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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1895
Page
6
A historic description details a water pumping mechanism with bent pins forming spouts hung near the top on a teeter bar. As levers move, pipes rise and fall, balancing water columns to drive a pump with minimal friction. A separate Colorado inventor proposes an automatic water wheel system with buckets in a hollow shaft for canal discharge.
A historical farmer advisory argues that feeding grain to livestock is often overlooked as a profit booster. It weighs past habits, labor costs, and regional crops, praising corn fodder and ensilage while advocating practical barn designs and near markets. The piece cites New England conditions, Western farm shifts, and a Connecticut farmer remarking on a model barn.
Alexander Mair, manager of Indian Neck Stud, offers views on clipping horses for riding and driving. He argues clipping aids speed, drying after travel, and cold prevention with blankets, while un clipped coats risk excess sweat and cold. Critics object to the look of hair on legs despite practical benefits.
A practical 19th century guide covers clipping horses to improve comfort, curing quarter cracks with bar shoes and clamps, and promoting horn growth. It includes a farmer’s note on hog finishing, sheep sales, and lice remedies, plus a sea tale of a white squall warning and the captain’s vigilance.
A fragmented excerpt traces Jacob Fugger’s rise in Augsburg, detailing his wool, silk, mining, and banking expansion from Europe to influential feudal lands, enoblement by Maximilian I and Leo X, and the family’s wealth through 16th century ventures and elaborate hospitality.
A Middletown Conn professor named Conn conducts experiments with a milk culture from Uruguay that supposedly sweetens and enriches milk and yields butter with a richer aroma. The plan aims to propagate the culture nationwide to improve American butter, using June batter microbes cultivated in his lab and shipped in glass tubes with cotton-wool stoppers.
Beasy for shipment restricts cream gathering to twice or thrice weekly in winter, delaying cream pouring. The microbe need not be freshly introduced into each batch. Butter makers inoculate a starter from a small cream portion, using yeast-like action akin to breadmaking. Fresh bacilli required two or three times a month.
The Producers Milk Company of Rochester presents a model for dairy farmers to bypass middlemen. Organized February 14 1893 the New York corporation with 50600 capital issues stock to farmers who supply milk and share year end dividends. President William G Markham Avon NY secretary treasurer Herbert C Sonie. Board governs operations at a Rochester depot with strict purity standards and fair shipper payments.
An overview of dairy operations outlines strict cleanliness and handling standards for milk production. It covers milking procedures, equipment sanitation, cooler and aeration requirements, and central depot practices to ensure milk quality. It also notes the impact of cow diet on milk flavor and emphasizes milk inspection programs to prevent contamination and disease transmission.
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