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Newspaper
Farmington Enterprise
Location
Farmington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
3
Field notes urge farmers to separate ecocherels from pollets, improve soil fertility, and feed practices, stressing clean barns, proper milking, and pasture use. It cites disease controls, eye treatment for colts, and hogs fed on cow droppings, with modern touches like motor machinery for viticulture and agricultural banking concepts.
William F. Norton of Louisville leaves a $4 million estate with Kansas City holdings including the Manhattan theaters. He plans cremation in Cincinnati with a stocked Pullman car, a Bellstedt band concert, two 15 minute intermissions, champagne toasts, and ashes placed on a family monument. Executors follow the detailed, humorous will. Norton also provides generous bequests to staff and a Baptist orphanage trust, ending with poetry a la Prior.
Dick Postis, a chef at a local hotel, dashed from a church social when a so called ghost appeared. In the chaos the candy kiss booth was toppled and decorations and tables were damaged as Postis fled the scene. The social faced losses with candy kisses and related assets swept away.
In Atlantic City Jim Squid, a former sailor and ink expert, signs his needlework as indelible tattoos on beach maids arms and shoulders. Fathers hunt for the artist as girls display anchors and hearts with arrows, drawn in onlookers and beachgoers.
Mrs. Harvey Bartlett of Wellingsley received 3000 dollars in New York stock from Mrs. Bb Lilley after once buying coffee for an elderly traveler at Kneeland street station. The gift reflects a lasting gratitude spanning years since that random act of compassion. The article also reports U.S. lumber production in 1907 rising to 40.256 billion feet from 37.551 in 1906, with lath and shingles showing mixed changes and 28,860 mills reporting in 1907.
Mrs. Ann Hylsiser of Ohio nears 107 ages, crediting continual apple and fruit consumption for longevity. The report highlights a long life guided by simple dietary habits and daily fruit intake.
Pieces cover making a dainty fresh picnic spread with crisp lettuce wrapped eggs stuffed with cheese and chicken sandwiches on buttered bread. Vienna jelly rolls rise with yeast and eggs. Fruit salad uses oranges bananas walnuts and Maraschino cherries with mayonnaise on lettuce. Butter scotch sauce is prepared from sugar water butter and vinegar.
Dr. A S Alexander outlines that true grade status requires a pure bred sire and explains how top crossing alters bloodlines into one top cross and beyond. He argues repeated pure-blood crossings raise prepotency but warns against using grade stallions for long term breeding as it stalls progress.
Growing trend among adults and babies to drink chilled barley water for its tonic properties. Instructions: steep barley in boiling water, strain when cold, add lemon juice, and keep on ice rather than using cracked ice for serving.
Cut ham into quarter inch slices. Blanch in hot water for thirty minutes or scald in a pan, then broil on a gridiron over bright coals. Turn, baste with butter, season with pepper, and serve. Optional method: scald, dry, dip in beaten egg and rolled crackers, then fry or broil.
Instructions advise pouring hot soup through a cloth wrung in iced water to trap fat. The chilled cloth congeals the grease, letting the soup drain cleanly without waiting for cooling.
Instructions describe cleaning white fabrics with a thick talcum powder and water paste applied at night and brushed off in the morning. If stains persist after one application, repeat. The method claims to work on fine laces and woolens and to be harmless.
Instructions for canning green gages. Prick fruit to prevent bursting. Prepare a syrup with two pounds sugar and half a pint water per three pounds fruit. Heat to polling point, cook ten minutes, remove fruit, jar it. Boil syrup ten minutes more, pour over fruit, and seal jars immediately.
Fry doughnuts then dip the hot cakes in a dish of boiling water on the stove. The cakes are rendered more di- has unfinished sentence.
Breeders' Gazette outlines a manure shed plan for barns with an upper storage area for straw and hay. The design emphasizes a clear 10 to 12 foot shed height, movable feed racks, and flexible dimensions such as 36x36 or 42x42 feet to allow driving under and easy manure handling.
Classic garden note explains growing water lilies in tubs sunk in earth using rocks and border plants to hide edges. Describes tub preparation with bog material or loam, sand top, and care for hardy and tender nymphaea, hyacinths, and other water plants for decorative tub ponds.
The fragmentary note mentions a venetian theme and a desire for a home improvement or decor item. It lacks clear names, dates, or locations, making precise attribution difficult.
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