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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1886
Page
4
Rev T De Witt Talmage preached in Fayette Missouri on heredity to a large audience. The sermon traces blood lines from biblical and historical families, arguing heredity influences character and destiny, and urges listeners to build virtue or resist flaw through prayer and discipline.
A sermon urges those with Christian ancestry to take responsibility for their inherited faith and the prayers and example of forebears. It contrasts grateful use of opportunity with neglect, urging heirs to honor family piety and resist negative hereditary patterns, while offering hope for adoption into divine lineage.
The United States produces about 7,000,000 pins annually from fourteen mainly New England factories. Competition once cut prices, flooding the market, but a three firm wire company alliance now ships pins from a New York head warehouse nationwide. English pins dominate world supply outside the United States. American pins are of equal quality. Raw brass and iron wire and much machinery are U S made.
A concise rural column delivering practical tips for farm management, stock care, poultry, nurseries, and household tasks. Includes seasonal guidance, product recommendations, and short notes on crops, livestock, and garden upkeep for farmers and rural households.
The article describes making hay caps from yard-wide cotton cloth dipped in linseed oil to protect hay from storms. It suggests stocking enough caps to keep hay dry, enabling farmers to feel secure and independent during bad weather.
Early thinning prevents crowding and ensures each plant reaches full weight. Delays hinder separation without damage as roots crowd. Hoe work when plants are small keeps spacing optimal for a good yield.
It is prudent to test many peer varieties on a small scale for seed in a future year while market sales should favor a few well known types. Fresh potatoes often fail to sell as buyers and farmers dislike trying untested varieties.
Entomologist Prof. Lintner of New York reiterates essential safety steps for insecticide application. Do not handle powders by hand, apply with the wind to avoid inhalation, treat only washed leaves and fruit, keep animals away from poisoned crops, test strength on a few first, and use only enough to kill insects.
Buckwheat offers quick harvest and soil benefits and can be grown on poor or wet land. It fetches good prices, supports fowl and livestock feed, and honey production while requiring modest care and early harvest before frost. Areas with better soils see higher yields and stronger demand for genuine buckwheat flour.
Complaint is made that peach trees die after a few years instead of lasting twenty five or thirty as in earlier days. Is this tied to lack of snow cover in modern winters and could yellows trace to the same cause.
The article explains how training form affects when apple trees bear fruit. Upright varieties like Northern Spy grow slowly. correcting this by cutting the center young and bending outer branches speeds production. As branches bear fruit, weight naturally bends them, preserving the productive habit and sap flow aids fruit bud formation.
A colonial era discussion debunks folk cures for pests. It notes sassafras and salt on horses may not deter weevils or caterpillars and compares cheap fixes like bisulphide of carbon and Paris green to more effective methods. The piece emphasizes spraying emulsions and using proper applicators, warning against unreliable traps or methods.
The note warns about overfeeding horses, stating a horse is more prone than a hog to disorders from constant rich fodder. It emphasizes careful feeding practices to maintain health in livestock.
The excerpt argues a strict rationing method for horses to avoid waste. It suggests feeding only what is necessary, even if the box is always full, and notes that all food may be consumed by morning as part of the tested plan.
The essay argues straw should be sold where a near market exists as it has value beyond manure. Bright wheat or oat straw is a useful part of horse or store stock rations when fed with grain and can be cheaper than hay, with corn or pulse-cut straw providing better feed in many places.
The essay weighs best times to market cattle after wintering and how feeding strategies change with season. It argues that mid year or fall prices may vary by stock quality, with test differences in half fat stock and that fall often rivals spring for choice cattle. It advises gradual feeding, careful turnout, and using new corn from Sept 1 to Dec 1 for fattening.
Farmers report owls and hawks prey on poultry yards. An old sportsman notes feathers and indigestible pellets reveal roosting sites, guiding shooter or trapper efforts. Hawks near homesteads can be captured with steel traps placed at likely lighted roosting spots.
Fowls benefit from a dust-box with road dust coal ashes sand or clay and a sprinkling of phur. Place it in sun for dry use. Outdoor roosts reduce huddling in heat. Feed scraps and grains at night and provide scratching areas. A tin reflector deters hawks and foxes. Bone meal oyster shells and vegetable scraps aid hen health.
The article gives pre dinner planning tips for hosting guests. It advises day ahead tasks like market orders soup prep veal or sweetbreads for scallops almonds roasting, jelly and cake making. It stresses pantry readiness and precise table setting with utensils, and suggests flowers and a coffee tray. It notes the hostess should supervise minutiae to ease service and reduce worry for servants.
The Household stresses prompt washing of articles after first service and avoiding serving salad or ice cream on plates or spoons that have just been hot from the water. It notes the discomfort of utensils still smoking from hot immersion and urges immediate cleaning for subsequent service.
A historical practice describes reviving flat bristle brushes dried stiff from water or white lead. Soaked in kerosene oil for 24 hours and worked on a board makes them pliable and ready for use again. Cutting off a brush edge and oil soaking restores condition, unlike water storage which ruins brushes.
A late 19th century style column offers practical advice on flavoring ginger cake with orange rind and juice, safe container choices for pickling, and methods to prevent jelly crusts using paraffin. It also covers antiseptic use of carbolic acid, castor oil dosing for children, and crafting a brocade wall pocket and a cushion using brown linen and red poppies.
A mother describes soothing a baby with a warm wet canton flannel cloth placed over the head to cover ears and eyes. After a brief struggle the infant falls asleep within five minutes, with repeated successful results.
The article advises starting tooth cleaning as soon as teeth appear and using a tooth syringe to keep both inside and outside surfaces clean. It warns against overfeeding with raw milk, warns of allergies from casein, and cautions about toys, candies, and weather-related remedies for babies. It emphasizes protecting a child from hazards and keeping environments warm and dry to prevent summer colds.
Eliza R. Parker writes in Good Housekeeping on post wash care, mending tubs and wringers, drying and starching methods. She outlines starch preparation using starch, flour or potato starches and suggests care in drying muslins and laces, with sun drying and iron treatment, plus household guidelines for dust protection.
Laundry guidance advises flannels should not be damp or fully dry on the line as this makes them rough. It notes colored cashmere can be washed in warm suds if torn into pieces and left partly dry.
Silk skirts should be rinsed in cold water and damp ironed on the wrong side to avoid wrinkles. Do not twist wet silk and treat soiled white fabrics carefully to prevent dye transfer. Lace can be reused creatively for tidies, chair backs, or decorative borders using ribbons, velvet, or patchwork.
A brief excerpt lists ingredients for a hard gingerbread batter including molasses water saleratus butter and a mold. It reads like a dated kitchen note with minimal preparation steps implied. The source emphasizes basic bake method details without full instructions.
Lavinia's Cake lists two cups leaf sugar and two cups butter with four eggs two-thirds cup sweet cream and half teaspoon saleratus a nutmeg note. The excerpt pairs flour binding with stiff dough rolling hinting at a traditional Victorian style cake method.
Three pounds of brown sugar are boiled with water until the mixture thickens and the can hardens in cold water. Add butter to soften, boil briefly until firm, then pour into trays. Cut into small squares and flavor with lemon if desired.
A brief recipe note describes combining sugar flour and eggs with lemon juice or extract and zest. Whisk whites lightly, bake in a hot oven, then spread the under side with orange marmalade and sandwich two cookies together for a delicate treat.
The passage explains a method to clarify beef dripping by pouring boiling water over it, stirring, washing away purities, and allowing it to settle. After cooling the dripping rises to the top and can be strained through muslin for clarity.
A handwritten recipe lists ingredients including flour sugar eggs butter and milk substitute. It describes creaming butter with eggs, alternating flour and egg whites, adding cream of tartar and soda, then boiling water and final beating before baking in a moderate oven. The note says cream is an improvement over milk, though milk remains acceptable.
Beat yolks with milk, add suet bread crumbs raisins currants citron and spices. Fold in beaten egg whites. Tie in cloth and boil six hours, turning occasionally. Keep boiling water on hand to replenish as water boils away.
A recipe describes rolling a pound of beef with salt and pepper, tying it, browning onions in fat, then cooking with water to make a tender dish. It advises searing onions to color, simmering the beef, and adding hot water as needed to finish by dinner time.
The article explains various causes of slobbering in horses including mercury-containing medicines iron ivy Indian tobacco and lobelia and stomach derangements from hay. A quick cure is a teaspoonful of baking soda mixed in water given three times daily or placed on the tongue if the horse will not drink.
Farmers often struggle to give medicine to pigs by mouth when they refuse food or are in pain. Methods include pinning the pig with a rope, securing its legs, and using an old shoe as a chewable conduit to pour medicine or pouring through an oil can, aiming to prevent choking and manage the animal safely.
A historical veterinary guide describes two main treatments for sprung knees in horses. First, repeated hot water soaks of the affected hoofs, followed by wine bathe and light cloth wraps. Second, a veterinary blistering method along with hogs lard and oil of oregano ointment, plus a lead bandage to secure the area, repeated over weeks.
A French temperance group urges restricting alcohol to mealtimes rather than endorsing total abstinence. The stance reflects a middle path focusing on controlled consumption during meals.
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