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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1911
Page
3
Letter from Mrs Cas Barclay of Graniteville Vermont praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for relief during the change of life. Claims complete restoration of health and urges publication to help other women. Mentions Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts offering free advice to sick women.
A building devoted to sheep should be arranged to provide fresh air and keep heating rains from entering. Ordinary door arrangements fail to protect. Windows or the upper part of the structure may be fixed with strong ventilation features.
A ventilated sheep shed uses bottom hinged doors to push out and prop open allowing fresh air entry. The top may stay open most of the time without harming the flock.
Agricultural notes urge early onion sets and hot beds for early planting while stressing cleanliness in dairies and regular milking. The text highlights efficient farming, the value of purebred bulls, insect-eating birds, and soil fertility with legumes and manure as keys to steady yields and income.
The device by Charles G. Howard of Exeter Nebraska adapts to feed cattle and especially hogs. It regulates delivery rate and door adjustment, is simple economical and durable. The illustration shows metal construction with sheet metal sides top framing channels and metal locking rods and disks.
Guidance on stable design outlines lighting, ventilation, door width of four feet on rollers, seasonal door types, and precise stall dimensions for cows and horses. Details cover troughs, passage widths, gutter sizes, stall lengths, and manure access, plus floor materials and yard drainage for sanitary, well sheltered housing.
A simple rubber curry comb with an uneven surface helps remove loose hairs from a shedding horse. Build from a 5% inch thick wooden block 4 inches by 6 inches, glue corrugated rubber on one face, and attach a handle on the opposite side. Figures illustrate the nibber and the handle placement.
The article advises building a creep for lambs aged eight to ten days to access grain and hay. It recommends a grain mix of oilmeal, bran, oats, and fine cornmeal, with red or second cut alfalfa hay as the best roughage, noting alfalfa is preferred. Maintain clean feed and continue grain feed to keep lambs fat for ready sale if markets rise.
The passage notes sows fed on corn and heat producing foods during pregnancy tend to have difficulties at farrowing. It suggests the behavior may include chasing, aggression, and even devouring piglets, attributing these actions to the sow rather than blaming her.
Do not force horses to start work with ill fitting collars. Provide a properly fitting collar and maintain it without changes.
The guidance covers sow farrowing timing, horse feed and comfort, hog bedding with marsh hay, pasture use for pigs, sheep as a money maker, and selective breeding. It also notes milk feeding for suckling foals, mare milk shortages, and general tips on managing sows, horses, and sheep for profit.
A subscriber offers a homemade hog cholera preventive using wood charcoal salt soda bicarbonate sodium hyposulphite sodium sulfate black antimony sulphur mixed thoroughly. A tablespoonful daily per 200 pounds of hogs, served in soft food, is suggested as a cheap harmless remedy.
Farmers should keep more sheep as a better income source. Women with frail health manage milk and dairy tasks, which suit sheep farming. A fleece of wool or a lamb draws visitors and the cost of care for sheep sheds is far lower than cows in all seasons.
The article advises isolating sheep afflicted with foot rot from the flock and keeping them in clean dry quarters. It recommends a foot bath three times weekly using creolin three percent or formal sulphate four percent solution, rinsed with water to form a creamy substance.
Maude Fulton recounts a humorous supper party story about Ethel and her jealous husband. Ethel declares she will never speak again if she dreams of another kiss, while Jack pleads for silence as he endures the melodramatic scene.
An eastern young woman in Seattle marries a local man and hires her first Chinese cook. She asks for his name and he replies Hong Long Loo. She replies naming herself Mrs Harrington Richard Buckingham and jokes she will call him John. The cook answers that her name is too long and he will call her Charles.
A Washington dinner guest recalls Count Tolstoy ridiculing physicians in War and Peace. The diplomat quotes Tolstoy saying doctors are split into radicals who kill and conservatives who let you die while dining on lentils at Yasnaya Polyana.
Mrs Youngfather recounts a wry tale of a New York policeman who alone halted a band of anarchists. George doubts his own mettle and quips he cannot even quiet a howling baby before resuming his walk.
A short dialogue between Sapleigh and Hammersley debating marriage. Sapleigh suggests choosing between a beautiful girl or a sensible girl, while Hammersley admits doubt about marrying either. Sapleigh questions why, and they discuss who would benefit more in a union.
A humorous quip contrasts optimism and pessimism over daily buttermilk. The judge quips that drinking buttermilk thrice daily could extend life by ten years, while the pessimist asks what good is extra time if the regimen is so burdensome.
Anecdote about the late Lord Glasgow riding a Scotland rail trip. He pays a five pound note to the ticket clerk who asks for his name. The clerk reads the note as "Siss gow" and asks for the origin and destination, prompting a humorous exchange about identity and travel.
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