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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
11
A lyric poem laments hurried modern life and longs for Leisurely Lane a place of shade quiet and dream filled fields. The speaker recalls past Sundays with companions two by two and seeks a slower rhythm as bells twilight and a distant song summon a return home.
In a rural kitchen Miss Martha refuses to lend eggs and milk to a slender neighbor. After a tense exchange about borrowing, the girl leaves, Speckle the hen is blamed, and the next day the girl reveals the need was for her mother's nourishment, shifting the moral weight of the dispute.
A New England woman aids a struggling family. a daughter confesses hardship from her father's drinking while a neighbor offers food and care. The scene shows community support and a promise of future help as the girl seeks recovery for her mother.
A Youth admits felling a small hickory near John Randolph of Roanoke’s courtyard home in Kenbridge. Randolph condemns the act, explaining the value of the tree as a living part of the garden, saying it would have fed squirrels and grown into a useful large tree. The tale highlights Randolph’s eccentric yet compassionate stance on plant life.
In Ostend a father explains to his son that a numismatist is a collector of coins while a head waiter is not. The dialogue style echoes a local say on coin collecting. The piece references Chicago News as a source.
The remark notes that children judge a visiting caller with suspicion, implying they accuse the visitor of arriving after hearing the ice cream freezer. The line frames a distrustful reaction to a familiar household routine.
The report recounts Birkeland and Eyde’s nitrogen production works at Norodden Norway with 34000 horsepower and a larger Rjukan project. photos show completed buildings and machinery, split into hydro electric and chemical divisions. sehat The text also includes agricultural notes on incubator use and Clover crop management, plus advice on preventing tomato rot with Bordeaux mixture.
The article emphasizes that every farm worker should master thorough horse care. It urges knowledge of caring for a mare in foal, breaking a colt, feeding for best value, and understanding horses’ feet and basic shoeing. Skilled horse care makes a worker valuable on the farm.
The article extols the modern combined drill and wheel hoe as a cost effective, durable tool that reduces garden labor and pays for itself in one season. It notes August as the time to inspect for borers and describes digging around fruit tree stems, inspecting for sawdust or gum, and treating exposed parts with a cow dung lime mix before reseating soil. It mentions affected trees including quince dwarf pear and peach.
A farmer grows rich and builds a ten room house for himself while his wife and grown children live elsewhere. He had housed cattle better than kin during his ascent, and when pride wakes it is too late for the family.
A note on apiary management explains bees often replace aging queens with superior stock. If an apiary is stocked with high grade queens, colonies tend to stay vigorous and productive, supporting steady honey production and health.
An old issue notes that a parasite bee reduces damage from the wheat plant louse known as the green bag. The bee parasitizes the louse, laying eggs that hatch into helpers, repeating the cycle as the young feed on pests. Also mentions date palm pollenization and Mexican reactions to a healer.
The disk harrow is essential for up to date farming. It works on weeded binds by cutting roots without transplanting, especially in orchards. With sufficient horsepower it can replace a plow on certain soils and prevent root damage and sucker growth.
The field weed list includes false flax wormseed mustard tumbling mustard shepherds purse pepper grain bell tans to rd corm cockle chickweed dandelion Canada thistle bindweed rough pigweed king head red river weed ragweed cocklebur. An eight percent copper sulphate solution with about eighty gallons of water per acre destroys them.
Continuous growth of mangels and mangel varieties on the same land for four years produced over nine tons of roots with one ton of dry matter. Under rotation the yield reached thirty four tons of roots and four tons of dry matter per acre. Suggested plant densities range from 25 000 to 30 000 for mangels, ratabagas and hybrid turnips and 40 000 to 60 000 for carrots per dere.
A rural remedy suggests using corncob tea for calves and colts with diarrhea. Corncobs are chopped, soaked in water, simmered, strained, cooled, and used as a drench for the affected animals.
Proposes a low wagon with broad tires to replace heavy lifting of hay. Claims savings in strength and time during harvest, with exchangeable wheels for common ones. Also includes a recipe for fireproof wood paint using spar, zinc white, water, and silicate of soda with three coats.
Cut five round tomatoes in halves and scoop pulp without breaking skins. Fill with cold diced tongue, add pulp and juice, salt to taste, a drop of olive oil and lemon juice. Fold to white skins and set on crisp lettuce leaves to serve.
A brief, step by step home canning recipe covers preparing boiled water pickled cucumbers in quart jars with salt spices and vinegar. It also describes blanching and cooling onions celery tomatoes and making a milk thickened sauce to serve hot with tomatoes.
Peel halve and stone a dozen peaches, boil with bruised kernels in a thin syrup of ten ounces sugar and a half pint water for fifteen minutes. Add lemon rind grated and strained juice, strain through a jelly bag, dissolve one ounce gelatin, combine, pour into a mold and chill until set.
A vintage bake guide uses eggs flour milk and butter to make a batter with three cups cherries. Steam the batter in a mold for three hours and serve with a rich sweet sauce. The note says it pairs well with strawberries raspberries or any fresh tart fruit.
A jumble of recipe fragments and home tips. It lists sugar butter flour and water steps for a cream, a hot onion broth tip to clear soup, a sugar chocolate flour recipe with soda and cream of tartar, and notes on doing chores while seated in an easy chair.
A Venetian carpentine mixed with four parts glue yields a flexible adhesive for attaching feather to metals. The mixture is heated in a glue pot until it becomes sticky and bubbles disappear. A fresh mixture is recommended for best results.
A kitchen tip describes dissolving three cups sugar in boiling water and stirring until dissolved. Let the mixture cool and solidify in cold water, then pour over three well beaten egg whites and stir constantly until cool to form a meringue-like icing.
A home remedy guides mixing gum arabic with warm water lemon juice and paregoric for cough relief taken in small frequent doses. It also offers salad seasoning with chili sauce ideas for fish and meat and notes on cleaning a milk strainer with coarse salt. It compares rhubarb stock varieties noting slender stock is sweeter and better for all uses.
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