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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1899
Page
2
A collection of satirical musings on poets politics marriage and progress with brisk wits. References to Jim Jeffries Alfred Austin The Hague and a evolving southern city hint at cultural and social quirks of the era. The piece riffs on authority equality and publicity in playful prose.
A physician supplied a West Virginia man with calves brains. The action may bolster the Popular cause in certain spots.
The city extends the vacation school experiment with thirty large buildings and recreation grounds opened for eight weeks from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to accommodate classes and aim for about one hundred thousand children. No text books, activities focusing on manual skills and play. Illinois also adopts a vacation school law.
A Havana University professor earning six thousand dollars yearly lived in Spain for seventeen years while another performed his duties for a meager wage. The practice of farming out chairs was widespread among professors, but a recent United States decree ends this dishonest arrangement and requires salaries to be paid to those who earn them.
A wealthy young woman answered a personal advertisement and began a correspondence with a sly adventurer. She was manipulated into marriage and mortgage, the man fled, securing a divorce. She died in a Connecticut poorhouse after years of hardship, while a cautionary note warns others of moral danger in such schemes.
A Farmers' Review note by Emma Clearwaters on poultry care details. From 42 turkey eggs set, 39 live poults hatched and three weeks old by June 7. Hens hatched 32 poults, with others shared among hens. Bare pens prevent wet ground and disease, weekly dusting reduces lice, and curds with pepper fuel appetite. Ducks were not raised this year due to timing, but the author prefers ducks and would raise them if possible.
Leg weakness in young birds, mainly three to five months old, is common in larger breeds. Overfeeding with fattening foods causes it. early signs include unsteady gait and shuffling legs. Remove offending feeds, regulate meal times, separate sick birds, provide grass runs with shade and cool water for recovery.
A historical note suggests giving a grain of quinine to each bird with leg weakness every morning to help the chick regain health. The remedy is presented as a simple daily treatment for poultry care.
The New Zealand Dairyman outlines how Danish butter is salted after buttermilk removal with 4 to 5 percent salt by weight. Salt is worked in in one or two steps, then the butter rests to dissolve and penetrate salt, cooled in summer, rolled or laid in troughs in winter, and finally reworked to avoid greasiness before packing.
An Indiana station study compares 200 early litters with 200 nearly all from 1896 to assess fecundity in Berkshire Poland China and Chester White pigs. Across 3693 pigs farrowed, 1786 boars and 1907 sows were raised, showing no clear gain or loss in overall fecundity and no breed-wide decline.
Agricultural notice outlines sowing millet or Hungarian grass from June 10 to 30 with one to one and a half bushels per acre. Hay yields 1 to 2.5 tons per acre, with limited millet hay for horses. Cornfodder suggests early corn varieties for three to six tons per acre of winter forage and notes sweet corn for palatable stalks. Also mentions lice infestations in hens and a Chicago soap usage claim.
The article explains sun scald in trees, caused by direct sun on exposed bark during warm spells or freeze thaw cycles. It details differences between young and old trees, seasonal risk patterns, and factors like recent transplanting or over pruning. Prevention methods include various shading ideas and practical, low cost guards such as rye straw barriers and seed plantings. It also covers millet and other forage crops, sowing advice, and harvest timing for fodder crops.
Millet should be planted after the season advances and cut at the right stage for feed. Varieties include common, German, Hungarian grass, Golden Wonder, and Broom Corn millet. Cutworms harm crops in spring. fall plowing reduces infestations. A poisoned bran mash kills cutworms. apply near plants at night or in field areas before planting. Whitewash the henhouse walls regularly.
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