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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1887
Page
7
Farmers receive guidance on correcting open drains by installing underdrains to prevent soil loss and runoff. The piece explains fertilizer ingredient values from Bulletin 87, detailing nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash in various materials and how to adjust for different forms to appraise retail prices.
The article details practical guidance for raising turkeys including brooding, feeding, housing, and disease prevention. It emphasizes the importance of a sheltered run, gradual exposure, meat-based feeds, lice prevention, and careful handling in early days, plus notes on grain versus varied diets and winter feeding.
The New Jersey Dairy Commissioner says there is little demand for butter imitations and that claims of sales increases after the national law are unfounded. A writer advises dairy men that butter made from sweet cream will not stay fresh and edible for long.
An English paper summarizes milking trials and butter yields across breeds. It notes May Duchess XVIII producing 57.5 pounds of milk in 24 hours, while Holstein judges in New York reported 64 to 65 pounds of milk with high water and curd content in butter. Clothilde the Holstein yields high butter in private records, and Jersey cows show smaller daily outputs. Clothilde’s private showing of 28 pounds 2 ounces in a week is cited, with Clothilde’s 4 year old milk record at 26,021 pounds. Prof Long cites a 13,000 gallon yearly peak.
The Royal Agricultural Society of England proposes appointing a veterinary surgeon in each district with a fixed compensation and an obligation to report investigation results. The aim is rapid skilled aid to members at moderate cost, continuous disease knowledge, and informed countermeasures to protect livestock from annual disease losses, as stated by Supt. Graham of Kansas.
An article explores using stale bread for savory tea dishes, bread puddings, and breakfasts. It offers step by step methods including bread toast with milk sauce and several puddings, plus notes on digestion and thrift. It also adds household hack tips for Harwseler pets and home care routines.
In Perth area a friendly pig feeding contest ended with Ferguson of Pictsonhill winning for two of his pigs weighing 241 and 452 pounds. Over twenty seven days each pig gained about 42 pounds. The article lists Spencer and Lawrence recommended feeding: warm ventilated pens, daily exercise, clean straw, thrice daily meals of oatmeal maize meal and cooked or steeped grains, unskimmed milk or skim milk, sugar, Thorleys or ram for temperament, coal cinders or earth, vegetables, and weekly sulphur.
J M Smith argues against deterioration in wild and cultivated small fruits in a paper to the American Pomological Society. He cites wild strawberries as stable for two millennia, warns that poor soil, cheap plants, and bad cultivation have driven the Wilson strawberry toward failure, and urges better soil, renewal, and vigorous healthy runners to preserve each variety's character.
A collection of recipe directions including Cream Pie Cup Cake Waffles Brown Bread Lady Cake and Fruit Cake with measurements and steps. Also includes Atenqmed Pudding Baked Apple pudding Lance-A Chicken Mroth and cooking tips such as washing flannels and a Syracuse motto about married life.
Brooklyn sermon on the need for a repentant and believing heart. Dr. Talmage asks readers to examine inner life, reject sin, and seek Heaven through faith in Christ, warning that delaying repentance risks eternal loss. He contrasts earthly gains with the far greater heavenly inheritance.
Benedict Arnold, born January 3 1740 in Norwich Connecticut, rose from colonial colonel to brigadier general. He led forces toward Quebec, fought at Lake Champlain andBemis Heights, faced court martial, and after planning to surrender West Point he fled to Britain where he died in London in 1801, poor and despised.
A collage of jokes and quips from various papers recounts witty exchanges and cartoons. It includes telegram style gags about gamblers tips, American waiters, a one eyed gentleman, and a tale of a worm hoax. The piece also parodies marriage conversations and social satire with quick punchlines and character sketches.
The Boston Record argues rice surpasses oatmeal as a digestible nutritious food, but experts dispute the claim noting oatmeal’s higher albuminoids and overall superiority. The exchange analyzes starch fat salts and protein content to weigh which cereal is best for a balanced diet.
The feature list at Parlor Rock this winter includes two huge toboggan slides with a hydraulic belt to pull ascending sleds to the top. Water power from the lake will run the elevators and the dynamo for electric lighting. Miss Maup Banks, daughter of Gen N P Banks, reports two years on the professional stage with evident ambition.
A brief quip from the Pillsburg Chronicle cautions against provoking blackbirds noting they may react with ravenous anger. The item reads as a local humor feature reflecting rural superstition and weathered wit.
A celebrated London cook earns over 2000 dollars a year by visiting rich households in his brougham and tasting every dish at dinner. He advises on salt herbs sugar and onion, then pockets a five guinea fee before moving to the next engagement across the London season.
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