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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
4
Advice on preventing horse feet from catching the rope at the manger. Use a halter ring on the nose strap, run rope to a wall staple, and attach a light weight to keep the rope taut. Ensure the weight won’t hinder lying down, keep inside heel plain and short, and consider feeding to address debility and ankle weakness.
Practical guidance on winter apple storage from Indianapolis News and a safety tip for cutting corn. Proper packing and cold storage extend apple quality into midwinter, while a guarded chopping block reduces hand injuries during corn processing. The note emphasizes gentle handling, firm packing, and dry, non freezing storage conditions.
A Poultry Keeper correspondent shares a DIY trough project from galvanized iron three and a half feet long. Two wooden end pieces fit inside the trough, nailed securely, with cloth between ends for water and a lath crosspiece to prevent chickens from entering.
Construct a swinging water trough from end pieces with eyes on top. Drive stakes apart to hang troughs, fit eyes with tops on stakes, and raise the trough about six inches. Paint if desired, fill with water for a day to condition before chickens drink.
Tobacco decoction for use as an insecticide can be made by reducing market extracts or boiling cut stems to create a thick brown extract. One pound of tobacco stems yields one gallon of extract in two hours. if reduced further, add water to restore volume before use. Strawberry plants may stay in the mixture for several minutes and need not be washed off after removal.
Prevention of interferimed. The interfering of horses cay often times be remedied, especially if the ani mal interferes in front. The feet should be trimmed so that they are level, and the animal should be shod with a small
The article argues fall planting benefits for most fruit trees except peaches. It highlights better soil conditioning, more time and care in fall, nurseries offering fresher stock, and easier winter protection, concluding fall planting is favorable when acreage and work allow.
The piece argues half-grown roaster chicks taste undesirable due to cheap worm-filled meals. It warns against low-price feeds and urges growers to use high quality grains and a good grass range to improve flavor and market value.
A historical note advises farmers to use surplus summer garden vegetables and fall root crops to feed poultry daily. It recommends chopping odd vegetables for time on range flocks and saving unsold root crops for winter, plus buying small potatoes cabbages and other greens after home crops run out.
G P Bellows in Prairie Farmer argues a bull should not be in prime show condition to sire good calves. He favors a thrifty, solid frame, not overly thin or overly lean, noting a difference of opinion on what constitutes show condition.
Australia edge Canada and the United States as European apple buyers look to Tasmania for fruit. Tasmania reports 8 873 acres under apple orchards and a 1890 yield of 363 913 bushels, marking the region as a premier apple producer.
Dark stables and basement barns for milk cows are described as injurious to cattle health, with tuberculosis spreading to an alarming extent among dairy herds.
Prof. Thurston of Cornell notes the twentieth century opens with the gas engine challenging steam in large scale commercial work. Tests show the best gas engines achieve thermal efficiency near the best steam engines while using cheaper fuel.
The Black Diamond reprints Mark Twain remarks on rich gold deposits from California lore. Twain recalls Calistoga springs and his own mock methods, noting water yields and a wind carrying fine gold dust across 600 miles of quartz croppings, while offering a historical aside on mining folly.
A Brooklyn police operator reels as a South Brooklyn sergeant misdescribes a patient injury with terms like spliced wound of the abandonment. An ambulance surgeon clarifies it as an incised wound of the abdomen, prompting the operator to faint from frustration.
In The First White Baby Born in the Northwest, a frontier family on a remote farm faces starvation after Indians steal their wheat, mixing glass into the grain. For days they carefully pick kernel by kernel to save what remains, while flour runs low and relief arrives just in time.
A London Spectator writer argues natural death largely ends pain with a sleep like release. He notes heart failure and syncope can be sudden and painless while hanging may involve a voluptuous spasm and poisons vary in pain. Opium may yield dreamlike ease whereas arsenic or acid poisons bring slow torture and quick ruin from cyanide.
A tropics note praises the mango tree for abundant fruit and generous shade. It claims mango is highly relished by natives and serves as a fine shade tree, while warning that critics seek opportunities to mock you.
New flannel waists dominate the season with box pleats and embroidered fronts in white and colored options. Black velvet trims appear extensively on gowns and cloaks, with three quarter length raglans and double shoulder capes. Bold combinations of velvet with silk and cloth continue to appear, while intricate tucks and pleats shape bodices and skirts.
The article notes gowns advance from simple basics to richly embroidered silk and velvets. It describes white silk reverses with green embroidery, dull red vine gowns with white trimmed boleros, and layered brown green cheviot with green velvet trimmings. Neckwear grows bolder with lace imitations and chiffon.
Chantilly galloons emerge as a leading dress trimming with black and white bonus pieces where white predominates. The season promises these trims to become a popular fashion accent in modern ensembles.
Observers note waist emphasis and contrasting alai d colors with white items gaining wear. Short jackets dominate with double breasted cuts and dull black silk lapels. dark hues prevail while lighter fabrics appear in looser outfits. Lace and fur trims grow bolder on capes and cloaks as black velvet returns in fall ensembles. Narrow soutache braids and vertical velvet bands decorate gowns, with wide ribbons reserved for flounces and skirts.
A historical note details lavish royal kitchen fittings in Windsor and St Petersburg. It reports Windsor and royal households spending tens of thousands on copper and silver utensils, with Catherine the Great’s legacy including solid silver cooking gear and gold spice boxes. The czar’s Winter Palace kitchen is cited with 120000 for construction and 400000 remodeling, plus 600000 annual outlay per dunum, and a high-salary chief cook and staff.
The piece explains how Washington disposes of garbage to generate profit. Garbage is raill transferred to a reduction works, sorted, taxed by steam pressure, and separated into oils fats and fertilizer. Hides and animal carcasses add incidental income, with monthly profits claimed.
A traveler recounts experiments in the Syracuse ear shaped prison cave. Striking paper at the entrance yields three heavy blows inside, while light rapping amplifies to thunderous levels and whispers are echoed as if many voices respond.
Some physicians testing life insurance applicants warn of a possible link between elevator work and heart trouble or early arterial degeneration in men and boys who ride or operate elevators daily. The cause remains uncertain, with theories ranging from atmospheric pressure shifts to sudden starts and stops to unknown factors.
A Calcutta correspondent notes five American locomotives on the Bengal Central Railway now give fair satisfaction after changes reduced coal use to the English rate. These engines have run since summer 1899 and similar models were supplied last year to Assam Bengal Railway, Oudh and Rohilkhand line, and Burma Railway.
The piece explains a market convention where five shares form the base unit and multiples of five are deemed even, while intermediate quantities are odd. It notes that shares not divisible by five are hard to sell unless discounted.
Travelers are advised to keep a safe distance from the track while trains pass. The section behind a rapid expresses has drawn people on the platform under the train and several deaths have occurred in this manner.
In Mexican copper mines rosewood timber lines mine shafts and mahogany serves as fuel for engines, reflecting a forest resource use described in the article.
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