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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1896
Page
8
E N Fisher outlines a simple windlass build using iron pieces, beams, and a large wheel. The plan details eight 2x4s, cross holes, straps, ropes, and a crank to raise and lower loads up to 1000 pounds. A practical, low cost method for lifting heavy items with a ground-winding axis.
The article describes best practices for horse rations, favoring oats wheat and bran with linseed meal, plus possible byproducts. It notes conditions vary by mare size work and gestation, recommends skim milk for young horses, and suggests roots as occasional daily feed when other foods are dry.
Farmers are urged to secure seed from northern regions rather than southern, avoid overworking young colts, and match newly set trees. It stresses learning from mistakes, caring for work teams, and starting weed cultivation before weeds gain headway. It warns that horse colic signals indigestion and proper feeding and watering are essential.
A writer extols ashes as a valuable plant food rich in potash and phosphoric acid. He explains ashes improve soil friability and compactness when mixed with soil and advises liberal use on fruit trees, garden vegetables, and any crop. Practical tips include mixture with hot water and specific application notes.
An excellent example from General One Hundred Acre Farm presents a 32 by 60 foot barn with 16 foot posts on a footing wall and a self supporting octagonal roof. The basement plan is shown in Fig. 1. Also noted is a 16 by 28 foot constable sheep space.
The plan shows a two story barn with wig wag stalls and box stalls, space for stock hogs, threshing floor and carriage area. Ground floor features a bay, granary, grain bins, hay chutes from loft, stairs, and a hall feeding alley, claiming an economical, convenient design for general farming per Farm Field and Fireside.
A vintage home dairy note explains making soft cream cheeses at home. It outlines mixing fresh cream and milk with liquid rennet, beating, draining, and aging in cloth cups or perforated molds, then salting and curing to form ready to use cheese. It also describes a second method using milk and cream with rennet, including draining, molding, rubbing with salt, and aging steps.
A fragment describes land sales in Kansas with price ranges from 2.00 to 10.00 per acre, terms of ten years with one to ten down, and requests buyers to obtain rate information from railroads. Mentions river and coastland areas, crop data, and a land commissioner in Omaha, Nebraska. Also includes unrelated notes on a weather photo trick, a catarrh cure advertisement, and a Philly joke.
On July 7 and 21 and May 4 tickets will be sold from northern cities to all points on the Louisville and Nashville line across Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Florida and part of Kentucky. Round trip fare is a single price. Return within thirty one days on paying two dollars to the destination agent. Stops permitted along the southern bound route. Inquiries to C P Atmore Louisville Ky or Geo B Horner St Louis Mo. Amusing journal mention and a McKinley book inquiry follow, with market notes.
A shining example of steadfast focus three quarters of a century in grain and grass cutting machinery. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Co of Chicago has for 65 years built binders reapers and mowers. It claims to provide about one third of global output in its line, despite competition from about forty manufacturers.
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