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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1906
Page
7
A Seattle man develops a horse blanket for draft animals that prevents excess heat. The blanket features openings at the top portion when worn, allowing rising heat to escape freely.
A fabric shield wider than openings is supported by a skeleton wire frame to block water and snow from entering. Reins for guiding the horse are secured within the frame. The blanket design shields livestock from precipitation and can suit various animals.
The article notes growers neglect quality in melon production and highlights The Honey muskmelon as a promising new sort tested over three years. It describes its green skin yellowish green flesh, firm texture, and sweet spicy flavor, suggesting it could become a mainstay if performance matches small-plot results.
The article highlights extensive planting of muskmelons in all sections where they can be cultivated. It emphasizes that such widespread cultivation will likely please consumers with an abundant supply and diverse origins.
A New York farmer argues in American Agriculturist that cattle quality depends as much on living conditions as on pedigree. He notes his own well kept, nearly level, well drained farm enriched by limestone ground underlay, likening it to Kentucky stock regions.
In a Wallace's Farmer letter David Fisher notes fall elevator shrinkage of eighty pounds per bushel. He shows that 117 bushels forty-six pounds at seventy pounds per bushel yields 100 bushels next May, totaling 380.88 cash at 80 cents and 0.92 interest, totaling 731.80.
The Wyoming Experiment Station reports no real profit in raising small scrub lambs on expensive feeds to finish them quickly. The finding notes limited returns and cautions against short feeding programs for lambs.
The article notes that only the chosen class of lambs suits intensive feeding and that few feeds rival alfalfa and corn for fattening lambs in Wyoming. It emphasizes the need for better bloodlines and practical feeding options for rapid gains.
Secretary Wilson asks Congress for 105 500 dollars to fund boll weevil work next year. He proposes allowing use as best suited in cooperation with state stations and cotton growers. He urges continuing 195 000 dollar special appropriation into regular bureau funds for disease study diversification and extension of improved methods.
The article describes a device using a broom-handle, hook, and strap to form a jaw loop. A rope slip noose is hung from the hook and placed over the hog’s upper jaw to keep the mouth open. With the loop in place and rings on the snout, the hog’s resistance is minimized. An illustration details the pole, strap, hook, and loop positioning.
Lewis Stinglemeyer, prosperous farmer near Lafayette, disappeared after selling hogs in Attica and cashing a $500 check in Lafayette. He left his horse and buggy at a livery and has not been seen since. His daughter Carrie died four years earlier by jumping from the Main Street bridge over the Wabash.
Reports from Pennsylvania and beyond detail union wage demands and conferences. Insulators in Boston seek 50 cents daily while Berks county manufacturers discuss strategy. In York and Pittsburgh districts leaders discuss strikes, elections, and future employment shifts amid open shop and union pressures.
Several hundred farmers stormed the American Society of Equity HQ in Indianapolis believing a hold your wheat convention was banished. T. A. Everett promotes a plan for 200,000 farmers to hoard until prices rise to a dollar. He says telegrams show many farmers complying but market impact will take at least two weeks. another convention will be scheduled.
Juries in Terre Haute have returned verdicts of acquittal in cases against theater managers cigar dealers saloonkeepers and others charged with violating Sunday closing laws. Despite admitted violations the verdicts prompt a general reopening of businesses affected by the crusade.
Sudden death in Evanston Illinois transfers control of a Fort Wayne estate dating to 1866. The $1,000,000 trust of George W. Ewing is released and will be divided among heirs. Lavinia Holladay widow of Jesse Trolladay acts as trustee with one third going to her four children as she is the last surviving child of Ewing.
Daniel S. Jones Civil War veteran and member of the unit that helped capture Jeff Davis in 1865 has died in Kokomo. Reports say only one survivor remains from the twenty man detail led by General Miles.
The U S consul at Nottingham explains a shift from butter production to selling milk in England. He cites rising milk consumption and profitable margins, with some dairies even rebranding foreign butter as their own to command higher prices.
Philip Woltinsky and his Vincennes wife sue Evansville and Terre Haute railway for $10,000 damages each claiming injuries from a October runaway accident that left them crippled for life.
The sugar camp on the Studebaker farm in Wells county will not be opened this season due to a brief season. It is described as the largest in the state with 3,000 trees capable of producing about 600 gallons of maple syrup and much sugar.
Mrs. Lizzie Strong of New Lisbon aged 19 was fatally injured when her buggy was struck by a train at Dublin. The collision demolished the buggy and killed the horse.
Experimental stations show wheat yields higher nutriment per pound than corn barley rye or other grains for sheep. Digestible protein percentages range from 8 to 9 percent for others, while wheat reaches 10.23 percent. An English authority and Indiana station value wheat fed to lambs near 76 to 77 cents per bushel.
An explosion of coal dust in the Maple Valley mine at Clin ton killed two men, Andreopa Silts and an unidentified worker, with the blast devastating the facility and drawing emergency response.
The Arkansas river dispute pits Kansas against Colorado over irrigation water. Kansas accuses Colorado of diverting most river flow, shrinking the stream across 250 miles and threatening crops in dry lands. Colorado defends title and argues for storage of flood waters for dry periods.
Barbados dispatch reports Mont Pelee active once more in Martinique causing terror among residents. Five hospitalised in Fort de France after rocks struck by the eruption. Smoke and flames visible from thirty miles by day and farther by night. Mention of the 1902 St Pierre disaster and ongoing seismic activity. Soufriere on St Vincent eruptions coincide with widespread lava floods and devastation on half of the island. Georgetown spared serious damage.
The finance department reports war costs at 1 170 000 000 yen with 990 000 000 for the army and 180 000 000 for the navy. Field Marshal Roberts warns Britain to adopt a 1 000 000 man standard for India defense and European prestige.
Roots of all kinds can be fed to poultry with advantage in winter to supply green food. Split the roots and allow hens to pick out the contents. Where roots are small drive a nail through one end into a board or house side to prevent dragging and soiling.
The article suggests using copperas dissolved in drinking water to treat limberneck in fowls at one tablespoonful per two gallons. It notes maggots from decaying matter may cause limberneck, and advises burying any carcass around as a precaution.
The article argues that early maturity and easy feeding qualities deserve emphasis in choosing breeding boars. It notes that a neat head and ear, coat, style, and quality are as important as size and bone.
Bondsmen for James Lavelle of the Washington Taute Brewing Co face a $1460 shortage after Lavelle's death. The Indiana Yearly Meeting temperance conference in Washington was canceled. Anderson Fair Associa tion assets, including a 5 year lease, sold to C W Hooven for $1625. A juvenile track record stands at 2 07 at the fair grounds. Sherwood of Chicago drops divorce suit after reconciling in county jail awaiting child custody. Terre Haute man shot by his son during a drunken chase. Shelbyville bride dies by suicide over suspected waning love. Smallpox spreads in Michigan City schools with 20 cases. Flora Mosteller dies from husband’s bullet wound. he kills himself.
Burnard V. Caraher a switchman secures a temporary restraining order preventing Patrick J. Hughes a money lender from pursuing a suit in a North Chicago justice court over an alleged $80 loan. Caraher says he repaid the loan and Hughes seeks usurious interest. Hughes has prior jail sentence for usury.
Jacob Hauser and Stephen Fellows were hanged in Ebensburg Pennsylvania marking the first double execution in Cambria county.
A white mob of several thousand attacked Springfield Ohio's Jungles area after two white men were assaulted by black suspects. State troops and militia restored order after midnight with Dayton and Nenia companies assisting. Six houses and several establishments were destroyed by fire. no fatalities reported.
A Colorado town Lyons with 800 residents near Denver faces flooding when a proposed dam 2,000 feet long and 250 feet high would back up billions of cubic feet of water. The plan, funded by a $5,000,000 company, promises four years of grace before submersion.
Aged 24, Miss J Loughborough of San Francisco died in Rome. The report notes wool at 20 cents in Arizona this season, a record high. Mrs Herman Oelrichs sold submerged land off Fort Mason to the government for over 250000. The Viceroy of Foochow ordered punishment of the Chinese mob leader who wrecked Catholic and English missions at Changpu.
Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas reports January figures show 22,000 on the roll and an average daily sickness of 503 with 74 total deaths including 26 from pneumonia. No quarantinable diseases are on the isthmus.
In Winnipeg Manitoba land agents claim within two months they sold 20000 acres in the Canadian Northwest to New EB settlers. Fifteen thousand settlers are expected from New York and Ohio in the spring. The migration helps explain many farms listed for sale in the Eastern States.
Dr. William E. F. Brooks of Smith Observatory in Geneva New York says the new comet is now heading toward the southwest as observed from the observatory.
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