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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
6
Vintage ad copy touts Cascarets as a gentle overnight cure for constipation and biliousness. Claims of no griping or sickness contrast with harsher laxatives. Includes a punny aside about inheritance and a satirical dialogue.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy for catarrh that cannot be cured by local applications. Claims to act through the blood on mucous surfaces and to be a tonic and blood purifier. Mentions Druggists seven cents and testimonials, with B. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as proprietors.
A playful couplet contrasts the bliss of honeymoon life with the real bond of marriage tied to the harvest moon. It humorously notes love as music fed by life, while critiquing the onion as a less satisfying comparison.
Mrs Jobe of 3310 Cass St Omaha Nebraska praises Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a splendid tonic that relieves nausea during pregnancy and keeps the baby strong and hardy, recommending it to all expectant mothers.
In Omaha a reader testimonial extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as an effective tonic for nervous, run-down, and womanly health issues. The note claims relief from backache, headaches, sleepless nights, and irregularities without alcohol, and mentions available liquid or tablet forms and a 10 cent trial package offer from Buffalo New York.
The Florida Marion County agricultural agent, with federal support, reports that lectures and tight airtight cribs reduced losses from the corn weevil. Farmers dried corn, removed husks, and used two fumigations with carbon disulphid to salvage thousands of bushels, monitoring grain for possible a third treatment.
The article lists flea beetles Colorado potato beetles early blight late blight rot scab and powdery mildew as major potato pests. It notes these can be controlled or prevented by frequent thorough applications of Bordeaux mixture a combination of lime copper sulfate and water used as a fungicide.
Flocks and herds on farms point to thrift and independence in farming. Not all farmers with animals profit, but those with livestock are rarely in severe financial difficulty.
Bureau of Crop Estimates shows 509 pickle packers reporting 40 211 acres contracted and harvested 1910 cuccum bers and 475 packers 65 487 acres contracted harvested 1918. Estimated 2 162 036 bushels produced in 1919 on contracted acres vs 6 818 322 in 1918. No open market stock included.
Farmers seek windbreaks on exposed home sides to shelter stock. Norway spruce and white pine are commonly used when soil is not too moist, providing cows with sunny outdoor days during cold winds.
A small draft entering through cracks in horse and dairy barns injures inactive animals by concentrating wind in one spot. Sealing these cracks protects animal comfort and saves feed.
A farmer should maintain enough hens to supply the family with fresh eggs during the laying season. He should also hatch sufficient chickens to provide a liberal supply of friers and broilers when feasible.
The article notes that small farm activities such as poultry bees garden berries and other divisions can yield greater income than ordinary crops when managed by a careful farmer. It emphasizes wise patient work and attention to detail in improving overall farm profitability.
A historical note lists quart measures and weights for feed ingredients. Cot tonseed meal weighs 1.5 pounds per quart, wheat bran 0.5, coarse wheat middlings 0.8, fine middlings 1.1, mixed wheat feed 0.6, cornmeal 1.5, oats 1.2, rye bran 0.6, linseed meal 1.1, and gluten 1.2 pounds per quart to aid ration planning.
Stable manure should be applied in winter to fall-sown cover crops or to clover and grass sods. This method minimizes fertility loss compared with yard storage, especially if the manure is left uncovered.
Reprint-style ad explains rheumatism as caused by a blood germ and promotes S. S. S. as a long used remedy. Encourages readers to mail for treatment advice to Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta Georgia and claims testimonials support success over fifty years.
A dialogue on wealth and aspiration contrasts Mr. Godspur and Mr. Dubhwaite. Godspur proclaims universal ambition for wealth while Dubhwaite counters with a personal example, noting his own dream stops at a million dollars. The exchange appears in the Birmingham Age-Herald.
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