Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1898 — Voted Woman Dead. [ARTICLE]

Voted Woman Dead.

Newton. Mass., July 28. —Airs. Albert Bowker, lor 22 years president of the woman's board of missions, died at her home here Wednesday. Mrs. Bowker was the originator of the society of which she whs president and which was the first denominational organization specially formed for woman's foreign missionary work. Fatten intr Fowls for Market. There is a quick way of fattening fowls for market. It cannot be done by confining them in coops, as they will become discontented and refuse {to eat, losing flesh rather than making a gnin. Put them In yards, having | several together, and feeff four times i day. Give a variety, especially of I chopped grass, and make the morning * meal of mixed ground grain, the next l of chopped grass, then ground grain i with ground meat added, and at night all the wheat and corn they will eat. i Fed in this manner, and kept free of lice, fowls should be made fat In ten fays.—American Gardening.