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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1904
Page
7
An old Rural New Yorker note describes a simple, lightweight device to curb a jumping cow. It uses a common double chain and a halter ring on a fence post, looping the ring to secure the cow. The setup is presented as inexpensive and more comfortable than existing methods.
A Farmers' Review note urges creamery managers to install screens as inspectors survey use in western state factories. Fly control is linked to disease and filth as reports highlight widespread fly presence in dairies, cheese factories, and milk handling areas.
Dairy notes emphasize warming milk in water, steady separator operation, and letting milk stand to reach 80 to 90 degrees. Feeding is key to herd quality, with bulky, digestible food and about eight pounds of meal per 30 pounds of milk. Proper milker nails and calm handling improve milking results and profits.
Midland Farmer notes parchment paper for wrapping butter offers moisture proof grease proof tasteless and odorless properties. It prevents stickiness atmospheric impurities and evaporation while keeping butter cleaner and cheaper than cloth. Available with printed labels at up to $1.50 per thousand.
Feeding guidance for calves emphasizes warm full milk for two weeks then gradual skim milk transition by week six. Include oatmeal corn meal and oil meal, with precise ratios to reach 20 to 25 pounds daily intake by week six. Teach grain intake via troughs, maintain clean vessels, and adjust nutritive ratios for 150 pound calves for dairy aims. Ohio Farmer notes cattle feeding steps and mix formulas.
A farmer describes a four by two foot slanted wheeled trough that keeps feed clean and is easy to clean. It serves for watering cattle and can move along feeding alleys. A larger version hauls grain and roughage from storage to troughs, with wheels from hardwood or discarded machines.
Farmers' Review urges farmers to provide pure water for cows via deep wells and clean troughs during spring and summer. It warns against using dirty surface brooks which become stagnant and contaminated, promoting disease and milk quality issues. Diversion or piping of brook water is suggested to improve pasture hydration.
The article notes mold in butter likely from unseasoned timbers or mold contamination in creamery parchment. It criticizes carelessness and urges paper be treated by boiling in brine with forma lin before use to prevent mold, saying creameries that do so avoid mold issues.
London Tit-Bits notes England confronts two enigmatic threats, the Grand Dalai Lama of Thibet and the Mad Mullah Abdulla Achar in Somaliland. Descriptions cover their distant courts, ritual abdications of power, and the rare visibility of their rulers while expeditions chase them. The Dalai Lama is portrayed as a symbolic Buddhist pope under lama priests, with a mystified succession. The Mad Mullah, though practical and devout, rules via strict edicts and charisma, challenging British forces with religious fervor and leadership.
The exhausted Font era ends as Sir Samuel Sims dives to rescue Sara Samp son who sinks. He swims shoreward, anchors her, then shares a spirits special Scotch. Sara thanks him, and a tender exchange follows before she softly sighs.
A collage of product pitches and quips includes Cuticura Remedies for skin and blood, a comic umbrella mishap, a Farm Press promotion, and assorted ads for footwear insoles, seeds, and domestic curiosities. Names, places, and dates appear in rapid-fire snippets.
A Spokane reader describes long standing kidney trouble eased by Dean's Kidney Pills. He details back pain and disturbed sleep, notes restored kidney secretions, and endorses a free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y, with a 50 cent box price.
Won Nelson Rice mayor of St. Joseph Michigan writes to Pecuna Medicine Co Columbus praising Peruna as a reliable remedy for a worn out system and est arrhal difficulties. He notes many grateful patients in the county who have used Peruna and were cured and offers best wishes for the company.
The article notes sun’s progression toward the north and spring’s return bringing varying ailments from nervous weakness to poor digestion. It touts Peruna as a spring remedy, claiming it balances blood, steadies nerves, and normalizes body functions. It invites readers to write Dr Hartman for free advice.
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