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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1886
Page
7
A concise column offering guidance on farming practices and household tasks. Topics include dairy methods, stable care, field observations, and practical tips for kitchen and parlor efficiency. Practical advice for rural families and farm operations.
A discussion argues farm size is relative to the farmer and working capital. It suggests profit per acre depends on executive ability and capital, not acres alone, noting many farms are under capitalized for their size and may underperform regardless of scale.
Weevil remedies from scientists include using a sheep wool fleece at the grain heap to lure insects into water for disposal by fowls. Best destruction periods are spring, September, and July. Preventive drainage tiles ten feet apart, fennel or hemp in granaries, and sulfur compounds offer radical controls with cautions on flammable vapors.
Charles Badger reports a high potato yield from a square rod equal to 960 per acre and shows five bushels of marketable potatoes at the Franklin Farmers' Club fair. He details cultivation on sandy loam, with manuring, close furrow spacing, half bushel seed pieces, hog-litter mulch, Stockbridge fertilizer, and a final layer of hen manure. The trio of crops included Beauty of Hebron, Early Rose, and Beauty of Hebron on three quarters of an acre, yielding 250 bushels of potatoes and four tons of squash on the field.
The piece argues hired men on farms shape youth more than parents realize. It notes their worldliness, daily conduct, and steadiness affect boys, urging farmers to scrutinize character and care in employing hired help for family welfare and business success.
The article notes pig prices stay high despite cheap pork. Buyers tolerate small price differences for 300 pound river, and some pay near the pig’s eventual value to fatten. Pigs sell for more than their worth due to feeding waste and nuisance avoidance.
The text argues that aromatic plants in Welsh Highland and Southdown pastures enhance meat flavor. It notes wild thyme, lady's mantle, and other herbs supply aroma, while suggesting various herbs suit different soils and can be grown from seeds to improve forage quality.
The article notes Europe accounts for 44 percent of world wool with Great Britain as a major wool center producing far more than others. It cites a stark contempt for careless pig ownership and reports Illinois cattle genetics showing 35 percent purely bred or with pure-bred heritage, while about half of national stock meets that criterion.
The text urges preserving Merino traits in Southdown sheep and warns against cross-breed racing. It endorses acquiring superior draft stallions locally to improve stock. It notes dairying can be more profitable than meat on good middle West lands, urging progress over stagnation.
Professor W Saunders reports from Iowa College on Russian apples tested by Professor Budd. One orchard of 118 varieties with 1 200 trees largely perished in a severe winter while Oldenburg survived. A second Russian collection of 1 000 trees had zero deaths, confirming Russia varieties endure harsher winters.
J M White reports from New Jersey Experimental Station that Morris and Hunterdon growers who farm most thoroughly and fertilize wisely show the highest profits. Fertilized orchards with potash and acid soil treatments stay healthiest. examples include J & Quinby of Chester with 4000 trees and heavy bone meal usage, S H Wartman with 7000 bearing trees, Dr H Race of Pittstown with 5100 baskets from 3000 trees, and J L Nixon of Quakertown selling 3000 baskets from 12000 trees for 9045 dollars. Potash and bone may vary by region.
The article argues easy milking cows save time and milk, estimating losses from difficult cows. It claims a cow milking twice daily for many years reduces value by about six dollars yearly, totaling around sixty dollars over ten years, making a difficult milker worth essentially nothing unless sold for beef.
A Telegraph article argues improving milk records and adopting creamery butter factories will revive the struggling British dairy sector. It notes a $20 scholarship by the British Dairy Farmers Association to study dairy methods abroad, with a Normandy residence requirement. The piece favors foreign technique using sweet cream and mechanical separators to produce stable, high quality butter, and urges nationwide creameries to boost daily milk sales to farmers.
A New York correspondent argues that eastern foraging is poor for bees due to frequent western thunder storms. Storm timing can destroy many foragers before reaching the hive, making some localities inherently unsuitable despite best breeding efforts.
Mr G W Demaree of Christianburg Kentucky discusses sweet clover as a honey plant in the Bee Keepers Magazine He notes its early tender growth is weak and easily crowded by weeds but in favorable spots can reach ten feet with dense spikes of blooms He reports a season of abundant bees and says best results come from spring sowing with oats and early bloom aligns with white clover trends
The author discusses grazing of white clover and sweet clover to control growth and delay blooming. Light grazing by sheep or young cattle when clover stands about twelve inches tall encourages new spots and later bloom. He notes Jersey cows browsed plants all spring and summer and that clover yields nectar but blooms briefly.
Geese fatten cheaply on turnips or other cheap feed this season but should also receive corn for best market appearance. Do not overfeed older geese though young birds may need liberal feeding until mature.
An Illinois woman kept a hen that during laying season produced two eggs daily. After her death it was found the woman herself had two egg sacs each with a fully formed egg ready to lay next day. The case suggested the hen could be a breeder and potential offspring might inherit the peculiarity, offering a valuable breeding possibility.
A correspondence from the Germantown Telegraph argues that keeping large flocks yields limited profit due to labor, disease, and welfare costs. Authors compare small and large flocks, noting separate flocks protect soil and birds, while large groups attract pests and decline in size. They highlight Plymouth Rocks as hardy and Hamburgs as fragile, urging cautious expansion and proper care.
A method for fried thin corned beef squares wrapped in salt pork, simmered in stock with lemon and cayenne. Mashed potatoes enriched with butter and eggs shaped into balls, dipped in cream and cracker dust, then baked to a delicate brown.
Instructions describe paring potatoes and onions to boil then mash with milk cream and butter. Rice dessert uses washed rice cooked with milk sugar salt, pressed in a mold and chilled. Apricots are peeled halved and boiled in lemon syrup to serve with the rice.
Dissolve tomato paste or tomato sauce in six cupfuls of stock. For each cup, add half a cup of fine rice. Cook until the rice absorbs the stock. Melt a large spoonful of butter and pour over the rice at serving, stirring lightly to separate grains off the heat.
A recipe describes thinning sugar with half a pint of water to make syrup then simmering ten to twelve ripe peaches with bruised kernels in the syrup for fifteen minutes. Add lemon juice and strain through a jelly bag. Dissolve ten ounces of gelatine, pour into a mold, chill until set, and serve with the peaches as a compote.
A recipe style note describes a corn and egg bake using milk eggs butter sugar and corn. It covers grating corn, beating yolks separately, folding in whites, baking covered then uncovering to brown. Suggests reheating leftovers for breakfast and notes canned corn as alternative.
Soak the sweetbreads in cold water then skin and trim. Simmer two sweetbreads in seasoned vinegar water two minutes, blanch one minute, then cool in cold water. Make a butter shallot parsley mix, cook with whites and bacon, add broth and white wine, simmer until done, strain sauce, pour over sweetbreads with mushrooms.
Notice urges travelers to stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 615 rooms and claims one million dollars plus daily expenditures. It describes European elevator service, horse car streets, and elevated rail depots while promising lower costs for families versus other first class hotels in New York City.
Tom Perkins cuts fleece from a deer keep sheep at the park and sells it to Henry Horkheimer for 1.70 after convincing Superintendent Kreiger. Horkheimer praises the fleece and laughs at Perkins plan to return with more wool in the future.
Next to the bowels, the kidneys and bladder are the most important scavengers of the system. They purify the blood and carry off its refuse, preventing rheumatics, dropsy, Brights disease and diabetes by their cleansing work. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters renews kidney activity when relaxed, averting renal maladies and aiding in chills, fever, dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint and debility.
The Cleveland Leader notes that washerwomen in Holland and Belgium use borax to wash linen, softening hard water and reducing soap use by about half. It also suggests borax for hair cleansing, dentifrice, cooling beverages, and softening water for tea, with a one teaspoon per kettle.
A compilation of historical medical pitches touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for debt about payment plus health benefits. It promotes Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya by Caswell Hazard Co as a tonic, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for throat and lung ills, Prickly Ash Bitters for biliary and kidney issues, and Brown’s Bronchial Troches for coughs, with various sensational testimonials and quotable quips from periodicals.
Michael Strogoff performer Mr G C Stanley in Oakland California fell hoarse from a cold and was saved by two bottles of Red Star Cough Cure which cured him without nausea. The passage also quotes Ruskin on moral instruction and regret.
An advertisement touts Dr Prenczs Favorite Prescription as a potent tonic that combines valuable nervine Proger ten specially adapted to relieve weakness back fever congestion inflammation ulcers nervousness and neuralgic pains as sold by druggists.
The Great Rock Island Route announces a first-class excursion from Chicago to San Francisco and Los Angeles leaving October 26. Round trip rate is very low with 30 day westbound passage and six month return. stopovers allowed via Council Bluffs or Kansas City. Pullman sleeping car options and details from E A Holbrook, General Ticket and Passenger Agent C R I P Railway.
An advertisement from Hallett & Co. of Portland Maine promotes at home work with profits from five to twenty five dollars daily, with some earning over fifty. All ages and both sexes are urged to write now for particulars free. The firm claims everything is new and will start workers, though no obligation is required. Snug fortunes await those who respond.
An advertisement touts Well's Air and Vigor as a universal remedy for dyspepsia malaria impotence nervous debility consumption wasting diseases and decline claiming thousands cured and promising to cure you.
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