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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1905
Page
8
The Department of Agriculture urges wider attention to basket willow in the United States. Willow growing can profit lowland farms, with careful planting, harvesting, and processing yielding durable wares and steady wages for workers.
Secretary Wilson returned from the Northwest confident that farmers hold larger wealth and that there will be no industrial panic. Wheat corn and oats this year should exceed last year, with durum wheat area expanding into desert regions. He predicts meat dairy and poultry prices will ease this winter due to heavy grain crops.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley chief of the Bureau of Chemistry tours the British Isles France and Germany studying food packing shipping and consumption. He urges national pure food legislation and notes remedies for impure domestic foods especially for invalids relying on prepared foods.
A Kansas farmer's 15 year old son climbs a towering cornstalk to scout the field and, as the stalk grows, he is stranded high above the ground. The adventure ends with the boy surviving on corn and beans and later turning four bushels of cobs into pipes shown at the exposition.
A historic yeast method mixes hops in water, cools, adds salt and sugar, then warms flour with liquor. After three days add mashed potatoes and ferment near the fire before bottling. The yeast ferments spontaneously and, if kept cool, lasts six months or more and yields light bread.
The piece notes broad agreement that canal construction oversight move from the War Department to the State Department under President direction. It argues Taft would gain relief, Root would take Toronto trust, and both men lack personal ambitions for the canal role.
Professor Wright of Oberlin argues that earth’s surface has shifted levels over millennia. He notes sea-shells atop high peaks prove former sea coverage, Central Asia and the Gobi once vast waters, and Jordan valley depths of 1000 to 1400 feet suggesting a global deluge.
The conscience fund in the U S Treasury collects donations from individuals who admit past defrauding the government. The account, opened in 1816, has seen gifts from 2 cents to thousands of dollars, totaling over 400 thousand dollars to date.
Before 1789 the Speaker of the House of Commons received five pounds per day plus a five pound fee for every private bill passed. The arrangement tied the office to fixed daily pay and success on legislations.
A tale from Charleston features Hon George Legare of South Carolina a congressman and lawyer with humor poking fun at a pettifogging attorney. Legare recalls a witness misanswering in a cross examination calling himself a jack-leg carpenter and comparing it to a fast class lawyer.
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