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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1890
Page
8
An article offers mutton reuse ideas from boiled to curry to minced forms with rice. it includes a salad centerpiece and tips on cooling, storage, and frugal cooking. It also urges farm cleanup, corn shelling, windmill maintenance, and orderly stock shelter preparation for winter.
An observer notes fringe weeds along cultivated field margins and questions whether such growth serves any purpose. He argues the brambles harm farmland by producing gilo seeds and spoiling appearance.
An anecdote on willingness to test milk for butter fat credits and keep high producing cows. A dairyman laments low returns from a creamery and weighs replacing his herd with higher milk yield, fearing loss of butter quality and costs, and favoring butter cows until milk testing in creameries becomes mandatory. It also notes raising White Plymouth Rocks for pure-blood fowls.
A rural correspondent describes White Plymouth Rocks thriving after summer floods, their large frames and slow maturation, and notes good egg production and table quality. A stray grown Leghorn hen astonishes with a spring laying record, while a neighbor’s lone orphan continues to lay through April, inspiring market hopes.
Currant worm trouble minimal on black currant. emphasis on soil, cultivation, and weed control at planting. Notes on Susca tree growing, diverse strawberry varieties at Kansas State Agricultural College, and mixed tree planting to prevent monoculture. Reports on Aurelius Michigan farmer Henry Svarpina unpaid mortgage tied to apple crop. rose bug damage and control with Persian insect powder. Delaware tomato production reaching about 11,700 tons via 5,000,000 cans. Includes fried oyster batter, drawn butter, and ginger cookies recipes.
Beat two eggs into a quart of buttermilk then stir in flour to a thick batter of about 2 quart. Add a teaspoon salt and the same of soda. Bake in a hot oven in greased tins. Muffins of all kinds should be cut round the edge and pulled open with fingers.
A period piece catalogues Sunday school lessons on Luke chapters 20 to 24 with memory verses and golden texts, plus notes urging adoption of a Missionary Union Children’s Day program. It also recounts a Washington news digest, a Virginia hill panorama anecdote, and congressional briefings on elections and public buildings across December.
The report lists national and regional wire mileage and annual dispatch or message totals. It covers South Africa Pensta Europe Canada Troy Australia Great Britain France New Zealand Russia and St Helena with figures ranging from thousands to tens of millions of messages.
A young teacher, Miss Ipa Laycoux near Longmont Colorado, was stabbed four times by pupil Bert Myers and may die. Widespread snowstorms hinder travel in Britain with many traffic blocks and several vessel wrecks reported. Tomas Curry, New Orleans carrier, has been convicted for shooting an Italian prisoner tied to the murder of Police Chief Hennessy.
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