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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1887
Page
3
A farmer notes oats in the region decline, averaging about twenty five pounds per bushel versus the former forty. He argues machines mix good and poor grain, recommends saving seed by light threshing or using a flail to select the best kernels, and urges fellow farmers to test and report results.
Farmers live longer due to outdoor life and should enjoy fresher produce. Plant trees with fences to protect yields and improve home life for children. Potatoes cut with two eyes. hardy crops like onions peas beets lettuce precede others. A grape vine arbor shelters a bee hive, geese need favorable conditions. pond and pasture reduce costs.
Charles H. Hayes of Portsmouth reports high milk yields from Ayrshire cows and outlines seasonal feeding regimes. He stresses regular weighing, notes milk surprises each month, and warns five years of well milking cows boost herd value. Butter making tips cover cream handling, churning temp, and vinegar remedies for stubborn cream.
A writer urges careful care of foal feet, noting confinement, straw bedding, and limited exercise cause overgrown toes and injuries. It recommends barn handling, two‑man restraint, and hoof paring to restore natural bearing and prevent ringbone and related foot diseases.
The piece covers global stock trends from Australia to Herefordshire and Scotland, notes on winter losses in Western Kansas, dairy feeding debates, calf care through egg emulsion, and a paragraph on a prehistoric cave man horse image. It highlights breed profits, feed strategies, and stock health amid cold weather.
Practical advice on seasoning glass and china to withstand heat, plus a paint recipe for floor coatings. It covers cleaning methods for floors, wart cures, ant control, floor wax additives, biscuit reheating, butter stamp care, croup remedy notes, cleaning plaster busts, stair carpet care, washing flannels, and rust prevention for polished steel and knives.
A Rural New Yorker cornet advises on choosing hatch eggs by size and shape, noting medium eggs yield stronger chicks and pointed eggs do not signal weakness. It discusses guinea fowls as good layers and suggest selecting eggs from productive hens. It also explains soft food for laying hens and morning versus night feeding.
The article explains pruning new trees to one bud per branch for strong first-year growth and discusses grafting old trees and selecting seeds. It notes that top grafting Northern Spy on old stock can speed bearing and covers seed selection for vigorous rootstock versus improved varieties through selective breeding and cross fertilization.
A collection of kitchen instructions for breakfast cakes kidneys lemon sauce and a rustic imitation apple pie. Recipes cover ingredients methods and hints on texture heat timings and serving notes. The items read like household guidance with measurements and steps for mixing boiling or frying into ready to eat dishes.
A seasick passenger benefits from Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters amid storms and brackish shipboard water. The tonic is praised for stomach liver and bowel disorders and as protection against malaria for mariners, pioneers, and miners, offering rapid relief from fatigue and nervous debility.
The trend of Germans adopting English patronymics grows with Broad way business signs displaying Heaverrich Morningstar and Hammer slough. Himmelreich and Morgenstern, while not harmonious, gain respect from outsiders, yet in English they sound awkward and look absurd.
A collage of short items includes satire on women wearing pants, medical quackery for liver cures, domestic scene humor, glove ceremonies from medieval England, earthquake gossip from Yokohama, catarrh remedies, a beer tonic claim, the Ideal man comment, Prickly Ash Bark benefits, an Ottawa excursion via Rock Island Route, and a general note urging every town to have a local newspaper with ad outreach and Piso’s Cure for Consumption at 25 cents.
Local readers tout St Jacobs Oil as a cure for various pains with testimonials from Thomas Ford of Lassan County California and F E Husu of Adrian New York. An ad fragment from Ny Drinkit markets morphine belladonna arsenic nitrate and nicotine related claims. Also mention of rupture cure and a fruit preservers motto from World’s Dispensary Medical Association Buffalo New York.
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