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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1900
Page
8
An Orange Judd Farmer item describes grafting methods for central grafts on apple trees. The illustration shows a two year old tree with center grafting and shoots forming the head, noting bud or graft options and how laterals are trained.
The grape is praised as a healthful food, palatable and strengthening when eaten with other foods in moderate quantities. It aids nutrition and organ function, with natural laxative effects if balanced in a suitable diet. A caution warns to wash grapes from nonlocal sources and notes borax preservation methods for grapes and other berries, cherries, currants, and gooseberries. Diluted grape juice is highlighted as a superior harvest drink.
A Ohio Farmer guide advises profits from winter calves by veal conversion or raising future cows. Do not feed whole grain or let calves suckle cows, use skim milk with corn meal or oil meal, house calves separately in warmer quarters, provide liberal beds and steady feeding, and rear select heifers with balanced nitrogen-rich foods to ensure thrifty growth despite winter.
The article describes enlarging a barn to gain volume by widening and adding a raised double-pile roof. A 26 by 40 foot barn was expanded 14 feet in width to 40 by 40, raising and joining roof sections to form a larger center addition. Cost cited as $184, from American Agriculturist.
Discussion on maintaining a garden with a regular succession of vegetables suited to every home plot. Notes the Sunflower crop in Russia as highly profitable, with seeds sold by farmers and salted locally by merchants. Ends with advice on minimizing seams in dairy utensils and using brazed soldering.
The Warner's Advocate reports a dairy expert found first draw milk averages 1.32 percent butter fat, while the last pint after milking showed butter fat over nine percent. Other solids remained similar between first draw and strippings.
The guide advises keeping the cow on dry food as mastitis begins and gradually reducing milk ration at each meal to relieve udder pressure. After a few days slowly withdraws to comfort, plus give half an ounce of powdered almonds in drinking water twice daily and rub the udder with a Pelladonna extract ointment mixed with kural wort and lard.
The article extols an ancient Chinese empress figure who transformed Shanghai's cotton industry by teaching loom work, spinning, and fancy weaving. It credits her with introducing the spinning jenny with three spindles and fostering a surge in cotton production, making the region a center of quality goods. It notes that cotton export remains limited to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Ningpo, and Ningbo ports.
The article discusses lace making by women as a social good, praising American demand for fine hand lace and the potential to transplant the industry to the United States. It notes patronage, education, and organized purchase by women as crucial to establishing a domestic lace trade, comparing English servants and social norms to American prospects.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a confrontation and a dramatic exclamation by a speaker, with stray phrases about a person named Grayharns and a young male, suggesting a chaotic or notable public moment in Philadelphia.
An adage filled column promotes Wall's Catarrh Cure from St. Chenery Co. Toledo Ohio, with claims of acting on blood and mucous surfaces, plus J F Cheney Co. as makers. Also mentions Halls Family Pills, and Hudson business musings along with Homeseekers Tickets by Great Western. Includes a joke about a society girl tired of men and marriage advice.
An old style advertisement notes a 8x34 inch wall map showing territorial divisions since the Revolution. It highlights the original thirteen states Louisiana Purchase Texas Annexation Gadklen purchase and Northwest acquisitions by discovery and settlement with postage prepaid pricing. Also includes business opportunities along the Chicago Great Western Ry across several states offering openings for artisans doctors buyers and manufacturers with instructions to write to WT Reed in St. Paul Minnesota.
An old reading notes a question daily asked about dessert options. The piece advocates Jell-O as a quick, healthful choice, prepared in two minutes with boiling water and cooling. It lists flavors lemon orange raspberry strawberry and claims availability at grocery stores.
Fragment from Spare Moments features a humorous exchange where tidbits on parenting and honesty surface in a social chat. Jones-Come asks about cursing when walking the baby and Smith-possibly notes the baby’s cries drown out remarks. Mr Lapleigh jokes about marriage terms and his simple expectations.
An old advertisement fragment claims Lane’s Family Medicine cleanses bowels, supports liver and kidneys, and cures headaches. It includes price details and endorsing statements from a speaker in Chicago and a testimonial from Wm. O. Endsley of Vauluren, Indiana, dated February 10, 1900, praising Piso’s Cure as a top throat and lungs remedy.
A 1897 letter feature extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming relief from womb ulcers pain and kidney trouble during the change of life. Readers share long illnesses followed by reported cures after using the medicine, including Monclova Ohio correspondents and Mrs Johnson and Mrs Jouxse.
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