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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1911
Page
2
A row of satirical notes touches on Russia importing typewriters, doctors opposing telephone practice, the return of hoop skirts, and a ban on aeroplanes in funeral processions. The piece riffs on fashion, crime, medical opinions, and social quirks with playful.
Parsons of Parker Colorado explains moisture storage in subsoil to sustain alfalfa without irrigation. He cites fall plowing to deepen soil, April planting around the 20th, and use of split wheel drills. He details 1908 drought, harvest timing, cultivation, and root depth strategies for lasting stands.
Practical veterinary note advises against turpentine for nail punctures and explains why. It recommends soothing treatment, enlarging the sole opening with a knife, applying linseed meal or bran poultices daily for up to three days, removing the shoe, and giving the horse rest and reduced diet until recovery. It warns improper poulticing may soften the hoof and worsen damage.
Dry farming is presented as a great success by conserving moisture. It aims to save evaporation by keeping soil moisture in the root zone, demanding more labor and careful crop care, but promised to repay effort and prevent crop failure under adverse conditions.
A 1907 study in Cache valley Utah reports that wheat cropping under either summer fallow or continuous cropping does not reduce surface soil nitrogen or humus. Deeper soil layers show higher nitrogen and humus than virgin soil, likely from deeper nitrogen movement and added straw humus, indicating deeper soil focus is needed.
At a Montana editorial page, the Rocky Mountain Husbandman editor argues that growing trees west of the mountains is possible only with irrigation and artificial watering. He notes east of the mountains not feasible for ornament or use trees without water, warns beekeeping and buffalo berry efforts fail, and suggests it would take 60 to 80 years with no water.
Advice on selecting breeding stock from strong ancestry, rapid fattening for pork, and best winter forage for sheep. Emphasizes clean water, hog manure use, proper feeding to prevent disease, and early maturity. Encourages visible selling signs and a blackboard to advertise hog stock.
An older dairy farming article argues proper barn design, planning, and ventilation are key to sanitary milk. It stresses inexpensive construction can meet sanitary goals, drainage, sunlit high vents, four square feet of window light per cow, proper air intake near the ceiling, exhaust near the floor, and avoiding cracks that harbor moisture and germs.
A diagram shows a frost protection method using a pipe embedded in a hollowed split post held by an iron ring. The post is six to eight inches in diameter, split in the middle, and the pipe fits into the hollow with the halves clamped by the ring. The design could extend through a building wall and be angled for installation.
The guide warns against using fresh manure near trees when renewing an old orchard. Use well rotted manure only at the outer branch extremities and worked into soil. Ash may supplement the manure or be placed around the tree base to control insects.
The article details multiple tanning methods for rabbit skins. It describes salting flesh sides, rolling, and a 12 month rest, or brine immersion if preferred. It outlines washing, scraping flesh and fat, sewing pouches, and hair inside, then soaking in weak wattle bark decoction with staged bark additions for several days before dubbing and drying. An alternative uses galt and sulfuric acid with bran and strong brine, indicating a quick tan in minutes, followed by washing, partial drying, drying to pliability, and chalking of the flesh side.
Grooming the horse daily cleans the skin and helps prevent parasitic disease. The modern horse, living under artificial conditions, needs human care to perform at its best.
A Sikeston woman shares relief after seven years of monthly痛, severe pain, and weakness. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is praised as a cure for female complaints and used widely. Mrs Dema Bethune credits it with restoring health and enabling normal daily activities. The ad urges others to try the remedy.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis announces a countrywide Tuberculosis Day set for April 0 with 200000 churches to discuss prevention. Unlike 1910 Tuberculosis Sunday, meetings will be held on Sunday April 20 or near that date in this synchronized effort to reach all 33 million church members.
A jurist notes a woman’s reaction to praise, pondering why compliments matter. The speaker asks why one enjoys being told they are pretty, even if they doubt the truth. The answer suggests that such praise reveals the other person’s belief in her worth rather than her own certainty.
Powell warns against it claiming he has only five or ten cents. The exchange reflects a frugal, urban barter scene with sharp dialogue. Names Howell Powell and a terse misquote situate a street level humor vignette from a local pages.
A reader writes from a coffee plagued home about four years of Postum use replacing coffee. She reports improved digestion and steadier nerves, noting the family now drinks Postum as water. The appeal cites healthful nourishment and references The Road to Wellville and Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
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