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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1907
Page
3
The article describes a 64 foot long hay barn with 38 by 64 feet floor area divided into two bays 12 feet wide and four 16 foot bents. A central 14 foot driveway enables efficient unloading with a horse fork either from ends or along a ridge mounted track and tilting platform to shift hay to either side or center.
A Coleman Rural World column argues gardens are essential for summer family living. Proper planning with long rows and horse tools keeps weeds down and soil healthy. a chicken tight fence around the plot pays for itself in a few years.
The guidance notes sorgum grows slowly in the first month and advises keeping the seed bed weed free before sowing. It emphasizes patience and careful early cultivation to ensure healthy establishment.
A Wisconsin farmer describes a detailed hay stack method from Farmers' Review. He loads a stack from corners using poles, then builds successive outer layers that taper toward the center. The center is filled and packed, creating an oblong stack with a deliberate top-high point to shed rain.
Instructions describe a homemade weed cutter using 2x8 planks a wagon tire as the base, with a buggy axle arch and six to eight inch inner runner spacing. Knife blades three feet long attach under the ground to cut weeds just below soil surface, with a niche on the forward end to allow removal when needed.
Nubbin s offers practical advice for garden and field work. It stresses using a hen fite as a transport aid, ensuring favorable wheat bran exchanges, and proper manure for squash and cabbage. It also urges better home ventilation with night screens, notes clover and hay as fertility helpers, and recommends Alsike for wet ground.
The London Mail reports Dr Fourneau’s new anaesthetic named Stovaine lasts about an hour and a half after spinal injection, causing numbness but not unconsciousness. English doctors fear loss of control versus gas anaesthetics and warn of septic poisoning risks with spinal injections.
Instructions on breeding chickens by eliminating roosters yearly, using unrelated purebred eggs, and discarding pullets and older stock to maintain a fresh flock. The plan calls for one cock per fifteen to twenty hens, setting eggs under a mother hen, and yearly replacement to avoid related birds.
The United States Bureau of Education finds a common school education yields almost no chance of recognition as a successful man. A high school diploma increases that chance about twenty twofold, while a college education raises it about tenfold above the high school level, and roughly two hundred times the chance of a common education.
Switzerland's Grisons region still offers hunting licenses and game, with last year yielding 2,298 licenses and a bag including 1,178 chamois, 172 bucks, 29 stags, 1,887 moorfowl, 110 vultures, 8,561 hares, and 4,634 rabbits.
A Connecticut firm crafted a special order shotgun for a man who relies on his left eye for aiming while the right eye is sightless. The stock and lower frame are twisted to reduce discomfort. This is the third such gun made for him in twenty-five years.
A New Yorker in Boston asks a parrot if Polly wants a cracker. The Back Bay bird replies with hauteur that it requires no sustenance from him, in a witty exchange reported by Yonkers Statesman.
The advice stresses keeping cheese covered to prevent drying and loss of flavor. Wrapping in a vinegar-moistened cloth helps retain moisture and enhances longevity of taste.
Cleaning white enamel with warm water and white castile soap. Dry then apply a small amount of whiting with a soft cloth. When dry wipe off the whiting and glaze with a soft cloth to finish.
A Detroit Free Press humor item features Babette producing a playful answer to a wedding gift question. Gertrude asks what is given, Babette quips she is giving the groom himself.
A roundup of obscure notes covers time standards in India, early insurance in London, English county courts, Wellington’s tramp population, Indiana bass streams, rural telephone lines in Kansas, tunnel ambitions near Summit County, penny designs, Lake Morat’s red years, Mexican maize oil, American razors demand, Kentucky distillery output, insect venom in eggs, Shokonsha festival honors, and growing U S Japanese trade. Also noted: Wenatchee floral society, France versus Europe population shifts, French language reach, Mexico’s railway control, French postal savings, fowl cholera vaccination, largest raindrops method, and a St Louis statistician on egg strings.
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