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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1905
Page
4
A short reflective poem about light lingering in night and day and the inner sight of the mind and heart. It muses that worldly light fades with the sun while a life’s light ends when love ends. Francis W. Bourdillon.
Dr Worth a kindly physician in Tar ego Hillsboro takes in a found doorstep puppy named McGinty after a night's mischief. The dog becomes his loyal companion, guiding rescuers to the doctor after a road accident and saving him from exposure in a muddy, dangerous night.
The prizes tied to Alfred Nobel's will are the richest in the world, with three for science and invention and two for other achievements. Awarded annually, each prize is just under $40,000. The purpose beyond honoring is debated as no competition is spurred by the awards.
The Lombardy Institute of Science, Literature and Arts distributed 1904 prizes and announced 1905 themes. Vermot & Reyna won a gold industry medal for wagon springs and axles. Other prizes remained undistributed including Cagnola awards for airship steering and anti forgery work.
The Scotsman recounts tales of eagles attacking large prey and even carrying off children, with noted incidents from Scotland South Africa and Algeria. It describes a roe buck slain by an eagle, a fawn forced from its dam, a roe halved in a forest fight, and a five year old carried by a dead eagle.
Marshal Van Worley launches a new business shipping cats from Titusville. The venture centers on transporting felines to unspecified destinations, marking a shift from prior activities to a pet freight service.
Instructions describe building stacked orange nest boxes for hens with dark nesting alleys and rear egg access. It also covers dairy cow feeding effects on milk fat, and summer bee care advising full combs and sugar syrup if honey runs short to prevent starvation.
A reader suggests a crude lice control method for hogs involving driving a stake, wrapping with rope, and saturating the rope with a lard and kerosene mix. The hogs are expected to remove lice by contact.
The article advises starting with a breeding pen from a reliable poultry raiser or buying eggs from reliable sources. Raise roosters and pullets from each setting, mark them clearly, and next spring you can mate two or three breeding pens of your own.
The text argues that allowing poor alfalfa stands to persist is seldom profitable, especially with irrigation. It notes farmers often disk or dish fields in spring and after each cut to control weeds, while Eastern fields may experience growth checks, yellowing, and sickly conditions.
The passage explains nitrogen in protein as essential for muscle, describes carbohydrate roles in energy and fat, and outlines protein sources from flax, wheat germ, clover, alfalfa, bran, middlings, oil meal, linseed oil, cottonseed meal, and legumes. It notes corn lacks nitrogen for muscle building and mentions wheat, barley, and rye as starch rich foods.
In 1904 Russia produced 205,460,400 bushels of winter wheat and 459,206,200 bushels of spring wheat totaling 604,608,600 bushels an increase of about 43,000,000 over 1903. Russia also yielded 1,005,289,714 bushels rye 1,120,729,285 oats 345,174,000 barley and 25,986,857 corn while the United States produced 27,241,575 rye 94,595,502 oats 139,748,958 barley and 2,467,480,034 corn.
In Western States and other areas nurse crops aid clover by preserving snow cover over winter and reducing freeze risk. Farmers report nurse crops also protect clover through hot summers, especially where heat is intense.
The article explains grouping calves to raise uniform beeves for market. It advises forming two groups if only ten cattle exist, one in spring and one in fall, to simplify care and ensure consistency in size and finish for shipment.
During April the Massachusetts State Board of Health tested 305 articles for adulteration. Ninety eight were found adulterated or not up to standard and thirty three convictions were secured for selling adulterated foods. The month saw three milk adulteration cases four for maple syrup or sugar and three for cider with total fines of $900.
The Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland Oregon features a grand agricultural building noted as the largest and one of the handsomest on site. It measures 460 by 210 feet, stands on the east side of Columbia court in the main expo plaza, and cost $74,659.
The gapeworm overwinters in old yards and surfaces as days warm. Cleaning up and liberal lime discourage it. Relocating the poultry yard to a high dry site is a good way to fool it, Farm Journal notes.
A historic recipe lists ingredients for rich plum pudding including beef, flour, dried fruit, sugar, nuts, fruit peel, lemon rind, eggs, milk, and brandy. Mix dry ingredients, add wet mix, steam in greased molds or cloths for ten to twelve hours.
Rich cold cooked fish minced fine and seasoned. Boil onion with two cups water. Heat milk with butter and flour, add bread crumbs soaked in milk, and a beaten raw egg. Stir into the fish and water until thoroughly mixed. Serve hot.
A traditional inexpensive wholesome pudding method uses molasses suet flour salt cream of tartar soda cinnamon nutmeg raisins and treacle. Mix with milk, tie in a cloth and boil three hours for a rich fruit pudding.
A recipe describes making batter from flour milk salt butter eggs and dipping ripe strawberries in granulated sugar before folding them in. Fry spoonfuls in hot lard and serve with a sauce of flour butter sugar and boiling water cooked until thickened.
A recipe lists ingredients for Belgian buns using ground rice, flour, butter or lard sugar baking powder egg and milk. It directs mixing forming small balls with jam center, sealing, dipping in egg white and sugar, flattening slightly and baking on a tin in a hot oven.
A historical note describes turning lemonade pink with cochineal color. Boil one ounce cochineal one ounce cream of tartar one fourth ounce alum and one half pint water for twenty minutes. A small amount colors the lemonade without noticeably altering the taste.
A collection of simple home tips including tenderizing meat with vinegar boil water, curing creaky linen with soap on a pencil point, preventing suet from sticking by sprinkling ground rice, removing medicine stains from silver spoons with sulphuric acid and soapsuds, curing stubborn knife stains with raw potato and brick dust, soaking bacon to reduce fat, and removing sea water stains from silk with soft water then ammonia.
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