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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1885
Page
4
A compact feature offers practical guidance on stylish parlor decorating and simple kitchen science experiments. It includes neat styling ideas, safe testing methods, and health preservation tips aligned with everyday home routines.
Sorghum offers seed fodder and syrup value, grows with corn, and resists droughts. Dr Collier notes it can be grown in any climate or soil, with syrup production lowering costs through shared equipment and practice.
Farmers hear advice on blackberry cane salt treatment and soil amendments. A blend of bone dust and wood ashes serves as a fertilizer for various crops. Potatoes may be fed to stock when prices are low. Some urge caution on costly silos and promote stacked feed with pressure as an alternative.
The article outlines modern beekeeping innovations increasing honey yield and hive efficiency, highlighting removable frame hives Italian bees honey extractors and comb foundation. It then profiles Elgin Illinois dairy country with a thriving creamery network, cooperative trade, quality testing, and stock improvements underpinned by abundant pasture, silo use, and evolving cow genetics.
Gastar drives away ants but around apple trees their gathering may hurt the orchard. Ants destroy plant lice on apples, common pests that injure foliage during key fruiting stages.
The McClellan apple is a favorite dessert fruit known for fair size and pleasant sub-acid flavor. It is not as rich as Spitzenberg or fall pippin and is less affected by codling moth when grown near other fruit, since the pest prefers richer fruit.
P M Augur urges careful orchard practices to balance growth and production. He warns against overfeeding and excessive growth on rich soils, stresses selecting hardy varieties, proper stock reuse, and avoiding unsuitable soils. The emphasis is on gradual, safe development to withstand severe winters and October freezes.
Farmers advise feeding corn to work horses to maintain strength when weather turns cold. Increase corn as work remains steady, then reduce in winter if work slows.
Barley meal or barley soaked in cold water swells by about one third in bulk and swells further when cooked. Treated barley provides more nutriment than dry meal. Water costs nothing and is a cheap forage for animals, especially with green grass and other herbage.
The article advises feeding charcoal to hogs two to three times weekly to correct stomach acidity caused by corn diets and confinement. It notes hogs eat charcoal eagerly and fatten faster with charcoal than with corn alone, though long-term use may affect digestion. Wood ashes eaten freely also yielded excellent results.
The article advises readers to study leading poultry books for comprehensive knowledge and to avoid books biased toward a single breed. It argues farmers who reject farm subjects lack judgment comparable to professionals who ignore books.
The article describes the Veronese Black-Capped fowl also called the Monk's Hood, noting its origin tied to Venetia and Santa Cruz monastery. It details the black hood, white body, plumage, comb, and red wattles, and explains it is a non-sitting, small egg layer prized as a pet rather than a table fowl.
An expert notes that a piano cover with artful needlework is nearly useless without a waterproof layer. He advises keeping a plain rubber cover beneath the fancy scarf to protect the instrument from moisture, stressing higher quality pianos are more moisture sensitive.
A New York Commercial Advertiser guide describes affordable bedroom dressing ideas using pine tables, broomstick frames, and repurposed boxes. It details cretonne coverings, satteen drapes, and reinforced seating with cushions to create a stylish look at low cost.
Practical guide to creating decorative household pieces including Acorn jewel stands, cedarwood carving, and covered grass cases. Advice on making glass enclosures, felted shelves, velvet edgings, and tassels, with cautions about dust and healthful surroundings.
A recipe note outlines a fresh pain layer cake filling. Grate a large tart apple and a lemon, squeeze juice, add one egg and one cup sugar, boil five minutes with constant stirring for a sweet fruit custard base.
An old recipe describes browning onion in fat then adding four for flavor. When brown a spoon of hot water follows, then seasoned meat with the yolk of an egg and juice plus grated rind of half a lemon. The mixture browns lightly and is served.
Fried apples are sliced from the core and browned in lard or butter then mixed and drained to serve hot. They make a nice garnish for roast pork and some cooks prefer beef drippings for a stronger flavor.
Instructions describe dressing a cleaned turkey with stuffing, drawing and trussing, removing the crop and organs carefully, boiling the liver gizzard and heart for gravy, washing and drying the cavity, sewing skins, skewering for roasting, dredging with flour and butter, and roasting two and a half hours for an eight pound bird with a lightly acidic sauce like currant, apple, or cranberry.
J S Carr of Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co writes a letter touting Athlophoros. He cites personal testimonials from relatives and a neighbor in Durga North Carolina about relief from rheumatism and neuralgia, urging purchase through the Athlophoros Company or druggist.
The piece extols health over wealth and power and claims Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters strengthens vitality. It asserts the tonic protects against disease, aids digestion, and helps prevent constipation liver issues nervousness kidney rheumatic ailments and malaria especially when taken before meals.
The Liverpool docks span both river sides for six miles with 333 acres water area and 22 miles of lan guage. Begun in 1709, it shifted from City Council to a board in 1856 and sits on floating bridges to ride tides. £10 million capital, £7 million in Liverpool. The landing stage, rebuilt after a 1874 fire, extends 2063 feet by 80 feet, with seven bridges and a 550 foot floating bridge. Docks yield over £1.25 million yearly, protected by a seawall over five miles long, eleven feet thick and forty feet high.
A narrator recalls an army of missteps chasing a boyhood aim to chew tobacco. After a perilous ride home on a mare he suffers fatal illness and dies in a field, mourned by Rosalie who cannot comfort him due to a missing map.
A Florida youth bought shoes too small and tried the bean method to stretch them. He filled the shoes with white beans, hydrated them overnight, and woke to swollen shoes with creases and beans spilling out. He decided next time to pare his feet instead.
Prof. C Donaldson of New Orleans who endured eighteen years of rheumatic pains says he spent ten thousand dollars on doctors baths and devices before using St Jacobs Oil. He claims it cured him completely and that he has sold his crutches.
An old Milwaukee shoemaker, with long white hair, describes attending his twentieth inauguration in Washington. He explains his misinterpretation of the term centenarian and jokes about hair cutting to honor a Democratic president. He wanders off toward a barber shop after the exchange.
In a Boston meeting on women’s suffrage a speaker urged wage-free parity, claiming men must support women. An opponent warned that a sudden wage halt would hurt thousands of Massachusetts men and their families. The ad touts the World’s Dispensary Medical Association and hints at offers for “Look of particulars.” Boarding-house keepers are urged to be cremated when they die in a sardonic aside.
The Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offers 600 elegantly fitted rooms in a European plan with elevator and restaurant. It touts low prices from one dollar and up, with horse cabs stage and elevated rail access to all depots and claims families can live better for less than at any first class hotel in the city.
The fragment discusses Lord Byron and a harsh view of revenge toward women. It mentions suffering women and cites Dr. R. V. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as addressing female ailments. The text hints at misprints and misinterpretations in the damaged OCR excerpt.
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