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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 26, 1899
Page
3
A historical treatise argues the pig anchors farm prosperity by turning raw materials into in demand products, supporting mortgages, taxes, and rural wealth. It stresses breeding, care before farrowing with linseed or alternatives, and explains pig digestion and disease risks from overfeeding.
Practical notes cover proper harnessing and care of horses to improve comfort and work output, with emphasis on skilled handling of reins and equipment. Poultry and pigs yield income through careful care, while cow udder disorders from calving to overstocking require cautious treatment, milking routines, ointments, purging, and supportive measures.
A long instructional piece discusses humane bull handling and proper nose-ring planting, then shifts to equine hoof care. It covers quiet handling to avoid excitement, restraint methods, and ring placement, followed by detailed seasonal hoof maintenance, rasping, and balanced trimming for fore and hind feet.
The article discusses using farm horses barefoot in certain districts for field work and road travel. It notes benefits when feet stay level and roads are not too rough, but warns that ignorance or carelessness leads to little attention to hoof care and potential injury. It emphasizes caution with hoof leveling and long-term harm.
In a Detroit Free Press snippet a man in a swell suit and a gold handlebar reacts as a father warns a flirtatious suitor. The father, boasting four sons-in-law, bluntly says he will not tolerate more fooling around and urges reflection before adding a fifth son-in-law to his bull gang.
A vivid regional minstrel style narrative describes a hunting party chasing a possum. The speaker calls for dogs like Trae and Rolly to track the prey, aiming to catch and cook the game in an outdoor setting with rural flavor and colorful expressions.
A brief exchange questions who said Admiral Porter’s line about taking quarters from the enemy. The speaker jokes that only a porter would utter such a remark, referencing New York Truth in a light quarrel over attribution.
An awkward phrase from the New York Weekly notes a cashier connected to a depositor who is absent. The piece hints at financial trouble or rest in the bank, with the president’s somber response about avoiding some risk or crisis as the situation unfolds.
A quip from New York Troth: a lawyer uncle laments hard times for young lawyers and jestingly says there is a way to make money when there is a will, followed by the witty line there’s a way where there’s a will.
A dialogue scene notes marital shifts and social quips about romance. Tolla teases Junius about becoming idle post marriage while Janet and others weigh love’s quirks and a joking jab at doctors and illness. The snippet shows playful pressroom banter and rural humor from a historical page.
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