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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1899
Page
8
A detailed plan from American Agriculturist describes making a shade for a cultivator using a cotton umbrella with a stout handle, two-by-four blocks, and bolts. It explains drilling holes, stacking blocks to form a socket, mounting over the frame, and securing with bolts, noting wind as the main difficulty and emphasizing safety against sunstroke.
The article argues barnyard drains work by draining underlying earth and preventing deep mud. It recommends three to four wells, surface graveling where animals tread, and guttered eaves directing water to tile drains. It cautions against overcomplicated setups and stresses practical ditching, graveling, and keeping manure away from surface runoff to maintain dry ground.
Obio Farmer describes using lime water to treat clickens ane i and prevent illness. He suggests small amounts mixed with drinking water for calves and notes its effect on keeping them healthy and displacing bad moisture.
Ohio Farmer explains a coop design to prevent disease spread in poultry. It describes elevated perches in a staggered row, a slanted floor beneath, a long side droppings box with a hinged end door, and a quick method to discharge droppings into a wheelbarrow for easy cleaning.
A period piece highlights linseed meal as a near perfect egg producing feed for fowls. It praises its rich nitrogen and minerals, notes benefits for growth and digestion, warns against clumping when fed separately, and suggests usage in water. It cites European demand for oil cake and argues for lime sources and oyster shell considerations.
Experiments in New Jersey show sulphur treatments on potatoes reduce moldy disease and rot, with five years of soil testing. Trials fed sulphur at the plats where none had been used raised production standards, cutting rot damage and boosting yields by about four dollars per acre, while merchant prices rose sixty cents per bushel.
New York July. Consolidation of iron and tube interests forms a large company to be known as the National Trade company. William Nelson Cromwell says the group will control tubular products for Russia, Bulgaria, Canada and other markets and employ about five thousand workers. Estimated net earnings for the year range from five to ten million dollars with substantial expense savings. Capitalization set at five million dollars. Edmund Converse serves as president with official HQ in New York and manufacturing HQ in Pittsburgh.
The Olympia has reached Suez on July 13 where Admiral Dewey reports good health aboard. Most officers and crew have recovered from malaria while quarrantined on arrival, and direct shore contact is limited. After canal transit the ship may proceed to Gibraltar or New York under uncertain plans.
Detroit municipal ownership moved forward with a security franchise ordinance passed by a 1 to 14 vote after hours of debate. The measure sets terms for operation by current owners if purchase payments are not met, despite a prior Michigan supreme court ruling voiding the street railway commissioners.
Acting Gov Warder issues order directing infantry units from Mount Vernon and Carbondale to be withdrawn to their home areas. remaining force to be under Shirley authorities and Sheriff Gray. Unclear locations and exact units due to damaged OCR text.
In a New York Press association address George He Daniels praises U S industrial strength amid war with Spain. He cites Mulhall figures claiming United States manufacturing power vastly exceeds Germany and Austria, and notes American locomotives and bridges abroad, including Egypt and Japan, boosting commerce and global influence. He warns American firms may shape world transport and signaling future trade.
A chaotic fragment reports Walfield Sureenacra of Lotisville surrendering to Cay Alkineon of West Virginia after a fatal courtyard clash linked to the Tatfield-MrCoy feud. The piece mentions a 12-man Whe Manhattan group, a $285 sum, a $23,093 total, and a Wednesday council action, with references to Gries Phatield and Be Bh Pies womans.
A collage of travel notes, jokes, and blunt ads. It mentions Allen's Foot Remedy and a Le Roy address, plus scattered quips about farming life, politics, theater, and medicine. Names and places hint at Wisconsin, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis papers in a patched OCR fragment.
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