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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1899
Page
7
A column of wry maxims and quips items from Townsend Montana hints at social observation. It blends humor on love appearances opportunity wealth and progress with brief notes about ambassadors and rail travel. The piece surveys light satire on human nature and current affairs.
Mayor Jones of Toledo Ohio runs for re election on a platform built mainly around the golden rule. Friends fear voters may view this new and untried issue with suspicion.
The argument calls for individual ownership for Indians and the breaking up of tribal relations. It urges allotment of Indian lands regardless of treaties to remove reservations seen as plague spots to both the surrounding country and residents. It condemns the influence of Native American communal life and promotes white neighbors as the path to freedom.
Consul General Holloway reports from St Petersburg that Russia is a large market attracting US manufacturers and exporters seeking direct home-company dealings. Russian buyers favor American goods except for engines, threshing machines, and plows. samples via competent representatives help entry. Also quotes William Black and Robert Louis Stevenson on realism and joy in literature.
A group of newspaper men host a psychical experiment with Jim Beasley as organizer. A mysterious female image appears on a frosted window, a letter ties Agnes to Allenton, and the distraught lawyer dies after a night of eerie happenings.
Mr. Symms long troubled by neighborhood cats finds a musical earful in a salmon tin. A cat stuck its head in a can and, after a night of eerie tune, twenty four cans are set out. Cats learn to avoid the garden, others flee, and finally the cats are buried in the yard.
North Carolina Experiment Station reports a Pekin duck feeding trial over 56 days with a soft food mix of corn meal wheat bran bone grit and green clover plus water. Ducks remained healthy. eight week costs and average weights by week are listed with sale value at 50 cents per duck.
A. H. Janssen argues the Friesland Holstein thrives in water rich, flat pastures producing big cattle with slow pace and high butter yield. He contrasts with Devonshire and Jersey types and warns against mixing traits for fattening, milk, and conformation.
A discussion suggests small eggs used for hatching can reduce egg size in a breed. By selecting only the largest eggs for hatchings for several years, a line of fowls may emerge that consistently lays large eggs. Pairing hens that lay big eggs with males of the same trait could perpetuate this in future generations.
A article discusses how eggs and hens sizing relate to feed and environment. It notes that overfed or hot foods can shrink egg size, and correcting the diet restores normal egg size. It warns against relying on early pullet eggs for hatchings and explores tradeoffs between egg size and laying frequency in breeding selections.
Edwin Powell argues in Country Gentleman that tuberculin tests can be unreliable when repeated. He cites a milk producer who bought tested cows, but a later issue led to many deaths after catching tuberculosis. A dealer's herd then shifted and faced more testing with mixed results.
Developing the Milker F A Converse of Woodville NY spoke at a New York institute on dairy feeding. He urged intensive farming saying farmers must test milk twice monthly to know profitability and losses and to time production for price. He advised raising own cows with thoroughbred sires and praised ensilage for winter milk. He stressed succulent food and daily grain feeding year round.
An anonymous note describes using a dime sized egg shell hole and strychnine two grains of wheat for killing skunks. The method warns to place bait away from other animals and children and to label and handle with care.
The article stresses continuing rodent and pest control measures even when signs of infestation seem weak. It urges consistent sanitation, sealing entry points, trimming vegetation, and monitoring bait stations to prevent a resurgence, noting that latent problems can flare if ignored.
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