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Newspaper
Nazareth Item
Location
Nazareth, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1939
Page
5
On cold mornings, prepare a quick heat up by gently reopening dampers, brushing the grate, and starting with a thin coal layer. If heat wanes, add coal gradually, avoiding smothering the fire, then resume full coal once flames regain strength. Allow fumes to burn off before final damper adjustments.
County Agent B L Coleman explains how drying cows six to eight weeks before freshening boosts lactation. High producers use more nutrients than feed can supply, so a fat reserve helps milk output. During dry periods feed abundant legume hay for vitamin D and mineral rebuilding, plus 20–25 pounds silage daily and ample hay. A dry cow grain mix includes corn or barley, oats, wheat bran, and soybean oilmeal. adjust by hay quality.
A historical sketch notes Pennsylvanias claim as a cradle of the oil industry with its 1850s shift from whale oil to kerosene. It recounts New Haven capitalists presenting Seneca Oil to Yale chemist Benjamin Willman, who calls it a mix of oils separable by distillation. Limited quantities were obtainable by surface methods, fueling speculation about deeper deposits.
The guidance recommends adding 100 pounds to weight, and one pound of steamed bonemeal per 100 pounds of grain when low-grade hay is used. Feed the grain mixture in sufficient quantity to improve flesh. Three to four quarts ally is usually enough. reduce bulky feeds a week before freshening. Equal parts of ground oats and bran advised for this period.
The text recounts the birth of the oil industry led by Edwin Drake in western Pennsylvania in 1859, the rapid expansion and market disruption, and how Pennsylvanian methods and geology reshaped extraction. It notes later developments, production cycles, and the enduring significance of Pennsylvania crude in global oil history. It also touches on agricultural notes from Penn State about cattle feeding and dairy husbandry.
An archival note records the annual county supervisors convention with compensation figures and miscellaneous expenditures. The garbled OCR mentions printing and postage, postage for advertising, and various stationers costs, totaling in the tens of thousands. Names, dates, and exact sums are unclear but indicate a summary of government spending.
The Pennsylvania Dutch play Der Orm Hill sponsored by the Ladies Add Society of Dryland Church Hecktown will be presented on February 13 and 16 at 7 30 PM in the Sunday School House. Church services follow, with Rev A Bute leading 10 15 AM. A Dryland Consistory meeting elected officers including Rev C A Bute president and William H Johnson vice president. A picnic committee was named George Abel Clarence Baeger and George Wartman. Several residents visited relatives and nearby towns, while Lutheren Church council approved winter catechetical class times and noted an upcoming glaze on October 100.
Auction notices detail a large parcel of real estate with four cultivable acres, several structures, poultry, hogs, cattle, horses, and farm equipment. Items include tractors, plows, drills, harvesters, grain and corn equipment, tools, and household goods. Terms require ten percent down and rest by deed. sales occur Thursday at 12 o'clock.
A dated list outlines multiple public sales by various executors and agents in Northampton and surrounding townships. Entries name buyers, sellers, road routes, and sale dates from February to March, covering farm stock, real estate, household goods, and farm machinery with locations near Nazareth, Wind Gap, Belfast, Bath, Allentown, and Martin’s Creek.
Listings of farm stock real estate and household goods across Nazareth Beth lehem Plainfield Martine Crook Seipaville Seip Road. Items include stock and farm related properties at multiple sites with entries dated February 11 16 18 and te involving various handlers such as Charles Samson Frank Gunn Frank Sottolano Thomas Hul alzer and Alfred Hap.
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