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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1901
Page
7
A fragmented 1901 agricultural roundup covers crop yields and livestock, sugar beet potential in Michigan, various fowl breeds like Houdans, wheat quality, corn and hog feeding, road conditions, fuel costs, and curious notes on dogs per capita and lye used against rats. It also touches on naval use of dairy byproducts and power options for farms.
The column condemns cruelty by a Missouri landlord who overcharged tenants and used harsh methods to fatten calves. It discusses humane farming, efficiency in dairy feeding, and a critique of sensational amusements. It offers gardening tips, including fall harvests, blackberry cultivation, and propagating currants from old root shoots.
The writer threads through rural topics urging preparedness for propagation from cuttings, praises Pecard transfer efficiency, compares cows to machines, and recalls Hebrews without straw. He notes milk without proper feed, advocates winter social gatherings to strengthen neighborly ties, and praises a farmer who foddered and shelled corn efficiently by timing with cold weather.
The article extols the Columbia raspberry as the rankest growing of the raspberry family. It propagates from tips, bears large purple fruit similar to Shaffer, and yields a big crop even when bearing wood is cut back. A hill has produced over half a bushel. In northern latitudes vines are safer laid down and covered for winter.
A reflective piece celebrates the transition from summer to autumn in the north country. It recalls the palette of green and gold, the harvest bounty, and the recompense after toil. The goldenrod stands as a symbol of rest, peace, and the promise of an abundant harvest.
The piece argues that saving souls of colored people must be matched by teaching them to provide for material needs. It promotes property accumulation and bank accounts as paths to respect and independence, claiming money speaks for black and white alike. It also asserts heredity and climate influence laziness and suggests blood infusion from Irish or Scandinavian stock would harden work ethic.
An experiment at the late Wisconsin state fair used two hundred pounds of milk per test to show how butter fat content affects cheese yield. The table lists butter fat percentage and resulting pounds of cheese. Also noted are vast nickel deposits found in southern Oregon, the world’s largest.
In a humorous tale Uncle Bill narrates attempting to ride a bicycle for the first time. The elderly man struggles on the bike, crashes into a tree multiple times, and ends up tangled in evergreen branches while his nephew and Helen react with mix of amusement and concern. He vows to find liniment and avoid riding thereafter.
Lieutenants Irvin Gillis and W R Gherardi of the Annapolis, stationed in Iloilo Philippines, endured hundreds of stings from wasps during a swampy duck hunt. Gillis recounts crawling to safety after a grueling ordeal, with fever and eye irritation but eventual recovery. A military writer muses on training stinging insects for warfare as a novel, if alarming, concept.
The Street Railway Review notes a prominent New York banking house backing electric traction efforts in China. The initiative targets interurban traction with engineers sent to survey the ground and draft plans.
Pittsburg Automobile Company builds a steam propelled wagon like vehicle to carry 300 quarts of nitro glycerine under Albert Arnold a veteran 61 year old well shooter. The prototype aims to reduce horse danger and eliminate hand thawing by using heat from exhaust and zinc pan.
London Express outlines a French scam in which dealers and agents in Paris and Brittany push fake antiquities. Tourists are lured with aged wares, often claiming old family ownership or noble lineage. Genuine pieces are rare as sellers use fake Moorish paper and other effects to mislead buyers.
Interest runs high among Maine guides and hunters as a plan to stock Maine woods with ex from Wyoming likely leads to a legislative bill at the next session of the Pine Tree state legislature.
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