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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1901
Page
7
A discussion on maternal neglect and the need for medical guidance for daughters. A Wisconsin mother, Mrs August Pfalzgraf, reports her daughter’s two year struggle with irregular menstruation and pain. Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is praised for curing the irregularity and pains after receiving advice.
Boston pays sixteen thousand dollars yearly for its aquired janitors. California reports seventy olive varieties. Tacoma Japanese residents organize to deter disorderly visitors. Mount Vernon offers two routes from Washington by rail or steamboat. Puebla's state government bans fairs amid local praise calling old festas mere drinking and gambling sprees a public reproach.
In Hot Springs Arkansas March 13 special notes Madam Isabelle Ellen Bavens Life Governor of the Free Masons Grand Lodge of England testifies that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her diabetes after six years of travel and illness. She bought seven boxes locally and reports renewed health and ability to resume duties. Pills cost 50c a box or six for 2.50 with buying options through local druggists or Dodd's Medicine Co Buffalo WY.
Charley O. Ebertn of Shawano Michigan invents a foot mounted corn cutter replacing the sickle. A metallic curved plate serves as the cutter attached under the toe end. the operator kicks the stalks to sever them near the ground while the hands hold the stalks. The device claims to be lighter and faster, allowing two hands free for work.
The Kansas experiment station reports on buffalo grass hay as a valuable stock pasture. In a controlled five day to ten day feeding trial with a grade short horn steer, the hay showed a high percentage of digestible protein, outperforming Kentucky blue grass and timothy. Professor J T Willard notes the grass deserves protection and better use. The piece also includes advice from E J Hollister on building a farmer tool house for winter work and storage.
The Osage orange thrives as a hedge plant growing large with trimming and training in the first three years. It resists severe cold and disease, yields hard wood, and, when planted on barnyard north and west sides, makes a durable windbreak though not as good as evergreen arbor vitae, yet longer lasting.
Indiana experiments show May 1 planting produced about 41 bushels per acre, while later sown corn averaged 32 bushels. Delays shorten maturity by two to three weeks. Kansas and Illinois trials favor early May plantings but advise caution due to weather. Replanting when misses exceed ten percent is often unprofitable unless other factors compensate.
A 12 year old farm gate remains in good condition. It is hung on a pivot resting in a socket under the top rail and balanced by a box behind the post weighted with stone. Figure 1 shows the weight with the gate closed and a three quarter inch bolt pivot about ten inches long driven in.
The article describes a cast iron socket weighing about one pound used in a gate top post. It notes no hinges to break, no sagging, and easy operation. A photo by Samuel Flynn shows the gate tilted up to lift it over about two feet of snow.
Weeders on farms provide quick weed kills when weeds are starting. The implement offers rapid, inexpensive cultivation, breaks crust after rains, and keeps the ground level. It performs surface cultivation without disturbing roots and is ideal in loose soil, sparing ridge between plants in tougher soil. It can save money by paying its cost in a week when used promptly.
The northwest prairie hay has been tested with dairy cows to gauge feeding value and digestion. Digestible protein varies with land moisture some lands yield 26 percent, mid and high lands around 3 percent.
A promotional piece extols Peruna as the remedy for lingering grip after-effects. It recounts testimonials from public figures and citizens, including Congressman Howard and D. L. Wallace, praising relief from catarrh, nervous dyspepsia, and weakness after la grippe, with letters urging continued use.
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