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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
3
A collage of agricultural notes and legal snippets. A DIY potato and hay handling machine is described with a wooden frame, a sharpened knife, and a lever system. A British court case discusses oats contaminated with anthrax and resulting horse losses, with damages awarded. Practical tips on disposing of dead livestock follow, advising lime and sod layers to create a manure pile.
A fragment discusses using charcoal in poultry feeding to improve health and egg production. It claims burning corn in a fire makes it charred and leads to brighter combs, red lays, and higher eye yield in fowls, presenting a health and productivity claim.
The black turkey, long established and popular in Europe, traces to domesticated wild stock. The text discusses its origins by melanism or selective breeding, notes prejudice against black birds in America, and claims careful culling of banded specimens can reduce markings over generations.
Wing of Orange County Farmer argues poultry should receive the same care as other stock. House poultry warmly, provide sun and storm protection, use wheat as the best feed, including cut heads, bedding straw, and winter supplements like oyster shells. He warns against neglect and recalls a farmer who starved poultry by hoarding corn.
A St Louis Republic excerpt outlines poultry care tips. Nonsetters excel at egg production while geese provide feathers. Fresh earth, ample scratching, and daily ample feed sustain appetite. Eleven eggs under a hen before warm weather. Overfeeding wastes feed and fattening reduces laying. Dusting and vermin control through tobacco, air, water, and range are advised.
A compilation of practical household hints including preserving biscuits with metal lids, cleaning velvet with fine seashore sand, potato frying with pepper and salt, bread crumb meat pie, cranberry pudding method, piano tarnish restoration with turpentine and alcohol, plant wash with tea-like infusion, and watering technique to keep roots healthy and insects at bay. Contains various dated home guidance and DIY steps.
A long tips-filled passage on cleaning and maintaining fabrics and accessories. Advice covers washing and drying methods for shawls stockinet and milbee iress shields, silk and handkerchiefs, whalebones, navy blue damask dresses, and crape, plus methods to refresh crepe after damp wear. It warns about damp linen hazards and offers tortoise shell repair guidance with simple techniques.
An OCR fragment advertises Texas land fever with rail excursion notes and pullout text. It mentions preemption, low-rate tickets, and brochures from Gaston Mestier, Texas and Pacific Railway in Dallas. Also cites Hall's Catarrh Cure offers and various ads about travel and medical remedies. The piece showcases a chaotic collage of promotions, travel lines, and consumer goods.
A faux advertisement passage extols the preventive and remedial powers of various tonics and cough syrups including Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, Dr Kline’s Nerve Restorer, Piso’s Cure for Consumption, Hale’s Honey of Tar, Pike’s Toothache Drops, and Brown’s Bronchial Patches. It strings together testimonials and literary quotes to bolster belief in these patent medicines for travel sickness, nerves, and respiratory ailments.
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