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Newspaper
Ackley World
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1894
Page
4
An old trapper recalls a near miss with Sioux during berry gathering in migrating woods near the Minnesota patch. He details a charged dusk moment, how his dog Tige warned him, and how he reacted as foes closed in from all sides, ending with a tense scramble and capture attempt.
A Sioux raid captures the narrator after a clash over a double barrel gun. He endures forced travel, tight restrains, and mockery as youth warriors debate his fate. A prairie storm blinds the attackers. He frees himself during the confusion, recovers his rifle, and escapes by canoe to reach his camp.
A garbled yet readable household guide lists recipes and kitchen tips such as ginger cakes and dumplings, pork dishes, potato sides, and fruit creams. It includes instructions for beating, mixing, and baking with references to ginger cakes, Balkert Sault Wark pork, and various desserts, with mentions of American Agriculturalist and Harper's Havar publications.
A fragmented 19th century description portrays primitive cabins with daylight streams and hazy rosy panes. Rooms lack stairs, small lofts crowd, and interiors reveal rough furnishings, with dainty brass fittings and a raftered hall. The piece observes modest living, smoke thick with pine knots, and the eerie glow of a single lantern carried by inhabitants.
A historical notice describes a cheap filter built from alternating gravel charcoal and pebbles in two connected casks. Water moves from the first to the second, filtering as it drains by gravity. The system claims to filter water from wells rivers or tanks for domestic use.
The article argues dairy by products like whey, buttermilk, and washings should be fed to pigs on well managed farms. It cautions against sending by products to swill barrels or to others and promotes careful washing of utensils and timely feeding. Strong entities include American Cultivator and dairy farmers. it emphasizes using all dairy wastes to improve pig nutrition and reduce waste.
A Bristol dairy farmer, 35 years tilling soil, reads of a New York advertiser promising a method to keep butter from getting strong for $10. He mails the money hoping for larger dairy profits, and then receives advice to “Eat it.” The tale is reported by the Philadelphia Record.
The New York Experiment Station at Geneva studied dairy cows across breeds finding high water intake and feed use. Ayrshires, Guernseys, Holsteins, Jerseys, Shorthorns, Holderness, and others averaged about 4.08 pounds of water per pound of milk produced, with monthly consumption near 1000 pounds water and 774.8 pounds of food per cow.
A historical note describes building a deep wheelbarrow for greater capacity. It suggests using two stout shaft pieces mortised behind the wheel and aligning mortises two inches from the ground to form a sturdy barrow body. The fragmentary text emphasizes utility over a standard wheelbarrow.
A historical note discusses reaching forward to VB supported by two false legs mortised into the shifts and near ground level. It covers wheelbarrow sides, load handling, and a movable bottom to deposit loads by lifting handles. The design aims to ease transporting leafy stones and similar loads with minimal tipping.
A Farmers' Voice excerpt discusses a ladybug as a friend to fruit growers, noting it eats many insects and aids strawberry yields with seasonal planting and cultivation. It warns against rust, advises removing affected parts, and suggests neighbors ship to a single commission house for better marketing. It ends with a theory that trees in stress attract pests, tempered by field experience.
Farmers seek relief from striped tug pests on mc lons using air-slaked lime mixed with plaster and sieved. Lime is too harsh on damaged plants. A second pest, the small green louse, infests vines in late growth, beginning under leaves near the stem and curling leaves. readers are invited to share successful controls.
The writer argues rye sown for fall and winter pasture, and rye fed to hogs in spring, yields loyalty to land, restores soil, thrives on clay and wet lands where wheat fails, and serves as a pasture crop without dense ground cover and is valuable as a nurse crop for grass.
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