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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
1
A playful piece encourages children to hide their Christmas gifts among a lively family gathering. The plan aims for secrecy but warns that confusion could arise if the hidden gifts are pursued without clear guidelines.
The piece describes family Christmas hide and seek gifts with parents as treasure keepers and clever hiding spots. It shares playful examples from a writer’s home, plus activities like coin on a needle, a drawing game, crabs up a tree, and making new cards from old ones. It also gives simple crafts for rainy days and inventive paper designs.
A playful guide shows boys how to build a toy artillery duel using two spools and a lead pencil. It explains assembling a barrel and breech with glue tacks and elastic bands, making bread crumb cannon balls, and staging a pretend battle with soldiers cut from magazines.
A U S Department report shows Argentina exported 9,308,200 pounds of butter in 1902 chiefly to England and South Africa, up 187 percent from 1901. Buenos Aires province dominates output at about 20 tons daily, with the city of Buenos Aires as the main local market.
The Sow and Pigs advises 3 4 weeks before farrowing to boost bran or shorts while withholding roots a week to ten days prior. For piglets feed mother first with good, stimulating rations after a week old, avoid heavy feeds to prevent milk fever. Milk is essential for young pigs, with a ration of two parts shorts two parts fine meal and one part bran plus skim milk up to 30 pounds daily at 25 26 cents per cwt.
A rustic brooder built from a soap box in Rhode Island used water warmed in papier mache pails to maintain heat. Holes allowed chick access and water heat retention kept hover temperatures around 85 to 90 degrees overnight. Adjustments included cork thermometers and shutter openings to regulate warmth.
A sheep breeders meeting stresses keeping ewes in strong condition on good pasture before fall breeding. After housing for winter, remove rain from the flock. Do not feed turnips to breeding ewes before lambing as it weakens lambs. feed them after lambing. Maintain succulent summer forage, rye in fall pastures, and a steady growth for fattening sheep. Avoid tight housing. provide open sheds for exercise. Winter feeding aims for growth with hay, pea straw, roots, and some bran oats. Summer needs minimal extra food. always provide salt, water, and shade. When pasture is poor, supplement with rape or vetches. Begin 8–10 weeks before slaughter with oats, bran, oil cake, peas, and a finishing mix of oats and bran. In Great Britain, livestock estimates show farm horses 1,106,448. unbroken horses 1,537,154. cows and heifers 2,688,205. total cattle 6,704,610. breeding ewes 9,878,101. total sheep 25,629,797. Dairying remains profitable as a cash business. Paterna
Mrs Smith Scott of Marion County Missouri writes on breeding pea fowls noting mature two to three year old birds best for breeding, free range is ideal. She describes nesting habits, hatching numbers, diet including charcoal and coarse grains, winter care, roosting trees, and the appeal of their plumage to encourage more fanciers to keep them.
Export values for animals and animal products for the year ending June 30 show live cattle 29 848 936, live hogs 40 923, horses 3 152 159, mules 521 725, live sheep 1 067 260, butter 1 404 cheese 2 250 329, milk 921 casings 326 571, hides 11 981, park 01 256 008, wool 71 318, total 20 125 186.
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