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Newspaper
Neosho Valley Register
Location
Iola, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1871
Page
4
The Rural New Yorker excerpts warn farmers about gambling on horse-race bets. A well to do farmer shows a prized horse at a cultural event, finances a race, and is lured by professionals. He loses his farm, his family breaks up, and he dies after ruin and remorse. The piece shows how overconfidence and deceit lead to downfall.
The article urges farmers to inspire young people with practical farming tales and literacy, stressing light, hospitality, and agricultural reading. It notes glycerine and related preparations, discusses medical uses, and outlines an old horticultural process. It highlights Kansas fruit prospects reaching Denver and Texas as freight issues impede California supply.
The passage describes clear signs of healthy versus diseased meat. Healthy meat should be pale but not pale pink or purple, firm and elastic to the touch, minimally moist, with little odor, and not shrink much during cooking. Diseased meat appears soft, watery, jelly-like, pale or deep purple, sour or medical odors, and shrivels or boils apart when cooked.
A simple pickle method for damsons plums cherries apples and peaches uses four fruit to seven pounds sugar one pint vinegar and a stick each of cinnamon mace and cloves. Simmer spices in vinegar pour over fruit let stand two days drain boil vinegar with spices again return fruit and boil until clear and transparent.
J B Smith of Patmos Ohio told the Farmers Club that soils reveal land quality with timber as a guide. He notes white oak indicates poor land, beach and sugar lands suit summer crops, rolling beach and sugar lands make good grazing, and certain oaks and hickories signal subsoil traits. He praises soils that yield grain and grasses, plus clover and timothy. He counsels removing troublesome dogs and keeping hens, quipping for a dog tax.
A sudden jerk or slip in the stable can injure shoulder muscles and tendons, risking lameness without rest. Immediate cold water on day one followed by a liniment of ammonia and sulfuric ether in rain water, applied by friction for ten minutes, twice daily, is advised to restore the parts and return the horse to work after a careful few days.
Aanaas Farmer shares practical fruit tree planting tests. Spring plantings failed many peaches, with some peaches dying and most cherries and pears lost. Fall plantings fared much better, and a large spring effort of two thousand deciduous and evergreen trees is progressing well.
Rural World readers ask about the peach variety and insect damage. A respondent identifies Mam moth Heath Cling, notes curculio causes rotten spots, and recommends catching and killing the pest. A second note provides a poultry scarfing remedy using carbonate of soda, lard, and calomel.
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