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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
7
A clerk Simon Lane at Marburg and Company becomes entangled with a wealthy looking patron at a fur counter. She swindles him through a staged hospital abduction plot, but the ruse unravels when Dr Cheslea exposes the scheme and restores Lane’s reputation.
A Richmond reunion recalls Jeb Stuart's last stand at Yellow Tavern during the Wilderness campaign. An old Confederate veteran describes Custer's charge on Sheridan's pursuit, Stuart's heroic rally, and Stuart's wound and insistence on remaining in battle. The narrative concludes with notes on Cooper's Spy of the Neutral Ground and a short vignette from farm life.
A New York writer in a Vienna paper notes little vestibule plaques with names like Becker Schneider Schuster Kelner Schreiner Fuhrman Drucker. He explains many occupants’ trades, and a Baker in the house stands out as the American family with a boarder named Carpenter, suggesting a labor union feel. It prompts thoughts on occupation labels and identity. Center of Population shifts, west conquering east, per Southwest Magazine. The future center may lie between Columbus Indiana and the Mississippi, edging toward St. Louis over decades.
A famous London caricaturist, momentarily speechless after a dance, draws a pencil sketch of Langham Place church steeple from his pocket. Guests cheer, give the cabman credit for Langham Street. War department names a military post after General Shafter, honor tied to Kahauiki reservation near Honolulu.
The article explains budding as taking a bud from one tree and inserting it under the bark of another to replace grafting. It notes commercial use in propagating peaches plums cherries roses and some ornamental trees and shrubs. It stresses the bud stock cambium must unite free ly with active cell division indicated.
Practical horticulture guide covers bud insertion for peaches, use of bud stocks, tying methods, and how to care for budding outcomes. It explains watering through plants, soil water balance, drainage for orchards, grain stacking, deep cool cellars, and a short set of miscellaneous notes including a nursery anecdote about a kitten.
The article describes constructing a dairyman's water tank with a concrete floor three to four inches thick on a lime rock base. Walls rise two feet, formed by one by twelve planks, narrowing from 15 inches at the base to ten inches at the top. Concrete mix is one part cement to two parts sand with water, setting in 24 hours and hardening over time.
A twentieth century guide explains cement walks as the best, cheapest option when laid by homeowners. Fred R Crane outlines subsoil considerations, excavation depth, cinders or gravel foundations, a two by four form, crown shaping, and a two layer concrete mix with precise ratios and surface finishing for durable, even setting over about thirty days.
There is routine trouble finding a method to hang doors for unloading hay from outside buildings with slings. The plan shows each door hung on a track parallel to the roof. Doors are a little difficult to close, but not more so than bottom hinged doors with handling danger.
An editorial argues pasteurization may not gain traction in the near term in the United States. It notes strong New York City opposition from physicians and a resistant aldermanic body, while contending pasteurized milk remains possibly unnecessary. The piece urges farm-level cleanliness and measures to prevent dirty milk from being sold.
The article notes soil water moves slowly laterally except in sandy soils, hindering sub irrigation since pipes must be closely spaced. It cites Logan Utah experiments showing lateral movement of 4.5 feet per first foot depth and 6 feet per second foot. It adds farm cost data on transporting crops and argues for better roads, with claims farmers spend 29 million on corn and 22 million on wheat to markets, totaling 73 million for major products. It briefly touches crop planning, blackberry handling, and a coroner exchange about drug use, ending with a Philadelphia Bulletin quip on wrath and a aphorism about idolaters worshiping success.
Ontario college tests on twelve seed lots show larger, plumper, sound, ripe seed increases wheat yield by about 6.8 to 35.6 bushels per acre depending on seed condition. Seed ripeness and sprouting due to wet weather reduce germination, so sow large, plump, sound seed for vitality.
The article discusses avoiding high roosts to prevent injuries, noting heavy birds suffer from long drops. Keeping a hen costs under 50 cents annually, with an average laying ten dozen eggs per year and better layers producing more. Wheat supports healthy growth and egg production, winter offers better profits with proper care, and spring fowls benefit from suitable digestion. Morality is cited as the basis of national greatness by John Leight, an old Scottish farmer anecdote ends with a raffle prize line.
Warnings from W. J. Frazier urge dairymen to keep cows clean, bed stalls, wash utensils with lukewarm and boiling water, and dry in sunlight. Emphasizes not mixing sour milk, using pails only for milk, cleaning barns, and brushing cobwebs, to prevent germs and contamination.
Mrs J W Isauhart of Brae toria county Texas describes a simple handmade fly blanket. She uses a one pound burlap sack with strings tied at the corners and along the sides to form a wrap around the cow. The device reportedly improves comfort and increases milk flow.
An editorial notes good management beats fussing with drugs in farming and urges better seed, preperation, and cultivation to raise corn yields. It cites moisture and plowed fields after rain and mentions an English inventor claiming to make genuine rubber from wheat, with samples shown as proof of vulcanized cereal rubber production.
The article encourages farmers to boost income by selling prepared fruit and garden products such as mustard, kraut, canned tomatoes, preserves, and other goods. It highlights fruit as a valuable market, notes small towns may lack buyers, and gives tips on poultry care including disease prevention, feeding, and housing with sunlit south facing windows. It also mentions using coal oil and lard for scaly legs, fattening geese with turnips, corn diets for hens, and charcoal as a regulator in poultry feed.
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