Dairy and Poultry: How Successful Farmers Operate This Department
Advice on starting dairying for beginners with small means, choosing cows, housing, care, and feeding. Tips favor Holstein or Jersey stock, manage calves for beef, and notes on avoiding fattening cows. Includes remarks on milk handling, preventing sour or frozen milk, and water temperature to preserve quality. Also reports on British poultry demand and the need to improve home poultry and egg production with better breeds and methods.
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Estend
Journal of Agriculture
Jersey
Russia
Turkey
Morocco
Canada
Great Britain
Ireland
Practical dairy and pig farming advice from a 19th century guide
Practical guidance on selecting full blood milk cows, raising heifer calves, and avoiding costly non producing stock. Tips cover milking technique, barn setup, and care for fall pigs, plus efficiency ideas like uniform water temperature and windmill powered systems. Includes notes on poultry care and regional poultry production figures.
Hog growth and feed study from 1804 farm report
Frepixa Wiear to Haas records hog weights from September 10 1804 totaling 1040 pounds, sixteen bushels Fultz wheat fed, final weigh on September 29 at 1225 pounds, gain 195 pounds and 23 percent per head for two bushels. Live Stock Report notes pig growth by month to 300 pounds at ten months and higher pork cost later in life.
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Frepixa Wiear
Haas
J. W. Puett
Gro
W. Barwax
Pias
Turkeys in Demand for Thanksgiving and Christmas Markets
Market probes show steady demand for medium sized turkeys for upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Vendors note smoother birds attract buyers, with retailers seeking reliable suppliers to meet seasonal demand.
Around the Mahogany in Dining Taste and Tradition
An evocative column on refined dining habits, comparing epicures to artists. It notes salt as a culinary exaggeration, spiced peaches at dinners, coal bed oysters, and the chafing dish’s rise. It laments onions for sailors and hermits, praises coilfish balls, and favors beef and cabbage as festive fare while cautioning against overcooked vegetables.
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Turkey
A Welcome Usher of 95 and a Charity Mantle
A column quips about charity and attire at church with a husband giving a wry line on charity being the finest garment. The piece then pivots to a poet’s dream versus hustle, a playful domestic exchange about castles in Spain, and ends with an ad blot for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters offering a yearly paraphernalia catalog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity
Hostetter Company
Pittsburg
Drogatsis
Not Taking Any Chance With Cures and Travel Promos
Fragmented OCR shows varied text from medical ads and travel pitches. Mentions Halls Catarrh cure sold by Kinman Marvin and Truax Toledo, testimonies, disclaimers, and a Burlington Route excursion advisory to California with direct Chicago to San Francisco routes and Pullman service. Also cites a prophecy about disease cure in a center.
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Oni! Chater & Co
Toledo
F. J. Gheney
Ant
Busitees
Alert & Truax
Wholemle Drughists
Toldo Ohta
Kinman & Marvin
California
Burlington
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Omaha
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Denver
Salt Lake City
Sac
Rocky Mountains
Ottumwa
Albia
Osceola
Afton
Owl
J. Fuaxcis
Omabe
Neb
Great Rock Island Route Playing Cards Sold Here
Fragmented ad style note describes selling playing cards and stamps. Mentions Des Moines Twice a Week News and pricing 00 cents a unit. References beads of text without clear event or full names. Local-time advertising tone suggests a mid 20th century newspaper snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Rock Island
Cola
France
Des Moines
Lews
No Substitutes For Royal Baking Powder
This brief promotes the Royal Baking Powder as superior to all others. It claims the Royal is stronger purer and better in every way and notes that grocers who substitute cheaper powders do so only for greater profit. It warns readers to suspect any attempt to sell a non Royal powder as a substitute and asserts there is no substitute for the Royal.
Sugar Boot Culture in Nebraska
Fragmented ad filled page fragment lists multiple items from medicines to slogans and curiosities. Mentions Syrup of Fiza, Piso's Cure, Parks' Ten, and silver dollars from 1304, with scattered notes about religion, travel, and various marketing quips attributed to a Nebraska newspaper context. Some readable names include Des Moines and Lexington Missouri as locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Eustis
Chicago
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Advert Claim
An old advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a universal cure for liver stomach and bowel derangements. It promotes gentle cleansing laxative action to relieve headaches indigestion biliousness pimples eruptions piles and malaria. Free samples of 4 to 7 doses offered by mail from Buffalo N Y.
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Pierce
Wort's Dispensary Medical, Association
Buffalo, N
Five O Clock Tea Fashion Notes From a Bygone Era
A fragmented 19th century style column surveys fashion and etiquette trends. It remarks on vertical handwriting, souvenir ware crowding spoons, stock collars staying fashionable, winter hats provoking envy, varied tohydronkobie styles, and ornate paper as grief markers. It notes bracelets, tortoise shell match boxes, and good stoves for gowns. Bonnets, hour glass figures, and shepherd crook umbrella handles appear. Blondes fall from fashion as chestnut hair leads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arette
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Dairy and Poultry
E. C. Bennett
the Rural Life
Ames
Abe
Col
St. Louis Republic
Vasguxrror Roor
Field and Farm
Ing
United States
Missouri
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
Pennsylvania
New York
Uette
Spain
Johnny
Davis & Rankin Building and Manufacturing Company
Nnl
California Fig Syrup Co
Cily
Picea
Piso
Mueller
Lexington
Peleus Weyte
Horse Hanson
Mint
Jacobs
Wa Wi Atten Company
Walter Baker
Walter Barer
McElrees
Cardus
Bine
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