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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 09, 1899
Page
8
A veteran voice argues that farming must heed factual knowledge from papers and experiments, not ego or luck. It stresses adapting science to local conditions, embracing profitable crops, and planting trees to increase farm value while reducing costs and poverty risk.
A meditation on responsible farming noting that neglecting to feed land harms all on the farm from livestock to crops. It argues that absent care leads to a dying farm and universal loss, urging steady feeding and protection of stock and soil for lasting yield.
The dairyman must solve two key costs feed and product selling price and maximize their margin. Silage offers abundant, cheap feed via maize preservation, yielding 20 to 25 tons per acre and easy storage. Alfalfa adds protein, a balanced boost when combined with linseed meal, while marketing quality dairy products hinges on proximity to markets and skilled production.
Advice on colt training focuses on gradual load increase to prevent balking, using reins over a jockey stick, and patient exposure to drivers and equipment. Emphasizes avoiding long stalls, easing horses to crowds, and pairing with a safe mate to ensure eventual reliability.
The text argues profit depends on tracking each bird rather than breed names. It stresses careful attention to individual birds, not assuming all birds of a breed share equal value. Proper management requires monitoring and tailoring care to each bird's characteristics and performance.
This excerpt warns breeders that pigs resemble humans in appetite and that diet quality affects meat texture and value. It advises avoiding spoiled foods, using charcoal or rotten wood to aid digestion, and stresses digestion over merely what is eaten. Salt is recommended in moderation to stimulate appetite, with caution to prevent illness from overuse.
In a lively exchange from the Detroit Free Press, GUMPARING NOTES criticizes women’s fashion and social pretensions while Mrs Ramply defends practical style. Bumply withdraws, scolding his wife for debating. The piece satirizes gender norms and domestic friction through sharp, humorous dialogue.
A returned traveler recounts schoolboy days and memories of Miss Flirtie in Niceville. He reveals he married her after she had engagements with many other suitors, including Thad, linking past romance to present marriage in a casual, social dialogue from the New York Weekly.
A Chicago Post humor piece centers on a guarded exchange about questions and answers. A man asks why the only match goes out, and the young man in charge agrees to answer some questions, highlighting cautious replies and a playful puzzle in a small question room.
A fragmented column quotes Virgil and Maecenas at Delphi and jokes about ancient inventiveness noting early use of gadgets like engars and gimlets. The piece asserts Greek and Roman ingenuity with humorous snippets from ancient literature.
The excerpt shows Dollie speaking with hesitance while a companion urges optimism. A South Dakota setting line “Yookers State aman” hints at a regional touch. The mood weighs on gloom versus subtle glimmer as a character probes for reassurance.
A Detroit News fragment hints at a broader backstory where a man inherits a large fate after his uncle’s death, implying motives and consequences tied to an arrest. The wording suggests shifting blame and a complex personal history behind the legal event.
Rain pours over the town as shoppers seek shelter in doors and courtyards. A small pair of rubbers and a Mackintosh figure in the scene, with Umbrella and hurry as a couple wades through wet streets, weathering the throng and rain.
Brooks suspects Rivers of tampering with his Hanky Panky smoking tobacco. He describes a careful substitution using torn robber bands leather glove fragments and rag scraps. After discovering the altered box, a pipeful is taken but the box remains undisturbed since, with Rivers showing a furtive look.
A Chicago Post quote from a surgeon notes a description of an operation. The mean man doubts the explanation of how and what was done yet concedes the patient showed remarkable fortitude despite having legs cut off above the knee.
A Chicago Now record recalls a playful exchange where a mother questions lasting affection for her daughter, and a suitor replies confidently that she will not age, noting she resembles her mother at first glance.
A terse note from the Luilian polis Journal recounts a beggar scam in which a self described blind man asks for a penny and a passerby is urged to doubt the man’s blindness as a ruse. The item labels the encounter as a fraud and warns readers about deceitful beggars.
A clipped French Canadian style line from a northern Wisconsin newspaper piece appears to promise a notice on every man who trusts him. The text shows dialect spelling and incomplete phrases, indicating a partial OCR read of a local column or notice.
A fragment recalls a girl who lent her dolly daily and a new neighbor who responds that the dolly does not like to go visiting, capturing a brief domestic vignette from a New York Journal passage.
A fragmented passage notes defeated candidates and their allies fully backing the ticket, likening their reaction to a naive traveler entering a mining camp bar and ordering an unfamiliar drink, reflecting local political tensions and uneasy camaraderie.
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