Billy the Frontier Stage Driver Becomes Honest Man
A small, clever orphan Billy grows from farm boy to Western stage driver. After a hold up attempts, he defends a gold box with skill and courage, aiding a dangerous escape and ending with resolve to return the inheritance and start anew as an honest man.
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Billy
Chicago
Granger City
Black Pete's
United States Mail
Eagle Pass
Granite Citizens’ Bank
Gulch City
Dead Horse
San Jacinto
Mexico
Republic Uo
Spain
Big Wheeler
Black Tom
Couger
Doc Morgan
Plan to Divide Work for Friday Cleaning Schedule
A guide suggests spreading cleaning across the week with Friday dedicated to living rooms and dining areas. It covers rug cleaning, dusting furniture, wall and woodwork care, and multiroom coordination, plus steps if rugs are cleaned indoors and how to move or cover furniture during the process.
Crisp French Milk Roll with Baked Eggs and Tomatoes
Cut a long French milk roll into slices and toast in a cool oven until crisp and brown. Arrange in a buttered casserole and brush with warmed butter and lemon juice. Break an egg on each slice, season with salt and pepper, add cream or thin white sauce, and bake until eggs set. Serve with baked tomatoes.
Corn Salad With Creamy Mayonnaise Practice
A simple corn salad method instructs cutting cold boiled corn from the cob removing silk then lining a bowl with lettuce leaves and piling corn in the center. Pour plenty of mayonnaise over the whole noting corn’s toothsome quality as a standalone ingredient rather than mixed with other vegetables.
Canned Blueberries Process
Thoroughly pick over and wash the berries then place in a kettle with half a cup sugar and half a cup water per quart. Cook until berries are done, then fill hot jars and seal at once.
Cleaning a Mincing Machine with Stale Bread
A method to clean a mincing machine uses grinding stale bread to absorb grease fat and skin from the knives. After grinding, wipe the interior with a clean cloth to finish the job.
Salted Almonds Recipe Steps
Instructions describe blanching shelled almonds with boiling water until skins loosen, then oil and salt mixed in a bowl for two hours. After soaking, spread in a dripping pan and brown in a moderate oven, stirring often for even browning.
To Clean Gold Thread Articles
Tarnished gold-threaded articles can regain luster by brushing with a brush dipped in pulverized burnt alum. The method restores shine and removes tarnish from the gilded fabric.
Proper Way to Boil Cork
Emma Paddock Telford provides a period cooking note on boiling corn. She advises starting in cold water, peeling and tying husks, using outer husks as a cover, and cooking five minutes after boiling to preserve flavor. An alternative method uses cold milk for bronzed, milk-rich corn.
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Emma Paddock
Telford
Corn Chowder With Bacon and Corn Layers Recipe
A vintage style corn chowder recipe uses cold cooked corn, bacon or fat salt pork, onion, and layered potatoes with seasoning. It cooks 30 minutes, then makes a cream sauce with butter flour milk and parsley before serving hot.
Cake Baking Tips for Even, Light Cakes
The article notes that evenness and smoothness depend on how batter is placed in tins. Fill corners evenly, avoid thick centers, smooth lightly, and bake promptly. Use specialized pans for different cakes and remove the cake carefully to preserve lightness.
Beating Beef Tea Told By A Nurse
A nurse explains a method for beef tea saying one pound lean beef should be cut fine and cooked in a jar without water. The jar is placed in cold water and heated slowly to a boil, kept at that heat for three to four hours until the meat is tender and the juice extracted. Salt to taste and skim when cool.
Baked Tomatoes on Toast Recipe
Large firm tomatoes halved and baked in a buttered pan with green pepper and butter. When tender, add more butter and flour to the pan, stir in cream until thickened, season with pepper and salt, then strain the sauce over the baked tomatoes.
Apple Custard Pie From Stewed Apples
A recipe combines one cupful of stewed apples with one cupful of sugar and two beaten egg yolks plus two tablespoons of melted butter. Bake in a pie plate lined with paste, then top with stiffly beaten egg whites folded with powdered sugar and lemon, and brown in a moderate oven.
Molasses Cake Recipe for Children
A simple batter uses one egg one half cup sugar one cup molasses one cup hot water with a teaspoon soda dissolved in it and two and a half cups whole wheat flour with a little butter optional. Do not add more flour and bake slowly in two ting.
Methods of filling silos for best corn silage
The article outlines proper silo filling techniques to avoid spoiling corn for silage. It stresses careful tramping and leveling, mixing cut material, and maintaining edge height for even settling. For dry or frost damaged corn, add water to reach the moisture of green corn.
Pig Health and Feeding Guidance for Pigs
Advice for pig disease prevention and care. Change sow diet to reduce scours, avoid spoiled feed, cook meat scraps. If pig joints swell, suspect rickets and add calcium phosphate, purgatives, and other additives per weight. Use worm remedies carefully, inspect hogs before slaughter, wash pens, isolate sick animals, and burn carcasses.
Caring for Flock of Ducks
Guidance on duck handling and care for laying stock. Avoid carrying by legs and mark injured birds for butcher to maintain vigor in breeding stock. Limit pens to twenty ducks and rotate feed to prevent boredom and drop in egg production.
Eradicate Canada Thistles with Ground Cover Method
Small patches of Canada thistles may be killed by covering the ground with tar paper or heavy building paper. Overlap edges to prevent light and air contact, then weight the cover with earth, stones, or fence rails.
Good Time to Spray Cows for Easier Milking
Practical guidance suggests spraying cows at milking time to calm them, allowing peaceful milking and satisfactory throughput. The note emphasizes ease and smoother workflow during herd handling.
Dairy Growth Lessons From Cattle Temperament and Feed
The article argues dairy success hinges on understanding individual cows, not just body form. It recommends early acquaintance with a new cow, avoids forcing fattening feed, notes milk fat varies by breed and individual, advises removing calves early to boost milk flow, and stresses proper cream handling and water quality to aid churning.
Stubble After Harvesting
Stubble after harvest helps conserve soil moisture by shading the ground and reducing evaporation. Weeds become the main water drain during this period, with surface evaporation and soil contraction adding further loss in heavier soils. Disking, double disking, and heavy harrowing seal in moisture by killing weeds and improving soil condition for plowing.
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Alvin Keyser
Acronomist
Colorado Experiment Station
Quarantine New Pig at Farm to Prevent Disease Spread
Guidance for farmers requires isolating any externally sourced pig in a separate pen away from the main herd for thorough examination to ensure it is disease free before integration.
Deduction After Sale of Stags At Big Stockyards
Farmers learn buyers deduct eighty sounds from stag prices at the stockyards. The discount reflects carelessness by the seller and reduces proceeds from the sale.
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W. B. Markey
Wisconsin Experiment Station
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