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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1907
Page
7
The narrator pursues the mystery surrounding Miss Weston and the Bruce household. He learns Mrs. Bruce is respected locally for charity work and nursing. He confronts Mrs. Bruce in the hall, asks for a full explanation, and pleads for truth while noting Jenks’s mixed reputation and the town’s cautious stance.
At the widow’s cottage Mrs Bruce and Jenks argue at the gate while a listener hides in the shrubs. The conversation hints at a hidden letter plot, a lawyer, and a young woman involved with Miss Carney, with Mrs Bruce urging discretion and secrecy.
A Civil War regiment mutiny ends with an orderly sergeant rescuing a fellow soldier from being tied by the thumbs for alleged foraging. The colonel orders a guard to fire, but the sergeant escapes into North Carolina pines and both he and the colonel are mustered out. The tale ends with the vow to die before being tied.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat clipping describes quirky fishing lore on Lake Michigan and Georgia streams. It mentions winter anglers using wind masks in subzero cold earning daily wages, a mirror trick to snag carp, and a hammer to kill trout, highlighting regional fishing myths.
The narrative recalls Col. Mosby praised by his men for fearless leadership during Civil War actions. A novice rider narrowly survives untangling a toppled forge team amid gunfire, while earlier memories recount West Point misadventures and a dismal night scene.
In 1884 I joined Joseph Mulhatton to study Boers and wildlife in South Africa. We kept a pocket piano and trained a monkey to perform tasks at the table, including attempting a tune on Give My Regards to Broadway before it was written. The monkey often played with hands feet and nose, albeit unable to stretch an octave.
An illustrated guide explains how uneven grindstones wear mower knives and how to true a stone using a frame and chisel device. A movable post frame allows precise trimming, with water used during slow turning to smooth out high spots and maintain circularity.
Article outlines two celery crops for the climate, advising a May open-ground start for fall and winter harvests. Details bed prep, soil moisture, shading, and staggered transplanting, with steps to blanch stalks by earth, boards, or the “New Celery Culture” method. Emphasizes richer soil and ample water for best yields.
Practical agricultural notes emphasize turning soil, proper manure nitrogen balance, and timely oat hay harvesting. Tips cover cleaning barn cellars, drying them, and draining to prevent wet conditions. Also advised are stretching chicken wire fences and ensuring clean well lit housing for farm animals.
An Ontario Agricultural College report shows crops rely on stored soil moisture as well as rainfall. Wheat used 22.60 inches of water with only 10.51 inches from rain. peas 27.38 inches with 12.50 inches from rain. barley 18.52 inches. oats 21.15 inches. Mulching and deep cultivation help conserve moisture for dry periods.
A Farm and Home sketch details a road planer 14 feet long and 5 feet wide using outside runners. It includes 2x10 or 2x12 boards for scraper blades and inner runners to bridge low spots and trim high lumps. Edged with steel for durability, it complements the King road drag and can maintain a dirt road in good condition at five to ten dollars per mile per year.
A berry carrier is built from three-eighth inch stock two inches wide with four sides formed by two 42 inch and two 17 1/2 inch pieces. Cut four 1x3 inch pieces with one corner removed to make four tees. Assemble as four corner braces then add a light bottom from peach basket material and a sugar barrel hoop handle.
Farmers should check spraying pump nozzles to ensure high pressure and proper mist for full tree and leaf coverage. Barley is praised as valuable stock feed with crushed barley and clover hay boosting cattle fattening and hog production.
Worn and cob meal offers satisfactory dairy feed and is recommended where grinding is affordable. Use when available at reasonable cost to improve dairy rations.
A hinged front salt box lets animals push in for a free peck of salt. The box is set from the ground to stay dry, and its door swings shut of its own weight as animals learn to operate it.
A Wisconsin tour shows brick silos widely used and satisfying farmers. Brick silos with a double wall and brick inner circle of steel offer strength, resisting freezing, shrinking, and rot. Most sit 4–6 feet underground, with diameters up to 16 feet and heights to 30–36 feet. two silos are advised for larger capacities. Cement plaster aids durability. concrete walls require precise construction to prevent air spaces and mold in silage.
An Illinois dairyman in Elgin shifts from buying herd cows to raising calves from his best cows. The Farmers' Review praises raising quality stock to steadily improve dairy herds, noting that selling off poorer cows while replacing them with progeny from top cows increases overall herd quality each year.
Sugar beets require less water than potatoes corn or oats and about 20 inches of irrigation water is found best by western irrigators. The increased thrift of the beet plants turns starch into other materials than sugar so beets should be grown to maximize sugar formation.
A dairyman concludes a good cow yields butter at about seven cents per pound. The rest of the sale price is pure profit, accounting for milking, caring for milk, and churning butter.
A guide notes the cow is a machine transforming feed the dairyman cannot eat into milk and butter. It warns against tainted feed, urges liberal feeding, and states about 60 percent of the cow’s intake must be for her sustenance before any return. It stresses clean equipment and the trio of cream words clean cold rich to produce sweet cream.
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