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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1916
Page
3
A North Carolina one room schoolhouse used a prize pig from a farm paper to spark practical farming lessons. Pupils raised rye wheat rape and forage crops on uncultivated forest land to feed the pig. The project spurred a county demonstration farm and tripled pig club membership.
United States Department of Agriculture reports the 1915 cherry leaf beetle outbreak as the worst on record in New York Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia plus parts of Michigan. Recommendations include nicotine sulphate for peaches and arsenate of lead for cherries with molasses as a deterring additive and emphasis on spraying leaf undersides and young trees to protect thin leaved varieties.
Guidance for feeding young chicks along with a schedule. It notes five feedings daily for chicks fully dependent on their keeper and reducing to three feedings after six weeks if they obtain sustenance on range.
Advice stresses raising only high quality draft horses with strong ancestry to ensure safe turnout and reliable performance. Emphasizes avoiding offspring from blemished mares lacking verifiable lineage and breed history.
A fragmented farming note urges not washing eggs, treating cows gently, and avoiding stress during freshening. It advises whitewashing coops, shading cattle, renewing water in heat, and starting cooperative dairy efforts. Warns pigs and hogs, with hogs tasting grass as a cue.
After fifteen years of struggle Amalgamated now Anaconda resumes a dividend of eight dollars. Record metal production is forecast for Arizona mines and smelters with copper output rising to 600,000,900 pounds, led by gains in lead zinc and precious metals as 1916 value may double 1915’s $88,000,000.
Reports from Telluride and Boulder County detail resumed work at the Caribou mine after twenty seven years and a $500000 investment in the Cresson purchase. 1915 Colorado mine output reached $42,795,464 with significant gains in manganese and coal, while Black Hawk No 1 began processing and new milling projects emerged.
The Mayfield mine east of Tularo ta is leased and bonded while the Oakes Company ships ore from the Eberle and Clifton mines. The Deadwood Mogollon mine will be unwatered for bonding and leasing. Mogollon Mines Co takes fourteen bars of gold and silver in late June. U S manganese output shows rising activity with new mines reopening and more production, hinting at a stronger year than 1915. Arizona California Oregon Utah Virginia discoveries claimed as operators spread across states.
A clipped snippet presents two Dickens style maxims on failure and resilience. It juxtaposes learning from mistakes with the idea that no situation is beyond recovery, noting a stubborn heart cannot be easily resolved.
A collection of dessert ideas and methods including Nesselrode Pudding Frozen Cheese and Preserved Figs Biscuit Glace and Rain ice cream. Also a Mexican Hash recipe using leftover roast meat with corn breadcrumbs and paprika baked briefly for a savory course.
A vintage guide lists marshmallows dipped in peppermint fondant for after dinner, dropped in cocoa for children, browned on salted rounds as marguerites, mixed with pineapple and whipped cream for sherbet desserts, and combined with fruit salads. It also describes marshmallow frosting and paste recipes with fondant, egg white, and vanilla for cakes and fillings.
C J MO writes to the New York Sun about a husband praising his wife at breakfast only to be met with a wary reply to come home on time. He muses on how women can be mysterious and cautious, wondering if there is something in the wind.
A humorous note presents a official rep from a Woman's Household Kitchen league advocating telephone use as a safety measure. It quips on a coast-to-coast taste test of a town’s favorite recipe, while a judge-like voice urges candor about faults and warns of debts and the chronic borrower’s harmless restraint.
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