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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1887
Page
7
Domestic economy notes offer practical guidance for farmers gardeners and homemakers. Tips cover planting livestock feeding and household measures with emphasis on efficiency and frugality for the season ahead. Public notices encourage readers to consult local extension agents and markets for timely advice.
A practical guide urges horse care to keep feed boxes clean to prevent spoilage and loss of appetite. It discusses corn roots, deep plowing risks, and the value of tillage and hoeing to control weeds, retain soil structure, and protect young crops for a healthy harvest.
A correspondent asks if butter can freeze. The dairyman explains butter may freeze on edges while center remains unfrozen, causing quality differences. Butter and cream should not undergo great temperature variation and should be used promptly if frozen to minimize quality loss.
Milk turned into ordinary butter and cheese yields at best about 14 cents per quart to the producer. City delivery costs and spoilage push prices up and down, with winter prices rising as cows produce less, and summer milk spoils quickly. Churning hinges on agitation, oxidation, and precise temperature around sixty degrees, with excessive churning reducing color and flavor.
A historical note explains that insufficient air during churning leads to weak flavor and soft butter that won’t keep. Air oxidizes fat globule coats, increasing friction to aid separation. Any churn works if it admits air, with churning timed to produce butter from well ripened cream in twenty five to thirty minutes.
The Albany Cultivator notes conifers vary by region and species in leaf durability. In temperate zones pines and spruces often keep leaves for multiple years, while ginkgo trees shed annually. The piece explains how shoots form yearly growth, how to age leaves by branch rings, and cites Norway and black spruces sometimes holding leaves up to nine years, with pines shedding irregularly.
A poultry feeding note explains that egg production hinges on nitrogen in feed. It highlights gluten meal as highly nitrogenous, with three times the nitrogen of corn meal, and notes linseed and cottonseed meals as valuable. Also calls for more sulfur in poultry diets and further study of feeding balances.
Miller Purvis recounts a winter poultry plan from Stockman and Farmer. He rebuilt his quarters and now wintered up to fifty Leghorns in a 36 foot floor space, using ventilation and clean conditions. The birds sleep soundly, stay healthy, and are fed a varied kitchen scrap diet. he advises greasing combs with tallow to resist freezing.
Poultry notes recommend charcoal and sulphur with feed to prevent disease and aid digestion. Lagina ducks thrive in yards and on up land, eating oyster shell grass and vegetable refuse. Nest egg gourds resemble real eggs to reduce breakage. do not use stale eggs as nest eggs. Promote rapid fattening with a strict feeding schedule and ample fresh water.
The piece discusses regular salt intake for cattle and its effects on milk flow, noting risks of over-salting. It also reports on Professor Flower’s lectures at London Institute Pref, detailing the discovery of a Rocky Mountain eocene fossil believed to be an ancestor of horses and the broader split into lines leading to rhinoceros, tapir, and the cattle family, with illustrations of dental and leg bones.
J P Little of Amesbury earned the top award for a pair of six year old Devon oxen weighing 4250 pounds at the Essex Agricultural Society show. He also took a second premium for five year old Herefords weighing 4050 pounds. The Devon herd had been owned fifteen months and did most farm work, with extensive outside teaming and meadow reclamation prior to the fair.
A 19th century advisory urging housekeepers to exercise daily outdoors and eat simpler foods to boost health. It argues for less time on routine chores, more relaxation, and warns against confinement to home life. Cites prevention over cure and notes hired help cheaper than medical care.
A collection of practical hints on health and housekeeping. Includes quick fixes for headaches with lemon juice, remedies for inflamed joints, penwiper techniques using raw potato, and rusted wound relief from plant pulp. Also covers stain removal, tea and coffee storage, tar cleanup with lard, jewelry care, ivy poisoning treatment, meat handling on ice, broom care, and general tips for home maintenance.
The article notes kidneys and elderly suffer many ailments and warns that prevention with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters can stimulate kidney activity and purge impurities from the blood. It claims benefits against constipation biliousness fever age rheumatism and dyspepsia through thorough action.
A Broadway sporting goods store lists names such as Game Cock, Swift and Sure, Brui ser, and Shakspeare on a base ball placard. Two boys buy a Bruiser and a Game Cock while a dealer notes that tastes vary by social class and mood. Also includes stray medical notes on pulse variation.
An advertisement claims eight cents daily of Moxie Nerve Food extract doubles output and prevents illness. Dealers report unprecedented sales. Nervous women are said to spark neighborhood chatter, with curiosity driving demand despite the cost of a bonnet.
A fragmented 19th century text blends a humorous firehouse husband tale with medical ads and notices. It includes a Texas-sourced quip about a fireman choosing duty over courting, then shifts to promotions for Dr Pierce’s Pellets, Prickly Ash Bitters, Harter’s Hair Tonic, Piso’s Cure for Consumption, and a London fire-engine note on timber ignition risks.
An advertisement proclaims Dr. BR Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the best known remedy for consumption and lung scrofula. It invites readers to send 10 stamps for complete treatise on consumption and self-treatment guidance from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association at 663 Main Street, Buffalo.
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