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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1895
Page
4
The advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as restoring blood, nerves, and digestion with a mild laxative effect. Jars are sold in boxes at 50 cents each, six for 2.50, available from druggists or by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
A farmer advises feeding hay in sections to avoid waste and notes that a large grain crop allows cheaper fodder. Use straw with linseed or cottonseed meal to balance nitrogen, and consider Western corn and bran for a better ration. The piece also covers hydrocyanic gas for scale control, unsuitable for growing plants.
A dubious testimonial touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a 75 cent price and druggists offering free samples. It reads like a garbled medical claim urging readers to rely on this remedy for a supposed cure and endorsing a specific wholesale firm.
A three by four foot seven color wall map issued by the Burlington Route. It shows every state county important towns and rail lines in the Union. Maps cost over fifteen cents each and are sent on receipt of that amount in stamps. Write J Francois G P T A Burlington Route Omaha Nebraska.
A brass clock claimed to have chimed as Paul Revere rode through Concord, Massachusetts is owned by a man in Brattleboro, Vermont and remains an excellent timekeeper.
A terse weather note links wintry, changeable conditions to catarrhs and coughs. It mentions Jayne's Extorant as a purported remedy to be taken faithfully for relief. The item reads like a brief health advisory from a periodical.
A fragment shows a couple discussing engagements and a father’s lease ending on the first of the month. The woman urges informing the father about the engagement while the man weighs whether to seek a larger house.
The fragment presents unclear text about sharing and money with scattered terms like three dollars and names that do not form a coherent news item. No identifiable event, person, or organization is established for a factual summary.
In Morgan County Colorado the notable project highlights a famous figure’s push to unite local irrigation districts. The effort centers on improving water rights management and regional cooperation among farming communities.
Farm writers agree clover and grass are cheap hog foods but corn yields more total weight and nutrition. For bulky roughage beets and mangel wurtzel per acre outperform grasses, with roots preserving well for winter. Hogs eat beet roots readily and digest better on this diet than ensilage or grass.
The New York Tribune notes cranberry worms or fruit worms (Acro basic vaccinis) infesting berries that turn red and shrivel. Eggs hatch in five to six days, worms burrow into berries, overwinter in soil, and emerge next June or July. Plowing is ineffective for pest control on wet bogs.
A table by Rothamstead shows the fertility element amounts carried by fodder fed to cows versus steers. Using feed with 12 percent solids and 0.5 percent protein, 8.50 per capita is noted as a measure.
The author argues tillage does not create more weeds than pasture. Cultivation brings surface seeds to germination, while pasture allows initial weeds to mature seeds as stock avoids them. Over years, pasture can seed soil with weeds, complicating future cultivation.
Practical notes on preserving potatoes to avoid sprouting include a sulfuric acid wash, lime dusting, and sulfur fumes in a closed chamber. Pigs need moderate bedding and a warm pen to prevent cold stress. straw piles can harm pigs in cold weather. Plums show strong returns with war on curculio, with imported varieties resisting some curculio damage. native plums may pay less after blossoming.
Article explains enriching orchards by stocking with sheep and feeding bran to raise feeding and manamal value while reducing insect spread from fallen fruit. Caution advised to keep sheep out of young orchards as they forage on reachable branches.
The guide advises milking a heifer ten to eleven months the first time she is in milk to establish a year round milking habit. It notes it matters little if she yields only a pint a day in the last month and argues farmers should milk cows nearly year round rather than letting six months pass.
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