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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
3
Special report notes for Iowa predicting rain or snow flurries tonight and Saturday with a slowly rising temperature. Weather outlook emphasizes unsettled conditions and gradual warming.
Keck Floral Co. advertises Burpee seeds. Johnson's bakery offers pound and chocolate pies tomorrow with a full line of cakes pies and bread. Several residents travel for business and visits to Des Moines Fairfield Keota Letts Ainsworth and West Chester while Stewart's west side advertises wallpaper remnants and right prices.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt outlines making silage feeding efficient with handy silos near feeding floors. It recommends a wheel truck carrying about twenty bushels, built with large center wheels and end wheels to prevent overhang and ease handling. It cites D Fairchild of Fairfield County Conn as an example of year round silage feeding.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul will start double tracking from LaCrosse to St Paul with about 1000 workers for three years. Work includes blasting through rock along the Mississippi river section and substantial excavation as the line is widened. Minneapolis Tribune.
A ground plan shows nine and sixteen foot diameter silos opening onto a common feeding floor. A shed roof over the silos is noted as cheaper and better than individual silo roofs.
A Connecticut grower notes eight years supplying Saratoga Springs hotels with lima beans. He says beans mature where corn does, thrive in hot sands elsewhere, and that the market favors strictly fancy fresh beans. Prices vary from $1 to $2.25 per bushel wholesale depending on quality.
Farm Journal advises verifying broodiness before setting eggs and limiting to eleven eggs per hen. It recommends indoor chick rearing for the first two weeks due to changeable weather and suggests mating breeding pens while warning against inbreeding.
The author argues that while not all students should become gardeners, early teaching would improve skill appreciation among future workers and raise the craftsman's value. It would also boost demand for high quality plants and seeds through greater garden embellishment interest.
Congregational meeting of the Presbyterian church will be held next Wednesday evening with the hour to be announced later. Mrs. Jake Lohrer returns from Cedar Rapids after visiting Mrs. Eek Lohrer, who remains ill and is not improving. A travel hint from Suffolk Virginia notes Henry Croll Jr. of Beaverton Michigan fell sick. a salesman advised Chamberlain's Cough Remedio and Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, which he used and recommends. Sold by Cook and Sherman, Stewart's Pharmacy.
The firm states Todd Stuart did not sell his interest to Charles and KR remains the owner. R. Stuart & Son says they will continue to run an independent market offering fresh meats, poultry, fish, and pickled goods at low prices from the Northwest corner square.
The ladies of the Degree of Honor sponsor a poverty social at the A U W Hall on Saturday evening March 24. Refreshments will be served. Wear old clothes or face a fine. Admission 10c. children under 10 5c. men without their wives 16c. No reserved seats. Committee notice.
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