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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1897
Page
4
Agricultural notes discuss heaves in horses, its chronic breathing disorder, and limited curative options. Suggest fed regimens including arsenic in Fowler's solution, and a medicine ball with calomel, digitalis, opium, and camphor, with calomel removed after a week. Emphasizes high quality, small quantity feeds and clean pastures to reduce dust and support digestion.
The article stresses feeding pigs at fixed times to prevent stress and improve digestion. It also urges straight row cultivation for hoe crops to avoid plant loss and weed control, recommending between-row cultivation after rows are visible to eliminate missed hay weeds.
An American Cultivator writer argues kindness and steady milking technique reduce kicking in cows. Gentle handling, slow milk flow, and soothing routines lessen pain and encourage better milking. giving appetizing feed during milking helps prevent milk hesitation and improves cooperation.
The article promotes planting fruit trees along roadsides to harvest profit, citing a farmer who grew cherry trees beyond field crops and sold cherries on the tree. It argues peaches or pears might also reduce depredations near cities, with caution about passersby.
An agricultural discussion notes that Paris green mixed with wheat bran can kill grub pests, but is impractical where fowls roam. It reviews alkali formation from rock disintegration, common salts causing surface girdling, and salts of potash and lime enriching arid soils. Deep cultivation and cover shading are proposed, with notes on Australian salt bush thriving on alkali lands and sugar beet yields.
Instructions for raising ducks from eggs under hens to ducklings in a warm box. Hatchlings move to a board pen by day two and are fed bread soaked in water, then corn bread with milk after four weeks. Keep clean drinking water with gravel in the dish and dust weekly with Persian insect powder.
Agricultural notes cover using gypsum to protect potato foliage from pests and moisture loss. Advice includes sowing oats on coarse, well-tilled seedbeds, managing poultry flocks for steady income, and general farm practices such as windward planting and grafting wax preparation.
The weekly market letter reports a broad market decline with bear news dominating. Visible supply drops 2.45 million bushels while exports, receipts in the Northwest, and world shipments shift, and demand for cash wheat and flour remains elusive, suggesting little near term price improvement.
Prices listed for wheat flour butter oats hay and livestock across Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington include Wheat at 74 75c per bushel in Walla Walla Valley and various grains at bars per ton or per sack. Dairy butter creamery 80c per roll or 20 22c per pound. cheese 11 to 14c. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks 40 50c per 50 pounds with other varieties noted. Poultry chickens mixed 2.50 5.00 per unit, ducks 5.00 per dozen. Beef mutton hogs and veal quoted with weights and grades. Cross listed prices reflect regional markets and deliveries in June and early July 1897.
Mrs Rosie Thompson of Los Angeles recounts a long struggle with a female illness. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with a full recovery after failed treatments. The ad promotes the pills as a universal remedy and lists prices and purchase details.
An obscure 19th century advert discusses drunkenness as a disease and promotes a secretive drink called Antl Joe. The piece references a London home for sandwich men and notes unusual claims about medical men and a Scot who spent $250,000 in three years. It also promotes Garden ipe and Garden products with maker labels and mentions France's high match costs due to government monopoly.
Portland prepares a multi day Queen Victoria Jubilee program starting Sunday June 20 with a choral service at Trinity Episcopal Church led by Rev John E Simpson and city clergy. A concert and ball June 21 at the Armory features British country music and costumes, plus a hospital fund drive, followed by a banquet June 22 at the Portland hotel with governor speeches. Proceeds support the Good Samaritan hospital bed endowment for British born residents and the state wide appeal for donations.
The piece lists Turkey tax rules for farmers including 1/10 of crops, 4% of rent value, 5% on transfers, and annual livestock taxes of 32 pence per sheep and 21 pence per goat. It notes French estate precedents, British Museum dress rules, sandal wearers barred, UK press counts 551 journals, and John Lawrence of Monmouth hunted 70 years to age 90.
A novel nail making machine can produce in a given period as many nails as were formerly produced by 1,000 workers. The invention promises a dramatic rise in productivity and could transform manufacturing labor needs.
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