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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1881
Page
4
The article argues for early slaughter to maximize feed efficiency and profit. It claims younger animals yield more meat per unit feed, citing steers, lambs, and pigs. It advises feeding generously from the start to achieve faster growth and better meat quality, noting typical profitability in eight to ten months for pork.
The article urges families to plant small fruits this year, noting it will take a full year before harvest. It advises keeping fruit plots fenced if possible, or growing in vegetable gardens. It details worm control for currants and gooseberries, using white hellebore powder, and gives brief grape and raspberry training tips for small plots.
The piece argues that claims for patent medicines like Feintann are often credited for curing hog cholera when nature, not the remedy, did the work. It notes preventive use may coincide with immunity and stresses sanitation and prompt action to curb the disease without medicine.
Corn loses about 20 percent by drying and wheat about 2.5 percent. It appears more profitable for farmers to sell shelled corn in fall at 75 cents rather than 1 dollar in spring. Wheat at 1.25 in December equates to 1.50 in June. Potatoes rot and shrinkage push losses between October and June to roughly one third of value.
The text argues that moisture and heat affect seed classes differently, with one seed thriving while another rots. Destruction of gum occurs in some seeds when heat is applied. It emphasizes applying rules with a mix of common sense and observation.
The piece warns farmers that stock require proper care and appropriate feed year round, and that assuming any food will suffice is a serious error. It emphasizes the risk of neglect during this season and urges better management to protect herd health.
S R Cockerill of the Mississippi Valley Planters Association asserts that cotton bolls will continue to ripen if the plant is cut from the roots and stacked. He notes that machinery can separate cotton from the boll once stalks are gathered and fed. success hinges on late-stage ripening in stacks.
Investigations show ocean depth in the tropics and polar bands reaching nearly three miles 2500 fathoms. The deepest sounding so far is five miles and a quarter 4620 fathoms in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. The water column nearly matches the height of the loftiest known mountain.
The method uses a solution of one part cream of tartar, two parts common salt, and fifty parts water. Submerge the silver and boil to brighten the metal.
A coffee cake recipe uses strong coffee, molasses, butter, sugar, raisins and currants with flour and spices. Directions include mixing the butter and sugars, adding spices, dissolving soda, folding in coffee and flour, then fruit and baking slowly. The note says the cake keeps well and can become a fruit cake with extra fruit.
The excerpt presents Dumas describing a imagined salad of five main ingredients including beet root celery truffles hare and potatoes. He details a mixture with egg yolk oil chervil tunney anchovies mustard soy gherkins egg whites and vinegar finished with paprika stirred by his servant for two guests.
Pound underdone lamb roast into a smooth paste with pepper and salt. Mix in two beaten egg yolks. Shape into cutlet sized pieces, coat with egg and bread crumbs, fry in lard. Serve on hot platter with boiled green peas. Can use cold meat or chicken as substitute.
Three fourths cup butter and two cups sugar are creamed then five eggs beaten in two batches with five minutes between additions. Milk is stirred in, flour with baking powder added last. Bake in jelly tins in a hot oven about fifteen minutes. The batter should be mixed lightly and baked promptly after adding the flour and powder.
A historical recipe instructs to mix corn starch with boiling water then stir to cook. Add sugar and butter, cool briefly, then beat in egg with lemon juice and rind. Bake the finished filling in a prepared pie crust. Describes ingredients and steps for one pie.
A recipe lists ingredients for a cake: butter sugar raisins currants citron eggs molasses spice and lemon peel. It instructs beating, chopping fruits, mixing with flour, and baking in leaves in a moderate oven. notes the cake is tasty and keeps well.
A lady describes using camphor to prevent moth damage in furs woolens and feathers. She wraps camphor gum in soft white paper and places a good-sized piece in the package with articles in newspapers to avoid discoloration or fur fading.
The instruction details making a rich chocolate drink by boiling a quart of milk with grated chocolate paste mixed with cold milk. It suggests adding one quart milk or mix of cream and milk, then boiling two to three minutes and serving. If too rich, substitute half water and milk.
A celebrated physician recommends a mixture of oatmeal and beef tea to strengthen weak patients. The preparation involves two tablespoons of cold water mixed with a pint of strong beef tea, boiling eight minutes while stirring until smooth, then sieving if lumpy.
Instructions describe boiling and breaking lobster meat, mixing with butter pepper salt and vinegar, heating in a stewpan, and serving minced lobster with a water cress border and lobster claw garnish.
Boil thick but tender celery stalks in salted water then dry on a cloth. Cut into even pieces about one and a half inches. Dip in batter and fry until golden. Finish with a generous sprinkle of fine salt and serve hot.
The article notes that labels soaked in linseed oil can preserve paint marks for years, providing durable surface protection and long term readability for archival or display purposes.
A grocer recalls a boy asking if potatoes have sugar water and starch. The boy mentions his mother telling him to put beans and peas in coffee and to add water to milk. The exchange reads like a domestic anecdote from a bygone era.
A young lady freshly from boarding school enters the laundry to learn ironing. She struggles to polish a skirt and asks Katy for elbow grease, expressing she cannot achieve a polished bosom. The maid replies that she should apply elbow grease and fetch some immediately.
A Cleveland street scene turns humorous as a young felon professes love to a married woman. The twist reveals the beloved is the man’s mother, leaving the suitor perplexed as the husband does nothing out of surprise. The remark about love becomes a comic misunderstanding.
A Janesville man trained a servant to order meat by telephone then had her press her nose to the transmitter to judge freshness. The next day while she spoke into the line a bird dog ran through the room after a skunk fight, prompting the servant to cry through the instrument and flee in disgust.
A citizen recounts a vague encounter about rheumatism while Chicopee residents report relief after using St Jacob's Oil. C N Manchester of Cutler Street credits the remedy as the best rheumatic cure he has tried, calling it magical and the greatest rheumatic remedy of the age.
In Guilford Connecticut a penniless man with only his children receives three newborn sons as triplets from a loving wife who wishes for a family to adopt them. Mr Clark considers taking them but his wife doubts. Their eight year old daughter asks if they might keep one, wondering why they cannot keep all.
A young Ohio boy, inspired by Nero and heaven-born endowments, set fire to a wood-shed. He then climbed a fence, used his mother's hair comb with paper, and played Way Down Upon the Swanee River as the blaze spread. He ate standing for days afterward.
An elderly man walking on Washington Street declines a dray ride and jokes about nearby offers in Vicksburg. He notes being far from home and unable to pay freight, while appreciating the town and its curious offers.
A northern visitor in Galveston meets a local gentleman and asks for Texas relics. A polite but awkward exchange follows about a mother in law. In a street car a man rises as a lady enters, explaining a pin on the seat frightens her.
A fashion note rejects polonaise as dinnerwear saying no polonaise for dinner no matter how cut and joking about preferring a princesse overskirt at mealtime. The brief lampoons current trends and tastes.
A Newark girl lay in a trance for five weeks after a sixteen year old miss. A physician proved she remained aware of surroundings. He described her as very pretty and noted a significant blush appeared on her face.
A Rochester, New York lady writes that her husband has improved greatly after long illness now declared curable. She credits Hop Bitters with his recovery and expresses gratitude for the patent remedy.
A misguided man boasts a rubber headed tack claiming an improvement. The saying notes that the tack’s head is not the part needing alteration and warns against overengineering a simple object.
A fragment notes a woman answering an advertisement last week claiming membership in the Schumann club and stating she must be out one night weekly for reversals, suggesting a social or organizational implication.
A schoolmaster asks a pupil how to define black as your hat. The pupil answers darkness that may be felt. A new railway station agent’s first requisition requests a gallon of red oil for danger lanterns.
A French critic remarks on liking a girl before she becomes a woman and a woman before she reaches girlishness, outlining a progression of perceived maturity in female characters.
A medical advertisement from Baltimore Missouri dated April 28 1879 promotes Vegetine as a cure for general debility and blood deficiency. It claims weakened circulation heart palpitations and nervous disorders improve after two bottles. A testimonial from Leander Lusby attests to a cure and high regard for Vegetine.
An English captain in the India trade reportedly neutralized iron influence on a ship compass by burying it in soil inside a half trough. Variation dropped to about one degree, similar to wooden ships. Captain Blanche, an adjuster, has vouched for the method but verification is ongoing.
The article touts Hop Bitters as a cure for stomach liver or kidney ailments and asks readers to question neighbors about its effectiveness. It then shifts to a DIY instruction on refining finely ground glass using sediment from a grindstone to create a satin-like surface suitable for focusing screens.
Deacon Smira buys Carboline the deodorized petroleum hair renewer and restorer and since its improvement recommends it to all his friends as the perfection of all hair preparations. This shows that the Deacon is a wise man and knows what is what.
A British National Gallery Madonna proof revealed a hidden restoration. Photography and light chemistry exposed a blur over the forehead not present in the original, showing the restorer used different pigments, detectable only under magnified, light-based analysis.
The British Consul at Shanghai Mr. Medhurst reports large scale tea adulteration in China. About 53,000 pounds of willow leaves were being processed at a port to be mixed with tea for shipment at a ratio of ten to twenty percent.
Dr Theobald of the Maryland Academy of Science finds a tiny beetle two grains moving a five and a half ounce tray, noting if scaled a 150 pound man could move about 198000 pounds. VeGeTine endorsed as the safe remedy for diseases from impure blood like scrofula.
Storm warnings guide seafarers with gale notices and bold forecasts. In a decade they show about seventy five percent accuracy as gales or strong winds follow warnings. This practical system has become a staple in maritime safety.
The process spins a glass cloth thread from a bar of molten glass at a rate of 2000 yards each minute, producing a continuous filament suitable for textile use.
A restorement advertisement claims Kidney-Wort cures loss of interest in politics and amusements by stimulating torpid liver kidneys and bowels in both dry and liquid forms. The claim urges readers to try the remedy for renewed energy and vitality.
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