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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1910
Page
6
A compact reflection on the inner kingdom of God, asserting that heaven begins in the heart here and now. It argues religion is joyous health, with Christ dwelling within believers, making present peace, joy, righteousness, and love as an early heaven before the final one.
Samuel Fortier explains how western arid lands were first watered by poor farmers using shovel and plow. The basin method forms ridges between orchard rows to create irrigation basins, suited to warm California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, enabling winter irrigation and larger water applications.
A novice poultry keeper should start with a small number of quality birds. By starting with a few good birds, he can learn proper care and management and gradually expand his flock as experience grows.
The cutter-bar often departs from the line with the pitman causing hard running and possible sickle breakage near the head. Proper alignment at the hinge line, guard adjustment, ledger plate wear, and leather spacers fix bending and binding. If repairs fail, replace the bar. ensure the divider avoids ground contact and the main spring lifts without making the bar jump.
An editorial on the benefits of waking early to start the day with concentrated effort. It urges planning ahead, preparing pastry and ingredients, and tackling small tasks before family wake. The piece emphasizes discipline, neatness, and steady progress through quiet morning moments.
The text offers practical tips for household upkeep including keeping spirits high, health, and cheer. It advises methods to ease fish scalding, using turpentine to whiten clothes, making whitewash from lime and water to keep cellar air fresh, warns against adding organic matter, suggests charcoal to absorb gases in the milk room, and notes refreshing the atmosphere in hot weather. It also mentions using clear boiling water to remove tea stains.
Instruction on planting strawberries to set a solid stake at row ends naming the variety. Warns against making stakes too tall to avoid being knocked by the whiffie-tree during cultivation.
J F Payne of Colorado Agricultural College argues that using matched stallions of a single breed over generations creates uniform horses. He cites range practices where mixed stallions hinder uniformity, suggesting breeding to a defined type yields easier sale, higher profits, and reliably matched teams.
Scoura in Calves. Scours is a disease caused by indigestion and generally comes from feeding too much dry feed without change. Put the calf on a grain ration and feed a bran mash daily for a week. Turnips and other roots are also good in cages of this kind. For cattle a small dose of castor oil about two ounces, combined with an ounce of laudanum given in a little induced gruel is a good remedy.
The passage notes ducks lack cholera and diseases, seldom suffer from soup or gapes, lay more eggs with better hatch rates than hens, and can reach five pounds in ten weeks. To secure the most profitable results, the better breeds should be selected and improved.
Salt water is a fine gargle for sore throats and a relief for colds and headaches when snuffed into the nose. Rubbing dry salt or salt water into hair roots thrice weekly may stop hair loss. On windy days throw in a handful of salt to calm a burning chimney. Sprinkling salt on carpets brightens them and reduces dust during sweeping.
The recipe describes mixing warm boiled hominy with butter salt and milk then folding into flour with baking powder plus beaten eggs to bake muffins. It also notes using glycerin as a stain remover for delicate fabrics, applied with a sponge and rinsed with water or alcohol.
A Kansas City Star item reprints Doan's Kidney Pills promotion claiming kidney disorders from overwork weaken the body. It includes Ted Hiatt of Oswego Kansas sharing relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Also a Bingville classified notice seeks matrimony from Hazel Eyes, Box 23, Bingville Missouri, via a Missouri paper.
A social guest meets Senator Julius C. Burrows of Michigan. Burrows recalls the line about being the man who died at first before Casey’s famous Mudville bat. The exchange highlights a famous baseball reference and a notable political figure.
A satirical exchange notes the women of the town forming a secret society while joking that secrecy eludes men. The dialogue pokes gentle fun at perceptions of privacy and communal norms, highlighting social humor about homes and reputation.
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