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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1900
Page
7
A New York Tribune description shows a device to help a single worker load heavy sticks and barrels into farm wagons. A plank slips over the axle to grip the wheel rim with three hooks, while a hinged arm with a lever and hooks assists lifting. When turned, the plank can come outside the wheel and the contraption allows loading from the rear.
W A Chambers describes trials from 1895 on 30 acres of corn with peas and compares methods. He notes planting peas between corn rows uneven shading. best practice is sowing peas alone in late May with 1 1/4 bushels seed per acre for later August harvest, leaving land ready for wheat after hogs and calves pick up waste.
A rural column offers homely maxims on life and farming. It warns against overeager thinking and urges careful observation of crops, expenditures, and receipts. It includes poultry care tips noting damp ground and rapid growth can cause weak legs, advising reduced feeding and green fodder.
Instructions discuss planting popcorn with furrows three feet apart and one stalk per hill fourteen inches apart. Early or late planting risks poor yields and worm damage. Irrigation tips warn against excess watering. fodder is valued for poultry and livestock feed.
A writer advises on breaking collies under the handler's guidance from puppyhood. Do not strike or scold. use calm commands and gentle pressure, keep the dog with you, teach one command at a time, and reward right behavior. Patience and perseverance form a good work dog.
Practical notes cover a four by four plank drag for field leveling and a method to preserve smoked or dried meat in a dry salt packed in a coal outhouse. Instructions emphasize spacing, dry storage, and avoiding moisture to prevent mold and spoilage.
John B. Peele National Stockman reports on lamb growth methods using ventilated housing, straw bedding, and ample exercise. Observes that lambs kept in a paddock and given daily access fatten better, with several lots selling above market quotations by a dollar and a half.
Text discusses sheep profitability on various land types and the value of persistent breeding through pedigrees. It notes British practice of keeping sheep on rich land and argues for strong hereditary selection in animals. It also covers Great Abversion's lease plans by Carbon county Wool-Growers' association and their negotiations with Union Pacific for land rental.
A veterinary guide explains lameness tests on horses using circular movement rather than straight walking. It describes weighing limb parts, checking heat and swelling, and feeling pulses to locate the afflicted region from shoulder to pastern and hock.
The article describes original Kansas cattle feeding methods from 16 years ago. Farmers used ground-set wood feeders arranged five feet apart with a surrounding trough and a one-inch clearance at the bottom for shelled corn. Cattle were allowed to roam to eat, aided by hogs to consume waste kernels. A separate note explains making an indelible marking ink using shellac borax water and lamp black for branding equipment.
A poultry paper writer argues against any grain being perfectly balanced for poultry feed. He concedes wheat is closest to balance but says wheat lacks sufficient carbohydrate and must be paired with corn or similar grain to achieve a proper ration.
An article warns interior walls of churches schools and hospitals can harbor pests like cheese afters and urges preventive cleaning and cementing with Alabastine a disinfectant wall coating. It notes that renewal costs are low and easy and references a playful Paris exposition anecdote involving Looby the French president and a door.
Fragmentary quotation describes a tense exchange aboard a vehicle with a passenger and an uncooperative speaker. Context unclear, with garbled lines suggesting a confrontation and implied danger or threat in a car setting.
A letter signed by W. H. Kinkade of Alameda Assiniboia Western Canada describes homesteading there. It outlines land prices five to ten dollars per acre with fees and inspections, climates prairie light rolling land, and stations ten to twenty miles from towns. It notes doubling population, C P R land prices, and suggests workers come in May or July to break land and work through harvest. It emphasizes hard work, savings, and the goal of a 320 acre farm paid in ten years with steady effort.
A partial ad fragment promotes Take Laxative Hromo Quinine Tablets with a refund offer if not effective. The note links debt relief to borrowing behavior, and the source cites Washington Illinois satire about jokes and boredom.
Letters from Aptos California praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier for easing monthly sickness cramps and headaches. Mrs Jensen of Ogdensburg Wisconsin also reports relief from nervousness chills and dizziness after three bottles of the remedies.
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