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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1897
Page
6
A prominent Mexican stock breeder builds a large, affordable cattle barn with a north to south through driveway for easy cleaning and manure removal. The two story design features second floor feed bins with basement shoots, a ten bushel traveling feed box on a steel hay track, a 76 foot hay track, and a 8 foot basement height. Estimated cost around $2500.
Reports from the Wisconsin and Indiana Agricultural Experiment Stations show that combining cornmeal with shorts or barley to feed pigs yields faster gains and leaner, more muscular meat than a pure corn diet. Skim milk and ripe pumpkins further support gains. oats fed with corn also boost profits. Ground wheat and oats in equal parts produced better results than corn alone.
In the Caucasus, children are trained to wield daggers from a young age. They learn to stab water without a splash by constant practice, showing exceptional weapon mastery early in life.
Jordan Street Sunday school held a picnic in woodland near St. Vincent's Academy on Southern avenue. Mr. C. S. Steere owns the site and permitted outings. children and adults enjoyed songs, games, and mutual civility under tall oaks despite heat. The day highlighted virtue and Christian conduct with praise for Brother Ben Rudder and the Jolly Sisters Sallie and Rudder. A Sunday school session invites visitors tomorrow at 3:00 oclock with a cordial welcome.
Citizens who paid for paving Milam Street gripe at price and service while outsiders complain. A broad protracted meeting unfolds in several colored Baptist and Methodist churches with substantial progress. Hon. J B Slattery joins a procession and plans a brick business house on Texas Street in Shreveport’s dilapidated block.
From the residence of Frank R. Hicks in Shreveport on Friday night May 28 1897 a red sorrel mare about 15 hands high, long bodied and front feet shod. The mare holds her head high and is about 6 or 7 years old. A liberal reward will be paid for her return to F R Hicks or Ed Nix.
The Dixie mosquito frame and net puzzle the nocturnal bloodsucker. See Stephenson, get one and spend the summer in comfort.
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