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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1886
Page
7
A rural guidance column discusses plowing under young weeds to enrich soil, weed control strategies for Canada thistles, and practical field timings. It warns that overseeding weeds harms land and emphasizes cattle and hogs as farm income in proper rental setups.
Unsoundness and hereditary disabilities in horses are common and transmissible. Sire impact on offspring, with eyes and digestive issues highlighted. careful selection urged to prevent transmission. Breeding animals should be perfect in limbs and organs, with emphasis on sire quality and non inherited faults.
An editorial urges boosting the home wool and mutton sector by improving sheep husbandry and eating habits. It argues current breeding prioritizes fleece weight over carcass quality, harming mutton, and calls for public education to expand mutton consumption and support for wool protection. It notes urban preference for beef and Texas beef costs, urging policy and cultural change to revive profitability.
The Chamber of Agriculture Journal reports a German patent process that uses a rapid centrifugal drum and linen liner to wash butter in a churn. It promises purer, better tasting, better keeping butter without kneading, plus a note on cream yields from various cattle breeds and a French electrical separation method.
Coleslaw and dressing plus variations for lettuce and beans. Boiled pudding with suet and spices, served with wine sauce. Beans seasoned with butter, peppersalt, mustard and vinegar. Homemade bread bake steps with cream. Grapes stewed with spices to jelly, canned for ornamental dish. Cream pie and cake layers with milk custard filling and vanilla.
The article discusses John Z Campbell's explanation in the American Naturalist that land-wide tree growth patterns arise from ground conditions that favor seeds landing there. Floods determine which species establish belts along river banks, with sycamore, cottonwood, and maple dominating successive layers depending on inundation events.
The mulberry is recommended for poultry yards due to its hardiness and long life with fruit enjoyed by hens and children. It provides dense shade in summer and large leaves. Slow growing trees may resist winter kill better. avoid planting too deep, use well decomposed soil, and stake after planting. Superior varieties cost little more than common types.
The horticulturist notes methods to control green fly on house plants and roses with weak tobacco water or tobacco smoke, and to treat pests like the rose-bug cabbage-worm and mealy bug with insect powders kerosene emulsion and other mixtures. It also advises on managing cut-worms May beetle grubs and borers with Paris green dusts kerosene mixtures fires and bark protection.
Poultery notes advise dark nesting to prevent egg eating and suggest placing nests away from windows with covered passageways. It recommends staggered roost heights, kerosene for pests, plaster floors, straw over hay, tobacco stems for insect control, and not hatching late. It also warns on Asiatic chicks sun exposure and using lard to soothe scorched skin. Fowls are woodland birds suited to shady hot weather.
An eminent New York physician warns that beef tea and meat juices often misrepresent nutrition, risking starvation in typhus and typhoid cases. He notes albumen coagulates with boiling, leaving nourishing material in the dregs, and excess beef tea can cause indigestion and diarrhea though it may tempt the palate. Milk remains essential in such fevers.
Guidance on nourishing fevers and stomach ailments emphasizes milk as primary sustenance, careful portioning to avoid digestion issues, and avoiding solid foods during typhoid until recovery. Techniques include milk variants, gruels, blanc mange, custards, and lemon milk, with practical tips on timing, dilution, and flavoring.
A reader shares a simple method to kill cockroaches using cucumber peels placed in infested areas before bed. After successive nights the pests vanish, confirming a three to four night perseverance. The piece also discusses beds hammocks and sanitation tips linking to health observations in old buildings.
The report notes a Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot with 618 rooms, fitted for one million stellars. It offers a European plan with elevator and heat powered by Horn cars, and claims families can live better for less than at rival first class hotels in New York City.
A Philadelphia tale reports Mr. David W. Sellers’s intelligent Skye terrier as the culprit in the disappearance of two $50 bank notes from a table. The dog’s guilt was proven by an enactic and the bills were recovered in mutilated form and exchanged at the Sub-treasury for new notes.
The World's Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo promotes an eighteen-physician clinic offering treatment for chronic illnesses through medical and surgical means. It claims success in nasal throat liver kidney digestive bladder women’s diseases and more with cures claimed at patients’ homes via correspondence. The notice notes a 168 page Invalids Guide Book available for 10 cents.
A brief vignette from the Philadelphia Call shows De Baggs and De Kaggs with a hangover moral, De Baggs promising to wear old clothes after a spoiled suit, while an oblique medical ad notes Ayer's Ague Cure for fever and ague.
Senator Coke of Texas, a big-framed man unused to formalities, refuses receptions. He recounts a reception mishap where he kicked courtiers off a lady’s dress and realized he was standing on it, lamenting how women’s dresses trail, leaving no safe ground for a man to place his foot.
A quirky bundle of 19th century items notes a worker facing union and domestic pressures in hard times, a hair renewal claim, masses observing summer thunderstorms in Massachusetts, and various ads. The Farmers hen in Newberry Tenn. tends 170 chicks and a turkey, cattle from Arizona cross New Mexico with landing bills, and Frazer Axle Grease is advertised as superior.
Solin Kuhn of Lafayette Indiana recounts a narrow escape from consumption after doctors said he could not live twenty four hours a friend bought DR Wm HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS which he credits with restoration to perfect health.
An affable traveler confronts a quiet stranger who reveals he has just been discharged from Sing Sing after fourteen years. The Pole Modzonetskiest Koroczococ her clarifies his name as part of a brief, faintly humorous encounter on a railway car.
A pasted assortment of sensational health claims and odd anecdotes promotes various tonics and belts. It touts a thirty day trial for Nervous Debility and vitality restoration, mentions a comic bootjack anecdote, Lyon’s Heel stiffeners, a COPD-like Canada farm tale, and Wells Health Renewer claiming wide cures.
An assortment of health ads and odd notes appears, including Wells Health Renewer claims, a Pekin newspaper misstatement from 911, a three year old’s bug incident and castor oil cure, pest control claims for bed bugs and other vermin, and a BUCHU-PAIBA kidney remedy advert with price.
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