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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
30
Mrs E J Calhoun is back in town after several weeks absence and is hoped to stay. Mr S A Alston appears in the city this week, described as genial jolly and friendly as ever.
A Friend at Court announces a monthly magazine of law government and literature urging busy citizens to subscribe for 1 a year. It claims to educate and inform with a Subscribers' Query Column and offers commissions to agents with address 611 F St NW Washington DC.
W. P. Leary advertises groceries in DOO Texas streets including canned fruits vegetables meats maple sap old fashioned molasses extracts spices mince meat apple butter evaporated fruits coffee pickles mustards sauces butter from Jersey farms bread eggs chickens turkeys and geese with no quarantine. Offers farm fresh turkeys chickens eggs and invites inquiries by phone. October 28 1897.
The Western Plowman advises wintering the fall pig at Isert with ample feed and warmth, cooking stock food rather than merely warming it, and using worm seed as a vermifuge if a hog is ill. It warns against swelling jaws in cattle, cautions that trichinae are killed by cooking pork, recommends meat and dairy production from grain, notes cholera deaths in pigs, and suggests separating coughing horses with sores treated by carbolic acid.
A Rural World article explains that feeding diverse feeds enhances beef flavor. Pumpkins and Hubbard squash fatten cows best when scarce, sugar in the squash substitutes starch. Sugar cane bagasse and corn silage in the fattening stage also improve tenderness and sweetness compared to starch-rich feeds.
The notice discusses finxseed as a cheaper, highly nutritious seed grain, with 5480 concentrated food capable of feeding a small amount at once. It suggests farmers consider growing finxseed or buying meal for feeding, noting its nitrogenous content, low oil, and market effects as grain and meal prices rise.
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