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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1899
Page
2
A collection of wry observations and light political jests. Quips on poets, equality debates, marriage, journalism, and a West Virginia calfbrains anecdote weave through references to Jim Jeffries and the Hague peace conference with subtle satirical targets.
The city will open thirty large school buildings with recreation grounds for eight weeks from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to accommodate up to a hundred thousand children. No texts. activities focus on industrial and manual work with ample play. Illinois also adopts a vacation school law.
The piece notes a Cuban custom where professors at Havana University farm out duties, paying substitutes while collecting salaries. A Havana professor earning six thousand dollars yearly lived in Spain for seventeen years as others performed his work. U.S. authorities have ended this scheme, ordering salaries paid only to earners.
About forty years ago a wealthy young woman answered a personal advertisement in a city paper. She married a clever adventurer, mortgaged her property, and was deserted after a divorce. She ended life in a Connecticut poorhouse, but the piece notes not all fall to such tragedy and warns against such ads.
Emma Clearwaters shares hands on tips for poultry care from turkey eggs to duck market timing. She describes setting eggs under hens, brooder pens, feeding with curds and breads, weekly lice dusting, and avoiding wet ground to protect poults. She notes egg fertility varies with hens and stresses early market timing for ducks.
The article explains leg weakness in young birds, especially cockrels aged 3 to 5 months, caused by overfeeding fattening foods. Signs include unsteady gait and leg tremors, progressing to sitting or dragging feet. Solutions include removing problematic feeds, regulating meal times, isolating sick birds, providing grass runs with shade and cool water, and careful feeding to restore health.
A practice noted that giving a grain of quinine to each bird with leg weakness every morning can aid in bringing the chick to health again.
The Danish method, as reported by The New Zealand Dairyman, weighs butter after removing buttermilk to determine salt, then works in 4 to 5 percent salt. Salt is added in one or two workings, preferred to minimize handling, and butter rests in coolers or troughs for hours to dissolve salt and improve firmness. Subsequent workings remove brine and prevent overworking, before packing for shipment.
The article explains sun-scald as bark injury on southern sides of trees and guards against it with shaded bark coverings. It then surveys millet crops for fodder and seed, detailing varieties such as German millet and Golden Wonder, sowing methods, soil needs, and harvesting timing, plus cautions on feeding millet to horses.
Indiana station compared 200 early and 200 late Berkshire Poland-China and Chester White litters to assess changes in fecundity. Across 3,693 pigs farrowed, 1,786 boars and 1,907 sows were raised, showing no clear gain or loss in overall fecundity despite fewer very large litters.
Millet sowing advised from June 10 to 30 with a bushel to a bushel and a half per acre. Cut at blossom for hay yielding one to two and a half tons per acre. Cornfodder suggests several corn varieties for green or dry forage yielding three to six tons per acre. begin feeding when ears graze. Lousy fowls note describes lice and nuts making hens miserable and jokes about killing off hens to end misery. Ex Chicago claims to use 41,000,000 pounds of soap yearly.
Millet is best started after the season advances and dried properly for fodder. it yields good feed when cut at the right stage and cured, but overripe heads become woody and reduce value. Varieties include common millet, German millet, Hungarian grass, Golden Wonder, and Broom Corn millet. common millet yields seed but less fodder. For cutworms, fall plowing reduces spring damage. a poison bran mix with Paris green and sugar can kill worms when applied near plants or across the field before planting. Keep henhouse walls whitewashed.
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