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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1916
Page
2
Kansas State Agricultural College horticulture assistant Merrill says small home orchards can yield profits with proper care. Pruning and timely sprays, including dormant treatments and spring applications, boost fruit quality while avoiding overwork.
Fall forage tips discuss planting rape for quick 6 to 8 week forage to feed hogs in fall and allow pasture through summer and fall with periodic grazing. After corn hogging rape can be sown again to supplement corn. Rye sown in early September provides late fall and early winter pasture.
Practical advice on protecting hens from lice, feeding brood separately, and ensuring well drained enclosures. Warns that overcrowding causes night sweating and feather rot, leading to poor molting and reduced productivity.
Teper Eoe Eet runs a summer goods sale featuring clothing accessories and outdoor items. Shop limited time discounts and new arrivals at the store in town.
A department of agriculture specialist notes rising mutton and lamb demand in the United States and a growing wool market. With proper management farm flocks can be profitable, aided by cooperative sale of 100 lambs, nearby slaughter plants, and regional wool disposal through organized clubs like Tennessee’s Goodlettsville group. Sheep thrive on marginal lands, mature quickly, and use a wide range of plants reducing grain needs.
Advice for new poultry keepers on turning eggs into meat and chicks. It covers incubator use, blooded stock advantages, cost of feed, and profitability of a mixed eggs and meat operation with expectable profits per hen and per flock.
The comb color and wattles indicate health and laying potential. A plump bright comb means vigor and readiness to lay, while a shriveled or purplish comb signals illness or declining condition and listlessness. Restlessness and high activity occur when healthy.
The guide warns to feed chickens before roosting to ensure crops fill, stating birds should receive all the grain they will eat in ten to fifteen minutes prior to turning in for the night.
The fifth page showcases Moling and Seal corsets highlighting fashion value and shaping support. It lists styles for evening wear and daily use, with pricing and contact details for fittings and orders.
Corn fodder serves as sheep feed next to alfalfa and clover stands. Well cured corn fodder is especially desirable for breeding stock.
A tourist in a quiet Highland road meets a cottager with an ancient ax. The cottager claims the hatchet belonged to William Wallace, prompting surprise. The exchange hints at age and authenticity, with local pride and a sly retort about changing times.
A child asks the bishop why people call Mr Wilberforce Soapy Sam. The bishop ponders then replies that perhaps it is because, though he often gets into hot water, he always comes out with lean hands. The witticism is noted as neat.
The Virginia Almanac from the eighteenth century features a curious prescription to keep warm by throwing a single billet of wood from a garret window into the yard and repeatedly carrying it back up to repeat the heating exercise. Paul Leland Haworth cites the recipe in Washington Farmer. Probatum est.
A letter from Am Brose Gary of Sulphur Oklahoma describes ten years of kidney trouble with pain and stiffness. He began Foley Kidney Pills and felt relief from the first dose, continuing until three bottles were used and he says he feels like a new man. Sold everywhere.
An reflective meditation on fate and the peril of voyage and life. The passage posits that whether at sea or near shore, a wreck marks the end for all, transforming life into tragedy woven with mystery and death as Robart Ingersoll notes.
Dr Wilder Tileston reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that rat bite fever is now recognized as a separate disease caused by a rat organism identified as Strep tothrix muris. Immediate wound care followed by salvarsan when fever appears yields about 3 percent cures.
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