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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1911
Page
6
Portable hog houses offer practical value by providing clean, moveable shelter for four to six mature pigs or ten to twenty shoats. Proper placement on high dry ground with good drainage, ventilation, and sanitation improves herd health, reduces filth, and allows rotating grazing to stay cleaner.
A Farm and Home writer describes a low down wagon design for transporting cows and other livestock short distances. The rear axle is dropped 10 to 14 inches from the hub, allowing sharp turns with space for the animal. Wrought iron arches brace the top, and the rear gate lifts off its brackets for easy use.
The Ohio department of agriculture reports over 10000 swine immunized against hog cholera since January 1, 1910. The Minnesota experiment station asserts hog cholera can be prevented and lately treated with care, with methods soon to be published. This discovery could spare Minnesota farmers years of heavy losses.
A tank heater for heating drinking water for livestock pays for itself quickly by reducing the extra feed needed to restore animal heat lost to drafts from icy water.
The text argues pigs require warm winter quarters free from drafts and ample exercise range, noting they must have warm quarters to sleep. It emphasizes that protection from cold is essential for their well being and productivity.
The article advises salt always available for animals and notes potatoes can be fed to cows and hogs when prices are low. It warns against overfeeding ewes with wheat, corn, and alfalfa. Bluegrass as fall pasture, risks in lambing with weak ewes, dust and rodents in barns, pork production tied to sow welfare, move to roots in diet, and keeping beef and mutton on small farms with proper shelter and care for young pigs until nine weeks old.
The article explains the horse stomach holds about two gallons and outlines feeding order. Water first, then hay, then grain aids digestion. if the horse is warm only a little water should be given, even then.
Galesburg reports a Burlington line derailment with 250 feet of track travelled. no injuries. Knox College to receive 50000 dollars after estate settlement. DuQuoin notes first murder conviction in 20 years. Effingham finds counterfeit molds. Mt. Vernon hosts a 1000-entry poultry show. Ashbum identifies a murdered man. Paris reports a gas and oil drilling accident injuring two. Pontiac chronicles a suicide. Lincoln police raid bagmen. Spring Valley rail worker killed. Watseka sees a school assault case dismissed. Beecher reports coal eye injury. Paris GOP vows to join Democrats to fight vote buying. Kewanee wolves shot after sheep killings. Sterling inherits 30000 pounds from Scotland. Elgin victim of gas explosion. Vandalia votes on commission government. Aurora youth endangers life on freight train brake beams. Elgin reports smallpox in asylum. Sullivan bell clapper falls silent. Springfield Islay bill on concealed weapons moves despite opposition. Chicago postal theft case with 6400 dollars in stamps. Petersburg votes against commission government.
Mrs H H Householder of Baltimore writes that her baby suffered severe eczema from four weeks old, spreading to the nose and eyes. After failing with doctors, daily Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment brought a marked improvement in a week and full recovery in months, with hair regrowing and no scars. Her satisfied testimony dates May 10, 1910.
A mixed set of quotations and slogans appears, referencing music, medicines, and social ideals. It includes lines about a band drummer who drowns lead, Garfield Tea claims, a Warren Phillips Brooks quote, a laxative ad, a hemorrhoid cure claim, and rental or sale farm notes attributed to J Mulhall in Bronx City Iowa.
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