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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
3
The friends of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John P. Hyde are glad to learn both are recovering from illnesses. Dr Hyde had been afflicted for a week or more with neuralgia, while Mrs Hyde suffered lumbago. They are now improving this afternoon.
Mr. Harry R. Smithey, confined at home for over a week with grip, was out briefly for the first time since illness. Reports indicate several others are also suffering and under a physician’s care as the oppressive heat lingers.
Belgium breeders must record cattle with engraved ear rings. Tuberculosis spreads via contact with glands or lungs. Fall rye and winter wheat provide hog pasture until snow. Hogs need warm winter housing to market in May or June. Calves and colts with scours may benefit from corncob tea. London still uses 280000 horses for cabs valued at about 30.9 million dollars. South American transport barriers raise costs for coal and lumber despite local timber near La Paz.
The guide emphasizes teaching a draft horse a steady fast walking gait as essential for heavy hauling or farm work. It advises training drafts to sustain a fast walk, ensuring long straight strides and forbidding trotting until the gait is firmly established and can be held over distance.
Prof Shaw at Michigan station tracked one dairy calf from birth for a year to determine feeding costs. The Holstein consumed 881 pounds of whole milk, 2568 skim milk, 1262 silage, 219 beet pulp, 1264 hay, 1247 grain, 147 roots, 14 alfalfa meal, and 50 green corn. Grain ration was three parts corn and oats to one part bran and off meal. The calf reached 800 pounds weighing $28.55 for feed costs.
A quoted line notes that taxes on feed for a sow with piglets are heavy, making it uneconomical to favor any but liberal and judicious feeding practices.
A carload of sterra with unit style size and markings will outsell mixed l hogs. Even quarters compact well arched broad backed deep bodied hogs are favored over cross bred scrubs.
The El Rey sisters, famed young skaters, entertain hundreds nightly at the local rink. The two dainty girls, with their mother traveling with them, perform beginning Thursday night through Friday and Saturday shows and a matinee.
Nineveh Virginia February 14 The dwelling house on the farm of Miss Sophia Ashby was completely destroyed by fire last Friday. Amherst Painter moved his saw mill to Mr Trenary s farm to saw lumber. Kerns from near Front Royal moved to Bierer s farm. Prestey Neville of Middletown stayed with his son Russell Neville. William Jacobs has been ill with grip but is improved. J Miller Jett visited Winchester Friday. Dr Cooke of Front Royal attended neighborhood Friday. G G Reich of Middletown and his sister Mrs Johnston were in Miss Attie R Miller s company last week. Miss Mary Gordon of Middletown visits Mrs Bradley Johnston.
Mr and Mrs Filan Leven Powell of Northfork Loudoun County announce the engagement of their daughter Bessie Lee Powell to William Laird Dunlop Jr of Washington DC. The wedding date is not fixed but will be in early spring.
Richard Mansfield outlined a plan to establish a chain of English inns across the country offering plain furnishings and straightforward meals. He envisioned expansion through a network of similarly styled establishments focusing on simple, wholesome food.
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