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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1885
Page
4
Discussion of management topics for farm family life covering stock raising poultry fruit growing parlor decoration cookery and related subjects. Presents practical guidance for households balancing agricultural duties with home care and décor across rural settings.
Reports summarize corn moisture and composition differences on a single stalk, pear blight as an infectious disease with bacterial causes, and raspberry and oat variety trials. Observations cover ripening times, yields, berry weights, smut prevalence, and varietal performance across multiple samples.
The article reviews farming methods and materials including butter and lime production, garden plant varieties, dairy education in Ireland, seed suppliers in France, and farm profitability. It cites an Illinois farmer on hog age, cautions about green manures reducing wheat yields, comments on drain laying costs, and describes a leather tanning process using electricity with a two stage tannin treatment.
A garden column discusses osage orange hedges that winter-kill in hollows while honey locust remains hardy. It offers cabbage worm remedies, salt applications for asparagus bedding, and notes on seeding stock and framed beds. The piece also praises European beech and hornbeam for hedges, recommends Norway spruce and hemlock among evergreens, and extols the beauty and climbing habit of the hop vine as a decorative plant.
The Times urges farmers with forests to manage woodlands for fuel. Keep cattle away from sprouts, remove dead branch tips, and cut down woody trees when needed. Plant sprouts from cut stumps like willow and cottonwood to form a future wood lot, while avoiding damage to young growth. For limited land, delay tree fuel until crops show value. Ten years needed to grow usable fuel trees. nearby coal markets affect profitability. It is desirable to raise some trees for fuel, especially where wood is hard to obtain, but economics depend on market access and opportunity cost.
The article advises frequent changes in sheep feed to provide variety. It suggests alternating hay with straw or corn stalks and using ground foods like corn oil cake and bran to improve rations, if managed with sound judgment.
The Shropshire Down sheep are becoming popular for farms. They are hardy and prolific and suit large flocks. Cross with a Shropshire buck yields larger lambs, and they are strong feeders early on with oats. Delicate native lambs require careful feeding to avoid harm.
The article discusses how winter survival and profitability depend on breed. Small fine boned pigs struggle in cold unless kept warmer and well fed, suggesting two litters per year to improve breeds. The spring litter should mix with small bone varieties for fall fattening, with fall sows crossed with Chester White Berkshire or Poland China to produce good breeders next year.
The article argues that skilled feeding equals breeding success, urging farmers to study food value, digestibility, and conversion to flesh and bone. It explains protein, carbohydrates, fats, and minerals, and cites Flint corn as 10.7 percent protein with 79 percent digestibility, noting variable needs by animal type and the benefits of informed, cost-conscious feeding.
The Farmers' Review notes the value of early brooding for chicks and urges setting several hens together to synchronize broods. It recommends feeding hard boiled egg mixture and starter grains for the first week, with careful management to keep chicks safe and healthy as they grow, delaying water until grain intake begins.
A thrift tip explains using heavy canton flannel to wrap and stitch a fold over a set of spoons and forks. The strip is sized to cover the pieces and create loops to slip the silver through for safe storage.
How to clean gilt frames using a pint of cold water with vinegar and a camel hair brush. Dust frames first, brush gilding lightly in small sections, rinse brush, and keep gilding dry. Clean every two years with daily dusting to keep gilding in good order.
Tips from an English hairdresser describe daily care for health and beauty. Brush gently with a bone comb, avoid rubber, and use a stir brush nightly. For long hair have a maid or assist. braid and tie with silk. Regular washing and occasional shampooing keep scalp clean, with eggs and ammonia rinse. For thinning hair a quinine lotion helps roots. Fashion notes differ by age from babies to teens, with ringlets, bangs, waves, and hats secured by steel pins.
A guide to crafting stylish home accents from old hats and cookware. Create wall pockets from hat rims, gilded barrel hoops with satin crescents, and a plush mantel lambrequin with varied panels. Transform an old sewing machine into a secretary and bookcase, and repurpose frames and drawers for organized storage.
Practical tips on improving apartment light with curtains, ventilation for gas use, and dangers of arsenic in wallpapers. Includes home remedies for tart apples using dates, a method to imitate ground glass with rice, and first aid for poisoning involving salt mustard egg white or coffee to counteract toxins.
A simple batter lists half a cup of butter one cup of sugar two eggs half a cup of milk and one and a half cups of flour with two teaspoons of baking powder and currants stirred in at the end for a loaf or cake.
A historical preparation describes mixing flour with baking powder then rubbing in lard and butter before adding cold water to form a dough for a pie crust. The method emphasizes folding in fats and using ice cold water for tenderness.
A recipe fragment lists three cups of bread sponge one and a half cups of butter one tablespoon sugar two eggs rolled thin cut with a cake tin sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and butter and baked.
Prepare a quart of small white onions with skins intact then boil in salted water until just tender. Drain and place in a baking dish. Make a white sauce with butter flour milk and white pepper, simmer briefly, pour over onions, dust with cracker dust, brown quickly in a hot oven and serve immediately.
Hash the cooked meat and twice as many cold potatoes in separate bowls. Add a little boiling water and bitter in an iron pan. Stir in meat and potatoes with salt and pepper, and optional vegetables. Cook covered until evenly mixed and thick enough to stand on buttered toast. Cold poultry hash cooks similarly.
Two soups described begin with water parsley onion and optional carrot then add farina or mashed potatoes with butter. The potato soup uses onions parsley pepper and salt, pressed through a colander and boiled briefly. variations include celery and flour thickening.
Washington Daily Post reports Dr O Grothe and Dr Samuel K Cox certify a new cough remedy free from opiates or poisons. Endorsements come from Senators Blackburn and Gorman and several congressmen and officials who say Red Star Cough Cure soothes throat and reduces cough without toxic risks.
A playful, satirical promenade ends with the couple planning a home life and marriage. She presses for closeness while he toys with visions of a shared future, from poetry to politics, housing costs, and domestic bliss in Chicago Ledger tone.
The Norristown Herald notes a premium of 30000 dollars offered by the Mexican government for establishing a paper mill at a cost of 150000 dollars, but argues against risking the larger sum for the smaller incentive. It suggests borrowing the 30000 if the premium were 150000 for a 30000 mill.
A Philadelphia reader argues that the city’s grid and streets are too crowded and cut up like a checker board, contrasting with a New York plan that favors wider blocks and easier movement for pedestrians. He envisions a better layout that avoids constant tramping and clutter on every street corner.
An article from Scientific American describes using a chained owl decoy mounted on a post with a rope and pulleys to move it and attract attacking crows ravens and other birds. A nearby hut houses a hunter who shoots through openings to kill large numbers of birds quickly as others replace the fallen.
In a Boston Sunday Times tale a widow nearly dies twice at funerals. The first casket mishap shocks mourners when a stumble awakens the supposedly dead woman. Two years later she dies, and during the second service the husband warns workers to avoid hitting the same post.
Dr. D. F. Penington of 536 West Fayette Street Baltimore testifies he uses Red Star Cough Cure personally and in his family and finds it a prompt and sure remedy for coughs and colds with no bad results from other remedies and no opium or morphia.
Autobiography in Connecticut Legislative Manual profiles William Wallace Lee born in Bankhamsted aged 57. Tool maker and seminary graduate with a water wheel, served in war but arm broken, held roles as fireman Mason constable Justice of the Peace and Alderman. He values equality and family tie despite self description as a greasy mechanic.
An old advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a sovereign antidote to dyspepsia. It argues the stomach governs health, warning that indigestion can trigger diabetes, liver congestion, rheumatism, paralysis, and scrofula, all preventable by regular use of the remedy.
In Washington gatherings the trend leans toward hired china but hosts prefer plain white to avoid breakage costs. Visitors note varying Japanese figures on sets each event, while insiders whisper that some hosts actually hire yet keep the white plain option.
A Newman Independent item notes visitors remark on a pleasant town while discussing rent shifts. Residents say rents rose sharply after a parish meeting and the opening of a skating rink, with prices climbing from knee to waistband levels.
Dr Morris Gibbs of Howard City Michigan endorses Horsford’s Acid Phosphate as a tonic and agreeable minty aid for juleps dispensed by bartenders, cited by the Boston Star.
Ads invite settlers to the Elkhorn Valley territory in North Nebraska offering free government land and cheap round trip land exploring tickets to Valentine. Information available from R S Hair Chicago and Northwestern and J R Buchanan Elkhorn and Missouri Valley R R officials.
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