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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1887
Page
8
Rural Topics offers practical tips for farmers and homemakers including husbandman guidance for field tasks and housewife advice for domestic management. It targets farmers stock breeders poultry raisers nurserymen and general housekeepers with concise how to sections and seasonal recommendations.
The Smithfield Club and the American Fat-Stock Show show that early maturity and low daily waste favor gains, with cross-bred cattle delivering the strongest rates. Different breeds yield varied daily gains, Devon 1.85 Ibs, Hereford 2.28, Short-Horn 2.48, Sussex 2.14, Polled Angus 1.49, cross-bred 2.98. The article urges good sires, continuous growth, and proper feeding for beef, milk, or draft stock, plus farm-advice on crops and animal care.
Practical horticulture advice on trapping moths and flies with sweet liquids, shaking curculio from trees, and securing snags. Guidance on transplant care, pruning, and keeping trees balanced. Emphasizes soil moisture, hoeing, and earth up for crops, with cautions about overbearing young trees.
The Gardener's Monthly notes that soil should be deeply and finely pulverized, while avoiding a loose condition. After sowing seeds, heavy rolling is advantageous, a practice common in farm crops but rarely applied to garden work.
The article argues feeding bran aids fattening animals by improving digestion, compares bran to fresh grass in winter, and notes Angora goats’ profitability due to fleece revenue. It also discusses dangers of rapid feeding and hints at broader agricultural dynamics including hog production and disease in pork markets.
A housekeeping column urges barring flies with wire screens or outside netting, warns of disease from flies, and shares quirky tips from lye solutions to camphor applications. It mixes practical prevention with curious anecdotes on cleanliness and home care.
The article highlights the large scale of the dairy business and the significant damage from counterfeit butter. It cites hundred million and billion dollar comparisons to other crops and industries, notes over 50 million pounds of bogus butter produced nationally, with 13 million pounds shipped from Chicago, stressing health and consumer rights.
Premiio Butter owner Daniel H Hale of Rowley Massachusetts explains dairy butter making from grade Jerseys. Milk is strained cooled and rested then skimmed churned and washed with brine. Butter is salted weighed pressed dried and stored in cool cellars at about 60 degrees throughout the process until market.
The Timber man notes poplar limits push manufacturers toward cottonwood in St. Louis and Chicago. Cottonwood offers a smoother surface and paintability, with current prices around 14 dollars vs 18 for poplar. Immense Tennessee stands near streams hold future supply, while freight rates to Chicago remain a key factor.
This clipping lists old fashioned kitchen dishes and methods. It includes fried tripe with salt water soak and beef dripping fry, sour milk pie, cabbage slaw and soup, pork frying, bread griddle cakes, strawberry short cake, macaroni with cheese, lemon biscuits, and related steps and ingredients.
The Minneapolis Tribune argues for state regulation to screen medical practitioners, requiring collegiate study and a diploma as a prerequisite to practice. It warns pharmacists who dispense drugs and practice medicine behind storefront counters threaten public safety and professional boundaries, but supports reforms that remove abuses to benefit physicians, druggists, and patients.
An English writer notes experiments by Dr Parkes and Dr de Chaumont showing to keep air pure and odors gone a minimum 2000 cubic feet of air per hour per inmate and to limit carbonic acid to six parts in 10000 require about 8000 ft³ per hour.
Notes on canary color variation from domestication and breeding across Belgium Germany and England and a look at moon superstition from England Scotland Ireland with quirks in Devon Renfrew Orkney and Argyll figures. Also brief on Parer bottles paper making mixing defibrinated blood lime and heat to form bottles and a pitch for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a tonic. The Epulones are described as a Roman religious body serving banquets to Jupiter and the gods.
In Terre Haute Ohio County a postmaster Mr Charles F Powell recalls using St Jacobs Oil on Polish Chickens for croup and reports they recovered overnight. A policeman is quoted as author of the saying you must always take a man as you find him. Mr AntHur Suortuerr of Parker Dakota writes St Jacobs Oil cured a wart on his finger after years. Price 50 cents.
Veteran showman W. C. Coup praises a humane system for training horses that builds trust and reduces fear. He cites Mr. Buckley and Mr. Bartholomew as pioneers and notes horses display affection and contentment with Buckley, yet become uneasy without him.
The piece argues that life in a sewerlike body is unbearable for most refined people and blames liver inactivity for toxin buildup. It claims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery restores balance and renews the system.
A Sunday-school scene mulls time value with a sailor who repents then dies at sea, a Cape of Good Hope naming note, and brief ads for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Prickly Ash Bitters. The tone blends moralizing, travel lore, and patent medicine pitches.
A garbled 19th century advertorial fragment touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Mens Man’s Peptonized Beef Tonic as health tonics. It mocks critics and praises vitality, citing New York publishers Hazard, Hazar & Co. and various druggists. The text also poses a quip about elopement and the term maid of the mist.
The CarcanoMilwaukee and St Paul Farmway Company begins June 5 1887 a new Sioux City Manilla line linking via Chicago and Council Bluffs. It offers through Pullman Sleepers Chicago Sioux City with no change and creates a direct route between Dakota Nebraska Iowa and Illinois. A 5 column outfit sells for 225 cash by box 21 Fort Wayne.
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