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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1908
Page
3
An OCR filled page mixes ballooning notes with social and cultural musings. It references a Lake Erie lighthouse marriage, law and crime snippets in New York, Marconi, poetry, and a Michgan women's clubs novel contest as well as varied opinions on liberty, tobacco laws, and retirement. It reads as a collage of detached paragraphs and opinions with no single focal event.
Dr. Cook of Brooklyn describes a new route he believes will take him to the North Pole. He notes the plan is unlikely to join the rural free delivery system soon.
A pair loots a freight car in Hamilton Ohio mistaking a box of shrouds for valuable clothing. The act yields genuine disappointment as the thieves misread the goods and leave empty handed in the end.
Progressive farmers find manure yields the best returns when applied to land as soon as possible. Manure is spread daily, with little loss from leaching or runoff even on snow covered or frozen ground.
The design features a suspended carrier on an overhead track to move manure from the stable to a cement Foundation spreader. It saves rain and labor with a roofed, seven foot post supported shed and a concrete foundation to retain the manure and keep animals safe. The system can be built for about $50 or less.
The article argues American pastures are underused and neglected compared with older dairy countries. It cites an Illinois farm with a beautiful house but a pasture eaten to the ground, illustrating farmers’ low pasture standards and the need to invest in better, deeper sod and proper pasture management.
A farmer with a well kept dairy profits from good cows and ample raw material. Dairying is a growing science. milk prices may rise this winter, so stockpile feed and ensure cows have comfortable bedding for the season.
A historical note estimates a cow yielding 300 pounds of butter fat annually is worth $100 if she is five years old or younger. The piece discusses central dairymen and the costs of maintaining top cows, noting the income from their prime products.
A dairy experiment traces cow comfort and stable layout from two to twenty cows. Changes to stanchion arrangement produce unrest and lower milk output, while calm, sequestered cows yield better. The piece emphasizes nervous influence on milk and notes herd dynamics with the master cow guiding others.
Marie Reideselle, once famed as a New York beauty, lives as a hermit in Santa Anita Canyon. She subsists on fruit and berries, reads widely, walks about fifteen miles daily, and saved a piano from her eastern possessions. She reflects on a life of freedom and mental self control while avoiding details about her husband.
A rural moral essay contrasts wealth with dairy farming choices. It argues rich owners buy top cows while poor farmers keep inferior stock, advising steady improvement through a few good milkers and a quality dairy sire to build a better herd over time.
A reader contributions describe a cattle rack design for feeding roughage, presented to The Prairie Farmer. The item outlines a simple rack system intended to ease feeding in farm areas.
The article explains a roughage rack built with posts driven into the ground forming a center and extending six feet above ground. Cross pieces are attached to these posts and slat work is nailed to them to form the rack with a bottom platform to prevent waste.
The notice urges promptly removing suspected cattle from herds. It stresses adding only animals verified free from tuberculosis and insists new stock must be proven tuberculin negative before entry.
A Hancock dispatch reports hazing in northern Michigan where Rockland public school students acted as dentists to victims. One boy lost many teeth and fell ill. parents forced a confession. The assailants were arrested and cases settled out of court.
Prof. Macauley of Harvard reports a wild woman roams the Gatineau forest near Ottawa. He says she appears sunburned, hair matted, dressed only in leaves, and lives alone in a low hut with dogs and a rifle but no ammunition. Local sightings confirm her solitude and mystery of winter survival.
A South American monkey named Petro Parbuza was committed to Middlesex county jail for malicious mischief after breaking a medicine chest and roaming the town. Warden Charles Rogers recalled past ties with the animal and local officials joked about the monkey’s antics and drunken behavior.
Will Norton of The Woman's Helper runs Aunt Polly's advice column. A Canton childhood memory triggers a flash of romance as E N Norton reads a letter from E N Nelson seeking help to clear a past faithlessness. Norton advises against contacting the former lover, then Aunt Polly departs Canton to renew old acquaintances and later marries her former lover.
A traveler and conductor debate road safety as wash-outs line the route, a visual cascade of laundry symbols decorating the landscape. The exchange highlights frequent accidents on the road.
Mrs De Weary questions married life and love while Mrs Cheery confirms devotion. The husband is described as a captain of a whaler, in a light quoted exchange from the New York Weekly.
A New York Weekly joke vignette depicts a physician presenting an insane patient to a lunatic asylum superintendent. The patient calms among adults but goes murderous around children, prompting the superintendent to remark on his public school upbringing.
The passage notes notable leaders such as Von Moltke and Bismarck rose early and worked hard, likening their discipline to that of German peasants. It emphasizes diligence and punctuality as virtues of great men.
A housewife solves wall patch problem by inserting brass headed tacks into each lower corner of picture frames. The frames are held out from the wall a fraction of an inch to improve air circulation behind them.
John W. Gates, guest at the Flaza hotel in New York, bought a cab shoe for $100 after a horse shoed the cab at Fifth Avenue and Sixty Ninth Street. He plans to hang the shoe in the hotel office as good luck for the venture.
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