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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1895
Page
3
A practical guide to building a cost effective winter poultry house with emphasis on warm, dry construction, proper orientation, foundation, and protection from cold. The article highlights using a rough stone base, earth-covered top, weatherproof walls, and sunlit southeast windows to keep fowls warm with careful management and feeding.
Advice on designing sturdy lightweight poultry coops with tight bottoms and secure nails. Emphasizes proper sizing to avoid crowding, careful feeding before and during transit, and avoiding overfeeding on long trips. Recommends fattening birds for New York markets and ensuring the crop is empty before shipment for best prices.
The piece stresses prudent poultry care and proper incubation. It warns against neglectful breeding practices and urges farmers to thoroughly inspect conditions before purchasing chicks or equipment.
The article explains underdrainage as a lasting improvement for farms and outlines methods to keep drains free of silt. It contrasts open ditches with stone or blind drains and suggests silt-proofing using boards, brush, turf, hay, straw, or coarse gravel based on availability.
The Montana Experiment Station reports on smut types in grains. Stinking smut targets wheat, loose smuts affect small grains with oats most harmed. Clean seed improves smut-free yields but adjacent infected fields risk contamination. Copper sulfate wetting protects wheat and oats with some vitality loss. hot water and other temp treatments also prevent or reduce smut while affecting germination.
The article explains selecting drain pitch to shift from slower to faster current to prevent sediment buildup. It contrasts correct and incorrect grade changes, noting sediment drops where flow slackens and emphasizing proper initial placement for tile drains.
Prof Hopkins of the West Virginia experimental station reports Timothy grass varies by early and late maturity as well as size and yield. A Springfield Mass meeting paper notes early seed, paired with red clover, can be cut when clover is most valuable. Practical value in grass seed study is evident.
The article emphasizes saving feathers from poultry as valuable byproducts. Quills from wing joints of turkeys and geese are used for feather dusters and bows, dry chicken plumes cushion stuffing, and large duck feathers mix with geese. Feathers serve as fertilizer and can earn money if clean and blood-free. Commission merchants will buy cleaned market feathers. ensilage is praised in winter.
The piece recounts how John D. Rockefeller backed Minnesota mining and rail ventures during the 1890s panic, stabilizing Duluth and saving jobs. It argues against anti capital sentiment, noting widespread benefits from Rockefeller's investments and warning that hostility to capital harms growth and prosperity.
The article surveys posy rings from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and notes common two line inscriptions with occasional three lines. It cites Love's Garland of 1642 and mentions a South Kensington collection with lines such as United hearts death only parts and Love and live happily.
A brief poetic scene shows Love holding Nadine close with a whispered word. Nadine offers no spoken reply, only a trembling smile and sigh while light glows in Love's eyes. The fragment closes with a note “New Budget.”
A Helena Montana resident G E Ticknor credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for a drastic recovery from a crippling sciatic rheumatism. After weeks of illness he regains strength and can work again, praising the pills as restoring health and vitality. The piece also notes the pills’ claimed benefits for females and general blood health.
A woman slams her door on a tatty visitor causing him to retreat as the bell rings loudly. Her husband arrives, restrains himself after seeing the injured man, and the visit ends with the man accepting a dollar a bottle and a meal. The narrative notes the visitor’s pride and the man’s stubborn persistence as he moves to the next house.
A collage of travel ads and quotes notes the Big Four Route offers fast Chicago to Atlanta service with connections to Queen & Crescent and Southern Railway. It promotes time cards, rates, and a Chicago clerk in Clark Street, plus fare details and stopover rules for Virginia and North Carolina journeys. Also included are reviews of books and remedies, ad copy for Beecham’s Pills and Hale’s Honey, and light humorous exchanges.
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