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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1883
Page
7
A reflective verse recalls a vanished romance seen in an old painting. The speaker memories a woman in a golden framed self portrait and the kiss of her rose red mouth, longing for those Indian summer days and fearing the restless hopes that fled.
A Michigan town mother with three boys endures want and pride after divorce. Phil Denham feeds a hungry tramp with fifty cents, earns work, and later helps the man he aided. The tale ties to a Pullman job offer and a reunion story from Chicago.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat society item describes a gentleman in an open carriage accidentally draping an arm around a lady. After a sudden outburst the lady proclaims she can support herself and the man replies that she is the girl he has sought for five years and asks her to marry him.
Seeds buried too deeply fail to germinate, leading to thin seeding. The text notes extreme soil pulverization to bury seeds deeply, with a quoted remark about a never failing method, referencing the Boston Transcript.
Poetic meditation on sailing northward through a life at sea. The speaker contrasts cooling winds and fading love with a hopeful turn toward the eternal day as death becomes a dawn of bliss. The piece uses nautical imagery to express aging, loss, and eventual transcendence.
Joseph Harrison argues for converting poor US land into pasture and fodder crops using rich nitrogenous feed and manures. He emphasizes soil enrichment, drainage, thorough plowing, and artificial fats like superphosphate, with root crops later. Professor Saunders advises selecting small nursery trees likely rejected, and digging planting holes deep with bone or brick underdrainage for better growth.
The article compares fat and lean content in pigs from different regions, noting Canadian pigs yield more lean meat due to barley and peas versus U S pigs fed mainly on corn. It argues fat deposition results from long usage of fattening feeds and highlights effects of milk feeding and growth focus on muscle development.
A farmer with sixty bee colonies, a fine flock of light Brahma fowls, and a 120 acre farm has two sons aged thirteen and sixteen. The fragment notes rural life and family involvement.
The elder boy oversees bees with great care, runs sections, extracts honey, introduces and rears queens with veteran skill. He is known three and a half miles away for his honey, which is sold in a single city grocery store. This season yields were good and profits fine, yet demand cannot be fully met.
Artichokes have been grown for swine for several years at Michigan Agricultural College. Sows are allowed to harvest roots directly from a small patch near pens, enabling low labor and ground-retained roots over winter. Professor Johnson, the farm superintendent, is expanding the artichoke plantation due to successful results.
The article argues that crowding fowls leads to most diseases and competition. It cites Hawkins of Lancaster Massachusetts as the world's largest fowl breeder who divides his flock into many smaller groups. He maintains over two thousand hens on the same farm with profitable results and ships thousands of hatched chicks to cities each year.
Farmers who adopt labor-saving devices for themselves often neglect similar help for their wives. A creamer for butter making will be used daily and should quickly repay its cost, along with the savings from reduced labor and interest.
A period household guide lists simple recipes and substitutes. Eco nomical Pupping uses flour and milk custard on buttered bread. Veal Oysters suggests fried veal bites with cayenne and salt. Cinnamon Tarts combine butter sugar eggs flour with cinnamon. Stewed Tomatoes uses tomatoes with butter pepper salt and a touch of sugar. Apple Pudding covers apples with a sour milk batter and a baked crust finished with sugar and cinnamon.
California prune culture proves highly productive with trees yielding about 100 pounds of prunes each. Prunes valued at roughly 14 cents a pound underline a strong agricultural output. A light humorous aside noting a stitch in time saves a chap’s feelings contrasts with other quoted lines. Captain Schufeldt sends some 3,000 specimens to the Smithsonian from New Orleans as funds are sought for a Java zoological station.
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