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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
7
A writer argues poultry farming yields profit when properly cared for. The author shares detailed costs from 1897 with 120 Plymouth Rock hens and 33 Pekin ducks producing about 200 ducks and 150 chickens, noting feed costs around 80 dollars and total poultry sales about 286 dollars, with eggs for hatching included.
The author argues that current poultry science is flawed with imperfect studies and misleading observations. He calls for broad public and private research into poultry culture principles to reduce disease and pests, and even imagines eradicating poultry diseases and lice-like problems across regions.
The article notes marked differences in how soon chicks feather out among breeds. Non-setting varieties often feather quickly and require more careful feeding. It argues that this precocity is inherent and not easily changed, though the feathering rate remains a key consideration for care.
The article asserts that chicks need proteins rather than carbohydrates during feathering. It notes slower feathering breeds may endure the process better, as rapid feathering weakens chicks and makes them prone to lice and disease.
The Boston Transcript notes a semi public dinner in Chang So Ho's garden where Chinese ladies invited about fifty European ladies and dined with them in European style. Chinese and European ladies sat together, with men serving behind, and the scene highlighted Chinese women's quiet dignity amid foreign surroundings.
A Penn laboratory demonstration on January 27 showcased liquefied air produced under 2000 psi. Liquid oxygen was separated from nitrogen, with experiments including an egg boiling in liquid air, copper and platinum remaining intact, and mercury frozen to drive a nail.
A quirky science feature surveys ideas about eyesight, magnetism, and novel glass globe experiments. It weaves curiosities of perception with early notions of energy fields and material science to spark wonder.
The article explains that retina fatigue is rare and eye strain stems from the eye muscles around the lens. Near vision requires the accommodation muscle to contract, thickening the lens, while inner and outer muscles cover the eye. Redness and pain signal strain, and relief comes from resting the eyes or using properly prescribed glasses, or massage with cold water.
Chambers' Journal describes a new Louiton float life belt from a French journal. Made of sheet rubber, it passes around neck chest and waist and inflates in one minute by mouth. Weighs about one pound and offers flexible easy placement for swimming schools.
A tall compact machine in Indianapolis bakes the role of eight workers. Dough drops through four roller sets, is kneaded to one-eighth inch thickness, and forms into leaf shaped loaves via a canvas pocket. Running easy, it makes thirty four loaves a minute, with two men on dough tables filling cups for each loaf. Only two machines exist, in Chicago and Indianapolis bakeries owned by the inventor.
An explanation of why a head impact or eye blow causes a person to see stars. The optic nerve transmits light impressions only, producing flashes and sparks when irritated, while pain comes from general sensory nerves.
Experiments by French scientists report certain people show magnetic polarity like magnets. An Italian professor Murani, tested near a silvanometer, exhibited a north pointing breast and a south pointing back when rotated, confirming the phenomenon in his case.
The article describes a new glass globe with a retracting lower section that concentrates light downward like lighthouse lenses. It explains the dioptric principle as applied to lighthouses and suggests it should work well for home lighting.
The twenty four inch lens at Lowsil Observatory Flagstaff Arizona outshines the larger Yerkes and Lick telescopes with about 500 new double stars discovered. Many new systems are bright and distant while some are closely spaced and demand superb seeing. It is noted that Mercury and Venus rotate on their axes in the same time they take to orbit the Sun.
A Philadelphia educator explains that children have nascent periods when learning is easier and better. Brain growth follows an ebb and flow of interest with phases of intense effort and subsequent arrest, prompting debate on whether to push or wait for renewed interest.
A St Louis court of appeals decision sets a legal principle that a foreign manufacturer using a foreign patent to make an article patented in the United States cannot import or sell that article in the United States. The American patent grants the local patentee exclusive manufacturing and selling rights.
Washington Star recounts Colonel John O. Winship visiting Speaker Reed in Cleveland. Winship recalls Mrs Hannibal Hamlin and a 1852 Democratic meeting in Lancaster where pocketbooks were stolen. Cameron forgets to warn of pickpockets, Buchanan handles the moment with humor.
A New York Tribune style column they analyze what makes a good guest and bad guest in social visits. It emphasizes balance between conversation and entertainment and cautions against long stays and overbearing service. It notes Americans as visitors may lack grace and urges modest, considerate behavior.
Jonathan Periam notes most birds feed young on fresh food and insects while calves require easily digested nourishment. He argues that milk, not ground feed, is necessary as a young calf’s stomach is not developed for other foods. The passage emphasizes milk as essential to early calf digestion.
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