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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
7
A discussion on building a productive garden notes land needs, slope, and permanent plantings such as pie plant asparagus and fruit. it favors rotating crops every few years to manage pests and soil fertility. It advises hotbeds and cold frames, proper seed quality, and careful changes in farming practices to sustain half the family’s living.
The piece advises providing fresh air and exercise for sheep through open shed design and field runs when weather allows. It notes sheep’s need to move, warns against mud and overfull yards, and mentions that unshorn sheep feel cold, while winter lambs are shorn in fall. It also discusses garden overrichness and overly lush growth from excess plant food.
Two farmers near Lola Kansas received a 40000 pound salt car from Hutchinson to test on oats wheat and flax. They plan to sow salt with the crops hoping to improve soil nutrition and deter chinch bugs. Local skeptics joke about salt rising bread while the test could yield returns on their investment.
A method describes paying out wire by building a small sled with a pin from an old fork handle and a buggy wheel. A bushel basket forms a guide, wires run through posts to a ratchet, horse-drawn sled drives field to field, then staples secure the wire.
The Jersey cow Tulip Tth bred at Tring Park Hertfordshire by Lord Rothschild has been purchased by Mr W Rockefeller in New York. She, dark fawn and carved in 1898, is by Spot's Lad 44389 out of Tulip by Sultan's Favorite and has won prizes including second in a strong class at the Royal Agricultural Society show in Birmingham.
A historical note describes a diagonally arranged apiary with seven foot row spacing and cross alleys for easy hive passage. It also covers clover meal as calf feed and pig diets when ground grain is included. Tips include sowing green peas early with dwarf and tall varieties and a method to curb kicking cows by head pressure, advising fattening and selling persistent kickers.
A dated menu outlines meals for a day with sections for BREAKFAST DINNER and SUPPER. The list includes bread and butter eggs roast ham apple sauce creamed onions browned parsnips roiled potatoes Malvina pudding cold ham potato salad preserves biscuits and tea reflecting a traditional household dinner plan.
A vintage home cooking note advises seasoning steak with butter salt pepper and garlic with one clove left in the plate. It recommends rubbing in all seasonings, baking briefly, and garnishing with potatoes or Saratoga chips and tomato paste. Parsley and lemon slices finish the plate and the meal should be served at once.
An article advocates olive oil as best to promote hair growth and rain water for complexion, with gentle facial massage tips and cautions for preventing skin sag. It also describes sick room ventilation techniques and using curtains as focal aids, then gives a dated recipe for tart apple sauce with brief cooking times for cabbage and turnips.
Quote from Ladies' Home Journal extols seventy degrees as ideal indoor temperature. Proper ventilation ensures impure air exits and pure air enters, keeping all healthy family members comfortable. Warns against overheating a few rooms while others stay cool, as it may foster colds.
Instructions describe boiling potatoes until two thirds done then skinning halving lengthwise. Arrange rounded sides up in a dish bake with sugar and water until browned and glazed, then turn to glaze the other side. May be basted with butter for flavor.
A practical page lists methods to tender meat by piercing surface holes without losing juices, remove white marks from mahogany with sweet oil and spirits of wine, renovate bronze with muriatic acid diluted in water, and repurpose leftover mashed potatoes into croquettes with egg yolk nutmeg onion juice salt and parsley.
A passenger on a long train journey speaks with a cheerful elderly woman who plans to return to her Ohio home after years away. She mentions traveling since morning, enduring heat, and aiming to arrive around 11 o'clock tomorrow, recalling her youth and a first child.
An elderly woman, traveling alone, speaks of money worries and a long journey from Missouri to Ohio and Missouri to Iowa, planning to visit children and grandchildren. She recalls her late husband, four sisters, and a fireman son-in-law, and expresses hope for a warm reunion with kin. A fellow traveler consoles her about train changes and care from conductors.
A Chicago bank clerk who toured Kentucky describe s London as a fortified town with the First National Bank stocked with firearms. He says the bank walls display revolvers shotguns and rifles and even a cannon ball relic stands near the counter. The account links armament to local feud conditions and notes politicians using the area for raids and whisky.
Mrs Jessie H Sewell and her daughter who came to Texas from North Carolina after her husband died twelve years ago bought land today with cash earned from bees and poultry They plan a blooded stock farm and will continue with bees and hens while adding cattle and sheep now that they are no longer renters.
A short comic exchange has the First Office Boy telling the Second Office Boy he calls his boss Grid ley because he may be fired when he is ready. The joke hinges on a pun about readiness to be fired and the boss’s name.
A short note records a woman's letter recommending a folk remedy for ordinary headaches. She advises the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and the back of the neck as an effective treatment. The text appears as a casual correspondence to her sister.
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