Secure Farm Now Fertile Land in Western Canada At Moderate Cost
The piece argues settlers can acquire land in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba for 20 to 40 dollars an acre with favorable terms. It asserts fertile land remains abundant, prices will rise with improved open market value, and stresses social and legal familiarity to attract city buyers seeking farmownership and financial independence.
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United States
Canada
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Why Women Dread Old Age Promises Health From Haarlem Oil
An old advertisement urges women not to fear aging and to keep kidneys and adder clean to ward off senile afflictions. It touts GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil as a guaranteed remedy, claiming renewed vigor, strength, and youthful health with regular use, and warns of counterfeit products. It ends with a casual joke about men saying they’re out of practice when defeated at games.
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Haarlem Oi
Haarlem
Adv
Self-Feeder for Hogs Promotes Faster Farm Gains
The self feeder keeps a constant supply of feed for hogs so they eat at will, boosting growth and reducing labor. The Farmers Bulletin explains its advantages and lists materials for construction. A Corn Belt farming system is described as saving harvest labor by hogging down crops.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Parners’ Bulletin
Farmers' Bulletin Git
Feeding Sheep in Winter
During winter when sheep rely on coarse feeds, oil meal should form a liberal part of the grain ration. Its laxative and soothing qualities counteract constipation from dry seeds, addressing a common winter issue for flock owners.
Pigs Relish Linseed Meal As Cheap Protein Feed
Linseed meal is noted as a supplement to corn in beef or veal feed. When tankage or skimmilk are unavailable at reasonable prices this feed may become the cheapest carrier of protein.
Live Stock Notes Practical agriculture tips for hogs cattle and horses
Hog farmers should improve feeds and management to profit. begin sheep on a small scale and expand with experience. Rye pasture alone disappoints. cattle gains require grain and roughage. Dehorn cattle for profits. alfalfa hay adds protein. silage reduces transit shrink. Calves need individual pails. fit harness essential when breaking colts. Question remains why some breed to scrub stations. Avoid spoiled horse feed.
Mindset and cooking tips from John Slawes
Not what happened but the way we take what happened shapes our experience. The text urges choosing joy, turning life into a palace or prison. Includes lemon rind dessert recipe steps and a note to aim high, even if perfection isn’t reached.
Emergency-menu prep in housework and hopeful enterprise
A housekeeper keeps a ready list of quick dishes and an emergency shelf with tuna, sardines, canned tomatoes and desserts. The text urges cheerful hospitality, simple menus and confident work, linking practical kitchens to optimism and civic virtue for success.
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Ecompiny
Variety of Pie and Fruit Mince Pie Recipes
A collection of old fashioned pie instructions describes chicken pie with neck giblets and feet, celery carrot onion mix, and parsley seasonings. It also outlines Fruit Mince Pie with dried fruits, candied peel, brown sugar, cider, and canning steps, plus mince from preserves and a Raisin Pie with honey and water.
Bread Crumbs and Teas Bread Recipes from Lillidson
A vintage domestic tip piece describes thrifty bread handling and bird-scrap feeding practices. It gives Tea Bread and Bread Crumb Bread recipes using bread crumbs, flour, corn syrup, milk and raisins, with yeast and baking steps. It ends with a quip about three kinds of people.
TASTY DISHES
A compact guide to inexpensive meals with soup as a base and suggestions for salads desserts and entrées. Recipes cover Date Custard Pie Camelon of Beef Rice and Pineapple Dessert and options for fruit substitutions and a cottage cheese addition to salads.
Early Hatching Favored To Ensure Spring Chick Growth And Profits
Early hatching is recommended to secure eggs and marketable birds before heat and lice reduce survival. Poultrymen gain faster growth, stronger chicks, and earlier egg production with March or April hatched flocks, securing higher prices for broilers and fryers in spring.
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United States Department of Agriculture
California Syrup of Figs Baby Laxative Ad
A vintage ad urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for sick and constipated children. It claims a coated tongue signals need for cleansing, promises a gentle, gripe-free bowel movement in hours, and warns to buy only from the California Fig Syrup Company with genuine labeling. It also targets adults and warns against counterfeit products.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
Adv
Washing Eggs Hinders Freshness In Markets
Washing or wetting eggs before reaching market is blamed for waste estimated at over 4,000,000 eggs yearly. The shell’s protective gelatinous layer is damaged by washing, allowing air and germs to enter and promote decay.
Poultry care and breed notes in early advice column
The article outlines cleanliness in poultry raising and proper feed for egg production. It states hens are generally better sitters than pallets for eggs and warns that mites and lice complicate incubation. It also cites common geese breeds Toulouse African Embden and White China, noting Toulouse as most popular.
Pape's Diapepsin Offers Quick Stomach Relief
A short ad claims instant relief from indigestion gases and acidity after meals. It promotes Pape's Diapepsin tablets as the quickest stomach reliever in the world and suggests they are affordable and available at drug stores.
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Pape
Green's August Flower Advertises Health Cure
August Flower advertised as a remedy for stomach disorders and liver inactivity including sick headache constipation sour stomach and nervous indigestion. It claims gentle laxative action and bile stimulation with universal sales in civilized countries and ends with a marriage joke.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure for Deafness
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy for catarrhal deafness. Claims deafness arises from inflamed mucous surfaces and Eustachian tube, urging systemic treatment via blood. Offers one hundred dollars for any untreatable case and circulars free from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Talcum for complexion and grooming.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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