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Newspaper
Waunakee News
Location
Waunakee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1900
Page
6
The article compares bran and corn values for farmers, noting bran’s higher protein and minerals, and considers feed costs, location, livestock purpose, and manure value. It discusses when bran is advantageous and suggests that feeding decisions depend on existing rations and farm goals. It also analyzes feed costs for pork production and the idea of fattening hogs before 200 pounds to maximize profitability.
In Wisconsin farmers describe a movable pig pen built from old wheels with a sheltered sleeping corner and a fixed trough. The design lets the pen shift daily to provide pigs with fresh ground and new grass, illustrated to show construction details.
The article advises testing seeds by placing them between two damp flannel sheets in a warm, non freezing place. After about a week to three weeks, sprouts indicate viability with 70 to 85 percent success as a practical threshold. Lettuce may sprout in three days while some grasses take longer.
The Wisconsin experiment station shows a 100 pound pig needs one pound cornmeal and a half pound wheat middlings daily to stay alive with no gain. Three pounds of feed produce one pound of pork. At 20 dollars per ton grain the pork costs about a third of a cent per pound. A 900 pound hog would require further feeding data to determine costs.
Description of a novel hitching post for horses with a hollow frame a hinged cover and a retractable biteh blue strap on a spring drum. The device aims to be neat ready for use and protected from meddling by lockable cover and固定 ground fitting.
Iowa public roads must have weeds cut by August 10 or township road supervisors must act. After a three day reminder, if landowners fail, the supervisor mows the weeds and bills the landowner at up to two dollars per day. Costs are levied against the affected lands and collected by the county treasurer. Auditor Millin notes high demand for copies of the road law.
An agricultural editor counsels against using catalpa for fence posts and telegraph poles, despite its soil durability. Varieties speciosa and catalpa both grow tall and stout, yet advice remains against its use for common structural purposes. The piece notes long ground life and regional use in the South.
Apple trees reach full crops around ten years or older. A twenty year old apple tree yields twenty five to forty bushels. Pear trees at fifteen years produce twenty to thirty bushels. Peach trees at four years yield four to six bushels. Growth varies by variety and care, and some sections perform differently.
The New York Farmer reports an infant death linked to boracic acid preserved milk. Officials traced illness to adulterated milk that prevented fermentation and digestion, labeling the seller as murderer for profit. The piece calls for public vigilance and thorough local investigations.
Associate Justice David J. Brewer of the US Supreme Court accepted an invitation to deliver the law commencement address in Madison on June 18. The reception for the eminent jurist will be open to Wisconsin bar members and alumni, with lawyers from across the state expected to attend. Brewer, born in 1837 in Smyrna, rose through Kansas and federal courts before joining the Supreme Court.
A new wire clothespin design avoids fabric damage by using an eye and two gripping coils. The line sits in the eye held by spring pressure, while an end hook engages to clamp the article between the coils for easy attachment and detachment.
Baraboo Wisconsin April 3 Special reports a string of deaths in one family. Mrs. Lottie Miller faces bereavement as her husband dies in a well after being trapped by earth collapse. Her eldest son killed his brother with a swinging door and died yesterday of brain fever, leaving the mother alone.
In a home guide Minnie Rude explains a fire starting method using an oyster can half filled with coal oil hung on a nail above a wood box. Dry cob and kindling are arranged over a cob, then rolled in the can to absorb oil and burn longer with reduced explosion risk.
Miss Lillian Seery fails to collect $5900 damages from Lafayette Cook and others after they sold their homestead and reinvested in a new home in Xenosha Wisconsin. Judge Fish rules homestead exemption voids execution, granting judgment for defendants. The Leet case remains on the calendar for trial.
The text gives a muddled recipe for cabbage and beans with unclear quantities and steps, plus a stray tip about coffee flavor from a New York Journal writer. It mentions soaking, boiling, and baking instructions, with references to salt, pepper, and oil, and ends noting a method to influence coffee flavor.
Albert Raabe, a noted opponent of prison-made goods based in Chicago, reports to Congressman Barney that a House bill to protect free labor from prison competition is before Congress. The measure would aid industries in Sheboygan and other counties by curbing prison labor and supporting local chair manufacturing.
Barnabus Wis April 3 Special Charles Wetzel of this city has gone due bankruptcy. He borrowed 100 dollars from Mrs J J Riley while living with her and owes about that much more for beard and roons rent. W B Strothers also filed for bankruptcy with debts around 120 dollars. Creditors include wholesale fruit merchants of Milwaukee and Chicago and local merchants. There are no assets.
A jumble of Chicago items reports Mrs Katrona Lentis severely injured by an electric car and feared near death, a 1% year old boy seriously hurt in a runaway caused by snowballing, and the death of James A Bell in Englewood. Other notes include a northbound trolley derailment, a Denver doctor injured, fires and burns at Northwestern lab, a veteran policeman Jeremiah Houlihan dead, a mentally disturbed retiree causing police trouble, a plant purchase for automobile manufacture, and a possible suicide or accident involving Dr Bauder.
Milwaukee market overview for April 3 1900 shows firm values for fresh dirties and seconds with receipts around 66, causing butter receipts to rise and dairy prints selling at 10 12 cents. Cheese markets remain quiet with full cream flats and various national and imported cheeses noted. New York butter receipts and general market steadiness observed alongside coffee and dressed poultry trends.
Receipts totaled 25 hog cars and 18 cattle cars with steady to higher markets. Hogs ranged light to medium weights around 5.19 to 3.20. cattle featured butcher steers 1050 to 1300 pounds at 4.00 to 4.85 and cows 3.50 to 4.25. feeders and stockers showed 2.75 to 3.25 and 4.00 to 4.75 for calves and milkers noted as dull. Chicago reports hogs 16 000, cattle 2500, sheep 16 000.
Milwaukee flour steady and grains firm with No 2 spring wheat at 674e and No 1 Northern at 0 Se. Corn and oats steady on track with various cash and May prices. Provisions lower. millstuffs firm. Duluth Minneapolis and Kansas City reports show mixed wheat, corn, oats prices and cattle hogs and sheep receipts with steady to higher local markets.
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