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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
6
An inexpensive wagon jack design uses four wooden pieces and bolts. A and B form a hinged frame with holes for adjustment, C provides a long brace, and D adds iron holes and a through pipe for operation. The oak or hickory version offers durability for common lifting needs.
Arbor Day prep yields a bulletin on Tree Culture advising deeper planting than nursery rows, firm tamping, and slight lean to withstand south winds. It recommends shaking trees during root tamping, watering to seal root contact, then topping with dry soil to prevent baking and promote upright growth.
A list of United States standard minimum weights per bushel for various commodities. This notice provides official pound values used for trade, pricing, and taxation across agricultural goods. Each commodity has a defined per bushel weight to ensure uniformity in measurement and market transactions.
Te Croan Brook describes anchoring a post with a fixed arrangement to prevent pulling out under tension as a wire is stretched.
Fragment mentions two posts placed atop a lower post in a brook or ravine. Details are sparse about location, purpose, or individuals involved. Further readable context is needed to determine the event or significance.
Experiment station tests indicate nitrate of soda is the most needed fertilizer for meadows in spring. In the second year after wheat, when clover shows fresh growth, broadcast a mixture of equal weight nitrate of soda and fine dry earth at 300 pounds per acre.
The text argues for immediate plant food use to prevent invasions by wild grasses and sporadic clover patches. It notes timothy will grow thick with extensive tooling and estimates fertilizer costs at about four dollars per acre without fall application and six dollars seventy six cents if fall fertilizing is needed.
A Missouri Experiment Station report describes fodder storage as thrifty for stock all winter and during dry periods. It notes high quality beef and milk output, easier handling than dry fodder, and manure providing feed in cold months, with quick payoff despite initial building costs.
Apples refine flavor the longer they stay on trees unless cold weather limits exposure. Hood River Oregon fruit shows best keeping quality and flavor. East winter russets keep longest without storage and flavor matures late winter to early spring. Modern cold storage enables fall apples to survive until the first summer fruit with less flavor loss.
Describes sheep kept in cramped dark holes with only a front opening for ventilation. Warns that during driving storms the animals would suffer worse conditions inside due to the lack of air flow and shelter.
Sheep will not thrive in draughty or poorly ventilated sheds. A shed with an open south side and about twelve feet of floor space per sheep should be provided. Every sheep farm should have a dog proof fence.
A brief agricultural note warns to watch cats that visit homes as they may cause the disappearance of chicks. The only remedy traditionally found effective is to kill the cat, a practice described as hard to deter once habits form.
A farmers report tells how a poultryman set traps on posts and stumps near his yard to capture hawks. The traps caught five hawks an owl and a polecat as hawks survey fields from perches before diving for prey.
Ninety percent of the land is owned by the men who work it and about seventy percent is farmed by intensive methods. Eighty percent in grass is not pastured. A seven year rotation is common: clover and grass two years, rye, wheat, roots, parley, oats. The land is well manured and yields heavy grass crops.
An authority on horses states gray horses live longest, roans next. Blacks rarely exceed 20 years, creams rarely reach ten to fifteen years.
Instructions describe a batter using sugar melted butter eggs sour milk sweet milk soda baking powder and salt with flour to stiffen. The dough is spread on a board risen briefly then cut and joined with a knife and baked hot without hands mixing.
A simple chocolate pudding method measures milk sugar and flour. Boil the mixture then stir in beaten egg yolk. Remove from heat fold in stiffly beaten egg white and vanilla before serving.
A simple method to cook flank steak. Brown the steak in butter on both sides, season with salt and pepper, then bake in the oven with canned tomatoes for forty five minutes. Serve with mashed potatoes using the meat and tomato juices as a sauce.
A period recipe outlines making a dough from egg milk flour baking powder butter and salt. Roll half inch thick in a buttered tin press apple segments into the dough, sprinkle sugar and bake, serving with cream and sugar.
Peel onions and boil in cold water until tender. Butter a shallow dish and arrange the onions. Add a cup of milk and a tablespoonful of butter, then sprinkle with about a half cup of cracker crumbs. Dot with butter on top and place a piece of cherry on each onion. Bake slowly for about an hour.
Beat two eggs until light then add one-half pound light brown sugar rolled fine one-half pound chopped nuts three teaspoons flour a pinch of salt and one-half teaspoon baking powder Drop small spoonfuls on buttered pans and bake until light brown.
A historic recipe details half a pint of sweet milk one ens one and a quarter cups of sugar half a cup of lard half a tablespoonful of oil of lemon two tablespoonfuls of carbonate of ammonia and flour to make a soft dough. The dough is kneaded for twenty minutes rolled thin cut out and baked in a quick oven.
Instructions describe peeling bananas cutting them into three crosswise pieces. Coat each piece in beaten egg then cracker crumbs. Fry until golden brown in hot fat. Drain on a heated colander and serve on a hot dish.
A fragment describes making candy by boiling two cups sugar a half cup corn syrup and half cup water until hard when dropped in cold water. Then whip in two egg whites and pour into greased pans to cool.
A simple home recipe combines 11/2 cups bread dough 1 cup warm water 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup lard and 1 beaten egg into a soft dough. Let rise until night mold into rolls place two inches apart bake about 15 minutes until golden.
Recipe notes describe making two dough portions for quick biscuits. Roll out to a quarter inch thick, cut into small rounds, bake in a quick oven, prick with a fork, and glaze with butter while hot before serving.
Wet two cups of sugar with two tablespoonfuls of water and boil until very thick. Stir in a box of seeded and picked over raisins and coat them well with the candy. Pour the mixture into buttered pans and cut into bars.
A critic argues that intense college sports devotion feeds an epidemic hysteria, with women especially susceptible. The piece cites Albert Shaw on football mania at large universities and how female spectators amplify risk by encouraging players to seek glory and even danger for college prestige and applause.
A compact toast of thrift and folly blends sermons and quips about creditors and fortune seekers. Bowers Jones and Powers are cited as examples of tight finances, while others joke about crowds and coin. The dialogue threads through self possession, generosity, and appetite for gain.
In a University of Texas corridor a large headless armless Winged Victory statue stands as a humorous target. A student wrote under it God pity Defeat inspiring a wry caption captured by Lippincott's Magazine.
An advertisement touts Sarsaparilla as the most effective medicine for purifying the blood and renovating the entire system. It promotes spring use and offers liquid form or Sarsatabs with 100 doses for a dollar.
A brief verse in Yonkers Gazette reveals a maid telling her mother she will marry Mr Early tonight. The exchange centers on urgency and a planned wedding with a hopeful tone.
The Chicago Tribune quotes Uncle Allen predicting a Kekime will travel to the equator facing hardships. Upon returning home he will recount his trials and wonders, only to be mocked as the biggest Marin in the Arctic Circle.
A man admitted mixing strychnine with wheat and feeding it to English sparrows. He said a cat asked why the birds tasted queer, and the incident drew emotional reaction in the community.
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