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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1902
Page
6
A collage of satirical notes and brief dispatches from the era. J Pierpont Morgan and Russell Sage are tagged with plans and health hints. Tolstoi presses for Russia's constitution. Bulgaria ponders the Ellen M Stone fund. Witty takes on weddings, aviation, sea serpents, and politics threads through many places and people.
The text weighs options for incubator placement to prevent fire risk and maintain steady temperatures. It favors outdoors in a well built partially earth-covered structure for large operations, noting concrete walls, a concrete floor, and a separate above-ground storage area, while warning against damp cellar locations. It also describes the Indian Game breed’s color, plumage patterns, and a distinctive feature along the breastbone that reveals chick down.
The article discusses evaluating strength of ancestry in poultry by observing offspring vigor. Weak birds and repeated weakness indicate lacking strain strength, so they should be culled from breeding. A sick hen should not lay eggs for hatching again to avoid passing on poor hardiness.
The article explains that spraying trees during bloom reduces final fruit set compared with pre or post bloom applications. It notes pollen exposure, timing issues, and the cost vs. benefit of thinning, with peaches showing more payoff from thinning than apples. It mentions pollen sterilization as a theoretical method and favors hand thinning for regular fruit intervals. It also oddly adds a household tip about koravene in starch.
The Storrs Experiment Station reports slowly progressing tuberculosis in four cows with three becoming unfit for milk or beef, while tuberculin testing and segregation curb spread. Northwestern University Settlement plans pasteurized milk stations in Chicago’s Northwest side to cut child mortality, delivering clean milk to crowded Polish districts at cost with city health oversight.
A proposed national law, the Sherman Bill, seeks to stop branding butter and cheese outside their region of origin. The measure targets frauds that misrepresent dairy products and undermine reputations like Elgin butter, with New York already battling lack of national standards.
A raiser discusses Angora goats noting they resist sheep diseases better, can be protected by proper fencing, and that American Angoras may surpass imported blood. He doubts Asia offers superior stock and urges careful American selection to improve light and Merino-like traits.
A new flag design for the President replaces the old crest with a sunburst motif above the eagle on the blue field. The change, adopted by the Navy at the President's suggestion, marks a modernized version used at sea, most recently aboard during a visit to Annapolis.
In 1538 near Naples at Pozzuoli the Lucrine Lake area saw a sudden ground collapse and eruption that formed a 100 pace high hill within twelve hours. The report links the event to August 29 and describes subsequent volcanic activity and regional quiet.
An eyewitness recalls a Philadelphia traveler aboard the Paris when striking rocks off the English coast. A heavily intoxicated man sat at the saloon piano and played Home Sweet Home then Down Went McGinty, easing panic and restoring order. Also notes Mrs McKinley in fair health and a York guardian hearing a woman who buried her seventh husband.
An editor is asked to publish an obituary for a well known local figure. The page also advertises the Lake Shore Tours summer book with routes and rates to eastern resorts. Conversational vignettes include family matchmaking, starch brands, and light quips about romance and vacuums.
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