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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
2
A string of opinion lines condemns self made men and gossips while urging voters to act on conscience. It critiques Senator Emory of Pennsylvania blaming railroads for trusts and laments individual irresponsibility. The piece argues national welfare rests on each voter's personal duty and integrity.
The article surveys a scholar famed as a digger in Greek and Latin, a fossil hunter in Germany, and a blustery football field digger. It also details Zella Nicolaus’s fall from notoriety after New York scandal, Gould family entanglements, and her decline toward an Indiana home.
The rarest bird in Cuba is the aratriclor or Cuban macaw. It inhabits swamps and features vivid colors with a red forehead yellow neck cinnamon edged green back scarlet underparts blue secondary feathers brown legs and yellow eyes. It rests on swamp lily pads at dusk and stands as among the handsomest birds in any land.
A writer in an English magazine argues the real average Englishman is a workingman earning six dollars a week, without a collar, ignorant of toothbrushes and handkerchiefs, shaved only on Sundays, who buys no books and reads only sporting papers.
Advice on running dairy and poultry operations highlights risks of overexpansion in creameries and oleomargarine laws. Notes faulty tub and brine practices, butter storage, and costs. Discusses butter shortages, storage totals, and the merits of sticking to one poultry breed unless economics justify multiple varieties.
Advice to aid birds through moulting to ensure fall and winter egg yield. Suggest regular meat for them, a five cent hog pluck to help feather production, and control red mites with daily attention. Recommends cleaning roosts and proper housing to limit mite spread.
Ohio Farmer contributor A C McPherson describes two domesticated guinea varieties the white and the pearl or speckled. The white is tame and good table fowl while the speckled is wild and gamey with darker flesh. Foragers rival turkeys and eggs are plentiful with careful rearing.
The Oregon Agriculturist reports a sharp rise in dairy product output and consumption across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Despite debates, 1898’s dairy value is set to surpass previous records, driven by Klondike demand, steamship and sailing trade, and rising Northwest city consumption.
A reader notes that early eggs from brown-egg layers are well colored but pigment loss as hens lay persists in many birds. The writer observes some hens maintain good color and believes the brown egg strain can be bred to retain shell color while remaining productive layers.
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