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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
3
Connecticut Highway Commissioner John Macdonald prescribes a coal tar plus pitch mix for durable asphaltic roads. The method requires a dry surface, two hot applications, trap rock top dressing, and steam rolling to form a solid waterproof layer resistant to auto tires.
William J. Bryan issues a Fairview statement praising Democratic supporters and national leaders while acknowledging incomplete returns. He expresses faith in future alignment with Democratic reform goals and readiness to serve the public, noting Nebraska’s Democratic administration will advance Denver platform principles in state laws.
At a New York hearing in the government suit against Standard Oil an independent producer from Bowling Green Ohio testified on the evolution of the Lima field since 1887. He said refining began 1889 and prices rose from fractions of a dollar to about a dollar per barrel, with crude price controls by Joseph Sepp Co. and later ties to Manhattan Oil as a Standard concern.
Terre Haute Indiana November 7 Eugene V Debs defeated Socialist presidential candidate explains the vote pattern saying the apparent decline reflects a higher Socialist vote in 1904 and a shift of disgruntled Democrats to Bryan this year while noting a gain in the actual Socialist vote.
In Cleveland Ohio Dr George A Wright a former prominent surgeon and Columbus college professor was arrested on highway robbery charges. He told police whisky ruined his career forced him to beg in saloons and that he warned a man in a saloon to leave with a large sum he possessed. He claimed the man was later robbed and he did not take the money.
John Armstrong Chanler, also called Chaloner, had his bid to overturn a jury finding of insanity denied by Justice Truax. Declared insane eleven years ago and committed to Bloomingdale asylum, he escaped and now lives in Virginia. He was formerly married to writer Amelie Rives.
Great men of all lands owe their rise to unconquerable determination to do the right under all circumstances. Truthfulness makes their characters shine through time as guides for those who follow.
An experienced poultry raiser explains eye and tie of hens with neck and head, tail and foot movement as indicators. Trap nests help identify layer hens, while close observation distinguishes daily layers from nonlayers. Emphasizes cockerels’ breeding value and belief in the 200 egg hen with potential 150 egg base, urging improvement toward egg-score goals.
A simple illustrated plan for a practical poultry house suited for 25 to 50 hens. The structure faces south or southeast in a warm sunny location. Front wall rises five feet, center eight feet, rear four and a half feet. Roosts should be placed in the back portion.
A poultry house should have nests along the sides and corners with a small weatherdoor to the yard. Access should be allowed only in good weather after carpeting with straw, to protect laying in cold. Use a good board or cement floor, solid lumber, and keep it painted for lifelong durability.
The page discusses alfalfa meal as a quality feed for growing chicks and laying hens, noting its value in alfalfa producing regions. It includes methods from an Iowa poultryman on open shed housing, beef and clover meal morning rations, deep litter with wheat, noon raking, and evening corn, plus weekly bone, cabbage, fresh water, curtain front houses, grit and oyster shells, and winter egg collection.
Agnes C. Laut writes of vast grain fields across California Oregon Washington Dakota and the Canadian northwest where wind and sun set gold sea like waves. Riders traverse horizons unbroken by fences as odors of ripe wheat and attar of roses fill the air, a surreal panorama of living gold.
A Chinese tale tells of two mothers claiming a child before a mandarin. His wife devises a plan to test true maternity by swapping the child with a fish and observing who dives into the river to save the baby. One woman yields to the ruse, the other is exposed as an impostor.
White and red wines owe their difference to the handling of grape skins. White wine is fermented without skins, while red wine may retain the skins. The juice of all grapes is essentially colorless, and the color comes from the skins. even a champagne grape appears nearly black on the outside.
A humorous note quotes a Mrs. Jones asking Dr. Smith to visit promptly as her cuckoo clock suffers a throat trouble. The line is presented in Harper’s Weekly style with witty telephone banter.
Atchison Globe notes a boy spends youth under street corner illumination and toads, fates he grows older and becomes blind and toothless, yet must answer a woman about his late return home.
A humorous exchange notes a baby not taking after its father as a jab about a swallow coin gag. The cartoon caption plays on parental expectations and a playful dig about a learned habit from a parent. The line reflects light social humor in a newspaper snippet.
A London Opinion quip recalls a fatherly gift watch on loan for the twentieth time as a remark on merit and fortune. The exchange pairs Jill and Bill discussing the watch’s service and its repeated pawnings with a Goethe quote on merit and luck.
A Hoard’s Dairy article outlines a hog building plan about 50 by 16 feet with two rows of pens along a central passage. It emphasizes convenient cleaning access, fixed troughs, doors to yards, and roomy winter quarters for sows, noting the design could house 20 to 100 pigs and can be extended.
Hog feeding requires careful, phased nutrition from birth. Start with light sow rations to avoid piglet scours, then gradually shift to milled feeds and slops. By three weeks pigs begin eating. use creep feeds. Emphasize high protein and ash feeds like wheat, middlings, oil meal, alfalfa. Sanitation and proper worm control boost results. use lime dip and crude oil for disinfection and lice control. Written by J H Ashby, Iowa.
The text advises fencing water to keep ducks in at night once given access to running water. It argues that secure enclosures ensure ducks return, emphasizing containment over open liberty for waterfowl.
It pays for farmers to give hens added attention during the current season rather than letting them shift for themselves during plumage changes.
Hay sustains a working horse better, but a little grass now and then is an excellent regulator.
An illustrated poultry house features a sliding window with a cotton screen that can be lowered to fill the opening. The pens measure 12 by 13 feet with the coop under the propping board. Rough boards use tar paper and cheap shingles, with optional interior plastering.
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