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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1901
Page
6
Readable portions discuss agricultural yields in the United States, fruit varieties in Minnesota and Iowa, berry production, hog and horse markets, prices for carnations and plums, and social observations on education and family respect. Notable topics include corn yields per acre, apple varieties, and a Wisconsin or Missouri fair reference, with scattered notes on gas oxygen from air and economic musings.
The article notes in the frost-free period from May 20 to September 20 a wide range of cereals grasses and fruits thrive. Hungarian brome grass grows well in dry Northwest regions with under 12 inches of rainfall and becomes hard to eradicate once seeded. It recommends a slow careful stock caretaker and advises that sheep in orchard pastures can help by removing windfalls but cannot stay continuously without harming the trees.
It has long been foreseen that beet sugar producers would seek markets beyond the sugar trust. The time has arrived and the trust moves against home producers. The public shows lively interest in the likely controversy surrounding this development.
A collection of distinctive farmstead name ideas including Doddie Hill Clover corn Vine Mound Normax Heights Dorking Hall Cherry Slope Glen Jersey Elmhurst Wheat Mound Bluff Burn Brook Run Bowlder Brow Hill House Saints Rest Bluff Haven Crag side-names suggestive of location or business potentials.
A reminiscence recalls the spies returning from Canaan bearing grapes on a pole. The artist exaggerates the bunches, hinting at Palestine’s grape country. Large numbers of German vine growers are moving to Palestine to cultivate grapes, claiming quality on par with France and Germany.
The state’s largest manufacturing sector converts wire grass from sloughs into binding twine cordage matting and basket work supporting over 10 000 workers. A once worthless swamp lands is now a valued resource fueling local wealth and employment.
The piece argues for a family pig kept away from corn early, fed skimmilk barley meat and roots, allowed to forage in a wood lot for acorns and nuts, and finished with a modest corn finish to produce pork with balanced fat and lean. It emphasizes humane feeding and natural foraging as key to desirable pork quality.
A Michigan correspondent details a cow stall design to keep dairy cattle clean. The plan describes a 4 foot wide stall with a 2 foot high box manger, a common stanchion, and a floor elevated above the stable floor by inches, sized to fit the cow when secured. Stall width and floor length vary with cow size to ensure cleanliness.
A Western preacher warns that continual prosperity harms farmers, while the writer defends wealth as a reward for hard work. He argues piety does not stem from poverty and urges farmers enjoying good crops and debt freedom to view life positively, citing Psalms over Jeremiah.
A northern Iowan runs a 3,000 tree apple operation using marsh hay twisted into a one and half inch rope wound around trunks from base to crotch to shield against sun scald rabbits and borers. The rope remains three years then rots away, but farmers must keep grass and weeds from the base to prevent field mice from gnawing the trunk.
The passage laments English failure to express a woman’s distress when thefts of fruit and plants occur and a husband’s misstep ruins a dress, suggesting on such occasions a bad man who can speak three languages to voice her sentiments.
A writer observes an Angora goat in a garden, noting it devoured lettuce, cabbage, blue grass, and wild rosebushes, then moved to a low headed box elder. The piece labels the Angora goat as a business animal due to its prolific forage.
A comic old time newspaper exchange records Uncle Bill drafting a hire-girl ad with Helen, the editor, and the editor shaping the wording. The humorous dialogue outlines expectations, including work duties, limits on socializing, and a peculiar emphasis on evenings with a beau, ending with Uncle Bill approving the plan.
A rural dialogue reveals plans for a hired girl, with rules on courting, timing, and proprieties. Uncle Bill dissects how to advertise, manage relationships, and keep Helen from scandal while balancing work duties and temptations among hired men.
A London Telegraph discussion traces emergency rations for horses amid imperial campaigns. It compares hay bricks and hay lozenges, noting the hay brick provides limited sustenance, while true bulk feed remains essential. The piece explains compression, heat treatment, and practical issues for transport to South Africa and other theaters.
The article notes that portable emergency rations for horses are not new to England, having been made at Portsmouth eight or nine years ago and used in the Soudan campaigns. It argues that the image of a horse carrying month-long food plus a lozenge is fanciful, urging realism about horse endurance.
Yale College’s memorial gateway at Yale campus between Osborne and Welch Halls honors Gerard Ives and Ward Cheney who died as soldiers. The article notes Yale’s deep Civil War and Revolutionary War service, detailing enlistments, officers, chaplains, and casualties among undergraduates and alumni, and calls for broader memorials at the bicentennial.
Washington correspondence recounts an aggressive Wyoming winter tale where Roosevelt, challenged by a western bully in a tavern, disarms the man with a swift uppercut and quickly pacifies others in the room. The anecdote ends with a curt note about Papa Zimmerman paying the Duke of Manchester's debts.
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