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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1897
Page
3
Harriet P. Spoffer at Harper's Bazar describes a quiet domestic scene at night. A wife and child dream as a lover ascends below the cliff, contemplating heaven and fate. The cold wind and a snapped breath shift the moment toward tragic suspense.
A railway clerk, habit driven, mistakenly carries a bag of jewels from a train. He pays workers with altered currency, helps the inspector trap a thief, and ultimately gains a reward while injuring the culprit in a climactic barroom confrontation. The tale ends with the inspector’s promotion and the clerk’s black bag wedding present.
A collage of aphorisms on folly, genius, experience, love, and self made success. The piece wryly notes controversy, luck, and human foibles, urging warmth and cheerfulness to endure long life.
A Chicago Herald description notes the rush of pollock shoals near Eastport Maine. The fish, while not highly valued locally or elsewhere, draws huge commotion when shrimp colonies move seaward or sardine canneries discharge waste from Luvee, causing water to boil with leaps and splashes.
Late returns show Paris has 80,000 registered dogs, about one per 28 residents. Most live in the poorest quarters. Feeding costs reach 2 million dollars yearly. Dogs support twenty five collar and muzzle makers, four bakers of dog bread, five biscuit factories, three veterinary pharmacies, a dozen infirmaries and two dog hospitals in Chicago Her.
New York World advises farmers to cultivate turnip beds already overrun with weeds. Kill young weeds after rains to prevent seed germination and reduce weed pressure. Early weeding lowers future weed carryover and helps stand establishment for turnips.
A test placed damaged fruit on a table and attracted many bees. After bees worked briefly, damaged fruit was replaced with sound fruit and the bees quickly abandoned the table. The Courier Journal notes most damage blamed on bees is from birds ants wasps and hornets, not honey bees.
A Western stockman notes experts prize leg markings on horses and claims white on legs signals gentleness in sorrel and chestnut horses. He adds circuses favor parti-colored steeds for docility, cites heat and cold assumptions about coat colors, and links facial structure to training reliability per the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The New York Times notes butter color from Jersey cows varies with feed and season. It argues genuine quality lies in uncolored butter, criticizing tests that rated color at ten points, and highlighting Guernsey cows as producing best colored butter in Chicago.
D A Kent recalls guiding a thousand sheep on virgin prairie who chose bitter weeds like white topped milk weed over prime grass. He observed sheep eat honey locust seed pods and peel alder bark, while horses crave bitter tree bark such as aspen and willow, suggesting taste drives their forage choices rather than hunger.
The article explains milking as a natural function driven by nervous stimulation. An unmilked cow dries up, and calves milk a cow for shorter periods than hand milking. Calf behavior can disrupt lactation, and milk yield and butter fat vary among milkers. Successful milking depends upon a balance of factors including technique and animal response.
Drought affects celery while late wax beans can still be planted for fall supply if frost stays away. Control squash pests with a snuff and insect powder dust. milk cows with first and second calves up to calving to improve milk yield. Effective fly treatment uses train oil, crude petroleum, and carbolic acid. Cow feed cost and value of milk, rye or oats for fall feed, and beet and turnip storage are discussed. Ducks and guineas offer profitable poultry options with proper care and grazing, while corn remains a common feed. avoid irregular feeding to maintain milk and fattening performance.
A passage from Orange Judd Farmer argues that milk production hinges on sympathetic human contact rather than mechanical force. It warns that milking machines threaten small dairy farmers by enabling large operations, potentially revolutionizing the industry and displacing many workers.
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