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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1910
Page
2
A jumbled mix discusses pork and beef prices and ways to purchase meat by telegraph, notes on hogs and hens shifts, hints at economic worries, and muses on topics from tobacco to life insurance. The piece blends ironic questions about American industry and public life with casual observations.
The text notes Cuba's post occupation finances, with $6,000,000 paid on public debt and praise for management. It then shifts to New York mining prospects, debating coal versus gold wealth, mentioning Auburn diggings and speculative gold hopes amid broad mineral wealth.
The past year saw an average near a million banana bunches per month enter the United States via New Orleans, the world’s largest banana market. Thousands of refrigerator cars ferried fruit to northern cities, chiefly Chicago, as the enduring influx continued. People who grow hogs and own hogs may, meanwhile, wear diamonds as markets shift.
A conservation approach urges minimal irrigation while enhancing cultivation. A Field and Farm idea promotes building a composting crib or pond at the head gate to collect manure and water, preventing ammonia loss and fermentation, then applying treated material as top dressing to orchards or gardens. The scheme relies on concrete barn floors, gutters, and seasonal cleaning, turning waste into soil nutrients for irrigation areas.
Guidance on cabbage care covers soil prep with lime at 75 bushels per acre, tillage to destroy infested land, removal of wild mustard and charlock, and preventive sprays. Details include soap suds kerosene emulsions for pests, tar paper collars for maggots, carbolic acid emulsion, paris green with resin, and insect powders or hot water as later measures. Hand-picking caterpillars is advised when they first appear.
English buyers found an abundance of new potatoes extremely early in the season. Investigations revealed clever producers buried old potatoes in soil to refresh their appearance and passing as new potatoes though not of first quality.
An egg laid in captivity by a bird at Lord's park Elgin Illinois was produced. The Lincoln Park Chicago keeper had offered 1000 dollars for such an egg but withdrew when the Elgin product was presented.
The article details costs to establish peach orchards up to bearing age, estimates per acre outlays from $100 to $150, and notes irrigation, buildings, fences, horses, and implements as necessary. It cites variable early yields, three-year flowering, six-year full crops, and reports gross returns of $1,000 to $1,500 per acre at full bearing with net incomes of $300 to $500 per acre in top districts.
With egg prices high, every hen act costs about three cents to the owner. Fit fowls to the space available and avoid overcrowding. Bees fearsome? Treat them kindly. For turkeys, six weeks are critical. keep dampness, lice, and poor diet away. Turkeys destroy pests and profit with proper care. Quarantine sick fowls and every yard should have a distant quarantine pen.
The author notes that animals' natural habit strength can be harnessed by stockmen. Train each animal to enter its own stall and stand without being tied to reduce labor. Lessons take time and must be well taught before relying on the team unsupervised.
Plan to compile a scrapbook of home poultry remedies and preventive measures. Collect tips and pay as you go recipes, catalog them for quick reference, and assemble a low cost, large volume to preserve valuable hints and preparations for future use.
Abutilons thrive in a sunny window with southern exposure and grow in east or west windows. They are seldom troubled with insects. If a male attacks them, paint the trunk and branches with lime water.
A lengthy survey of Navajo life in the U S border region argues that government land allotments of 160 acres per person combine with the tribe s matrilineal marriage customs to create land wealth for large families and poverty for bachelors. The piece notes widespread nomadic habit, resistance to fenced farms, and cultural contrasts with white society while detailing reservation size, dispersal across several states, and the social challenges of wives prices and in law relations on hogans.
A fragmentary note discusses a figure described as tall and skinny, with questions about her workplace in a museum context and hints at a fashion journal satire. The text includes broken words and odd spellings, implying a playful or skewed piece about perception and appearance.
A fragment discusses relaxation for women linking posture to youth, noting a cat as an example of relaxed muscles and tension in society. It mentions mental knots, habitual weariness, and social pressures, with a later stray reference to Ridgeway and a toast. The piece blends anecdote with social commentary.
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