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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1887
Page
6
The article stresses thorough soil preparation and multiple hoeings for strong crops. It explains rye seeding failures after simple field harrowing and details castor bean harvests, plus a farm business comparison to merchants. It ends with arithmetic rules for animal weight and circle area.
An article discusses feeding pigs to avoid stunting from overfeeding and describes a frequency of wheat bran meals. It also explains methods to estimate cattle weight by body measurements and girth, presenting formulas and simplified multipliers for practical use.
The Territory of Dakota offers a timber culture bounty and tax exemption under Chapter 145 of the 1885 session laws. Anyone planting prairie land with trees other than black locust or cottonwood, and cultivating for three years, may receive 2 per acre annually for ten years. A quarter section with five acres planted and kept in growth also enjoys a ten year tax exemption, with ownership changes not affecting the exemption. Applicants must file an affidavit with the assessor attesting compliance and noting exemption.
An article urges farmers wives to boost income by small fruit farming with minimal plots. It cites strawberries raspberries gooseberries currants and grapes, plus bee stands, careful packing, jams and jellies, and healthful outdoor work as profitable and empowering for women. It highlights two California sisters who built fortune and health through fruit with modest plots.
The article extols flaxseed as disease prevention and a soothing oil for stomachs and bones. It offers feeding methods for pigs, including boiled flaxseed with bran and a mash of ground flaxseed and oats, claiming rapid growth, fattening, and better milk yield in sows per Professor Stewart in Country Gentlemen.
Farmers overlook hoof care though essential. Daily stable cleanliness and dry bedding prevent unsound feet. Regular paring, frog checks, and weekly mopping with alam water and wine keep hooves sound. copper or plaster over manure curbs odor and ammonia loss.
Fragments of a printed muffin recipe list ingredients like milk eggs flour sugar lard and baking powder with odd spellings and vague steps. The text includes measurements such as cups teaspoons and spoonfuls and hints at mixing salt dissolving soda and creating a batter with lemon flavor.
Instructions for making a confection call for three pounds of treacle two pounds of moist sugar one half pound of butter with a few drops of lemon or peppermint essence. Boil one and a half hours stirring to prevent boil over and scorch.
The passage describes making quick cakes from a flour sugar and butter mix with milk, plus preparing chops from the best end of the neck. Chops are grilled over a clear fire, turned often, seasoned with pepper and salt, finished with a dab of fresh butter, and served hot.
A recipe describes creaming half a pound butter with pulverized sugar to a creamy froth. Stir in one pound of sifted flour with baking powder salt and lemon peel. Add four eggs milk and grated coconut, beat in, bake in buttered tins in a moderate oven.
A cook’s method stews ducks with onions and sage, layering fattened pork, then simmering in water for about two and a half hours. Turn ducks, finish until tender, strain gravy, thicken with browned flour, and serve partly on ducks and partly in a boat.
A quarrel over returning seized Washington personal property ends when a forged restoration order appears. The plaintiff’s attorney exploits the bluff, presenting a letter to Gen. Meiggs, who cannot recall signing it and releases the property after the corral officer recognizes the signature. The Argonaut.
The French Governor Blenville ordered convicts to clear swamp land in 1718 to found what would become New Orleans. The expedition marked the city’s early development with swamp clearing and settlement planning by colonial authorities.
A reflective line questions how security and fortune shape loans and outcomes, asking whether law can be just without mercy. It contrasts wealth’s ease with ruinous loans and ponders moral balance in legal judgment.
The Rev T De Witt Talmage speaks on The Gospel of Health from Proverbs 7 23 Till a dart strike through his liver noting that body and soul health are linked and praising Christian physicians who treat both medicine and prayer He warns against early dissipation and urges youths to avoid sowing wild oats as such liver damage impairs future faith and health.
A preacher warns youths about self destructive habits like smoking and late suppers, linking them to liver disease and wasted lives. He cites Prometheus and military defeats as metaphors, urges early reform, honors Frederick T. Frelinghuysen as a Christian statesman, and insists true sickness lies in sin not disease.
A collage of humorous snippets from different papers includes quips about grooming, manners, and spelling blunders. Highlights mock language, a Cubano minister joke, a paving Chicago remark, and a Boston school mis-spelling story.
A West Side resident in Chicago recounts a comical miscommunication in a street car about finding a French dresser. The woman describes a gown described as silver and white with vermin trim and uses broken grammar, prompting a near fainting episode as the conductor signals her stop.
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