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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1911
Page
4
Vanderpol advertises free framed pictures and a growing subscription list as local items note a brisk sewer project nearing completion. Garden displays at Coles Drug Store attract attention while prices fall for murphies and a 55 cent potato load sells this week.
Cole Manufacturing Co of Chicago introduces Coloized Steel a dense carbon iron alloy claimed 4 to 5 times longer wear than cast or malleable iron used in fire backs and centers of Cole's Hot Blast Range tests show improved durability preventing sulfur gas penetration and degradation.
Nebraska inventor Charles Siecker of Waco creates a uniform combined collar and hames device adjustable for different neck sizes. It aims to prevent soreness and chafing by equalizing draft, distributing strain, and easing placement and removal. The device moves from the neck by releasing a strap from a buckle and looping through a ring.
Mr. Thomas Sorkin of Kansas reports a horse with clever problem solving. The animal can reach over a fence, pull a wooden pin from an augered gate post with its teeth, and then enter the pasture by pushing the gate open with its body weight.
An Indiana experiment station test shows silage as a highly desirable winter sheep feed. Ewes with silage gain about 20 pounds per winter, while those without gain 15 pounds. Silage reduces grain and clover hay intake, slightly thickens wool, and fattened fall lambs fed silage outperformed dry-fed peers. Caution against frozen or sour silage and overuse. balance with clover or alfalfa hay and dry grain.
The hog grower of the future must provide a growing ration for young pigs up to six months, not a fattening feed. Feeding should be tempered with judgment to develop pigs as a business proposition rather than using hogs as field scavengers.
Advice for dairy calf care emphasizes growth over fat. Winter rations include clover hay oats or bran plus bright straw and roots for variety. Ensure comfort in all seasons and growth will follow as a natural result.
Floyd Rohrdanz and wife were Newton visitors last Friday John Williamson and wife visited their son Henry and family near Killduff last Friday Melvin Mick and family visited at Newton last Thursday Mrs Anne Meyer reported seriously ill at this writing William Paltzer visited at Pella one day last week Albert Beintema and wife visited their daughter Mrs A Terpstra and family last Wednesday and Thursday John Steenhoek giving his barn a new coat of paint Will McKinney visited at Oskaloosa last Saturday Roy Holmes on sick list for several weeks Albert Terpstra made a business trip to Sully last Saturday
Wanted at once. Men to represent us locally or traveling. Now is the time to start. Money in the work for the right men. Apply at once and secure territory. Allen Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y. 5850.
The Male Choral Club Concert tomorrow night promises to be a premier musical treat of the season. William Whitney the wool manufacturer jokes about Taft, while Cannon notes love for Taft despite enemies. Taft’s travel plan and other satirical quips from Chicago Tribune captions and Hearst Bailey mentions punctuate the lively column.
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