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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1907
Page
5
A Prairie Farmer correspondent shares a simple setup to butcher hogs. It describes setting a 14 foot pole with a swing attached, another pole six feet away, and two four foot wagon tires mortised into the top supports to hang four hogs. The plan aims to help someone with limited help and facilities.
A Farm and Home writer recommends pre-farrowing feeding to create a balanced ration for brood sows and piglets. After farrowing, increase the diet and encourage piglets to eat with the sow, using milk, wheat middlings, oats, and corn. When confined, provide water, green feed, charcoal, wood ashes, and salt. wean at six to eight weeks and maintain a warm, roomy winter housing for healthy spring condition.
The feeding rule for breeding beef cows requires maintaining body condition and calf growth. Wintering without grain is possible with oat straw and corn stover, plus early spring clover hay, but silage with clover hay yields better weight gains and palatability.
Practical guidance for hog producers emphasizing roomy yards, strong gates, and woven wire fences. Advocates separating brood sows, avoiding small confinement, and maintaining uniform herds. Recommends ground wires for lightning protection and caution against barb wire harming animals.
John D. Rockefeller attended the University of Chicago decennial celebration where events ran late for days. A closing banquet featured an after dinner tale of a Boston businessman stuck by a storm who learned the value of punctuality.
An advertisement extols a simple home-made cure for rheumatism and kidney troubles using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Kargon and Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla mixed and taken after meals. It also contains cheerful health tips and a testimonial style blurb praising Grape-Nuts and Postum products with generic claims and a silent nod to The Road to Wellville.
A 7 year old, Robert Scollan of 58 Garden St Seneca Falls praises Doan s Kidney Pills for sound back and kidneys. His daughter Mrs Goetonlous notes relief from kidney trouble and lumbago after using the medicine sold by dealers for 60 cents a box.
An excerpted testimonial notes a two year eczema struggle with medicated potions and quack cures, then credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with immediate relief and recovery. The piece also includes assorted ad-like items and a Lew Wallace excerpt.
An article touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for puberty motherhood and change of life. It cites testimonials from Mrs. George Walters and Mrs. Elva Barber Edwards praising relief and recovery. The piece invites women to seek free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for female weaknesses.
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