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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1914
Page
3
The article argues for keeping rams isolated with a controlled diet and inspected with ewes only at breeding. It praises English practice of hard coupling, meticulous records, and color coded ewe markings to predict lambing, contrasting it with luck-based methods and urging farmers to adopt precise records to improve outcomes.
Advice to begin grain and hay before pastures dry up to keep colts in good flesh for winter. Warns against neglect during weaning and transition from milk to dry food, stressing best care to avoid trouble and ensure readiness for dry feed.
Over five years the onion smut disease has spread from isolated spots to entire fields, reducing profitability. It is not mainly seed spread, though seed from infected areas can introduce it. Contaminated soil and equipment pass spores. a chemical control using formaldehyde and water has raised yields in treated plots, from about 100 to over 500 bushels per acre.
Fall and winter offer the best window to prepare strawberry beds and other bush fruits for spring. Late fall plowing reduces insect life and helps soil friability. Plowed land dries and works easier in spring, while moisture and soil conserving power improve.
Guidance emphasizes preventing bowel trouble in young calves and all livestock during critical periods. The rule aims to safeguard health and ensure profit for the farmer in the next year, stressing careful care of the farm’s young stock.
Rot of tomatoes is a plant disease seen on unsprayed crops. It starts as small black or brown leaf and stem spots on lower leaves and rapidly spreads, causing defoliation. Under microscopy crescent shaped fungal spores appear in bark lesions. spray with Bordeaux mixture to control.
The guidance urges constant cultivation with immediate ground preparation after harvest. It stresses removing spent crop residues and promptly planting a new crop to maximize soil use and productivity.
A vintage recipe roundup presents caramel as a year round dessert option with methods for caramel cake caramel fillings several caramel sauces Bavarian cream custards and mousse. The guide details butter flour eggs vanilla brown sugar cream pecan nuts gelatine and lemon rind used across diverse preparations.
Wash kidneys and boil until tender then cut into small squares. Sauté in butter with salt and pepper, add milk and simmer. Thicken with flour mixed in cold milk and serve on toast squares.
Fry onion in butter then blend in flour and curry powder. Add hot bouillon water and simmer until smooth. Add four halved hard boiled eggs, season with salt and pepper, heat through and serve.
A brief recipe explains washing celery, cutting into three inch pieces, battering and frying in hot fat, and serving with a tomato sauce. Batter combines bread flour salt pepper milk and a beaten egg.
A short cooking tip notes adding a splash of milk to the boiling water keeps potatoes from turning dark and enhances flavor.
Inventors seek bamboo pulp as a substitute for wood pulp in paper making. Trials with corn husks and other veg matter have failed to produce print paper. bamboo pulp shows promise in bleaching, thick opaque paper, and mechanical handling. Factories exist in Siam, Burma and India but face transport and color challenges.
The article notes mining and building engineers view excavating for deep foundations as routine. In New York at the Equitable building site, foundation work reached eighty feet to rock bed under a 49,000 square foot area. A cofferdam will be built as a solid concrete wall six feet thick and eighty feet deep, reinforced by heavy steel rods.
A Scots Grey bandsman marries by special license at Mr. Marys church in Sheffield with only a friend present. The wedding causes a flood of band members to enter the church and the groom rushes to perform. The band master plays a wedding march as the ceremony unfolds and confetti showers the groom.
Boston veteran educator John Kneeland, aged ninety two, continues daily routines of reading the newspaper and walking when weather permits. He began teaching before the Civil War and retired in 1904, noting a 63 year diary streak. He praises President Wilson and recalls personal birthdays linked to national events.
Bert Walker of Osborn writes in the Osborne Farmer that he and his family would prefer to be a modest deacon over serving in Congress. He cites fear of long trips to Washington and disliking mail addressed to Hon as reasons for declining.
A backstage exchange teases a novelty act for vaudeville. A man asks if the speaker is a baseball player or a killer. he clarifies he is merely an actor. The banter suggests pundits see acting as a fresh but plausible vaudeville entry.
A playful exchange unfolds with Dix guessing why Podgers does not marry. Dix speculates that Podgers would be foolish to wed a woman who would be foolish enough to marry him.
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