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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1900
Page
3
The article advises dairy farmers to weigh every cow’s milk, track daily production, and compute cream percentage using the Babcock test or a simple depth method. It recommends a hinged record sheet behind the cows to monitor which cows are profitable.
M G Kains argues straw mulch in orchards wastes fertilizer value, harbors pests, and keeps surface moisture during the wrong season. He recommends harrow or plow mulch instead to encourage deep roots, improving drought resilience and long term land value.
The national assembly of the League of American Wheelmen endorses a 5 million dollar highway appropriation bill. It argues for farm and public benefit, urging all divisions and farmers to contact congress, and notes other government subsidies for rivers, railroads, and ships as precedents for road funding. The group seeks unified action across states to passage and future road funding. It also outlines a method for milk pail cleaning using lukewarm water and washing soda.
Farm dairy issues arise from mixing sweet and sour cream causing slow, wasteful churning. Ripened cream churns easier, but combining three to four day old with fresh cream delays butter and leaves fat in buttermilk. Keep cream cold 18 to 24 hours, then warm to ripen and churn when ready.
A collage of farming notes covers a tool for leveling land, the value of silage for year round feed, a Paris exposition slaughterhouse model by Chicago packers, onion crop timing using setes, and a reminder to dairymen to maintain milk, cream and butter output.
The piece contrasts a push for vigorous healthy manhood with patent medicine claims by Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. It then profiles W Creamer, a Western Canada farmer of 1,280 acres, detailing his operations, buildings, stock, and a 1899 Gazette notice of his success, tools, and water supply.
A young couple plans to wed after Lent despite an irascible uncle who opposes the match. He scolds the suitor, invokes family duty, and refuses to yield, while the couple press on amid the intra family tensions reported by the Detroit Free Press.
A jumble of overheard lines and snippets from conversations and newspaper clippings. The pieces touch on theater banter about hats and barbers, travel chatter in Europe, a Detroit Free Press snippet, ads for remedies, and assorted quips about invention and daily life.
A Nebraska contractor praises Peruna for curing his family's ailments from catarrh to pneumonia. He reports nineteen bottles saved $4500 in doctors’ bills and calls Peruna the greatest medicine on earth. Multiple letters tout continued use and a free work on chronic catarrh from the Peruna Medicine Company.
A collage of jokes, anecdotes, and quips from rumor pages and society notes. Tiny vignettes include a whipping tale about a prize whisk tournament, comic dialogues with spoof titles, and misc. lines about actors, a bachelor, and family scenes.
Alabastine is marketed as the durable rock base cement wall coating ready to use with cold water. It claims to outlast and replace kalsomines and wallpaper, suitable for plaster brick wood or canvas, and touted as sanitary for hospitals churches schools and public spaces.
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