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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1906
Page
4
A nostalgic verse recalls a mother’s soothing line Sonny never mind that eased boyhood pain. The speaker dreams of her gentle voice returning in dreams and hopes a placid brow could calm today’s hurts.
Mrs Larch hails bachelor tenant Mr Harrison as ideal yet his engagement to Isabel Evesmore collapses after he tours the village with praise for his manners. A vanished tenant from Arabia Cottage sparks gossip at a late August ball and leaves Mrs Larch lamenting a broken trust and Isabel under scrutiny.
An Ohio justice of the peace insists on high value work and replies to a lawyer's inquiry with a humorous postal card. He states his time is valuable as corn cutting and bass fishing occupy him, and requests a dollar to stimulate a reply after noting another attorney charged two dollars for an answer.
A Baltimore American item riffs on political bravado versus domestic weakness. A man boastfully claims strength to quell a riot abroad while at home he is unable to calm even a carpet, drawing a sharp, humorous contrast.
The article describes a simple double shaft ventilation system for farm buildings to ensure air flow and prevent attic issues, with wire netting to keep animals out and caps to prevent rain entry. It also covers growing black raspberries including soil needs, fertilization, propagation by tip burying, and pruning practices for perennials. It emphasizes northern exposure and slope for best results and notes a six to eight year plantation life.
An old smear barrel used as a planter yields cucumbers by setting two half barrels apart twelve feet, driving a center stake, and filling with manure. Giant hills of cucumbers line the inside, vines run over a lath trellis in a TH shape, producing large crops, especially if vines are soaked during dry weather.
A neat attachment to a garden roller is described with instructions to bore holes eight inches apart along the length and insert something to mark or guide. The fragment suggests a DIY implement for marking soil or rows while rolling.
Use roller and marker pins with small rope loops placed in holes beside the rope ends. Drive pins into ground to encircle the rope and form markings. Multiple hole rows adjust spacing. Run tack strips lengthwise along the roller to mark planting rows and positions.
Instructions from Farm Progress describe making a filing jig for a cross cut saw. Two 1 inch boards form a jaw pair with hinged frames, legs from 2x4s support the assembly, and a foot strip stabilizes the setup for filing the saw teeth.
Practical guidance for beekeepers covers water supply for bees. A strong colony is urged as moth prevention. Modern hives allow inspection without disrupting work. Honey prices range 12 to 20 cents a pound with yearly yields about 75 pounds per hive. In 1900 US beekeeping invested $10.186 million and earned $6.665 million, a 65 percent return.
The bureau of plant industry is conducting extensive seed tests this spring due to adulteration reports. Special focus is on alfalfa seed for fodder, with many seeds examined for purity. Germination testing is less emphasized, though farmers should engage in it themselves.
Recent improvements in traction engines and gang plows boost soil breaking on western large farms. New setups plow and harrow in one pass and drill behind the barrow to seed grain the same day under favorable soil and season conditions.
A simple recipe for a macaroni pie layering half boiled macaroni tomatoes and cheese with hard boiled eggs onions and optional fillings. A tomato flavored sauce is poured over and the dish is topped with breadcrumbs and baked until set.
Three large potatoes are boiled five minutes then drained. They are covered with boiling water and simmered with onion celery or celery seed bay leaf until tender. The pulp is pressed through a colander, milk added, butter and flour rubbed, then seasoned and sieved and heated to serve.
Take a large haddock wash dry remove fins and tail keep head. Mix two ounces chopped suet two tablespoons breadcrumbs one dessert spoon parsley or herbs one egg salt pepper. Pack into fish sew shut baste with egg milk. Brush with fat breadcrumbs bake three quarters of an hour in a moderate oven basting occasionally.
The passage details a bread making process starting with scalded water and salt, adding flour to a soft dough, and kneading. It then describes a rising period of eight hours, a milk and salt mixture to create a stiff batter, and a second rise until very light. It ends with combining into a wooden bowl and forming loaves to rise again before baking.
Cream butter and sugar then beat in cold water and egg whites. Sift flour with baking powder and fold in chopped crystallized cherries and almonds. Dust fruit with flour, add rose water optional, bake in a leaf tin in a steady oven and frost with white icing.
A historic recipe outlines a basic crust using one cup flour one saltspoon baking powder one saltspoon salt and one third to one half cup butter and lard. Rub in fat with flour then add cold water to form a stiff dough. Roll fold roll and bake.
Enamel ware cleans easily with powdered pumice stone. Butter inside a pitcher spout prevents cream drip. A candle can burn all night if salt is sprinkled on the wick's blackened area. Candles benefit from a six to eight week cure for brighter, slower burns. Glycerine lifts old linen stains, followed by cold soap suds. Patch curtain holes with a cut from an old curtain and cold starch. Use a lemon reamer over a glass for orange juice to serve with breakfast.
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