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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1883
Page
4
A farming note explains that overfeeding a cow or improper digestion leads to poor condition and feverish blood. It suggests treatment with linseed oil, bran slop, and moderate feed to restore health, and warns against excessive manure removal and soil waste in barnyard management.
A Cultivator correspondent reports trials selecting largest and smallest potato tubers over five seasons. Initial large tubers beat small by one pound, then next season small tubers pulled ahead by one and a half pounds, with results alternating yearly and a net half pound favoring small tubers after ten hills per lot.
The article advises March and April pig births for higher profits, with early spring pigs ready to graze on clover, fattened on corn for market by Christmas or nine months old. Hogs weighing 250 to 300 pounds yield better pork and bacon than mammoth sizes, given favorable weather and feeding. It also discusses manure composting methods and soil impact.
Simple methods for extending food freshness and cleaning cookware noted. Dip fish in hot water to seal, air out sour meat to sweeten, restore milk with soda, vinegar on stove mica, soak pans in water and ammonia, and boil pots with hard water and soap to brighten interiors.
A first person narrator recalls wading through a moonlit field to find nearly 300 long dead soldiers in Zouave uniforms, their corpses twisted and desiccated. He describes eyeless faces, exposed bones, and gore as flies and tumble-bugs swarm around the bodies.
A new Indiana bank hires a watchman who learns his limits from a stern boss. The cashier hints the director’s trust is split, and the watchman must supervise both the cashier and the bank, fearing the after hours task. The tale ends with a joke about keeping both eyes on the director.
The passage explains that farm weeds mainly arise from grass seeds mixed with weed seeds. The microscope helps detect worthless grass seeds and, with careful use, identifies invasive weed seeds, which cause great injury to farmers and should not be neglected.
Archbishop Taschereau orders Montreal Medical School to cut links with Victoria College. The Superior of Hotel Dieu Hospital is told not to admit medical students from Protestant colleges. A series of fires and other incidents follow across the country, including major losses in Greeley and Kentland.
A long medley argues money as power and introduces a sick man Jones who, after a dream, pursues a cure linked to Golden Medical Discovery from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association. The tale touts Dr. Pierce’s remedies, P P P, F P, and W D M A, claiming cures for consumption and other diseases through monograms and visions.
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