax corn oats wheat potatoes grasses and clover as world famous and offers a catalog with 100 stamps for 10 seed packages, from John A Salzer Seed Co at 182 South 8th St La Crosse Wis.
In a terse exchange, a literary atmosphere notes Twain was not a widespread reader yet produced much work. A quip asks how he managed to turn out so much, suggesting the joke that his heavy smoking fed his prolific output.
A collage of old advertisements mentions Castoria with a fake signature claim, Garfield Tea for liver and bowels, a claim about shoes that fit, and assorted moralizing quips. It mocks health fads and bodily remedies, interwoven with aphorisms and product pitches.
A concise notice proclaims a home described as a model of heavenly living, highlighting its virtues as presented in an era-aesthetic exposition. The piece emphasizes comfort, virtue, and idyllic domestic life within a spiritual frame.
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