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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1899
Page
2
A column of wry observations on politics marriage equality and social mores. Sharp lines touch on poetry theater journalism and the Hague peace conference with a playful jab at public figures and headlines. mentions Alfred Austin boer war and a Calves brains needle satire.
The city expands the vacation school program after promising results last year. Thirty large school buildings and recreation grounds will host eight weeks from 8 am to 6 pm to accommodate up to one hundred thousand children. No textbooks, activities focus on industrial and manual work with ample play. Illinois adopts a vacation schools law.
Jubilacion in Cuba describes paying salaries to absent workers who hire substitutes. A Havana University professor earning six thousand dollars yearly has lived in Spain for seventeen years while others taught in Cuba for meager pay. Many professors reportedly farm out chairs until a US decree ends the practice, with salaries now paid only to those who earn them.
A wealthy young woman answered a personal ad overseas and entered a perilous correspondence with a clever adventurer. She was duped into marriage and mortgaged property, then deserted and divorced, ending in years of charity before a Connecticut poorhouse. The piece hints at caution for women about personal ads and the moral hazards involved.
A detailed farm note describes turkey and duck care from setting eggs to brooding hens. It covers coop layout 12 by 12 foot pens, when poults may fly, feed mixtures including peppered curds, weekly dusting to control lice, and reasons for bare pens to keep poults dry. It also notes egg fertility issues with young hens and the timing needed for market ducks. The second item explains Danish butter salting: weighing butter after buttermilk removal, 4 to 5 percent salt, two to three workings, cooling steps, and brine removal to avoid greasiness.
Leg weakness strikes young birds especially cockrels aged three to five months as growth outruns leg strength. Overfeeding fattening foods causes the trouble. early signs include unsteady gait and trembling limbs. Remove triggers, feed on a schedule, isolate sick birds, provide grass runs with shade and cool water for recovery.
Indiana station analysis of Berkshire Poland-China and Chester White litters compares earliest and latest records to assess fecundity. Across 3,693 pigs from 2,000 litters, 1,786 boars and 1,907 sows were raised, with overall farrowing totals similar to earlier records.
Guidance on sowing millet or Hungarian grass from June 10 to 30 for hay, with seed rates of a bushel to a bushel and a half per acre, and harvesting when heads bloom. Expected yields of 1 to 2.5 tons per acre. Also cautions on millet hay for horses. Cornfodder advised from corn varieties for green or dry forage, early types best for fall feed, with three to six tons per acre possible. A note on lice in fowls and a casual Chicago soap usage figure.
The article defines sun-seal or sunscald on tree trunks caused by direct sun, heat, and rapid temp changes, notes young trees are most vulnerable, and describes seasonal factors and preventive shading methods. It also covers millet varieties such as German and Hungarian millets, sowing timing, soil needs, harvesting readiness, and feeding cautions, with practical advice for fodder production and crop management.
Home stead advises planting millet after the season advances, as it endures heat once established. It yields green fodder and can be stored as winter feed for horses cattle and sheep if harvested at the right stage, but overripe millet becomes woody and palatability drops. Seed-fed livestock benefit only when ripening does not reduce fodder value. varieties include common German Hungarian Golden Wonder and broom corn millet.
Remedies describe cut worms damaging crops such as tomatoes cabbages and corn. Fall plowing reduces worm numbers by exposing larvae before spring growth. A garden control mixes bran or corn meal Paris green and molasses. apply near plants at night. Also notes whitewashing henhouse walls.
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