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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
8
A farmer recalls two ways of life one with a mortgage and another with independence. He credits a benevolent lender for enabling a cozy home, wife and children, and a stable life, while acknowledging debt pressures and the hope of better times. He argues a mortgage can empower farmers as much as it harms city dwellers.
The author rebukes a eastern farm paper for stirring class strife to sway votes for free silver. It argues silver coinage did not cause low farm prices, cites record corn, oats, and cotton crops, and notes widespread unemployment among workers as a key factor in stagnant demand.
The article explains expanding an ordinary barn to boost dairy capacity with a silo at the center of the hay bay and an added ell at right angles to the feeding floor. It describes calf pens in the stall angles and a manure room at the addition end for easier husbandry.
View describes improved barn design for dairy operations with manure rooms and bunkers. Explains layout for two cow lines, elevated storage, warm quarters, and air spaces built with studding and boarding to reduce dust. Includes a feedcar concept, ensilage storage, manure handling, and a wheeled dump system.
A Chicago Sun columnist quotes H C Dodge urging farmers to endure hard times and reject idle critics. He blasts demagogues who spout financial talk while their own finances wobble. Dodge urges workers to stay busy and productive rather than complain.
The piece argues Vermont’s strong Republican leanings with historic majorities and compares past elections. It condemns tariff policy, citing McKinley and Wilson-Gorman effects, claiming money shifted to foreign farmers, urging farmers to vote against protection and reciprocity while noting who holds the money.
The piece notes county wealth by census figures with urban and rural shares and urges farmers to target industrial buyers. It quotes editorials from the Chicago Times-Herald and the New York Tribune on republican success and business sentiment, framing farm markets against industrial demand.
Fresh eggs should have shells intact and good hygiene is essential. Provide dust baths for fowls and keep lime and ground bone accessible. Avoid excessive sulphur to prevent leg weakness and feed only what is eaten. Milk can substitute water for chicks up to six weeks. Molting hens need care to keep laying before winter. Maintain cool storage for market eggs and avoid filth in coops. Bantams hatched early may grow too large. coarse bones indicate coarse meat.
Experiments show one bushel of prime corn yields 104 pounds of pork at ordinary conditions. At 25 cents per bushel pork costs 2.14 cents per pound, 34-cent corn yields four-cent pork, and 50-cent corn yields five-cent pork. The study also notes it costs one and a half times as much to add weight to a ten month pig as to a five month pig.
The guide explains caponizing changes a cockerel into a docile, rapidly growing bird with heavy plumage and no spurs. It notes meat becomes tender and juicy, and outlines age and weight guidelines plus peak months for processing and market demand.
Davenport explains a rapid queen search in populous hives. Frames are examined for the queen. if not found, bees are shaken from frames into an adjacent hive, guards placed, and the process repeated across hives. Queens found earlier can be identified in front of their hives later. cautions include avoiding cool spring or late fall when queens stop laying.
A farm water system uses a pipe from a hillside well to the cellar and up to the kitchen sink. By placing a faucet above the sink, water can be drawn by gravity, illustrating a simple syphon principle for rural homes.
Rural World urges timely gathering of ripe apples and disposal of surplus and inferior fruit. It recommends banding tree trunks with carpet or fabric to trap apple worms and moths, and weekly examination to kill worms and pupae.
The Rural World article offers home remedies for poultry lice including kerosene rubs on birds heads tobacco placed in nests to deter lice and burning sulfur in a well sealed henhouse with caution for people outside. It also notes farm social life and suggests applying urban social planning ideas to farms.
A Bussey Iowa hotel landlady Mrs Anna Elliott attests to the beneficial effects of Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. She describes two trial boxes, ongoing use over two years, improved strength and recovery from debility, and a kidney trouble cure in a neighbor. An affidavit by Mrs Elliott accompanies the claim to prove truthfulness.
A farmer points to a group of quergotic hens and explains their odd name. The visitor quips about the term and learns the birds are said to "always lay on."
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the surest preventive and remedy for malarial illness and poison. It claims the product aids the liver, bowels, and kidneys, treats dyspepsia, nervous debility, and rheumatism, and includes a pun comparing a nose-cut man to a boy finishing a task.
Chicago venue lists following in Mizzoura and DB M. and Joseph Holland performing a repertoire with WA Social Highwayman and two new plays. Promotions promise cures and free trials for various remedies. notes reference Tourists, doctors, and several named locations and people from 1809 era.
A clipped exchange shows Saitson and Dobson conversing. Saitson taunts, while Dobson responds about potting stout and a failing wheel. The terse lines hint at a scene of social banter or miscommunication.
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