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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1899
Page
6
A dense excerpt offers practical guidance on poultry care including feeding, housing, and breeding strategies. It stresses daily egg collection, careful shipping of dressed poultry with ice, and the value of breeding stock over eggs for hatching. It also covers young colt training, halter use, and gradual dam separation to prevent road trouble.
A Farm Journal plan advises feeding pigeons a mix of grains three times daily. Keep dry corn meal and bran in the hopper to ensure birds select what they want while the rest is discarded.
An essay arguing soil fertility, water and carbon as farm wealth. It stresses that crops must restore plant food to the soil to be profitable and warns against cropping only for high immediate price. It notes milk water content, crop diversity, and labor as key costs with location and markets shaping profits.
M. Drake of Central New York discusses Crimson clover as a potential soil improver for northern farms. He notes uncertain winter hardiness, potential nitrogen benefits, and possible potato planting advantages, urging trial despite risks and limited sowing windows.
A Maine Farmer piece argues progress in farming, noting winter egg production shifts and the shift from old methods to upgraded equipment like bone cutters. It emphasizes improved efficiency, timely practices, and continual improvement in poultry and grain handling as essential to modern farming.
Reports from Pretoria and Natal describe Boer and British movements at Stormberg and Ladysmith, with prisoners taken, rations and prices noted, and a looming fight at Magersfontein. Elsewhere, U S Supreme Court upholds a Mexico claim ruling the Los Abra Silver Mining case fraudulent. Local unrest in Wilkes-Barre ends with miners celebrating an official strike cessation.
An old health advisory notes that kidneys purify blood and process all blood every three minutes. It warns that illness impairs filtration, causing pains and rheumatism from excess uric acid due to neglect, urging care to keep kidneys functioning.
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