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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
3
A verse urging personal resolve and resilience in a grim world. It exhorts shaking hands with fate, finding hope through inner strength, and choosing goodness over despair. The poem frames fate as a test of character and inner light against adversity.
Jasper Dane entertains a young, poised visitor Leonie Lamson who seeks to submit verses. He critiques her manuscript, offers blunt advice on sentimentality, and she leaves with a courteous smile. A note reveals Leonie is Lamson’s daughter abroad.
The article urges thorough cleanup of camera gear and darkroom supplies. It recommends dust removal from hand cameras, polishing bellows, discarding useless negatives, sorting solutions, enamel coating trays, and checking illumination for safe light. It advocates resolving to expose fewer plates for higher quality. It notes Paris Salon’s upcoming admission of photographs and Edward Steichen’s prominence.
Amateur photography praised for artistic merit and recent acceptance by the Salon, signaling a shift from snap shots to thoughtful, technical work. Emphasis on equipment, notably focusable boxes, automatic shutters, two lenses, and high speed rectilinear options for versatile interior and exterior use.
Maud Shields of Arkansas explains butter making in heat. She recommends a separator and large cow milk cans, chilling in a well, churning at 64 to 67 degrees, washing and salting, wrapping in cloth or paper, and delivering in a butter keg wrapped in towels. She also notes making buttermilk, clabbering, and scaling with a churn dash. Selecting a crosscut saw is discussed with cutting-teeth guidance for efficiency.
An article discusses building a crosscut saw frame with detailed measurements and fasteners. It then extols peas as a superior poultry feed, noting grinding large beans, gradual introduction, and use of pea vines for exercise and nutrition. It concludes with advice on cutting grass, hay quality, and dairy testing methods like the Babcock test.
A Good Thing to Do explains poultry yard upgrades pay off quickly with small investment. It advises using eggs from good stock, a sitting or two to start, and spending a few dollars on quality eggs to begin upgrades with low risk.
In soft meadows and sluggish streams thousands of acres yield cow hay but teams cannot be driven safely. Work must be done by hand, including poling out hay to the upland edge. Some farms use oak mud shoes for horses to reduce drudgery. the shoe measures about an inch thick with beveled wedges and an iron strap secured by nuts.
After harvest the young clover benefits from wheat removal but weeds compete for food. Farmers should mow weeds early, multiple times in the summer, to destroy them before they seed and deprive clover of nutrients.
A Michigan experiment station bulletin tests clipping work horses. Conclusions are not definite, but clipped horses showed greater comfort in early spring and looked better while preparing land for spring crops.
Awnless brome grass Bromus inermis is recommended for drifting sands. It is a perennial resembling blue grass, suitable for light dry poor soils, resistant to drought, and spreads by underground runners. It requires about fifteen pounds of seed per acre and will not thrive on wet soils. It provides a viable option on sandy soils where other grasses fail.
The New York experiment station finds unmixed feeding stuffs largely uniform and close to guarantees, but mixed goods show discrepancies with oat hulls. Adulteration of cornmeal and other grains is noted. Proper dairy cow management goes beyond feeding to watering and ventilation. Hay prices look to stay high as droughts shrink western meadows and dry weather hurts crops in the East.
Instructions describe making iced coffee with six ounces of coffee, salt, boiling water, milk, custard, and brandy. The process uses a percolating pot, boiling steps, a custard from eggs and sugar, then combines with coffee and brandy. The mixture cools, thickens, and is served after one hour on ice.
A historic collection presents veal cake with layered veal ham eggs and herbs baked in a pan, plus recipes for invalid eggs with milk or gravy, asparagus with eggs, beefsteak and mushrooms, biscuit glace with lemon and sponge cake, lemon cream, and raspberry jam method.
A reprint notes an old belief that milk absorbs odors quickly. If meat or fish sits near a saucer of fresh milk, the meat or fish may be preserved briefly while the milk becomes tainted and avoided by animals.
A note suggests celery stays crisp if kept in a bowl of warm water until needed. It adds that celery should be served in a celery glass.
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