How to Keep Butter and Preserve It Long Term
A Michigan Farmer republished guidance from a dairy authority on packing butter to keep eight or nine months. Use a saturated salt brine with one pound saltpetre per twenty pounds salt, scald brine, prepare casks, remove gum and sap, and use steam or brine soaking to remove wood flavor. Keep butter fully submerged in cool brine. hermetically sealed tin-lined packages may offer equal preservation at similar cost.
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Seasonal Farm Repairs Delayed By Urgent Plowing Tasks
A farmer notes that busy harvest and field work push repairs to the stable and sheds aside. Many barns require planks, broken partitions, feed racks, leaks, and gate fixes, with storms likely to delay again. He advises making a written plan and tackling tasks now, even if it slows plowing briefly.
Colonels Taggart Poultry Feed System Noted
The piece describes Colonel Taggart of Pennsylvania providing food and exercise to fowls by burying oats in beds about thirty feet square. Sprouting grains give fowls ongoing access to tender sprouts, while a fresh bed is prepared for later use. The editor endorses the idea and reports its effectiveness in other yards.
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Colonel Taggart
Pennsylvania
Col. Taggart
Preserving Fence Posts and Apple Storage Techniques
An old farmer Benjamin Chaplin near Anamosa in Jones county describes salt-treated fence posts aged thirty five years and still sound. He drills a three quarter inch hole fills with salt and plugs with pine. Salt keeps posts moist and alternates wetting to prevent decay. posts in water do not decay. He also shares a method to keep apples for a year using alternating layers of dry sawdust and apples in boxes stored off the ground to preserve freshness. He notes a pepper and copper dissolved in drinking water can aid fowl appetite when feed is off.
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Anamosa
Jones County
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Clean Lips and Hearts: A Call for Sanitation in Faith
A Pittsburgh Methodist Recorder editorial humorously mocks Christians with bad breath, urging cleanliness as part of sanctification. It argues that fresh mouths reflect a pure heart, insisting the gospel be proclaimed with clean lips and hygienic habits.
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Methodist Recorder
Pittsburgh
Toed Log Monster in Acton Sawmill
A pine log at Brown and Halls sawmill in Acton revealed a large fat blind toad embedded in a hollow fifty to sixty feet above ground. The animal appeared to have lived there for centuries within the decayed hollow. Researchers wonder how it entered and what sustained its life.
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Brown & Hall
Acton
Young Woman Marries Constable in Office Marriage
Mary Wilson of Harrison avenue wed Justice Leonard in Jersey City after a playful exchange with Constable Andrew Love and Justice Garrick witnessed the ceremony. Henry Poster and George S. Bogart acted as witnesses as the certificate was handed to the bride.
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Harrison Avenue
Henry Poster
George 8. Bogart
Love
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