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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1913
Page
7
Bennington explains selecting apples at full growth and color, avoiding premature picking. Keep imperfect fruit separate to prevent spoilage, store four to five days after picking, and place in shaded cool conditions. Air circulation, dry cellars, and 23 degrees Fahrenheit best preserve fruit. remove decayed apples and wipe sound ones as winter proceeds.
Hyly M Bennington outlines vegetable care, urging heavy manure for cabbage lettuce and onions with potash and phosphoric acid for tomatoes peppers eggplants and root crops. Lime prevents slutfoot in cabbage. early harvesting aids first customers. careful grading, prompt market delivery, and telephonic market orders are essential.
Rhubarb is described as easy to handle with notes on rest, division, and single tuber per hill. The dirt is heaped loosely, leaves are cut early, and care is urged to avoid pulling to protect young roots. Stalks are cut an inch above ground and straw mulch promotes growth until frost.
The phrase captures a daily grind of labor in domestic and farm roles. It contrasts the tireless duties of a poultry man with the constant tasks of a housewife, highlighting enduring, unpaid work.
The farmer's wife who buys pasteboard egg packages and packs clean eggs can often profit greatly. Women are praised as top poultrymen on many farms and proper house ventilation, coop design, and feeding practices are urged. Breeding, cockerels, molting, and avoiding fatigue in birds are covered, along with sanitation and market reputation.
Clean water and feeding troughs prevent sanitation problems for chicks. Use sanitary fountains, homemade or bought, kept clean and scalded frequently. Scrape feed residues, dry troughs in sun, and avoid common drinking dishes to prevent loss in summer.
A dairy farmer argues that production costs, not sheer output, determine profits. He urges weighing and testing every cow weekly and monthly to identify profitable cows, keeping those that yield butter at lower costs and culling the rest. Eminent's Bess, a Jersey from Roycroft farm, exceeds Jersey and Guernsey records in milk produced under Michigan Agricultural College supervision.
Advice from L M Pennington on farm practices across cattle and crop care. Prioritize cows that endure drought, plow deeper for wheat, seed readiness, and early weed control. Emphasizes green fodder, hog pasture, and adaptable forage crops to improve yield and efficiency.
Practical hints discuss buying feed early, preparing tools, feeding wormy apples to stock, keeping calves healthy, ensuring water for bogs, giving poultry access to run, plowing ground for wheat, pruning canes, burning vines, controlling cabbage pests, halter breaking colts, improving poultry houses, preparing caponizing gear, and early hatch plans for Christmas. It also notes mange in horses and cattle, and suggests feeding strategies for a dairy herd using corn, clover, and alfalfa.
The text discusses using charred corn feed for poultry. It advises burning ears of corn in a hot oven until black, feeding the charred grain when it cools, and giving this feed every two weeks to promote health and appetite in fowls.
A practical note on livestock feeding recommends mixing ground corn oats wheat bran and flax or cottonseed for a balanced diet. The guidance emphasizes variety over reliance on a single grain to improve capulta health and performance.
The article notes certified milk began in Newark in 1892 and the certification movement expanded with a 1893 commission. It describes producer contracts, barn upkeep, healthy cows and milkers, and strict quality rules including twelve parts solids and specific fat content, dirt limits, bacteria cap, age under twenty four hours, and cooling requirements, to ensure safety and protect infants.
A simple three piece stool supports a curved iron ring for the bucket. The seat is cut to match the bucket circumference and the iron bent to fit it. A front shelf keeps the bucket at the proper height and away from the cow during milking.
The article argues that cows milk best on lush pasture with new grass and succulent feed. It notes that green fodder is easier to digest than dry winter feed and that apples, fruits, and canned vegetables aid digestion and appetite. It suggests balancing rations with succulent items like silage to replace green summer fodder.
In a New York chat at the Knickerbock Club, two men exchange light banter about where they spent the summer. One replies Bad Nauheim, the other Naughty Newport, highlighting their playful travel chatter over a cigarette and an iced drink.
Philip Miller, a 62 year old Gray County probate judge from Cimarron Kansas, reports years of heart and kidney trouble relieved after using six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills. He claims improved circulation, no palpitations, and regained strength enabling continued work. he endorses the remedy and notes free household hints and a quip about lobbying.
Grayville Illinois woman Jessie Schaar describes a year of severe female complaints and cramps before trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports irregular cycles and crippling cramps, but after using the product her health improved significantly and she praises the medicine.
Mrs William Tully of 2052 Ogden Arenas Chicago writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her severe periodic pains and displacement after doctors gave no benefit. She urges others with doubts to seek advice from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts, promising confidential, woman-to-woman assistance.
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