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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
11
Warrington chronicles a chase as Princess Hildegarde flees with a plan to wed Dopple run, while Max Scharfenstein defuses tension with officers, a glove insult, and a loaded pistol moment. The scene unfolds amid Muller's rathskeller with flags, passports, and shifting loyalties.
Young Stevenson travels north to visit his parents and shares a playful exchange with a farmer on a village platform. The farmer jokes about a supposed burial delay, revealing the humor amid a quiet journey.
Scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge suggest Benjamin Franklin’s idea that electricity and matter form a neutral substance may be rehabilitated to explain the atom. The view holds all atoms are built from electricity, unifying matter and offering a path through current physical puzzles.
The New York Sun reports that Prof. Edmund Burke of the College of the City of New York received a request for patronage from a press clipping bureau. As a sample, the bureau enclosed a Roosevelt speech clipping.
The Swiss army, though unseen by many, numbers about 50 000 and relies on universal conscription from age 17 to 44 with gradually reduced duty. Every able bodied man learns arms from youth, serves part time yearly, and the general staff remains visible while citizens of all classes share the burden.
An anecdote from the London Mirror shows Sergt Day enforcing strict discipline. He orders quick march and left wheel then spots Murphy for talking in the ranks. When a corporal disputes the accusation, Day insists on crossing it out and placing Murphy in the guardroom for deceiving him.
A proposed fruit picking device uses stout material like tin or wood, with a light frame and hinged bottom for easy emptying. A neck strap and waist strap hold a canvas or burlap bag close to the worker, reducing bruising by avoiding crowding against ladders or branches.
A correspondent describes efficient barrel storage and sorting for apples. Teams of eight pickers and six sorters per gang work at a central, movable table with strong headliners to prevent shipping losses. Roles include headliner, facing, foreman sorter, and two additional sorters, ensuring careful inspection and packing of fruit.
W Paddock of Delaware Experiment Station argues for turning plows in orchards to loosen hard soils and improve root respiration. He notes eastern practice and Colorado trends toward fall plowing with green manuring, while spring plowing risks poor soil drainage and yellow foliage.
A farmer describes constructing a 32 by 32 foot barn with side cribs on rock foundations rising 12 to 15 inches. Cribs 6 feet wide 32 feet long and 10 feet high provide central air space 16 by 32 feet. Central space enclosed by sliding doors. haymow sits above, with shiplap walls and wire sand-screen No 4 for ventilation.
A Missouri Valley Farmer describes building a rat proof crib using wire screen on floor and crib sides with cribs wrapped in shiplap and galvanized wire. He favors No 8 evaporator mesh for better protection and notes cost comparisons with No 4 sand screen cloth and heavy galvanized fly netting.
The professor, Prof. Burke, read the clipping nearly aloud before realizing the president was citing Edmund Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies from 1775, as noted by Youth’s Companion.
Quotations from the Cleveland Leader note a wry exchange about fame and longevity, mentioning figures Smith and Methusaleh with a playful contrast. The snippet captures a light moment and a historic newspaper voice.
Northern celery growers find little profit in storage for late marketing even with best facilities. A proper store is a long concrete or brick building with tight double roof and earth floor, large end doors for wagon access, and raised beds to hold roots upright and improve air circulation.
A visiting townsman is led to a table heavy with hickory smoked ham, fried eggs, fresh bread, churned butter, milk and cream, sweets, pastries, and fruits. He is then apologized to for not having something more to eat, provoking wonder at what guests might expect.
The figures reveal 10,438,219 farmers and 5,739,657 farms valued at over 20.5 billion dollars. Farm products total 3.76 billion and include 117,718,657 bushels of wheat and 13,919,048 barrels of flour. Foreign sales bring in 62,061,856 for corn and 28,757,517 plus 59,106,869 for wheat and flour.
Practical advice from Farm Journal on home farm chores and seasonal tasks. It covers painting ladders, hiring helpers, strawberry cultivation before ground freezes, delaying wind break tree planting until spring, ordering nursery trees for spring, grading apples for better price, and winter protection for canes of grapes raspberries and blackberries by bending canes and covering with earth.
Expert guidance from C G Williams on choosing seed corn in season. Proper timing ensures seed is gathered and dried before freezing weather or kept above freezing to preserve vitality, avoiding poor germination.
After harvesting cabbage heads, remove stalks from the patch and move them to the hog lot or burn them. Fungal diseases like club root arise from leaving roots or stubs in the field too long. If ground needs cover, spread a thin layer of manure on the surface and plow it under in spring if not needed.
After leaves fall, take cuttings from this seasons wood about eight inches long. Bind into bundles and bury in sand in the cellar for spring plantings. Cuttings may be set in mulched ground this fall, but spring setting is preferred.
A local dairyman insists milk prices are good and that dairying is profitable in every county. He notes the occupation keeps the farmer tied down, but believes 50 percent more would enter the business if not for that constraint.
Weeding out the poorest cows is the best way to raise milk and butter yield per cow, boosting overall dairy performance. The approach focuses on improving efficiency by culling underperformers to maximize output from the herd.
The article advises tiling land and carving surface ditches in late autumn to catch winter runoff and protect plants. Plan the ditches to direct overflow away from crops. close them in spring if not needed. Keep ditches no larger than furrows.
A cautionary note advises delaying skimming milk until morning and warming milk before using the separator to avoid loss of butterfat and higher costs. The tip emphasizes proper preparation to prevent repeated damage to butterfat during processing.
Proposals to irrigate the Sahara are impractical due to the great depth of the overlaying sand deposits, making large scale water delivery unfeasible.
The article argues many creamery patrons wrongly believe only sour milk is unfit. It notes that dirty can flavor, odor from inadequate cooling, and rotten flavors can ruin butter more than sourness. Careful butter makers should reject milk with these faults even if not sour.
In mild climates prune in November while in very cold areas wait until late February. Cut back new wood to leave only two or three buds on each cane.
Young trees in exposed windy sites may need staking. Use ties carefully to avoid trunk chafing and consider cloth or leather bands to protect the trunks.
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