Warning on Hog Cholera Risk in October and November
The U.S. Department of Agriculture warns hog cholera is most likely to appear in October and November. Swine raisers should monitor morning feed intake and remove animals with arched backs or rough coats. If suspected, call a veterinarian for diagnosis and preventive serum treatment. post mortems may show purple skin blotches, blood spots in organs, reddened lymph nodes, enlarged spleen, and intestinal ulcers.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Work Horses Need Proper Care and Dental Attention
Horses in fields require quality feed and regular dental care to stay efficient workers. Those with well maintained teeth digest feed better, especially older horses. Rasping teeth to level is a small time investment with noticeable returns.
Mineral mixture for hogs boosts growth needs
Hogs require minerals beyond feed to meet growth needs. A satisfactory mix includes charcoal 50 lbs, wood ashes 50 lbs, epsom salts 3 lbs, partly burned corncobs and soft coal. Keep this mineral before hogs at all times.
Hogs Harvest Help in Small Grain Crops
Hogs can aid harvest of small grain crops and are often profitable. In most cases when hogs are a paying proposition they should take part in harvesting, regardless of labor availability.
Disposal of Dead Animals at Butcher Time
The notice advises burning or covering with quicklime and burying deeply all carcasses to four feet to prevent buzzards dogs and spread of hog cholera infection.
The Kitchen Cabinet Poem by Priscilla Leonard
A short verse urges readers to remember happiness and truth. It encourages living without distress and finding joy and love across age and youth, ending with a hopeful message.
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Priscilla Leonard
Codfish How-To From Fresh to Chowder and Cuban Style
A lively guide to preparing codfish dishes. It describes making a fresh boiled cod with vegetables and broth and a codfish chowder with pork onions potatoes milk and crackers. It also covers a codfish Cuban style with tomatoes green pepper and buttered toast.
Siege Ironhorse: Major McCullough’s Leap From the Precipice
Fort Henry stood as a western border stockade against British and Indian forces in the Revolutionary era. Maj. Sam McCullough led 40 men from Fort Pitt to lift a siege near Wheeling. Cornered on three sides, he escaped by dashing toward a cliff, leaping 50 feet, then sliding 950 feet to creek bottom, crossing to safety and returning to Fort Pitt. Five years later he died in an Indian ambush while riding with his brother near Van Metre's fort.
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Fort Henry
West Virginia
Ohio River
Wheeling
Sam McCullough
Fort Pitt
McCullough
Wheeling Creek
Major McCullough
van Metre
County Fair Notes on American Fair Heritage and Premiums
Addresses by H. H. Halliday and M. A. C. An stress fairs as honored institutions and community fixtures. The Washtenaw County fund allocates premiums for livestock, cattle, horses, sheep, hogs and dairy stock with cash prizes for grand champions and special premiums for the Ann Arbor Dairy Company.
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H. H. Halliday
M.A. C. An
Elknah Watson
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
United States
Washtenaw County
Washie- Maw County
Ann Arbor Dairy Company
Regular meeting and local notices in Washtenaw area
A regular meeting of the O. BE. 5 is planned for next Monday evening. Notices include visitors to Macon, a Schroer block sale to Seeger Staebler and Kempf, Washtenaw Pioneer Society June 14 at the court house, and Saline mail service changes effective June 1 with new inbound times and outbound cutoffs.
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O. BE
Schroer
Schroen
George W. Seeger
Fred Staebler
Paul Kempf
M. E. Church of
Britton
Washtenaw County
Y. MG. A. M. S& White
Broadway
Saline
Bridgewater
Had To For Business Reasons Golf Club Meeting
A brief, informal note mentions joining a golf club to meet business associates and arrange encounters, citing necessity and social leverage in golf as a context for networking.
Chevrolet Invites Comparison In Car Buying
Painting and decorating by G. A. Hartman is listed with phone 141-F23 Saline. The ad urges readers to investigate the difference before you buy Chevrolet invites comparison.
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G. A. Hartman
Chevrolet
Milk from peanuts as dairy substitute
Scientific American reports a peanut based milk substitute that closely mimics cow's milk. It forms sour curdles when churned and can be turned into buttermilk and cheese. Peanut kernels from an American university lab yield four times their volume in milk with 4 8 percent fat and 24 33 percent protein at lower cost than dairy milk.
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Scientific American
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Kitchene
Union
Great Scouts
Wetson
Western Newspaper Union
Leap For Life
Ia State
B. L. Longfellow
G. A. Mills
Macon
Rube Bug
Ginger
F.o.b. Flint
Geo. V. Cook
Fisk
George Uphaus
Liberty
Ann Arbor
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