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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
The Thrice-a-Week World pledges a better paper in 1907 with foreshadowed presidential campaign coverage. It offers cheaper, biweekly issues that serve as a daily, with increased news service and impartial reporting. Subscription price remains $1 for 158 issues, delivering full markets, cartoons, and standard authors.
The Ferdinand News offers a yearlong subscription for 1.1 dollars, presenting a simpleiker plan for readers to access daily local coverage. The deal emphasizes affordability and steady delivery of community news through a full year.
The Rev. fl R Hicks announces the 1908 Almanac, praising its beauty and value. It includes full year weather forecasts, astronomical engravings, and fine half tones. Price by mail 35 cents, on newsstands 30 cents. Word and Works offers monthly forecasts with family reading, $1 yearly, almanac included. Address Word and Works Publishing Co., 2201 Locust Street, St. Louis Missouri. Agents wanted.
Flavor in cheese hinges on milk taints from cow feed such as leeks onions and cabbage and on taints from poor milking practices. The article cautions against mixing starchy feeds with milk for calves explains digestion differences between calves hogs and stresses clean milk handling to avoid off flavors.
The article argues dairy breeding should target production like 600 pounds of butter yearly rather than tongue color. In beef cattle, emphasis should shift to fundamental beef traits and fattening value. It asserts the goal is better fattened steers for higher market value.
In southern Chinese provinces cows are used for plowing and milk was unknown until an American missionary milked a cow and drank milk, shocking villagers. The beverage astonished many and sparked a milk trade as men begin selling milk, with vast room for growth due to poor breeds and limited numbers.
The piece describes popular cheese forms including a square four inches high twelve inches long with one pound divisions for easy cutting. It notes cake sizes around ten pounds and a 20 pound daisy device marked into twenty one pound sections, with slight price increases due to precise division.
Describes the Red Danish cow as Denmark’s principal dairy breed. Notes color brownish red with black points, body size comparable to Holstein but shorter in segea, and high dairy aptitude. In a herd of thirty cows the average yield is 8,700 pounds of milk and 340 pounds of butter.
A Baltimore Sun note recounts a child witnessing milking and asking if the milk is the same as what his family drinks. The farmer explains and the child jokes about keeping milk in a refrigerator versus the old method, highlighting changing habits.
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