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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1887
Page
7
Practical rural guidance covers using super phosphate over manure for potatoes, soil conditions, and sod health to maximize yields. It cites pig fattening, grain savings, and the growing poultry industry as profitable home ventures, urging families to raise fowl and eggs for local and export markets.
The article endorses crude petroleum washes to protect outdoor wood and maintain a light brown hue, while cautions against frost damage from washes. It also cites E. W. Stewart on flaxseed as disease preventive and a nutritious feed, proposing a boiled flaxseed jelly mixed with bran to feed pigs and brood sows.
Practical guidance on lawn mowing, weed control, and plant care. Maintain borders, prune spent blooms, stake Dahlias and Gladiolus, and avoid painted ornaments. In the greenhouse, regulate shading with fabric or laths, water and fumigate to limit insects, and manage top growth for next year. Plant Refugee Beans and late sweet corn, mulch cucumbers, and keep tomatoes off the ground.
The passage argues that a hen can be bought for 30 to 40 cents and will pay for itself in eggs during the first year. With proper care she can raise two or three broods, saving the best chicks for future use, while providing meat. Even at the low estimate, a profit of two to three dollars is possible after building rent, care, and risks are deducted. The principle scales with flock size given attention and skill.
Practical guidance from American Agriculturist on managing young orchards and mixed crops. Emphasis on manure and hoeing, integrating crops like potatoes squash cucumbers and corn, converting orchard waste to clover and pig pasture, and using lime or ashes to control pests. Specific remedies include white hellebore for worms, lime dust for leaf eaters, and torch beating for grape pests.
The article lists farm medicinals and dosages including aconite mixtures using tinctures, alcohols like whisky for stimulus, calfs cordial chalk formula, carbolized cotton for wounds, colic and diuretic mixtures, nitrate of potash as a fever remedy, sulphur as an alterative and dressing, and zinc chloride disinfectant with water. It presents practical dose instructions for horses, oxen, calves, and sheep.
The American Agriculturist offers methods to preserve eggs for winter, noting fresh eggs are essential and unfavorable storage can ruin a batch. Fertile eggs, mating hens and cooler dry rooms affect shelf life, with turning eggs twice weekly and using dry storage key. Packing in boxes with oats or corn allows periodic turning to avoid musty flavors.
Practical tips on peeling onions with a fork to avoid odor and using strawberry juice as an eye wash. Advice on carpers insect bites and butter storage. A toothache remedy uses spirits of luri? and alum. Left side for convulsions and antiemetic guidance after anesthesia. Ivy and dogwood poisoning treated with wood ashes wash. Soda solution for cleaning old painted work. Canter cure via flour and sulfur taken in weekly cycles.
An assortment of home cooking directions listing steps for Scafloord onions with white sauce, dried bruit rolls, steamed fruit pastry, a bread based dessert, carrot cream, custard eggs with nutmeg, Italian Sauer, and a lemon gelatine pudding with optional custard or cream topping. The text describes ingredients like Indian meal, Graham flour, buttermilk, molasses, and various spices, plus methods such as steaming, baking, and boiling.
A Detroit Free Press report describes a silent crowd moving through a town at night to seize a man. They force him from jail, hang him from a tree, and depart as the grisly scene dissolves into darkness.
The article argues that highly potent medicines cause more harm than reform and endorses Hoster s Stomach Bitters as a painless, effective option. It claims the tonic safely stimulates digestion, cleanses the bowels, and promotes normal bile secretion without violence to the system.
A Lewiston parson struggles with curtain shades while a neighbor recalls Mr Boggs and his bull, illustrating rustic emphasis. The piece blends a pastorate anecdote with a aside on zeal and testimony, ending with a medical ad boasting cough cure and quoted letters praising St Jacobs Oil.
Travelers reach Summit Heights summer resort after a prairie railway trip and hill descent. Barabbas, the host, confirms the basin sits about 1,300 to 1,400 feet above sea level as tourists lament leaving the Catskills and an extra fare is charged for their emotional outburst.
Many readers praise Dr. K V Pierce for his extensive study of women health issues and his Favorite Prescription offered at one dollar. The ad claims it cures chronic female ailments including pre use and displacements, ulceration internal fever, bloating and cancer risks.
An old German farmer near Sebewaing Michigan keeps a wild cat as a pet for eight years. The animal follows the man loyally like a dog though it preys on chickens. It also helps control rats, a claim the item notes as notable.
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Pellets described as little liver pies that cure headaches sour stomach and cleanse the system with no pain. The pitch lists 25 cents per vial and emphasizes health benefits.
An article extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the best remedy for liver cleansing and blood purification. It warns that obstructed bodily channels cause disease and death while praising the product as essential to health and vitality. A humorous quote about a cyclone is also noted.
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