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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1910
Page
6
A collage of whimsical quips on weather, aviation, science, and society from a Silver Messenger page. Mentions Berlin, Kipling, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, with riffs on aeroplanes, mysterious gadgets, and modern life.
The Dry Farming Congress reports deep plowing as essential to sinking rainfall into the soil. Nebraska and other western farmers find moisture rises with deeper cultivation, creating soil reservoirs in desert regions and reducing runoff.
The column discusses culling drones for pot pies, rooster counts of ten to twelve per forty hens being unnecessary, and three roosters enough. It advises grinding oats with cracked corn, warns against feeding oats whole, and notes ducks may be picked several times during the fret season without harming growth. It cautions roost placement and grit types, suggests portable coops for colony houses, and emphasizes attention to many small poultry-related details.
The weeder is a useful tool in potato cultivation when properly used. It should be run across nine rows after each cultivation as long as the plant size allows. It helps pulverize the surface and destroys many weeds in the rows.
A farm report instructs removal of a dead hog from Mee feeding lots regardless of cause and to dispose of the carcass by burning at a distance away from the units to prevent contamination or risk.
English hogs receive diverse feed including potatoes turnips carrots peas beans barley and cats. Grasses and clovers are cut for summer feeding while grain is steamed or ground and vegetables are cooked with swill. To produce lean meat, a greater variety and muscle forming foods are needed.
Summer bedding with sawdust aids horses and offers profit. Keeping wagons and buggies well oiled shows kindness to horses. Allowing stable manure to accumulate can be harmful to animals and health.
The silo furnishes a convenient method of supplying dairy cows with abundant feed throughout the year. It avoids sudden seasonal feed changes and stores more feed in the same space than a barn, offering economized feeding.
If you bug the sooner the Ouishing precept is begun the better for all concerned iy a good crop of tubers. Palm green is a good finisher. It will put a fim fab on the hardest feeder that the patch contains in almost less time. Cultivate the Tomatoes. Tomato plants respond to generous cultivation and neglect as ground dries. Keep soil stirred to prevent baking, true for any crop, but especially for tomatoes.
Advice notes that chick success heavily depends on careful hatchery handling. Keep birds dry, warm, and fed with nutritious food to ensure strong growth and survival of young poultry.
The text discusses why some keep scrub hens, notes an old method using kerosene moth balls and carbolic acid for poultry, and warns to protect growing chicks from sun and neglect. It emphasizes water importance and careful feeding for incubator chicks due to their artificial condition.
The note discusses removing a ded hog and the body of a farm animal found far from the feeding area. It mentions distance and location factors affecting removal, indicating agricultural cleanup steps following the animal's death.
Shrubbery for ornament plays a key role in decorating home grounds. It can serve purely for beauty or act as a screen to hide unsightly features.
The passage notes that young creatures depend greatly on the care they receive early and while well nourished. It emphasizes that initial attention and adequate nutrition are key to proper development and long term health.
An article details enhanced stable ventilation using a two section cupola and vent shafts, with doors on one or more sides to regulate wind flow. It explains how openings opposite each other, aligned with prevailing winds, create suction, drawing fresh air through the shaft while blocking rain or snow.
An illustration shows a hoof with excess growth causing strow hitting and recommends paring as indicated and fitting a leather pad under the rear hoof. A second illustration depicts a correctly proportioned foot and leg as it strikes behind center, with bones at proper angles for strength and free action in travel.
The author argues for frequent pasture changes to prevent stomach worms in ewes and lambs. By dividing pastures into small lots and rotating them every eight to twelve days, infections from larvae in grass can be reduced, keeping mothers cleaner before lambing and lambs healthier.
The advisory suggests letting lambs lead briefly ahead of the ewes while moving the ewes forward one trough each week, so both groups are rotated weekly. The practice aims to balance grazing and manage flock dynamics through regular change.
Pasteurizing milk or cream to about 160 degrees then cooking squid destroys lactic germs but not putrid germs. Experts warn dirty milk may be pasteurized, making detection of spoilage difficult. Some physicians say pasteurization reduces digestibility and may not prevent harmful germs from remaining.
Currants and gooneberries are cultivated by A H hittinger an extensive grower five miles from Boston. He propagates every plant on the farm and maintains a thriving nursery of currants. The plants root readily from hardwood cuttings and should be stored in moist can fat or buried for fall planting and set in spring when ground is prepared.
A cadet at Plymouth England contracted typhoid while a roommate in Ansapolit reportedly smoked a pipe. The medical department will review the theory that concentrated gleotine cannot destroy a typhoid germ, affecting future midshipmen’s pipe use.
A fragmented excerpt discusses alleged cures and claims about deafness, mentioning various places and entities in a period newspaper voice. It references individuals and organizations tied to proposed remedies and taxaged disputes, while ending with a quotation about making the world better through actions.
Graniteville Vermont resident Mars Cras Barclay writes that Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her nervousness and health issues. The letter touts thirty years of female-ill cures and urges publication to help other women during illness and menstruation.
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