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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1905
Page
7
City customers prefer healthy stock and practical farming tips. Advice covers breeding, milking cows, clean pens for pigs, straight backed horses, and using windmills or engines to save labor. Beet pulp joins dry feed for digestion. dairy and sheep feeding notes emphasize grinding grain and feeding old ewes with care.
Guidance from the American Agriculturalist on choosing a brood sow. Favor a gentle, good-feeding sow with strong legs and 10 to 12 teats, from a large litter, for reliable milking. If a sow yields low piglets or poor mothering, cull. if she milks well and mothers well, consider retaining for a second litter before replacing.
An orange Judd Farmer feature describes a simple hay saving device for mangers. Two hardwood strips hinged to the back and connected by a top strip form a lowered gate that covers the hay, preventing waste when animals are fed. A tongue or hook secures it until next feeding.
Wise drivers know wide ties save power and mud doubles work while grease boosts profit. Horses respond to calm handling not shouting or jerking the bit. Treat your horse kindly, avoid balking through abuse or debt, and maintain the team with proper food and steady patience. Stall, cloth ears, or heavy tinkering harms trust and value.
A Midland Farmer excerpt describes simple methods to dose hogs by looping rope to a post and delivering medicine directly into the hogs mouth, noting the technique can also be used to restrain hogs for easier work. It compares straw values for horses, ranking oat straw highest to barley and wheat lowest.
A southern narrator recounts chasing quick riches from bees and a single goat. The bee swarm destroys the goat after it provokes the hive, leaving the narrator with no fortune yet noting his wife’s chickens and a fine crop. Mortgage paid that year, he conservatively plans to get by.
The queen lays eggs about one sixteenth of an inch long and as wide as a cambric needle, stuck upright to the cell bottom. In 60 to 72 hours eggs hatch into larvae, which grow for about six days before cells are capped. After spinning cocoons and metamorphosis, a worker bee emerges in 21 days and a drone in 24, times sped by heat or slowed by cold.
Hampton County Mass readers discuss improving apiary stock and replacing Berub queens with better ones. Trappy, the poultry keeper, keeps hens healthy with dry, sweet litter. The column notes varied care methods and claims hens lay 42,500,000 eggs daily nationwide with Uncle Sam hens valued at $70,000,000 and income over $280,900,000.
A reader reports tying a chicken s wings with soft strings as a novel confinement idea after clipping feathers failed. The note from Infant Poultry Journal describes prior attempts and claims the method works.
A garbled plea describes a four man group in Holland seeking a fast police automobile. The fragment mentions spies and cryptic phrases about language and public figures. Interwoven are quotes from Brooklyn Eagle and Philadelphia Record reflecting perplexing social commentary and urban unrest.
A Ky newspaper feature promotes Dodd's Kidney Pills as a cure for backache and kidney ailments. Mrs. W. Ambrose of Cover, Ky reports relief after one box. The item blends medical testimonial with ads and unrelated clippings from other papers.
In 1902 8 Mr Schroeppel lay bedridden with rheumatism after failed medical care his mother urged Dr Williams Pink Pills he improved within two weeks left bed in six weeks and used eight boxes with lasting relief for over a year Captain George Balfour soon tried the pills for rheumatism and after eight to ten boxes reported freedom from pain The pills are praised by neighbors as well known in St Clair county Michigan and sold widely for neuralgia sciatica and partial paralysis
A New York doctor told 500 women that healthy American women are nearly extinct. The piece touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for various female ailments, with testimonials from Mia. T. C. Willedsen and Miss Mattie Henry praising its effects and urging women to seek Pinkham's remedy and advice from Lynn, Massachusetts.
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