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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1885
Page
4
A tale from Harpers Young People recalls Mimir’s Well and the Tree of Life. The watchman of wisdom is banished while the Well remains, inviting meek and strong alike to taste and seek knowledge.
In a kitchen chat Janet defends careful work while Lucy frets over a rushed stitch job. Janet recalls wise maxims from their mother about doing things properly and being orderly, while Lucy bungles a custard tale echoing the lesson. Their talk ends with a pledge to improve.
A collection of vignettes from church and home. A three year old asks where is my birthday and a boy in Virginia brandishes a fist while declaring I’m glad of it. A rector tests catechism, a nurse removes Charlie, and a parent jokes about ten dollar visits to grandma.
A discussion contrasts Texas growth opportunities with cautions on acclimation for newcomers. It notes Texas towns with banks, plentiful capital, and boom conditions, then shifts to pruning orchard trees. It explains timing effects on young and bearing trees, comparing spring, summer, and winter pruning outcomes and urging moderate, spread pruning rather than heavy cuts.
A six year old asks her father why the term stepdaughter is used and if it means she has been trodden upon. The brief dialogue centers on family labels and their connotations in a domestic setting.
A reflective note on how opinion unsettles the timid, challenges the foolish, tests the wise, and guides the skillful. The piece contrasts trembling crowds with decisive leadership and suggests perception shapes action.
Farmers are urged to feed oats and corn on the farm to obtain profit but only with stock good enough to raise value. Selling low priced grain reduces fertility, making long term loss greater than short term profit. thus poorer stock undermines farm profitability.
Welfare guidance on feeding unground wheat to livestock. The piece notes wheat is hard to digest for horses cows and pigs unless ground or boiled first and mixed with chaff to aid digestion and prevent stomach packing.
Practical farmers show that experience does not guarantee correct conclusions as unnoted factors affect experiments. Their caution protects them from errors that ardent followers of a single idea may fall into.
Sharp competition in selling fertilizers reduces farmer gains from DIY mixes. Large firms buy materials in bulk at lower rates and are better equipped to process bones into phosphate of lime. We now burn bones and powder them finely to spread evenly, though ammonia is lost in the process.
The article argues quack grass can act as fertilizer once killed and decays into mold, aiding crops, but emphasizes the difficulty of killing it and warns against writers who praise it as a universal manure, likening them to a fox after a trap touting a painful tail.
James Morrison Jr. urges the Maine State Board of Agriculture that neglecting winter shelter for stock and insufficient farming teams drive farm decline. He advocates sturdy barns, oxen, and a steady year round effort to keep pastures clear, remove bushes, and run the farm like a daily business.
Farmers should learn grafting to improve old orchards by self work. Grafting old trees with woodier varieties increases value, such as using Northern Spy in apples which bears fruit sooner when grafted on aged stock.
The article discusses California settlement origins tied to gold, then shifts to horticulture and orchard tips. It notes plum variety issues, strawberry crown growth, leaf removal, manure and picker concerns, apple tree root shapes, bark markings predicting roots, and grape wine demand driving future production and American wine reception.
Thousands rely on a single cow for family milk and income. A well trained cow yields more milk than butter and can provide savings and profit for modest households. By selecting a good cow and managing calving around that cycle, poor families gain cheaper milk and surplus to sell to neighbors.
The article urges farmers to increase stock to improve land manure and notes low feed prices with high meat demand. It discusses flaxseed meal usage in baking, milking issues blamed on both cows and boys, and recalls a farmer’s comment on muton and mutton quality versus English.
Farmers kept geese for feathers used in feather beds and sales. Feathers demand declined as mattresses grew popular and geese became a nuisance on farms and fields. Unless land is too wet, buying goose feathers costs less than growing them.
Geese need food close to their summer forage. Fine hay soaked and bran, boiled potatoes with meal, chopped beets turnips potatoes or apples, and cabbage suit them. Provide good quarters and ample water. corn is liked but excess fattens them. they winter well and begin to say early.
The Department of Agriculture endorses Dr. Salmon's remedy for chicken cholera a dilute sulfuric acid solution. Mix three pounds of sulfuric acid to forty gallons of water or one quarter pound to three and a half gallons. Apply thoroughly to floors roosts and grounds after scraping manure away. The solution is cheap but dangerous to handle and clothing and flesh can be burned by undiluted acid.
An old farmer’s note reviews why annuals dominated garden color, then praises gladiolus tuberose and especially the dahlia. It covers pricing from six shillings to dollars per dozen, planting depths, soil tips, watering, staking, and winter storage to extend blooms into autumn.
Mr. E. J. Smith of Addison Vermont writes to the American Bee Journal advising against turning apiculture into a single swarming specialty. He argues that if a specialist bee-keeper lets his colonies swarm freely, he will quickly accumulate a large number of hives.
A beekeeper argues for low honey production costs to compete with California imports and warns against easy profit myths. He favors traditional hive frames over reversible frames, cites winter risks, queen handling, and perennial brood concerns, and stresses hard work, patience, and suitable local conditions.
The piece argues for planting potatoes as soon as the ground is workable. Late planting delays emergence and ripening of early sorts, while early planting allows hoeing before haying and targeted beetle control. Early crops also free land for fall grain sowing.
The article discusses how potatoes exhaust fertility, especially on soils low in organic matter and potash. It notes potatoes do not return straw or seed, harming sandy soils, but on heavy land they improve subsequent sowings by requiring more cultivation that breaks down lumps and prepares the soil for later crops.
A Prairie Farmer note extols evergreen white pines for windbreaks and shelter while praising diverse trees for firewood syrup nuts and shade. It credits forests with protecting gardens from cold winds aiding wildlife and reducing pests, transforming bleak prairie into a cozy farm with birdsong and pines.
A vintage recipe explains making baking powder by heating tartaric acid and bicarbonate of soda separately, then mixing with potato farina. Dry the mixture, sift, and store away from air and moisture to preserve potency.
The center should measure forty seven by thirty one inches with a bright color. A two inch border in a contrasting color is joined and flattened. The seam is fastened with brier or herring-bone stitches and a narrow hem or fringe finishes the edge. Border designs cut from cretonne or flannel are sewn on in chain or herring-boned or button-hole stitches.
Quick tips for removing stains from cotton and linen with a tartar and oxalic acid mix. Easy knit squares for dish towels wash rags and mittens using braid. Oil stains on wallpaper can be lifted by a paste of cold water and pipe clay or fuller’s earth left overnight.
Boil the cabbage gently until cooked and drain it. Melt two ounces of butter in a saucepan over a good fire then add the cabbage with salt and pepper. Stir in half a pint of cream or milk and a teaspoonful of flour. Simmer until the sauce reduces and serve hot.
Clean and cut carrots are boiled until tender then drained. In a saucepan butter milk and salt are heated to a boil, eggs yolks are stirred in, and the carrots are added for a quick final boil. A touch of parsley may be added before serving for garnish.
Instructions describe mixing flour sugar salt baking powder with butter and milk to form a paste, roll and cut rounds bake in a tin, then layer with washed berries and sugar, topping with more berries. Variations include whipped cream and fruit options, noting seeds in grapes as a nuisance.
A convention tale recalls how Northern Pacific engineers believed some locomotives carried bad luck. Stories describe Adam Brown’s premonitions before a fatal mishap, the No. 47 wrecks on the Dakota Division, and a Sacramento engine with a horseshoe that supposedly resolved breakdowns and steam problems.
The article traces Chinese history from ancient myth through successive dynasties to the Ming era, noting key rulers, invasions, and the wall, then discusses early Western contact, Jesuit missions, and trade up to the Manchou era. It highlights Western influence rising after 1653 and cites Williams' The Middle Kingdom as a comprehensive account.
A young man declares love while a family tale unfolds about a wife asking for a $300 camel hair shawl, and a husband quips that with wheat and a half million bushels short, calico is cheaper. The scene ends as the man hurries to meet someone at three.
A playful scene about a paste pot breaking into the Scissors and causing a delay in sales, with the Clock remarking no editorial tomorrow. The piece then quotes the New York Mail and Express on egg consumption, noting a vast yearly figure and a suggested daily egg ration.
The article traces Caxton’s era punctuation, noting three marks and doubts about his grasp of rules. It details earliest manuscripts with no points, the dot as word separator, then sentence divisions. Greek grammarians linked comma colon period to sentence parts, with Alius Donatus first placing dots to mark divisions, and printers adopting a graduated system in the sixteenth century.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive for chronic kidney disease and other ailments. It claims the tonic strengthens the kidneys and urinary organs, purifies blood, and aids liver stomach and bowels while aiding diuresis to remove impurities.
A young woman presents a Byron poem The Maid of Athens to an editor who lacks Greek knowledge The editor translates the final line of each stanza and sends her away with refined courtesy.
The piece argues that despite abundant educational facilities, individuals must bear tuition costs in all regions, highlighting a persistent barrier to access in the education system. It notes a contrast between available resources and the affordability for students.
The article notes Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo as unraveling nature’s mysteries of the human body and offering his Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for blood taint poisons and humors including scrofula pimples eruptions swellings tumors ulcers and related affections sold by druggists.
The passage questions persuading a woman to pay a premium to the man who misses Kennett and notes Dr Sage and his catarrh Kenedy claiming to cure thousands of stubborn catarrh cases. It asks who would be next to seek cure or cash.
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