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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1897
Page
3
A fragment describes the lone dairy school building in a western state as a historic start toward a cashless dairy program. The structure, unadorned and amid barren surroundings, cost under $3,000 with only one third funded by the state, highlighting modest beginnings and essential equipment.
A reader urges architects to blend sightliness with utility in dairy school construction. The piece envisions a grassy, tree shaded campus surrounding a simple boxlike building, praising rugged purpose and future lawns, and notes the value of well planned dairy education for the western state. It covers the Five States Milk Producers association plan, local and route committees, dues, and aims to fix milk prices, ensure pure milk, curb adulteration, and improve distribution for producer and consumer benefit.
The article argues against state tuberculosis funding, praises practical farming, and highlights dairy care. It discusses stampeding disease fears, shunning excessive grain, and keeping barns clean. It also covers selecting dairy heifers, calf upbringing, and the importance of nutrition and stock vigor.
A curious 19th century device for land measurement is described, a wheel with a one inch band iron rim producing just shy feet per circumference, built from simple sticks and nails. The piece explains how to mark divisions, use a fork handle, and count revolutions for precise measurement, plus a second device for lifting heavy items with rope hooks. It also includes farming notes on onions, recommending dry sandy loam, manure, rye cover crop, planting rows, and using wood ash top dressing for higher yields. The column offers practical tips for weighing farm supplies and a manners question regarding a gentlemanly response to a burning woman, ending with a note on proper conduct.
The article explains how hillside terrain and underground streams in New England and nearby states feed springs and ponds, offering farmers methods to locate lost springs, sink ponds for trout, and use subterranean flow for irrigation. It also notes artificial bee foundations and furrow irrigation efficiency and cites Professor Taft on proper surface water management.
The text explains turning back furrows after soaking to preserve moisture, suggests spraying rows with a slight slope for water flow, recommends 2 to 3 inches per 100 feet as desirable and warns against excessive slope. It notes carefully laying out furrows can make impossible land irrigable yet feasible with proper technique.
A cautionary note against extreme dieting for children urges that healthy plumpness is natural and beneficial before adolescence. Medical authorities advocate nourishing meals to build fat reserves for strength, criticizing deprivation and fad dieting for kids.
An English journal describes Welsh mountain sheep as small hardy and profitable for US farmers. Lambs fetch 6 to 7 shillings in November fairs, with meat praised as tender and digestible. The piece notes low initial cost, mountain pasture, and easy care, plus advice on farm style and markets. It also touches horse head classifications and fertilizer trials at Ohio stations, highlighting phosphoric acid and complete fertilizers for corn and potatoes.
The pact outlines mutual acceptance of veterinary certificates and immediate notification of contagious diseases. It imposes 90 day quaratines on cattle from Europe, 15 day quarantines on ruminants and swine from affected regions, and tuberculin testing for cattle. It covers transit, port inspections, and specific rules for cattle, sheep, swine, and horses including bonded movement and certificates. Also notes on market rabbits and general live stock feeding and breeding advisory points.
Denim portieres in golden tan or old red create inexpensive window coverings for libraries and dining rooms. Create leaf shapes or lace motifs from black velveteen, attach with stiff starch, outline bee figures in yellow silk floss, and arrange the motifs at intervals or as a border about 15 inches from the top.
A museum tour through a major brass instrument maker reveals a costly czarist silver cornet with ruby and emerald inlays, an ironclad battle bugle stained by Isandlwana, and a Rhodesia drums replica. Other pieces include equestrian state sets for Persian royalty and a palace band for Morocco, all priced in guineas and pounds with exotic provenance.
A controversial 19th century column contrasts brutal domestic control with humane treatment and notes a case where a St Louis husband imprisoned his wife with a mouse. The piece recalls the precinct captain's intervention. It also cites W F Massey on cattle feeding and preference for pea meal over cottonseed meal for dairy cows.
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