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Newspaper
Carcoar Chronicle
Location
Carcoar, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Feb 07, 1936
Page
5
The text outlines colt nursing after birth stressing dam’s milk within thirty minutes and attentive care to prevent pneumonia. It covers feeding, colts’ vigor, and proper handling. It then shifts to incubation practices for sitting hens, noting confinement, daily exercise, feed, grit, insect powder, and careful egg testing near hatch.
An illustrated design shows a feed bag with a neck section and a laterally extending lower pocket held from the neck end. The bottom is inclined to the neck axis so when a horse lifts its head, the bag’s angle shifts, causing grain to slide into an easy reaching position.
The article explains natural incubation using a broody hen with advice on nest placement and construction. It suggests a quiet warm site, a nest shaped to prevent egg rolling, earth foundation with hollowed center, grass sod for moisture, thick hay, and a nearby box with flowers to create a conducive brooding environment. It emphasizes practical setup for backyard poultry keeping.
The morning mash aids digestion and egg production when nights are long and cold. Do not overmoisten. mix into a moist crumbly mass. serve in troughs, not on the ground, and avoid steaming hot mashes. In heat, serve cooked or scalded mash for better health and more eggs.
The article explains a rough method for selecting laying hens by tail condition. Worn tails indicate breedings better suited for laying, especially in Leghorns. Trap nests and single pens aid testing, and selecting birds by laying type improves success for next season. Observation develops the skill.
The piece explains that the yard length comes from King Henry I's arm measurement of 46 inches and notes Oldtime Acts of Parliament in Britain. It mentions a 1660s Sunday travel ban, with two Bristol to Bath walkers fined six pence each, and claims milkmen could trade all week while others halted.
A professor uses drop by drop water torture on a student to extract a confession. The water falls at a steady pace, causing swelling and excruciating pain until the student finally confesses after the 420th drop.
A Paris perfumer declares the Empress of Russia uses the finest perfumes daily in her royal apartments and ship cabins. She favors rare flowers carefully selected, with violets from Grasse shipped for her toilet water. The harvest occurs between five and seven in the evening to capture peak fragrance.
A noted physician warns that smoking harms more people in winter than in summer. He advises smokers with unexplained health or mental declines to cut back during the cold months. He stresses tobacco as a powerful drug stressing the heart when cold vessels narrow and heart work increases.
The piece traces soaring singer fees from 1862 Naples to 1875 New York, noting payments to Titiens Grisi Nilsson Patti and Caruso, with figures in pounds and dollars. It highlights record sums, weekly rates, shares of receipts, and top orchestral conductors earning lavish sums at Covent Garden and the Metropolitan, illustrating dramatic rises in performer pay.
The article surveys radium as a potential perpetual light source coating buildings for glow without replenishment. It then extols the Cornahuba palm of Brazil for its multipurpose uses from feeding cattle to building materials and even coffee substitutes. It also cites pig intelligence, including the famed pigspointer trained to locate game, used by French truffle hunters and English keepers in historical notes.
The article surveys early railway speed tests from 1902 to 1914. It notes Germany tests reaching 97 mph, later 130.5 mph after track strengthening, claims this the highest speed on a railway. Atlantic City lines averaged 81.3 mph over 65.6 miles, 100 mph single miles. Munich Augsburg line saw 80.8 mph mean for 150 ton train, with 96 mph sustained. It cites Europe’s fastest steam locomotive speeds and that many trains run 70–80 mph to maintain schedules.
The text reflects on love as a measure of worth and the value of patience after giving one’s best efforts. It emphasizes happiness and contentment found in waiting patiently in all things. It frames patience as a hard earned but essential lesson.
Electric heat treatment of steel proves highly effective and widely recommended by authorities. It is claimed to allow precise temperature control, enabling easier regulation of the hardening process.
Professor J Arthur Thomsen reviews experiments from Concarneau on oyster storage in filtered water for days or a fortnight without loss of quality while destroying harmful mantle microorganisms. The piece links oyster preservation to seawater ballast dynamics, suggesting wave action and tank hydraulics could drive ship propulsion without harming power.
The British Radium Corporation has built the first safes for radium, weighing a ton and a half. Though only about three feet high, its possible contents would be worth about four hundred million pounds at current market prices, underscoring the need for extreme caution in storing this precious element.
An automatic printing machine inspired by job printing lets a print be exposed by pressing a handle. The exposure time is set by a gauge from one second to longer as needed. It is claimed one negative can yield about a thousand prints in forty five minutes or less.
The U S Government plans to use acetylene lighting beacons on the Alaska coast to aid mariners. Each beacon uses a sun valve to ignite and extinguish automatically, burning at variable intensity with seasonal daylight. The system mirrors a successful Swedish design and promises substantial gas savings.
The telephone disinfector by Mr. Br. F. Gardner of Chicago uses electric sparks in the mouth piece. Wires pass through the mouthpiece walls to a secondary frame, causing sparks when alternating ringing current is sent to ring the bell.
A Scottish engineer claims a new commercialised nitrogen power can propel vehicles by using waste products. Compressed nitrogen in cylinders powers a steam-like engine, promising 16 miles per five shillings versus petrol. The plan envisions nitrogen power equivalent to six gallons of petrol for half a crown and widespread power retorts.
Brooklyn inventor Mr. John Luck proposes applying wave power to ocean vessel propulsion. His model features a hull with water tanks fore and aft and a central piston rod driven by cog wheels to furnish motor action.
Extraordinary powers are possessed by the River Tints in Spain. It hardens and petrifies the sand of its bed. If a stone falls in the stream and rests on another, they unite into one stone within months. Fish cannot live in its waters.
English writer Mervyn O Korman notes idle machinery like cars can rust internally as enclosed air spaces breathe. Moisture in trapped air deposits in cavities, risking damage to cylinders gear boxes clutch chambers and bearings. He argues oil does not fully protect inaccessible parts since oils absorb about three percent water.
The article describes a French Securitas case using two asbestos boxes with a wide air gap to insulate inner contents from heat and corrosive gases. It also explains a method to use a watch as a sun compass by aligning the hour hand toward the sun to determine south, noting noon and proper watch operation.
An American authority notes rails creep on lines running north and south with the eastern rail wearing faster. The report says earth’s rotation may pull trains eastward, causing the eastern rail to wear more while the western rail creeps more freely. It questions earth motion as the sole cause.
An eccentric account mixes a storm described by a woman who speaks of a rotary “exvelone” and a chaotic scene at a dockyard where a Buffalo political boss is portrayed with name and bravado. The contractor asserts authority, ordering men and tasks as tension rises among the crowd.
The passage debates sincerity and truth across ages, urging defend what you say and think rightly. It contrasts misused generosity with the cake of love, and cites Emerson on moral law and the existence of God as grounded in a universal moral sense.
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