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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1890
Page
3
Information for the farmer and homemaker outlines fodder costs and farm table estimates, plus horse care notes on nervous horses and handling fear, with practical tips. Also includes poultry care guidance and humane culling as a last resort.
Selection of seed and weed is essential for productive crops. Observe heredity, choose early maturing varieties like White Fultz and Golden Cross, and harvest grain from the earliest ripened spots to improve next year’s crop. Save and plant the best seeds, and prepare ground by August to September 1 for best results.
A bulletin from the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station reports winter trials feeding sugar beets to dairy cows. Across three experiments from 1870, 1880, and 1890, cows fed beets produced more milk and ate more dry matter than other foods, but economic efficiency remains unsettled. Beets yielded about sixteen tons per acre over twelve years, with corn producing similar dry matter per acre, though corn often offered greater overall efficiency. High beet yields require careful soil and culture, and beet versus corn dry matter efficiency is not yet settled.
The article outlines methods to stop bees from avoiding sectional work. It discusses reversing combs, introducing drone brood in center sections, and using top boxes to stimulate building and honey transfer. It notes that coaxing is better than forcing and warns that some methods yield mixed results. American Cultivator.
The article describes sewing two widths of lawn into a gathered apron with narrow tucks and a seam under each tuck. It suggests pressing seams flat, forming a bottom ruffle, adding lace or embroidery, and finishing with a top band. A second apron uses one width with a turned hem, three rows of ribbon through buttonholes, and a tied side bow.
Advice from Albany Journal encouraging parents to keep a lively home life for youth. It argues that allowing joy and social fun at home prevents later reckless behavior and strengthens family bonds. Emphasizes bright nights, domestic arts, and valuing the home circle to ease future loneliness.
A fragmented note advises housekeepers to raise work tables and training boards a few inches to prevent backache and strain. It emphasizes a simple precaution to save effort and avoid injury, though wording is garbled.
Fragment discusses cleaning methods and materials for old furniture including using vaseline for overgarnments, faunal or Eid Rae swabs, milk and water to wipe, and damp chamois for rattan and reed pieces. Recommends soft polish and kerosene for nitro polish.
Readable as a domestic recipe segment listing ingredients and methods for cakes, cookies, and a few kitchen tips. Includes instructions for ginger snaps, chicken fat in cake, copperas cleaner, cutlets with a minced parsley crust, and a whipped cream sauce. Mentions preparations, measurements, and baking notes in period language.
A Victorian style recipe fragment describes preparing a rhubarb pudding with bread and butter layers and a sugar rich topping, then baking covered to steam and browning the top. It pairs with a sorrel and herb soup made from sorrel chervil lettuce and broth, finished with egg yolk cream and served as a light course.
A king seeks happiness by finding a perfectly happy man and takes his shirt. He tracks a man who claims total joy before buying the shirt, but the man warns that contentment lacks a shirt from beneath a good life. A grand tale unfolds with family and daily labor referenced.
An 19th century note surveys the leech trade, origins, and use. It traces European and American leeches, noting France and Hungary as cultivated sources, Philadelphia as a key U S market, and New York New Orleans and San Francisco import points. It describes harvesting methods, packaging, mortality in heat, and historical medical use dating to Galen Pliny and Herodotus.
The article explains the wrecking train owned by a railroad company, describing its three cars, heavy derrick with a 25 foot boom, air brakes, and equipment. It covers the track car, the wrecking car with timber frame, charts, lockers, telegraph gear, and extensive rope and tackle provisions for clearing wrecks and lifting engines, along with the block car and recovery procedures.
A historic Rhode Island clam bake is detailed with ground preparation stone platforms, coal heating, layered clams corn crab lobster and fish, topped with cloth and seaweed, then steamed for an hour. The piece notes seaside feasts along New England shores and Rocky Point as favored venues.
A Pittsburg Dispatch report tells of a rough incident aboard a Western intercity train near Tecumseh where a passenger bound for Michigan was robbed by several men. Her purse and ticket were disturbed. the conductor later recovered the ticket. Passengers noted a strange voice and the strangers’ rough demeanor as the scene unfolded.
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