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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
1
A guide from Orange Judd Farmer on soil types and preparation for vegetables. It covers best soils by season, sandy loam for early crops, clay loam for mid to late crops, drainage needs, and methods to improve sandy land with clay and rye cover. Details on manure, bone meal, kainit applications, drill sowing, and handling of fodder crops for stock.
Grinding corn at a home mill improves digestion and value for stock. A steel sweep mill costing about $50 can process two thousand bushels per set of plates, while two horses can grind fourteen bushels per hour. Boiling ear corn and mixing with bran or fermenting hay improves palatability and digestibility, reducing waste. Farmers far from a mill can safely prepare ear corn with their own mill for better feed efficiency.
Practical Father urges farmers to equip a durable work bench with common tools and storage for waste, screws, bolts, copper wire, rivets, and tacks. A combined angle and vise, about forty pounds, once sold for five dollars, proven handy for small shop jobs. Emphasizes time and money savings and the moral boost for boys on the farm.
The Tamworth hog is proposed as a versatile British breed likely to replace the declining crab and other standard swine. Advocates note its red color long straight body full neck and good bone with rapid growth to maturity around nine or ten months. It is praised for vigorous hardiness and strong carcass characteristics under ordinary care and varied weather.
A German farmer runs all farm work by electricity from a brook fed plant. The brook dammed abroad six foot fall powers an eighteen horsepower turbine. The system replaces steam or horse power for all tasks and provides immediate readiness. Massachusetts Ploughman notes the innovation.
A Portland Transcript tip advises farmers to mash black walnuts and place them in the poultry yard. It claims a bushel of walnuts is worth at least a bushel of oats for feed, noting farmers often waste numerous bushels while harvesting and animals forage around the fields for leftovers.
Indian corn Kaffir corn is rising in prominence in the West with over a hundred thousand acres expected in Kansas this year. It thrives where the old variety fails, produces a good crop with limited water, serves as fine cattle feed, and may revolutionize semi arid farming while boosting agricultural prosperity.
Odde and Kade share advice on fuel efficiency and sewing machine care. They describe lighting tricks using salt on wicks, extending tablecloth life by re hemming and repositioning folds, and removing rust with oxalic acid while cautioning about the chemical’s danger.
An examination of road use versus sidewalks and rails, noting that public roads lack clear responsibility while accidents on public roads fall to counties. The piece argues good roads are cheaper long term and cites an aging view of infrastructure responsibility.
The Western Rural and Live Stock Weekly reports a successful Good Roads Congress held in Orlando with delegates from many states. Speaker H W Anderson urged local road control and proposed taxes and bonds, a State highway commission, and county engineers. He endorsed convict labor on public roads to fund and expedite improvements. California has enacted related law. other states may follow this winter.
A Viennese woman repeatedly praised by Dr. Alois Valenta for bearing thirty two children is celebrated for her extraordinary motherhood and service to her country in the Wiener Medicinische Wochenschrift.
Theodore Wores portrays a San Francisco Chinese drug store with a shrine, incense, refreshments, and a table of rare herbs, dried lizards, toads, sharks tails, and sam shen. The scene includes Ah Gau and uncle attire and a gilded screen while contrasting traditional practice with medieval European ignorance.
Critics disfavor newspaper verse yet the public favors it as the poet’s true measure. Frank L. Stanton Wil T. Hale and Frank Putnam are named as the most copied, with each poem reprinted in about a million readers across many papers per day.
Eight judges on the English bench may retire after fifteen years of service. Names include Lord Baker Master of the Rolle born 1815 Lord Justice Laudley born 1428 Lord Justice Lopes born 1828 Lord Justice Key born 1822 Baron Pollock born 1823 Mr Justice Hawkins born 1817 Mr Justice Mathew born 1830 and Mr Justice Cava born 1832.
Since the start of the century at least fifty volcanic islands have emerged from the sea nineteen have vanished through submersion the remaining islands persist and ten are inhabited The rest of the text humorously notes that wall towers at a dance mock the dancers.
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