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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1901
Page
3
A collage of verse and prose pieces, including a flowery ode on seaside beauty, a rural romance about Bob and Sally with a motherless household, and light readings on masut fuel for German ships. The piece ends with quips about careless behavior and science experiments with ocean currents.
Sally cares for her three younger brothers while Bob, her awkward cowman brother, plans a marriage proposal to a Liverpudlian servant girl. He asks Sally to help compose a proper engagement talk and letter as he faces family shame and paternal absence. Sally guides him through cautious questions about courtship, dress, and future plans, while keeping his nervousness at bay.
The article details constructing an improved bog trough using a two inch plank spiked into a V shape for uprights and a swing door over the trough. It references an illustration Fig.1 showing the rear partition and troughs and notes user satisfaction with the design.
Instructions describe bore holes in uprights above a trough, cutting tenons for end joints, constructing a door with a latch and lever system, and using levers to unlock and swing the door. The aim is an easily operated trough that allows feeding with hogs unbothered, following an Ohio Farmer publication by W. I. Hune maker.
A farmer advocates corn fodder preservation as a cheaper, effective feed. Cutting corn when half the blades redden and shredding it for winter cows supports good milk production. He notes ensilage not yet accepted by his local factory and prefers properly stored dry fodder comparable to timothy hay in nutrition.
Hints for shepherds describe sheep as gleaners and savers of farm waste with lambs wool mutton and manure as the four cardinal points. Wool yields the most return per farm input. select a small ram with good form and fleece over a larger ram lacking these traits. Selling whit a man needs in his business is not sound policy, and other cautions are given for prudent sheep raising.
Farmers face winter leisure as they corral cattle and neglect stock care, leading to feed troughs crowding then emptying. The Rural World piece argues for intensive farming and a hog breed focused on quality and early maturity as the future standard.
The article debates whether a colt can be judged for future value. It notes opinions range from six months to eighteen months to four or five years for maturity. Key indicators include leg length, thigh height, and a colt that resembles a mature horse is preferred.
W A Sharp describes a four horse daybreak binder hitch adaptable for left or right hand. Key parts include a six foot Whit-Aletree pivoted at center with a clevis, a three quarter by four inch iron horseshoe plate to prevent slipping, and a near tongue mounted draft rod providing a center draft. The single trees measure 80 inches and one horse is placed on the grain side.
Collage of ads and snippets noting Piso Cure for consumption as infant remedy and various foreign interest items. Mentions Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, Allen's Foot-Ease, and a Siberian mammoth digestive record. Includes travel fares and minting stats across Europe and Britain with scattered dates and places.
A garbled advertisement fragment touts Newbro's Herpicide as the sole remedy to “the dandruff germ,” promising swift cure while deriding competing products. The clumsy text mixes testimonials and scattered tips, mentioning milk queries and breakfast lines from Detroit and Chicago papers.
Oscar Swanson of Wallace Michigan cared for his mother with kidney and urinary problems and female weakness. After obtaining various remedies he bought Dodd's Kidney Pills and she quickly recovered becoming strong and well.
A reader warns against axle grease as a protection for young apple trees after experiments failed, recommending a simple stake-and-string barrier around each tree instead. The note mentions a Maryland Angora goat farm project, planning 2,000 goats on a 460 acre tract near Cedarville, formed by wealthy investors seeking large-scale Angora goat production.
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