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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
7
Farmers in the East cure ham for home use noting quality surpasses western packing. A simple smoke chamber uses a sugar barrel on a box with gore auger holes and a ground hose to draw smoke. Fire tucked under and banked with dirt keeps smoke in while hams hang from nails and a canvas lid traps the smoke.
A compact guide from the Indianapolis News explains building a wheel jack with a 2x3 frame and a mortised upright. It covers base length three feet, upright insertion one foot from end, a long mortice, boles as pins, and chain suspension to hold the lever height for different wagons.
If skim milk is sweet and not stale or soiled it may be fed to cows with bran to boost the ration and milk yield. Do not feed skim milk from the creamery to cows unless it is from the same day. better for hogs or poultry, but safe for cows only under the stated conditions.
Milk products including casein dried milk dried skim milk milk sugar condensed milk and egg albumen are now on the market. Butter and cheese remain core dairy items but a multitude of by products from milk are being produced as the twentieth century elevates cows to many product roles.
Prof Roberts of the Cornell station reports a method to fatten calves cheaply using skim milk and grain. He says calves should start with a moderate feed of new grain before increasing butterfat production.
The article describes feeding calves with milk for several days then shifting to skim milk. It notes substituting skim milk gradually over a few weeks and proposes seven pounds of corn meal mixed with one pound of linseed meal as a good substitute for butter fats in the new milk.
The Brookville American notes experiments showing sheep swine and poultry produce 20 percent more with regular clean water. Regular watering reduced disease and improved egg output and weight in birds. Farmers should provide troughs for sheep and swine and remove troughs after drinking to prevent contamination.
Crowded trees should not be trimmed by cutting ends. A skilled operator removes one third or more of the branches to thin the canopy so the tree still looks natural, achieving unobtrusive pruning as applied to street trees.
An Illinois writer describes a horn-mounted contraption to deter cattle from mischief, with a wooden strip and sharp nails, attached by screws. The piece also discusses blackleg in calves, noting no cure but a vaccination method and a recommended liposulphite of soda preventive, to be given gradually starting before six months.
Soak gelatin in cold water three to four hours then add boiling water with lemon rind boiled five minutes. Stir in lemon juice and sugar, cool until nearly cold, pour to mold and whip in two beaten egg whites until stiff. Use vanilla if desired. A pretty dish for children's parties.
A recipe for a three or four egg sponge cake divided into three colored portions white pink and brown with chocolate powder. It uses castor sugar, flour, baking powder and optional milk and jam or jelly between layers. Bake about 45 minutes and serve as a fat free, digestible treat.
Prepare smoked dried beef by trimming fat, shredding, and soaking ten minutes in boiling water. Drain, add two tablespoons butter, brown lightly, then dust with flour. Gradually stir in one cup milk or thin cream, season with salt and pepper, and serve on buttered toast. Optional raw egg yolk added at end. Do not cook after adding egg.
Four ounces suet twelve ounces figs chopped eight ounces bread crumbs one large tablespoonful flour one large tablespoonful brown sugar one large tablespoonful ground almonds mix with yolks of two beaten eggs and fold in stiffly beaten whites bake in a buttered basin covered with paper and a pudding cloth steam four hours. Serve with blanched almonds pressed on top.
Press apples to three cupfuls for the filling. Add seven eighths cup sugar, yolks of six eggs beaten light, and nutmeg. Stir in a quart of milk with the stiffly beaten whites folded in. Bake in a two crust pie without a cover. A meringue may top the pie after baking if desired.
A Victorian style recipe section describes how to prepare Potato Roll by mixing mashed potatoes with milk salt pepper parsley eggs and butter then frying and rolling. It also outlines Mashed Potatoes with boiled potatoes butter salt and hot cream beaten until light and white. A tip recommends using a clean firebrick as an iron stand to retain heat longer.
Boiled mutton recipe uses six pounds of meat boiled ten minutes then simmered about twenty minutes per pound with salt and caper sauce. Sagoar ginger cakes mix sugar butter milk eggs soda ginger and flour into small cakes. Hop tea steeps hops in boiling water overnight then yields a wine glassful before meals.
Washington dispatch reports Panama crisis dominates White House and departments as administration weighs war risk and marines to Isthmus. Senate battles over the Panama treaty sharpen party lines with possible two thirds vote impact on the administration and campaign.
Abraham Thaler and Morris Opar arrested in Pittsburg Pennsylvania with jewels valued at ten thousand dollars, are wanted in New York. Thirteen French sailors mutinied aboard the French bark Fautrel at Seattle over lack of funds to go ashore. A woman killed by an express train near Mount Vernon New York had nearly two thousand dollars in her clothing. Kansas City’s population is estimated to rise by at least twelve thousand in 1903 per publisher W A Hoye. The last fiscal year saw 320 soldiers and sailors sent to the government asylum in Washington. there are now 3 050 patients there. Governor Bailey of Kansas pardoned Charles Thompson who killed an fakir and gambler at Lebanon two years ago and was sentenced to ten years. President Roosevelt to receive thirty thousand dollars and his children Kermit and Ethel five thousand dollars each from the estate of James King Gracie. War Department officials are developing a coal mine on Batan island off eastern Luzon with prospects of coal.
A sweeping inquiry by Bonaparte and Conrad slams former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith and assistants Perry Weath and George W. Jevers for abuses in the Washington post office. The report cites illegal appointments, lax oversight, and improper payouts, naming several officials and urging a thorough investigation of the Washington Post Office.
Frank H. Loomis, assistant secretary of state, told the Quill Club that U S recognition of the Panama republic prevented a Franco Colombian war. He described Bogota officials fearing US canal control via the Panama route and the lure of a $40 3 million windfall if the French concession expired.
A west bound Chicago Burlington and Quincy line derailed on Cedar Creek bridge near Albia Iowa. Five killed ten injured as cars burned. Mildred Mitchen and a child perished trapped on a girder. Separate incidents include two engines and freight cars plunging near Piedmont West Virginia and the death of Patrolman Wick in Cleveland after a shooting during an arrest attempt.
Edward Everett Hale has accepted the role of chaplain for the United States Senate. Hale, born in Boston on April 3, 1822, is a noted author, preacher, and philanthropist active in Jeud-a-hand clubs and Chautauqua circles.
The Prohibition National Committee names Kansas City as the convention site with June 2 set for meetings. About 2,900 delegates are planned using four at large delegates per state and one per 200 votes or fraction, based on 1900 Woolley votes. Estimated cost $1,000 to $1,500. four ballots chose Kansas City over Buffalo and Indianapolis. Treasurer Dickey reports $7,475 on hand for next campaign and $53,000 spent since last tally.
Governor Taft reaches agreement with the friars for United States payment of 7.25 million dollars for Philippine property. The plan covers 403000 acres of friar lands with 12000 acres excluded for a Manila area sale to a railway firm and a large sugar plantation. The deal edges toward approval by the U S government, after papal consent. The friars had sought 15000000 while Taft had offered 6000000.
The article notes a Texas New Mexico and Western chartered in Texas and predicts Albany to New York express trains within six years. It reports Rosebud reservation lands in Gregory County South Dakota at 160000 acres and success of an interchangeable mileage bureau by Trunk Line Association. It mentions Texas Railroad Commission freight-rate classifications, Southwestern lines immigration efforts, rising railroad earnings, and a large mail transport operation with 10555 employees handling nearly 16 billion pieces. It also cites New York Central plans to spend 20 million over five years to move locomotives from Grand Central using a third rail or overhead trolley and applied energy.
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