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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
2
The piece muses on the harvest's pull beyond profit, noting a universal thrill at wheat fields and a call that draws urban and rural workers alike. It links the harvest to Ruth and Boaz, portraying the annual miracle as a perennial human fascination across eras.
General Humphrey urges replacing khaki with olive drab service uniforms for overseas troops while khaki remains only for overseas stations. He cites supply delays from Baltimore dyeing firms and contractor shortages, noting cloth mills can produce olive drab but khaki dyeing remains secret and slow.
In Paris the International Woman's Congress sees a trousers wearing apparition identified as M Legendre of Sens a self described femininist candidate who travelled 11 trains to attend and is expelled. The tale contrasts gender politics with a comic scene and notes $1.7 million in unsecured South American paper money.
The note argues that if breakfast foods include sawdust, consumers should insist on clean sawdust free of contaminants. It emphasizes consumer vigilance and quality standards for mixed ingredients.
A brief note asserts that the English railroad wreck imitation is the sincerest form of flattery to Americans, reflecting on competitive mimicry in railroading culture.
A dramatic vigil recounts Gideon and Valdermere aiding Penguilly to escape Kara. In a brutal night pursuit, Gideon overpowers guards, rescues Penguilly, and carries Valdermere as comrades battle pursuing troops across snow and ice.
A plan for a side load chute next to wagon scales aids market readiness for hogs and sheep. Livingston County Michigan farmer demonstrates a chute with a long slant, sturdy frame, cleated plank bottom, and high sides to secure animals during weighing and loading.
The guide urges pasture water access with shallow wells near field corners, zigzag fences and long troughs, and underground pipes. Windmills are cost effective for pumping, keeping troughs full, and constant water increases milk yield enough to cover the investment.
Guidance on hog management advises housing sows individually, feeding practices, and maintaining steady daily gains from farrowing to market. It stresses leaner sows for vigor, favors aged brood sows as mothers, and recommends milk producing rations with skim milk and shorts, avoiding dirty swill barrels.
Milk as a pig food has high feeding value when combined with other rations such as middlings and grass. Using milk alone wastes resources. pairing it with these feed components can double the number of pigs supported by the same milk supply.
Michigan researchers report in Bulletin 237 that digester tankage improves pig gains when added to the ration. Gains rise with longer feeding, tankage lowers cost per pound of gain, and a packer sold tankage at about 32.50 a ton with protein 60 percent fat 10 percent and phosphorus 6 percent.
The 1905 census of manufactures shows 12.15 billion pounds of milk 588 million pounds of cream used in 1904 to produce 551 million pounds of butter 314 million pounds of cheese and 308 million pounds of condensed milk. Material cost 142.9 million dollars products valued at 168.2 million dollars up 31.3 and 28.6 percent respectively. Establishments fell to 8,926 while capital rose 30 percent to 47.26 million. Salaried officials and clerks numbered 3,507 with 15,557 workers earning 9.79 million in wages.
A Farm and Home guide explains using a five to six foot rope with a loop and stirrup to trap a hog. Scatter corn to attract the pig, snare its mouth, lift its head, then insert the rings and tighten quickly.
An Ogle county correspondent for the Farmers' Review says blue grass pasture is best for grazing cattle. He notes his method of buying feeders in fall, feeding full through winter, then turning them to pasture with corn in spring and acknowledges pasture improvement is possible in every case.
A discussion notes the vast global goat flesh consumption and estimates huge numbers slaughtered in China and Central Africa. It suggests world totals would rise by at least 70 million head if interior use were counted.
A short note on pig health stressing good pasture and ample feed as key to a strong, vigorous animal. It cautions against inadequate care and emphasizes foundational husbandry practices for health.
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