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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
3
The Town and Country Journal describes arranging rain barrels in a row on a platform with pipes near the top. As one barrel fills, overflow moves to the next, ensuring the furthest barrel empties first and space clears for the next rain. This method guarantees a full barrel until adjacent barrels are emptied.
The article urges farmers to gather clean and properly house farming machinery before winter. It notes the high investment in tools and that most equipment is used only seasonally, stressing year round care and storage. It mentions the universal tool and imagines a future universal machine to combine functions of several implements.
The public roads office of the United States Department of Agriculture trials a clay road process in Mississippi. Roads are shaped, furrowed, filled with layered clay, burned to form clinker like a solid bed that resists mud. Cost estimated at 1478 per mile, with wood fuel a constraint. petroleum suggested as substitute.
The note advises keeping hives away from the cellar floor and avoiding partitioning the cellar to prevent disturbing bees when entering for vegetables. It also mentions that rye sowing is not too late and references a distant figure of 99,777 miles of road.
A Montreal Herald correspondent asks about bottling eight cans of milk daily at the farm before shipment. The inquiry suggests a cooled milk room and an adjoining apartment for ice supply, with questions on suitable cement walls and room setup.
The guidance covers cement construction or block use for a small dairy ice house and refrigerator with an eight inch air space, Hanrahan cooling, and subearth duct options. It warns a gasoline engine should be in a separate building to avoid tainting milk. It estimates ice needs around 50 tons for eight cans daily, with allowances for more. recommends a planned ice house and occasional cooling methods. It notes milk houses should be about 60 feet from stables to minimize taint risk, and emphasizes cleanliness, cold storage at 40 degrees to limit bacteria, and cautions about odor transfer from butter and milk handling.
A Minnesota test shows sand beds treated with a light clay layer then covered by fine gravel create hard durable roads. A small clay quantity mixed with sand greatly improves surfaces, while heavy clay over sand without ample gravel fails. Different mixes yielded roads lasting from seven to nine years at low costs, with grades and side scraping aiding water control.
The text discusses improving mud holes by adding two or three inches of sand to mix with clay to create a friable, less hole-prone surface. It notes gravel is hauled about 1 percent miles and clay about three quarters of a mile, with four miles repaired this year and last at nearly $1,500 or about $375 per mile. It explains material choice depends on proximity of clay and gravel, suggesting gravel as primary if distant from clay, with enough clay to bind into a solid mass.
The illustration shows a 12 by 16 foot ice house with double boarded sides and roof. It will hold 45 tons and uses shavings or dust between the studs with ventilators to vent moisture. The piece notes an Ohio farmer claims a pumpkin tomato mix that preserves outward looks while tasting like the other, prompting a question to the pure food commission.
In the army horses are fed 14 pounds of oats and 15 pounds of hay per 1000 pounds of live weight. For the same weight of mules nine pounds of oats are fed. Mule breeders claim their animals are more economical feeders.
A famed cartoonist, famed for advocacy of spelling reform, critiques his own misspellings while drafting a piece about the Area American alliance during a broad peace congress. Editors closely check his inscriptions for errors as he jokes with a neighbor.
A Boston minister argues wine, women and song should be broken up as an alliance, proposing women as the saving influence in a man’s life. He cites personal expense on a bonnet as a contrast to this view.
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