Family Fruit Garden for Small Spaces and Easy Bearing
Dwarf and half dwarf fruit trees fit small plots and begin bearing in year three or four. Space trees eight feet apart on eight-tree plots, with a wide mix of cherries pears plums grapes currants raspberries and blackberries. Prepare rich soil, manure well, and buy from reputable nurseries.
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Bernell
United States
Coe
Downer
Windsor
Montmorency
Howell
Beurre d’Anjou
Vicar of
Winkfield
Dutchess
Moore
Green Mountain
Concord
Niagara
Delaware
Fay
KEEP DAIRY PRODUCTS FRESH BY SINKING A BARREL
A simple cellar idea by G C Amb of Heatrice Nebraska in Missouri Valley Farmer advises sinking a large barrel in the ground. Line with stones sand and dampened clay, cap with an airtight box and earth. Hang pails on nails and rotate the barrel to prevent odors.
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G C Amb
Heatrice
Missouri Valley
Weed Seed Control in Prepping Garden Soil
Gardeners start a year ahead to reduce weed seeds in soil. If onions are planned next year, manure is applied generously now for crops like corn or potatoes and weed growth is strictly prevented.
Primitive pest control guidance from historical text
Instructional fragment discusses sow bugs and sow ivge as six or eight legged pests feeding on decayed vegetation. It notes occasional plant damage and suggests killing them by slicing potatoes dusted with arsenic green and placing in afflicted areas.
Good Hitch for Two Teams
Ed Kraus of Hays Kansas shares a hand built farm hitch for four horses. The evener uses iron bars and straps with drilled holes and rivets to let two lead teams pull evenly. Construction details specify dimensions and parts D and BB and a four inch rod with link for the lead team.
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Ed Kraus
Hays
Kan
Rape Pasture For Swine Says Grower Insists On Dwarf Essex
A grower urges hog pasturing with Dwarf Essex rape as the best forage, noting that other summer seed rape fails for pasture. Hogs quickly take to rape when first fed green forage, often preferring it to alfalfa, with rape serving as an emergency forage that can replace alfalfa or clover and improve barren ground.
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Essex
Turner Wright
Breeze
Silage urged for poultry and dairy benefits
A Heard’s Dairyman writer claims silage is ideal for poultry and boosts egg production. He notes two years of trials show birds eagerly consume ensilage alongside grain ration oyster shells and grit. Green feed from silage also supports dairy milk and meat production in cattle and sheep.
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Heard
Dairyman
Nitrate of Soda Causes Close Near-Miss with Farm Animals
A neighbor reports a cow died after consuming nitrate of soda. Last summer an unsecured barn door nearly let a horse escape, saved by a timely watcher. A writer notes prevention is easier than curing such incidents and urges caution on storage.
Yards for Growing Chicks in Fresh Ground
The article advises rotating chick yards to fresh ground to keep them healthy. It emphasizes moving pens frequently to maintain clean, sweet, grassy space for growing chicks.
Sally Lunns and Muffins in a Fancy Breakfast Menu
A vintage breakfast guide presents Sally Lunn No 1 and No 2, Lily White's Muffins, Egg Biscuit, and Eggs a la Placentina with step by step methods. It instructs on milk butter yeast eggs flour and multiple baking times and oven temps for warm, old time breads and pastries.
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Lida Ames Willis
Sally Lunn
Sally
Lily White
Ruby
Savory Sauce Instructions From Pantry Guide
Take two ounces of salt pork or bacon and cut it into small pieces. Fry in its fat without burning. Add finely chopped onion and red or green pepper, then a cup of thick tomato juice and cook until reduced. Season with salt. Add capers mushrooms or finely chopped pickle if desired.
Tripe Ragout Recipe Steps
Wash a pound of tripe and cut in two inch strips. Chop Spanish onion and cook in butter until straw color. Add tripe and cook ten minutes. Stir in celery pieces and tomato, simmer until tender. Add tomato juice if dry. Garnish with toast points and parsley.
Potato Garnish For Meat Dishes
Prepare two cupfuls mashed potatoes seasoned with salt pepper and butter. Beat two eggs and mix into the potato. Butter small molds, dust with bread crumbs, fill with potato, bake, and turn out around the meat as a garnish. Optional onion juice may be added.
Fish Force Meat: Halibut Roulade Mixture Guide
A recipe outlines mixing two thirds cupful of raw halibut with the white of one egg salt pepper and cayenne. It instructs grinding the fish until smooth then blending in the egg white seasonings sieve and finally adding heavy cream.
Velvet Rice Pudding Recipe From a Bean Pot
A family recipe uses one quart of milk two tablespoons rice three tablespoons sugar a pinch of salt and nutmeg a handful of raisins and butter the size of an egg. Bake in a bean pot on very slow heat for five hours stirring often and serve hot with or without cream.
Fermented Peach Cans Used to Make Peach Plats
A reader suggests salvage by heating fermented peaches found in a can, sweetening, and making a peach dish. The tip emphasizes not wasting preserved fruit and repurposing imperfect contents for a tasty result.
Rugs From The Old Carpet Practical Rug Making Guide
Instructions for making rugs from worn carpets using monk’s cloth or burlap as a foundation. Step by step method covers cutting, sewing selvages, offset edges, unraveling cloth ends for a fringe, optional stenciling or banding, and finishing touches. Also notes durability and low cost. Ex change.
Practical kitchen tips from an old newspaper column
Beat hard butter into a cream for easy spreading and better flavor. Coat bacon slices with thin mustard before frying for savory tang without overheating the mustard. Add baking powder to mashed potatoes for white light fluffiness. Soak new potatoes in water with soda to prevent staining and ease peeling. Sprinkle cedar air to deter moths without odor, keeping clothes safe.
Honeycomb Pudding and Sauce Recipe
A compact home recipe lists a honeycomb pudding with two eggs half cup sugar half cup molasses half cup milk and half teaspoon soda plus flour baked 45 minutes. The accompanying sauce combines sugar boiling water butter egg salt flour dissolved in cold water and lemon extract.
Savory Beef Recipe from Old Fashioned Preparation
A historical recipe describes boiling shin of beef until the meat is tender and gristle drops away. It instructs chopping the meat, seasoning with salt pepper clove and sage, adding the liquor from the boil, chilling until firm, then slicing to serve on lettuce or plain.
Soup Meat Crackers Tritadella Recipe
Made from leftover soup meat chop or mince and season with salt and pepper. Add finely chopped onion or onion juice and a touch of table sauce or beef extract. Mix with mashed potato in equal amounts and heat to a hot spider. Mold press steam or bake as desired.
Spanish Stew Recipe Instructions
Instructions describe cooking two pounds pork small pieces three hours then add tomatoes onion garlic salt pepper paprika beef extract and one cup rice simmer one more hour. Contains steps and timing for a single dish preparation.
Apple and Pea Salad
Drain a can of peas and rinse with cold water. Chop two apples with one cucumber. Mix with peas and half cup chopped pecans or walnuts. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing.
Famous Chef'n Advice On Fruit Cake Batter Order
A cooking tip advises pouring half the batter into the pan before adding the fruit. This prevents the fruit from sinking to the bottom of the cake and ensures even distribution in the baked loaf.
Don’t Rinse Chamois Gloves After Washing
Guidance on caring for chamois gloves explains that soap suds should not be fully rinsed out. Let the gloves dry as the soapy film helps keep them softer and more pliable.
The Grand Opera House Tale of Lila and the Stage Dream
A humorous review of a local amateur theatricals night at the Grand Opera House. Lila, a teenaged hopeful, plays a Southland daughter and wins laughs and scorn as she pursues an expanding career from village auditions to big city fantasies. The piece satirizes show business vanity and the social rituals around talent.
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Grand Opera House
Lila
Egg and
Southland
Lke Maxine
Vocahontas Bridge Whist and Pleasure Club
Ibsen
Sara Bernhardt
Julia Marlowe
C. F
Maude Adams
Lady Macbeth
Margaret Angelin
Broadway
Pit
Dome
New York
Hippodrome
Willie Winter
42Nd Street
Tank Town
Rocka
Mauch Chunk
Penna
Sherif
Edwin Booth
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