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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
5
A column surveys quirky notes from Farmington New Mexico to New York, including a post office mishap leaving dead letters, humorous contrasts between airships and steamers, and stray items from politics, fashion, and science. It mentions a Yarmouth marriage, a German nobleman’s court dismissal, and light society curios.
A London doctor claims surgery cures insanity as the knife gains popularity. A Philadelphia wife allegedly poisoned her husband due to a nonbenign marriage, yet he did not suspect her plot.
A brief note suggests fewer Indigenous people than in past years may explain the diminished Indian summer phenomenon.
A cheap easily built gate latch attaches to any style of gate. The latch uses two wires with an end slipping into a post notch. A brace wire runs from the gate top to a building or tall post, raising higher reduces strain.
A guide explains leather structure and why keep it pliable. Avoid over soaking. use sparing dressings. For black harness, use black oil not neatsfoot to prevent dye loss. Clean with lukewarm water and soap, apply fat, then rub dry. nourish under buckles where metal causes brittleness. Vary harness holes to extend life.
A poultry breeder tore down a semi monitor style 30 by 40 foot house after years of trying to keep fowls healthy. Wallace's Father notes that wide 30 foot houses hinder light reach to back walls and venting. Damp back sections breed bad odors and disease. extra front top windows help but such design is not ideal for permanent housing.
When hogs are confined they crave foods like charcoal ashes and rotten wood. Analysis shows these foods have little nutrition but act as effective correctives in hogs systems, especially where large amounts of corn are fed.
The article explains how storing manure in piles wastes nutrients through fermentation and leaching, and how spreading daily with a manure spreader minimizes losses. It discusses storage options, impact of rain and trampling, and the value of bedding to capture liquids for field use. It cites trials from Corner New Jersey and Pennsylvania stations.
A thiefproof lamp socket turns the lamp when tampered with by unscrewing, while a side key locks the rotating cup. The design fits standard Edison sockets with minimal changes, keeping conductive contact intact and resisting tampering while allowing easy lamp insertion and removal for authorized users.
A correspondent praises low down farm wagons noting daily usefulness for hauling feed and farm tasks. The design features a steel wheel wood axle and coupling promising 15 to 20 years of life. Warns against heavy loads on bad roads and recommends 4 inch tires with skein sizes for efficiency.
A practical device described by Prairie Farmer uses a fence plank embedded with nails as a sheller. The plank is laid across a tub or box and used as a seat, allowing corn to be rapidly shelled by rubbing kernels across the nail heads.
In choosing bronze breeder turkeys the body should be long and deepest at the center with a full breast, broad back, strong thighs and shanks of moderate length. Young birds show black shanks that lighten with age to pink or flesh color.
A Washington Star report describes a new washboiler drainer by an Overon man. The apparatus attaches to the boiler top with parallel rods ending in hooks to hang on the bead. A raised edge prevents floor drips and the device is easily removable after wringing clothes.
A Helgian engineer is reported to have patented a process that heats steel with an oxy hydrogen flame then cuts with a small stream of oxygen gas. The method supposedly forms a fusible oxide that flows from the cut, yielding a smooth finish about one hundredth of an inch wide.
The Atlantic terminus exhibits a tidal range under two feet while the Pacific terminus can reach about twenty feet. The mean level remains the same, with the Pacific side swinging ten feet above and ten feet below mean.
A home care device for washing exterior window surfaces uses extendable lazy tongs and a water feed to reach high, inaccessible panes. The article also notes a Chicago mail order building employing 1500 horsepower of electric motors to operate a tramway derricks belt conveyors and cement mixers in a reinforced concrete structure.
Farmers should follow lines and specialize. Stockmen increasingly focus on single herd types, with cattlemen choosing markets by age and size. The shift toward specialization improves care and efficiency, building steadier production across livestock varieties.
Farmers' guidance warns against diseased logs and foul feed as cholera threats. Keep hogs in clean, separate sleeping areas, store straw away from pens, provide ample slop, and guard meadow crops with wires. Use hog rings, ashes, and salt. avoid letting sows run with piglets. separate farrowing sows a month before cold spells.
Chemists report only rubies have been produced commercially while artificial sapphires recently announced reach New York and Paris. The imitations differ in density and softness and refract color less. cobalt colors rubies red, chrome hoped for blue, but the process remains undisclosed.
Seed corn should be selected in the fall before harvest to ensure strong seed. Heavier seed ears outperform medium and short ears, with up to 4.85 bushels per acre gains noted. Plant vigor is hereditary and plant stand varies among rows. Most hen houses are one room. in heavy snow, roosting and feeding conditions affect flock health. A scratching shed or separate feeding room could improve poultry housing before winter.
A historic note on hog fattening outlines feeding strategies using milk middlings worm clover alfalfa and corn. It cites observations of weight gains from alfalfa with corn and references Nebraska experiment station findings supporting alfalfa and corn as economical feeding for hogs.
The orchard thrives when Jeremiah’s sheep graze among the trees. The sheep clean fallen fruit, fertilize with manure, and suppress weeds, keeping the land healthier. The writer urges farmers to improve orchard care and consider letting sheep roam to prevent moss and tree decline.
The diagram shows four horses abreast with a Breeders Gazette writer’s method. ANAA reins and cheeks pair with DBE short ropes and snaps. CC reins lie unbuckled inside the bridle with snap to snap in the check buckle on reins.
A cautious farmer notes a hadis shod horse struggles, cows convert feed to milk, and profits rise with better digestion. Rising food draft costs and high horse demand pressure prices. Young sows should nourish litters, evident by ten or twelve well formed teats. Before building, plan barn or hog house site for convenience. Wasted steps around barns shorten farmers' lives by about a quarter.
The piece notes pigs can have a spasmodic cough resembling whooping cough in children. It states the illness usually lasts a few weeks and offers home remedies such as pine tar placed down the throat and tincture of asafoetida in milk to ease the cough.
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