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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
2
A Seattle inventor develops a horse blanket for draft animals that vents heat through top openings and uses a fabric shield and skeleton frame to keep water out. Reins are secured in the frame, and the design aims to keep the animal comfortable while preventing moisture penetration. The note also mentions alfalfa and corn as top feeds for fattening lambs in Wyoming.
The article notes consumer preference for better quality in musk melons and praises the Honey melon as a promising new variety with green skin and yellowish green flesh. It asserts widespread planting could satisfy buyers if general cultivation matches trial success, urging broader adoption and improved grower standards.
In a Wallace's Farmer letter David Fisher notes elevators in fall carry eighty pounds per bushel. With 15 percent shrinkage 117 bushels 46 pounds equal 100 bushels next May. At 70 pounds per bushel 102 bushels 76 pounds yield $30.88 cash, six month 6 percent interest adds 0.92 dollars total $31.80.
Wyoming Experiment Station finds no real profit in feeding small scrub lambs on expensive rations for quick finishes. The study notes limited returns and cautions producers against the practice as commercially unsound.
Secretary Wilson asks Congress to appropriate 105 500 for boll weevil work with flexible use in cooperation with state stations and cotton growers. He urges continuing 195 000 special funds into regular bureau programs to fight disease, diversify crops, and extend improved methods to other Southern states.
A method uses a rope slip noose hooked to a broom handle device to force an open jaw and restrain hogs. The article also notes milk earning more than butter in England as dairying declines while drinking milk rises and some English dairies import butter for resale.
Experimental feeding shows wheat provides more nutrition per pound than corn barley rye or oats. Digestible protein percentages favor wheat at about 10.23 percent with barley 8.69 and rye 9.12. An English authority values wheat fed to lambs at about 76 cents per bushel, while Indiana station reports 57 cents per bushel.
Roots of all kinds can be fed to poultry in winter to supply green food. Split the roots for hens to pick through. Small roots can be nailed to a board to keep them clean. For limberneck give copperas in drinking water and bury nearby carcasses as a precaution.
The article argues for focusing on early maturity and easy feeding in boar selection. It emphasizes a neat head and ear, a nice coat with style and quality, and proper size and bone as key points of importance.
Directions describe making Sahi Rising Bread starting with scalded tea cup warm water soda and salt. The batter thickens with graham flour or Indian meal then rises in warm and cool periods. After mixing with flour sugar and risen batter the dough rises again and bakes thirty minutes.
A recipe describes scrubbing and boiling twelve medium potatoes, mashing and sieving them, then cooking with butter onions parsley celery seed and milk to a creamy batter. The result is a delicious economical soup served hot with pepper and salt.
Instructions for canning whole grapes without scalding and preparing jelly from quinces and apples. Includes steps to heat jars, seal with hot fruit and syrup, and cooling. Also covers pickling with vinegar sugar and spices, and a orange rhubarb marnalade method with simmered fruit and sugar.
A vanilla bean in sugar flavors desserts. an olive in each bouillon cup enhances flavor. Skewers remove fridge fragments. coarse salt and vinegar clean burned enamel brass and copper. Cold water with soap and borax cleans fine linens. starch and water brighten whitewashed ceilings. apply with soft flannel, dry, brush off.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, famed Negro poet, died at his Dayton home of consumption. Born June 27 1872 in Dayton he rose from newsboy to writer author of twenty one books including Oak and Ivy and Lyrics of Lowly Life. His wife Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar wrote and edited much of his work and is praised by him for her prose and criticism.
L A Stockwell reports from Indianapolis on Canadian lands drawing Americans. He cites N B Beaumunk of Brazil Indiana who owns 450 acres after moving to Saskatoon area and a Lancashire mill family turning to homesteads in Wapella Sask. He notes high yields, fat cattle, growing towns, and eager settlers, urging Hoosiers to seek homesteads.
A collection of light quotes and anecdotes recounts how English accents appeared on the Pacific coast before widespread English use on Wrymouth Rock. It notes Drake’s 1570 claim near Point Reyes and Nouva Albion as the origin of New England.
The Washington Star quotes an earnest reformer predicting grafting will fade in a few years. Senator Sorghum echoes hope for a substitute term and a cleaner political era as public discourse centers on anti graft reform.
Mrs Mary Dimmick of Washington writes that eight years of painful periods nearly required an operation but Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound restored her health. She states she is now well and can walk without pain, crediting Mrs Pinkham and the Lynn Mass remedy. The letters illustrate how easy it was to contact Mrs Pinkham and the value of her responses.
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