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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
14
Mrs E J Calhoun returns home following several weeks absence. Mr A A Alston appears in the city this week, described as genial, jolly and friendly as ever.
A Friend at Court is a monthly magazine of law government and literature offering concise, discriminating insight into Uncle Sam’s workings through law and government machinery. It markets itself as a top public educator and urges subscriptions for $1 yearly with sample issues and agent commissions.
W. P. Leary advertises a wide stock of groceries at 500 Texas streets with canned fruits and vegetables, coffee varieties, spices, preserves, breads, butter, eggs, and poultry. October 23, 1897.
The next session of this institution will begin on Monday the 6th day of September.
The Western Plowman offers practical farming notes on pig and cattle care for winter. It advises keeping fall pigs separate and well fed, cooking stock food, and using safe remedies for sick hogs. It cautions removing cattle with jaw swelling and notes fattening diseased hogs is unwise. It warns about farcy in horses and recommends carbolic acid washes and strong blood purifiers.
A Rural World article explains that diverse feeds beyond corn enhance meat flavor and value. Pumpkins and Hubbard squash fattening beef without grain yielded sweet, flavorful meat. sugar cane bagasse and corn silage in the eating stage also boost flavor due to higher digestible sugar content over starch.
The article notes flax seed is a cheap, concentrated feed and suggests eastern farmers who do not grow flaxseed consider buying linseed meal for mixed feeds. It highlights new process oil meal as nitrogen rich and inexpensive, praising its feeding value and manure potential as grain prices rise.
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