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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1891
Page
3
A fragmentary OCR item from Falls evokes questions about a noted event or scene, with readers asked to interpret the unreadable line about something at the front and a possible wind or event. The readable bits hint at a local curiosity or incident awaiting clearer documentation.
A collage of curiosities and notes from daily life includes color production from cochineal and Prussian blue, fashioning a silk substitute from Japanese hemp, bells through history, and odd travel anecdotes. It reports on fashion, science, and peculiar events from markets, ships, and farms, with scattered historical and cultural tidbits.
General notes advise rural women near towns to earn honest pennies by selling cold corn meal mush in cakes, cheese from sour milk, and home grown produce like melons cucumbers and pickles via grocers on commission. A Practical Farmer piece details a cheap home made cultivator, urging boys on farms as life’s essential helpers and noting the value of a broad education beyond chores.
A writer argues farmers neglect swine feeding science leading to diseased hogs. Advocates colonizing young pigs, fattening in portable small houses, paired sleeping to limit disease spread, with movable, sectional houses and floors for seasonal comfort and ventilation.
An illustration from the Rural New Yorker shows a stanchion designed to fit into farm stalls, appealing to farmers with available stall space. The caption highlights practicality for horse and cattle housing and the device’s usefulness on rural farms.
An old farm notebook discusses cow stalls and feeding practices with details on stall width and floor gutters. It covers mangers, bedding, and cleaning, then shifts to dairy tips on butter making, oleomargarine laws, potato feeding to prevent milk fever, cheese quality, and churn safety.
The Western Rural urges farmers to determine the most profitable fruit variety for their land and notes the Crescent will remain popular. It discusses nitrate of soda as a potential yield booster, claiming it could nearly double fruit output, especially strawberries and raspberries. The piece critiques agricultural press advice aimed at farmers' wives, suggesting such guidance reflects the press audience more than practical farming realities.
A collection of practical advice for housekeepers includes tips on handling candles, roasting meat, keeping salt from damp shakers, choosing storage for toilet creams, and reheating hot dishes without drying. It covers egg peeling, repairing china with varnish, selecting fresh shellfish like lobsters, and best practices for soaking winter vegetables to reduce strong cellar flavors. It also gives a quaint English method for flower pot coverings and instructions to shrink and hem household linens before final tailoring.
A kitchen note describes a sauce for wild duck containing juice of two lemons, a few drops of oil, a pinch of salt and pepper. The rare slices should be briefly soaked in this gravy before serving.
Advice on onion sets watering by temperature, and care for house plants. Recommends manureing gardens repeatedly and planting small evergreens in hall boxes or outdoors. Encourages adding ornamental trees to new farms and stresses grower time for fruit. questions Crescent strawberries in favor of other varieties.
A collection of kitchen recipes including Dutch sauce for fish scalloped scallops and baked haddock with veal stuffing. A postwar Richmond surrender account by Col Stephens notes the city’s capitulation under a flag of truce and praises efforts to stop the fire, with remarks on race and reunion.
A Sunday school lesson on 2 Kings 17 6 18 discusses Israel's captivity begun in 722 BC and Judah in 606 BC, the lost tribes, and hopes of restoration. It contrasts pride and self reliance with God’s sovereignty, warns against vanity and worldly living, and urges following Jesus as the true example.
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