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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1896
Page
2
A condensed extract from Hoards Dairyman offers guidance on dairy and poultry care. The piece urges improving cheese quality, avoiding immature products, and boosting home consumption while noting the peril of foreign demand loss. It also includes personal farming notes from Mrs. Robert Dinning on breeds, egg production, and turkey raising.
Professor Robertson of Toronto notes milk composition with fat in suspension and cream rising on standing. He argues healthy food requires balanced flesh forming and heat producing materials, praising bread and milk and cheese plus potatoes as efficient for hard work and digestion.
In April 15 readers learn from Charley Ramsey of Hardin County Ohio about the Black Langshan breed. The writer, a longtime breeder, describes plumage glossy black with green reflections, pink leg color, feathered legs, and weights Cock 8 to 9½ pounds Hen 7 to 8½ pounds. He praises them as gentle persistent winter layers and strong sitters mothers, noting two body types and that skin color does not affect eating quality.
A poultry keeper describes fourteen years of experience with hens and turkeys. He favors Leghorn breeds for profit, notes a warm winter house and full yard range, and details winter corn feeding plus oats and wheat as variety when ground is bare.
The West Lake Herald notes rising costs to rear pork after the first year and warns that delayed profitability by ten months reduces future gains. It highlights water quality, continuous growth, and the hog’s role in farm finances, urging pure water and steady feeding to avoid disease.
William Busching describes eight years of raising Wyandottes Plymouth Rock Red Caps Langshans and Black Spanish. He notes feeding corn wheat and oats and selling eggs to a dealer at 8 to 25 cents a dozen. He reports winter egg production, many bird losses to disease and predators, declining brood success, and little value from twenty to thirty remedies tried.
The excerpt discusses preferred chicken breeds White Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks, winter housing and winter diet, and selling eggs to a cold-storage buyer in Owaton na. It covers dairy form, Pekin ducks, butter keeping methods, and a note on calf vealing, ending with a line about uphill roads.
The article describes cheap earth dykes and sluiceways to divert rainfall into ditches, irrigating large tracts. It highlights the Belmont canal near Alliance, numerous Loup river ditches, and Culbertson and Republican river projects with high yields, while noting alkali management and potential use of drought plants.
In arid regions farmers tend to overwater, creating soggy soil and root rot. Over irrigation brings deep subsoil alkali to the surface, crusting the soil as water evaporates. Proper drainage and careful management are needed to avoid mineral salt buildup.
The article stresses careful soil cultivation to conserve moisture in dry seasons. It warns against overwatering and promotes deep plowing and thorough stirring to improve moisture diffusion by gravitation and capillary action. It notes soil type dictates irrigation needs and that cultivation often matches or exceeds irrigation for crop recovery.
The article discusses Professor E. W. Hilgard of California arguing that too much water damages fruit and that irrigation should stop once fruit is fully formed. A. B. Stevens disputes him, sharing vineyard flooding results after half the fruit is harvested and noting better fruit condition.
A Native and a Stranger debate the best hotel to stay at with the punchline that none matter since by morning they will be wet in the weather. The exchange reflects local humor and spare moments style.
A brisk exchange notes that if everyone thought alike, all would want the speaker's wife, while none would desire his wife, highlighting humor about taste and marriage. The quip frames jealousy and preference through quick back-and-forth banter.
A narrator recalls Gilbert White and Selborne with deep affection, describing how White’s memory absorbs the village’s land, birds, and sounds. He walks the churchyard, finding a small headstone etched with G. W. 1793, feeling White alive in the scenery and in nature.
Medical examiners for major companies uncover a falsified health parade by unscrupulous doctors who doctor applicants to pass examinations. Heart disease Bright's disease diabetes and other illnesses can be concealed with medication or manipulation. A convention of examiners may be held to devise countermeasures and push for state legislation.
The Exchange describes women who rush between events using carriages as mobile boudoirs. Mirrors, pockets with combs and brushes, powder puffs, handkerchiefs, and perfume let fashionable ladies renew their complexions en route, arriving from visits looking fresh.
The defendant confessed to theft in court but the jury returned a not guilty verdict. The judge condemned the outcome stating the prisoner is a thief and a liar based on his confession and the jury’s verdict.
German bicycle shipments to Australia rise with over 1200 units sent in a recent year. English and American made cycles previously dominated the market, but demand for German bicycles has grown three years after the shift in competition.
The fragment hints at a clash between Greek and Yankee rivals with figures Jonathan Edwards and Cleveland Pisia referenced as participants in a tug of war style dispute.
An old advertisement extols Cee's Cough Balsam as the oldest remedy that breaks up colds and thins illnesses. It promotes reliability and includes lines praising the Modern Beauty who thrives on sun and good food. It also touts Syrup of Fig for laxative relief and notes fashion trends in May for cotton gowns and fabrics.
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