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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
7
Farmers are urged to drag harrow and harrow roads until cold weather. A good road reduces weed growth and boosts market access. D Ward King popularized road drag campaigns and fences along highways are seen as key to clean roadside improvements.
Practical guide on gradually weaning a foal from its dam with steps for handling the foal, feeding regimen, and timing. Emphasizes early handling, separate housing after separation, liberal feeding from weaning through spring, social housing with other foals, and milking cessation methods for the mare. Includes dietary notes, salt in manger, occasional linseed mash, and molasses rub for udder care.
An article describes a stanchion device built into a pen corner or crate end to ring hogs. One man drives hogs into the device while another holds the loose stanchion. When a hog is squeezed through the gates the device is closed to fit rings and the hog is secured briefly before release.
Charities Foss of Illinois increased his ninety acre farm’s income from $1,000 to over $2,000 by weighing and testing milk, culling low producers, buying better cows, using a silo, and providing a balanced ration tailored to each cow. He believes results can be repeated in other dairy areas.
The old saying the hoof of the sheep is golden highlights that sheep improve pasture by grazing on weeds and forage other stock avoid. Sheep clear bushes that crowd grass, leaving more feed for cows, making a few sheep profitable on any farm and many on some farms contingent on the farmer.
A sequence of four puzzles appears including No 251 Charade involving a cardinal and a pope, No 252 Silent Letter Puzzle with a paragraph containing nine silent words, and No 255 Hidden Parts of a Building with eight clue lines. The page includes commentary on addition and subtraction in alphabets and a sample lower sum method.
An overview of Kou the Chinese drum with notes on its forms materials and uses. Eastern drums are nailed heads not movable tuning similar to oars and they serve state ceremonies tell time ward off spirits invite visits and accompany Confucian services. Tiny drums accompany peddlers and etiquette requires muffling drums when the emperor is present.
A fragmented schoolyard scene notes lateness not excused and a promise of a daughter embracing her father. The text mentions a lilac studio drawing, a good looking lass, and an Indian bow found after a prior loss near the Platte River in North America.
The narrator describes girls in families as a mix of sizes and hair, noting one called Christmas Eve and that many families have one or more girls. Fat girls want thin, thin want fat, and girls fear mises and bugs, making mischief in their acts.
A hare with three women signaled swift, careful trading while a padlock and anchor in gaudy colors promised firm quality goods and hoped for future patronage.
A demonstration shows arranging matches in a basin to form a star and touching the water with soap makes the matches spread outward as if repelled. Lifting the soap and touching with sugar makes the matches glide back to the center, illustrating surface tension effects.
A verse asks who is the favored man who, though married to many wives, may live as a bachelor for life. The playful riddle targets a clergyman and hints at marriage norms with humorous irony.
This issue presents Divided Flowers listing ten plant names, Sea Serpent shows a dissection puzzle forming a sphere, Beheadings with paired word clues, Cur tailings with word fragments, Curtailments of phrases, and Charades yielding Mount e-bank as Mountebank and Sea-son as season.
A DIY guide explains cutting a thin cardboard piece ink the back to black and punch a small pin hole. Looking through the hole reveals a surprisingly effective homemade microscope for enlarging tiny writing or objects.
Mr Froggie believes the weather is a blizzard and rushes home. For ten minutes he cannot move because a tree blocks his path, unseen by onlookers who see the wind’s surge.
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