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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1896
Page
8
An article explains dangers of wild parsnips and spotted cowbane, detailing their appearance, roots, and regions. It warns they poison humans and livestock, causing severe symptoms and death, and advises uprooting from fields and along meadows.
A Country Gentleman writer argues against both underfeeding and overfeeding dairy calves, stressing that a proper nitrogenous, balanced ration builds bone and muscle without stressing organs. The piece contrasts two calves from the same dam, one raised on coarse fodder and the other on a nutritious diet, to show production and constitution together determine long term dairy value. It also notes breeders prioritizing production over size weaken future stock. It concludes with caveats on maintaining health and constitution for best breeding results.
A celebrated European traveler in St Louis tours a large shoe factory and is astonished by the shift from one craftsman making a shoe to a process where sixty workers, including many girls, handle stages from cutter to finisher. He notes high wages at Desnoyers Shoe Co. and that their shoes reach 8,600 dealers before returning with a pair as a keepsake.
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