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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
5
Local Alma Record announces annual subscription rate of 81.00 dollars for Alma and Gratiot County readers. The notice outlines subscription terms and notes the paper’s dedication to area interests and community coverage.
A compilation of property deeds detailing transfers between numerous parties including E. Gould to D. Brown in Alma, G Gibson to M. McIntosh in Bethany, J. B. Sabin with W. Watson in Wheeler, and others in St. Louis, Emerson, Middleton, Arcada, and Newton's additions. Amounts range from 100 to 14000 with lots, halves, and fractional sections noted, reflecting a busy registry of property exchanges.
Local markets quotations corrected each Thursday morning feature grain beans hay and live stock prices for oats wheat barley and timothy. News notes Miss Mabel Hutchings departs for Superior Wyoming to visit her brother Roe Hutchings and wife with a stop in Alma and Liberty along the route.
Breckenridge sees a flood of visitors from Detroit Alma Saginaw Cleveland and more with many townspeople and relatives traveling to and from Detroit St Louis Lansing Ithaca and Bay City. Local business, farm transfers, a pickle station opening July 28 and repairs follow several accidents and a fatal apoplexy.
The article reports experiments on pig feeding and economic weight, arguing a pig should not be fed beyond eight or nine months and that keeping pigs to 200 pounds yields maximal profit. It notes two percent of live weight daily as food for maintenance, equaling about six pounds per day and over 40 pounds weekly, with no profit from that feed. It ends by suggesting more value comes from killing pigs at medium weight.
Oregon experiment station reports excessive hay injures horses and lowers work efficiency. Overeating enlarges the stomach with each breath, causing heaves and indigestion. feeding 16 pounds daily yields more work than 20 pounds. Larger horses need about 20 pounds daily, plus grain for rest of nutriment.
W C Buffington of Guedo Springs Kansas describes a hog holder based on a dehorning chute that can hold a 30 pound pig or a 400 pound hog during ringing. The frame uses 2 by 4 timber bolted at top and bottom with a shiftable lever at the base for adjustment.
The article details a hog’s head lever device with an eight inch opening from base and a notched upper end lever held by a 2 by 4 piece. F. E. Ellsworth plans a two week outing at OF near Armada. Sam Salinsky of Aberdeen Dakota and Mrs Hart of Rochester visit Mr and Mrs Harry Cohen.
Recommendations for preventing and curing apple tree canker describe covering wounds with paints and dressings, spraying branches, and removing dead wood. The report notes wounds canker may persist despite coverings and stresses immediate wound care and burning of debris. Court notices and local ads follow, including a Gratiot County chancery case about land title and unknown heirs with publication and appearance deadlines.
Fragmentary text describes the importance of proper agriculture for civil society and governance. It references a dairy illustration showing a pasture yielding abundant feed, with mention of cows and calves conserving resources, emphasizing concentrated effort in farming.
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