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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1903
Page
8
Farmers favor roughage feeding to cut labor and save pasture. Two racks were built from four by four posts four feet long to feed corn fodder, and they perform well, making handling in the stable easier.
Reynolds reports a homemade 12 foot by 3.5 foot feeding rack built with pine sides and ends, oak bottom boards, and six inch boards around the top to prevent spillage. Posts support two by fours mid height, with a one foot high side to keep feed inside and allow calves to access between rails.
Practical notes on pig feeding emphasize pen exercise, green feeds, pumpkins, roots, oats and corn meal rations with bran and middlings, and careful management of feed amounts. Additional advice covers bot fly life cycle in horses, kerosene rubbing to prevent hatching, and the need for ventilation when moving bees.
A miscellany reports women filling roles once held by men in western banks, a German police incident with a disguised woman, Marlborough pearls as England's prized collection, a 33 year old youngest grandmother claim in Kansas, Mrs. Coons, plus Busy life of Mrs. Albert Burns of Laurens. It notes Scottish women in fish curing at Great Yarmouth, Gov Bailey’s bachelor proposals declined, with about 50 photographs to be returned and 66 declines to New York, over 100 to New England, none from Kansas.
Mrs Vinnie Ream Moxie presented Cornell with a life size bust of Ezra Cornell on the condition it be bronzed. Senator George S West donated a complete file of federal documents from his 24 years in the Senate to the University of Missouri. President Wilson pursues a Princeton plan to introulne tutors for each student requiring 12 500 000. Yale psychology professor’s lecture drew laughter as he described a world renowned psychologist meeting a little girl.
California produces 22 percent of the nation’s barley 40 percent of gold 70 percent of beet sugar and dominates many other commodities California is a leading bean producer and Lima beans are grown commercially in the United States California yields more honey than the rest of the Union and supplies most vegetable and flower seeds to world markets San Francisco, the state capital, ranks as the sixth most financially important city in the United States.
A playful exchange in the Indianapolis News features Mrs Bondhald asking where to buy a coat and Mrs Goldrocks replying she shops at the jeweler. The item captures light local humor and consumer style in a brief, period tone.
A Wisconsin Presbyterian clergyman reports prolonged kidney pain and backache eased by Doan's Kidney Pills. He describes initial suffering, remedies tried, and a marked improvement in health with relief of kidney pain. A free trial offer is extended, with sales through Foster Milburn Co. in Buffalo and retailers nationwide at 50 cents per box.
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