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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1899
Page
7
Practical notes from T H Weetman on English Jersey cattle dairy testing and butter yield. Describes testing methods, milk to butter ratios, and how to select and feed cows for butter production, plus care for calves and bulls and economic considerations for dairy profitability.
Guide outlines 20 dairy cow practices from selecting profitable cows to breeding, feeding and records. Emphasizes choosing high butterfat yield, weighing milk, using quality dairy bulls, renewing herd with heifer calves, and timely udder care after calving.
A pasted essay explains aging horses by teeth. It lists tooth counts and stages from birth to twenty one years, noting grinders, nippers, corner and middle teeth, and grooves. The piece mixes dialogue about social gossip and everyday life, with a long anecdote about Mrs Chatterly and neighbors.
Advice on choosing lamps stresses good lamps and kerosene, keeping lamps clean, and using a large round burner for steady light. A green glass shade is easiest on the eyes. avoid red shades while reading.
An old column extols turpentine for many uses including chest and throat relief when mixed with heated oil or lard and applied to the chest, repelling pests from shelves and crevices, easing aching joints, and a method for breaking glass bottles with string and fire.
A fragmentary dialogue depicts Thad and Hooper among uneasy locals and boastful jumpers. Jim Hooper and Abe Wharton clash over tall claims on a tape line while Abe Benners insists on six feet. Davis contemplates arming others as tensions rise before a potential fuse is lit.
In a New York assembly tale a strong party bill barely passed after two key members Duffy and Mulcahy were missing for hours. They returned just in time, explaining they had been diverted by a game of penuchle and lunch with the dago’s f’r their lunch and afther an afther a game of penuchie.
A fragmentary quip from The Cumminsville Sage ponders optimism and temperament as a peasimist recalls payday blues. The garbled text hints at local humor and a Detroit news flavor, with stray names and mock dialogue embedded in the snippet.
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