Wragg invites reader ideas for department
Mr Wragg of Wau-88 invites contributions of new ideas from readers of this department and will answer correspondents seeking information on subject. Address M J Wragg.
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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1904
Page
7
Farming by Guess or On Paper
A local discussion contrasts farming by guess with planned methods. The writer argues real farming blends knowledge with timing, noting harrowing freshly plowed ground but admitting uncertainty about rain. They warn even skilled, bookish farmers must improvise when weather and conditions defy schedules.
Farming Like Any Other Business Delivers Certainty
The piece argues farming, despite floods droughts and grasshoppers, generally yields fair returns and improves annually. It challenges calamity talk and political manipulations urging farmers to assess personal action before blaming external hardship.
The Small Flock
The article extols keeping a few fowls on small plots for eggs and pleasure. It argues low costs and minimal labor, with fresh daily eggs and the joy of a hatch. It notes family involvement and suggests small town flocks produce more eggs than farms.
Moon and garden work clash in a farmer’s caution
A reader scolds seasonal planning and moon lore, urging practicality in sowing and weeding. The note mocks Moon theory and emphasizes doing tasks promptly, leaving celestial guidance to itself.
Salt for Animals on Sundays and Daily Access
Fragmented handwritten note discusses feeding livestock, urging consistent access to salt and criticizing irregular feeding. Emphasizes animals’ need for salt daily and cautions against neglectful practices.
Poultry notes offer home remedies and weed warnings
Practical tips for poultry care include carbolic acid to deter mites, mixing lard with coal oil to kill lice, and charcoal for fowls. Cholera prevention, ventillation, diet balance, and the Plymouth Rock as versatile stock are discussed. Mustard weed control by mowing roadsides is advised due to its pest impact on crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth Rock
Farm Journal
Honest shipper builds lasting fruit and veg reputation
In handling fruit and vegetables one common trick is in facing the packages. Deception is quickly found out and the buyer will doubt the seller’s reputation. If care is taken to grade and uniformity, an enviable reputation can be built that lasts. Buyers, local or distant, learn the brand of the honest shipper.
How to Sort and Pack Apples
Practical guidance for picking sorting and storing apples across seasons. Emphasizes careful handling to avoid bruising especially for winter use. Describes grading into three categories with only the first grade suitable for long term keeping and recommends packing in lined cracker or shoe boxes stored in a cool room.
Butter Granulation Aims For Pure Butter Texture
The text notes that smaller butter globules release less buttermilk. It argues that grains as large as bullets resist washing and proper separation, while fine granulation enables freer removal of buttermilk and cleaner butter.
Feeding the Grass Crop
A leading hay producer credits success to thorough field preparation before seeding and repeated soil work. He plows and harrows the fields up to fifty times in the two months before sowing, uses stable manure before planting, then applies bone, muriate of potash, and nitrate of soda after seeding.
Agricultural bulletins offer practical farming guidance
If you are not receiving the bulletins from our Agricultural College or the Department at Washington it is your own fault. Each institution would gladly send them if they had your name and these bulletins contain the best thoughts and the most practical suggestions pertaining to the different departments of farm work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural College
Washington
Feeding value of fodder in corn fields
The article notes that fodder loses feeding value if corn is not cut when grain begins to harden. It recommends cutting early, storing in small twelve-hill shocks, shucking out and sheltering fodder. This plan can yield fodder equal to good hay on farms with limited acreage, while leaving fodder out requires large shocks but early cutting to maximize nutrients.
Farm Help Wanted Ad From Indiana Farmer
An Indiana farmer sought farm help with wages of six dollars per day. Breakfast served in bed and work hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Heavy tasks to be done by the bass. Free cigars offered. Any worker staying the season could keep the farm. Apply at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
The Farmers Workday and Hour Limits
The piece argues eight hours is insufficient for farming tasks due to the continuous nature of agriculture and seasonal pressure. It notes farms require longer days, often two days’ work in one when crowding arrives, and ten hours may be workable only when not pressed by peak seasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Evocation of Rural Preacher and Local Assessor Encounter
A folksy piece notes how a man who shuns watering or skimming milk, hides gnarly apples in the barrel, and overcharges for wood on his wagon treats the assessor as he would the parson. It reflects small matters of neighborhood life and the reach of evangelists.
Watering Horses Before or After Feeding
The article reviews European experiments on watering horses before or after meals. It concludes that the timing matters little for digestion, but emphasizes better results when horses are watered with regularity.
Big Plan to Increase Work Forces to Meet Demand
Dun's weekly review notes improved trade tone and rising demand driving stronger factory output. Employers plan larger labor forces across steel, packing, and manufacturing. car workers idle, but overall employment up as firms resume full operations. Money cheaper, iron ore and lumber in demand, breadstuffs influenced by markets, grain shipments high though down vs last year. Failures rise in Chicago district to 35 from 23 prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade
Freshmen Victorious In Central Wit tenberg Class Fight
Springfield reports the worst class clash in Wit tenberg college history as freshmen beat sophomores after a morning brawl over an effigy. Five students were injured including John Snyder with a stomach injury and two broken ribs, Adolph Shipman severely battered. girls briefly joined before faculty halted the scuffle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Wittenberg College
Heeckert
John Snyder
Adolph Shipman
Grand Rapids
Mich
Brothers Steal Clock Reported in Decatur Indiana
Decatur Indiana September 19 Burt and Jagper Bailer brothers were arrested at 10 for stealing two clocks from a box car They were arraigned at once and at 11 they were sentenced to Jeffersonville for the years
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Ind
Burt
Jagper Bailer
Jeffersonville
Death of Veteran Telegraph Manager in Albany
Albany Sept 19 M L Morgan a veteran of the Western Union Telegraph company with over forty years of service and former local office manager died here at the age of 60.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
M. L. Morgan
Western Union Telegraph Company
Inventor Seeks Thorough Test of Globe Life Saver
Washington Sept 19 Capt J M Donyly inventor of the globe life saver explained his device to the navy department and urged an exhaustive test of its merits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
J. M. Donyly
Navy Department
Thanksgiving Day Proclaimed for Dominion of Canada
Ottawa Sept 19 an order by the government designates Thursday Nov 17 as a day of thanksgiving in the Dominion. The measure sets aside a national holiday to observe and give thanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ottawa
Ont
Dominion
Little girls murder father in Texas veranda attack
In Marlin Texas on September 19 two 11 and 12 year old daughters of widower C B Stewart killed their father with an ax as he slept on the veranda. Blood-stains on their clothes led to their arrest. They confessed saying fear of remarriage and his threats to kill them followed the destruction of a letter to Stewart from a would-be stepmother. The victim was a wealthy farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlin
Texas
Stewart
Here
No Lynch Party Expected For Mount Carroll Suspect
Mount Carroll Illinois September 19 William Myers the bandit jailed for the murder of Mayor Wayland F Bennett of Thompson stays calm despite serious wounds. Sheriff Doty bars crowds at the jail while Dr Colehour treats Myers. Johnson or Ryan remains in a good mood. authorities say there will be no lynching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Carroll
William Myers
Wayland F. Bennett
Thompson
Doty
Myers
Colehour
Johnson
Ryan
Japs Reinforce as Mukden Push Delayed
From St Petersburg dated September 19, reports say Japanese troops, stores, and ammunition are pouring into Liaoyang from Yinkow while forces push forward. The Japanese use feints against Russian outposts to distract from longer moves toward Sinmintin. Koupatkin plans retreat and defensive fighting at every step. Chinese government assurances say Mukden palaces and graves will remain undisturbed and a decisive Mukden advance is unlikely for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Liaoyang
Yinkow
Sinmintin
Kouropatkin
Mukden
Dowie Delivers Sermon in Shiloh Tabernacle Crowds Zion City
Chicago Sept 19 John Alexander Dowie wearing purple white scarlet and gold robes addressed about 8 000 people at Shiloh tabernacle in Zion City proclaiming himself as the messenger of God's covenant the Elijah of restoration and first apostle of the Christian Catholic church in Zion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dowie
Chicago
Moses
John Alexander Dowie
Shiloh Tabernacle
Zion City
God
Malachi
Jesus
Elijah
Restoration
Zion
Mystery of Harrison Tomb Break-In Deepens
New York Sept 19 The Harrison tomb on Small Island near New Rochelle was disturbed when a vault holding the body of David Harrison Sr founder of the family fortune contained a woman’s body while the elder’s skeleton was missing. Fragments found today suggest the vault was tampered with years ago and resealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harrison
New Rochelle
David Harrison
Wreck on Long Island trains kills two firemen
Two Sunday excursion trains on Long Island were diverted onto a single track by defective air switch gear in Long Island City. They collided head on, killing the fireman in each engine and wounding numerous passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wreck
New York
Long Island
Long Island City
Japan Moves to Open Real Estate to Foreign Capital
London dispatch quotes The Times Tokyo correspondent reporting a strong political push in Japan to abolish restrictions on alien real estate tenure and to remodel mortgage law to ease foreign capital entry. The plan aims to remove obstacles to foreign investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
London
The
Times
Tokio
British to Leave Thibet Expenditure Delayed Departure
British expedition departure fixed for Sept 23 amid cold weather and hard freezing. Soldiers face hardships crossing passes toward Gyangtse where warm clothing stores are said to exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thibet
Lhagen
Gyangtse
Club Women to Meet In June
St. Louis reports the board of directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs adjourned after calling a federation council meeting at Chautauqua New York next June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Chautauqua
N. Y
Tammany Leader Dunn Meets McDonald In Transit Talk
In a Central Park Casino chat, Tom Dunn asked John B. McDonald when the tunnel project would start, with McDonald replying September in a casual tone. The column also recalls Rutherford Corbin on Taft cipher talks and a wartime brain anecdote from Conan Doyle, ending with a frontier mill joke about a starving man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tammany
Tom Dunn
John B. McDonald
Central Park Casino
Dunn
McDonald
Dodd's Kidney Pills Praised in Wisconsin Village
Drummond Wisconsin September 19 special report highlights Bayfield County families praising Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr T T Wold recounts back pain relief after one box and his wife also found benefit. The ad suggests the pill cures backache and prevents kidney disease complications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodd
Bright
Winter Comfort and Travel Wit Prominent in City Notices
Governor Bachelder tips at a quarter for tramps while a Chicago firm promotes a 38 department catalogue mailed free on request with a 10 cent stamp refund. The Santa Fe's California Limited offers winter escapes from Chicago to sunny California daily, with a pamphlet available from the Railway Exchange Building in Chicago. Advertising the shortcomings of others does not help us to dispose of our own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtiss-Williams Co
Rush St
Michigan Ave
Chicago
Santa Fe
California Limited
Kansas City
California
Santa Fe System
Railway Exchange
Historic Patent Medicine Pitch Fragments in 19th Century Ad
A collage of advertising copy for patent medicines and household products including soothing syrups for children, eye remedies, starch brands, dyspepsia cures, cough lozenges, and Mother Gray's Powders. The text markets tonics, teasers, and note shavers with promotional lines aimed at mothers and households, highlighting cures, free samples, and brand names across multiple companies and cities.
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Tai
Europe
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Rae Wee i TG
Tan. Bee's
Rutherford Corbin
Taft
Harper's Weekly
San Francisco
Wilson
Sir Conan Doyle
South Africa
War Office
Congressman Wade
Bachelder
New Hampshire
Winslow
Sun Butte
Marine Eye Remedy Co
David Kennedy
Trowbridge
Harlem
N.Y
Lewis
Wis
Peoria
Mother Gray
Allen &. Olmsted
le Roy
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