Small Farm Butter Making and Orchard Care Tips
A farmer with few cows learns butter making basics including tools, cleanliness, and precise weighing. Guidance covers milk handling by season, skimming timing, churn frequency, souring cream, packaging, and pricing. Ice and cool storage techniques for market days are outlined, plus tree care and scale insects with winter spraying and manure as fertilizer.
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Lilmother
Ruth Gerken
New York Tribune
Winter orchard care for fruit trees pests and pruning
Advice on winter orchard work emphasizes inspecting trees for insect cocoons under bark and on debris, raking the ground, burning decayed fruit, and scraping loose bark. It recommends careful pruning for severe infestations, burning pruned wood, treating remaining limbs, and whitewashing trunks in two applications to remove scales.
Selecting alfalfa varieties through farm station experiments
T J Lucker argues that alfalfa shows wide natural variation in leaf size color and growth after cutting. He contends that selective breeding at experimental stations could yield a superior variety, potentially adding millions of dollars in annual income by producing 100 to 200 pounds more hay per acre at each harvest.
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T. J. Luccock
New England
Practical Farm Advice From The Epitomist On Barn Doors And Feeding Troughs
E. W. Jones recommends seven foot high stable doors to prevent injury and manure buildup, smooth facings, and large low troughs for early feeding. He notes stock can still be harmed by excited animals and warns against overhead racks. Hats as a symbol of decline are humorously discussed, referencing the Louisville Herald.
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Das
E. W. Jones
In Place Of A Bodkin Hairpin And Tape Tips
Practical household tips describe using a pin as a bodkin when sewing tape. A hairpin is suggested though less convenient. For velvet stains, apply turpentine and rub dry, then dampen the wrong side to raise nap and iron carefully on the reverse side.
Gilded cane seats furniture with brocade arms described
A description of drawing room furniture featuring cane seat chairs and a tete-a-tete sofa and chaise longue with raised backs. The pieces are heavily gilded with gold leaf on cane supports legs and mouldings, while upholstery appears only on the arms in a short brocade elbow vest. The gilded cane backs are woven flat for a sleek look.
Spiced Blackberries as Cold Meat Condiment
A Victorian recipe recommends spiced blackberries with cold meats. For each quart of ripe berries use half a pound sugar and a half pint vinegar, plus cloves and cinnamon in a muslin bag. Boil syrup, strain, return, and pour over berries in jars cooling in a cool place.
Flower Vases From Glass To Silver Elegant Desk Pieces
The article surveys vase options from clear glass to cut glass and silver. It highlights limpid emerald or white glass showing stems and water, tall cylinder vases for single blooms, a large necked jar with a capua pattern shape, and a small four inch violet vase in silver with a tiny stand in burnished or satin finishes. It notes gold lined finery and regard for dressing table decor from Philadelphia Telegraph.
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Capua
Philadelphia Telegraph
Rice and Cheese Croquets and Other Dishes
Recipes describe Rice and Cheese Croquets Salmon Surprise Boiled Cucumbers Potatoes a la Hollandaise. Directions cover mixing rice with cheese and eggs frying croquettes making salmon atop mashed potatoes with pastry roses and finishing with a brown top. Also included are boiled cucumber halves with white sauce and Hollandaise style potatoes. An entry notes eighty five percent of Boers repatriated to the Orange River colony have begun farm work.
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Orange River Colony
Wanted results of honest statistics and tariff views
A critical opinion piece contrasts Mr. Austin and official statistics with partisan press practices. It argues the Bureau of Statistics serves the public, laments disloyal papers, and defends tariff promotion while condemning calls for free trade. The piece includes Republican vs Democratic tension and cites the Tacoma Ledger and St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Austin
Republican
Bureau of Statistics
Washington
United States
Republican Party
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Government Bulletins and Protection Debate in Springfield
The Springfield Republican criticizes Bureau of Statistics bulletins now under the Commerce and Labor Department. It argues the bulletins aid protection by documenting a prosperous trade, while praising the government for detailed, conservative foreign and domestic commerce statistics.
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Springfield Republican
Bureau of Statistics
Treasury Department
Department of Commerce and Labor
Republican
American Protective Tariff League
Department
Dingtey Inn
Austin
Honest Trade Figures Reflect Industrial Progress
The article praises balance of trade statistics as factual reports of achievement, noting that actual figures for six hundred million or four hundred million are presented without promoting policy. Editors and readers are thanked for honesty regarding these data on industrial progress.
Democratic Oppositions and Economic Debates
The passage contrasts Republican and Democratic stances on money, free trade, expansion, and prosperity. It argues Democrats should endorse silver at the Bryan ratio, accuse Republicans of imperialism, and criticize Coxey-style hardship while praising Republican economic progress.
Free Silver and Free Trade Debates Highlight Tariff Winds
In a contrasted note the Freeport Journal cites Democrats split on free silver and free trade while Britain backs protection. The Denver Republican views British tariff protection as vindicating U S tariff policy and bolstering protectionists against tariff reductions.
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England
Freeport
IIJ.) Journal
Great Britain
Denver
Hoosier Happenings Near Sullivan and Surrounding Areas
Eleven new coal shafts are being sunk within seven miles of Sullivan. A string of local accidents and incidents across Indiana include a Pan Handle switchman losing an arm in Converse, a cave in at Evansville killing a laborer, and a baker in Bloomington losing flesh from his arm. Other items report drownings, fatal train injuries, a man decapitated while boarding a freight car, and a gas well explosion damaging buildings in Alexandria. Indiana patents and a possible town census for Dugger are noted.
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Sullivan
G. L. Fox
Converse
Evansville
Sebastian Reitz
Anthony Benckhart
Baker
Bloomington
W. J. Beck
Stuartsville
John Miller
Orestes
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Kokomo
Thomas Scott
Ducker
Edwardsport
Robert Curry
Covington
Elliott Bros
William Blaine
Valparaiso
Gorge Brooks
Pennsylvania
Noblesville
Lake Irie & Western
Kekona
Earl Sallade
Liaurens
Walter Campbell
Clear Crenix
Martinsville
New Albany
John Tebow
H.W. Vandenseten
Winamac
Win-a-mac
Pottawatomie
Roderick
Lineman Shelton
Osceola
John Stustevant
American Strawboard Plant
Frank Baer
Big Four
Swannington
Indianapolis
Mary J. Royse
W. J. Royse
Tribe of
Ben- Hur
Great Western Canning Company
Delphi
Alexandria
Walter Johnston
Indiana
Francis J. Beckley
Royal Center
William H. Cloud
Calvin BR. Davis
South Bend
Plon
Arthur H. Deisher
Frankton
John W. Leary
Crawfordsville
Levi Hockman
Marion
Arthur M. Hood
Chis. R. Lane
Fort Wayne
Henry B. Morris
Michigan City
John F. Scott
Evanaville
Wilhelmina Seegmiller
Joseph K. Sharpe, Jr
Raymond Sacks
F. P. Smith
Shelbyville
George W. Whittington
Il. D. Clark
Attica
M Clark
Dugger
Sullivan County
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San Jose
Louisville
Gilder Furniture
Philippines
Tacoma Ledger
Ricas
Renale
Wale Cract
Hoosier
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