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Newspaper
Osgood Republican
Location
Osgood, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1885
Page
7
Fall and winter fashion forerunners are presented with designs sent in by Mr. Redfern. The collection features seasonal garments and styling hints reflecting the forthcoming wardrobe trends.
The article describes front drapings and skirt fullness in Redfern Street costumes, noting braiding popularity for fall and winter and critiquing gilt trims. It covers round pins with enamel motifs, diamond encircled miniatures, and distinctions from older brooch styles, plus a recipe for serving muskmelon with grape leaves.
Practical guide to moving forest trees like black walnut oaks maples and elms with root pruning and careful digging. Suggests using small trunks two inches or less and cutting tap roots months before transplanting to reduce shock. Encourages planting trees around farm edges for curb appeal and increased value.
The article urges farmers to consider Shropshire sheep as a versatile breed with high quality wool and lean meat. It notes Britain's royal showing favor with 875 Shropshires counted against 420 other breeds, praising their size, fecundity, early breeding, and adaptability across conditions.
A breast plow serves many uses from cutting sods to clearing swamp surfaces. It loosens weeds for compost, clears fencerows, and handles thick thistles and stiff plaintains. The tool resembles a rounded shovel with upturned sides and a cross handle, edge sharpened for weed and scramble clearance.
Farmers should focus on winter lambs for steady returns as prices stay strong. Market timing matters. February and March offer top prices while early lambs require careful feeding and management. Projections note high cull rates and selective sale of nonpregnant ewes for meat.
The article advises careful lamb feeding from fresh feed, using four daily feeds in winter plus straw, clover hay and fodder. It notes lambs of good breed can reach about sixty pounds by ten weeks, and that ewes for breeding should be aged two to six years with strong health.
Mrs Henry C Meredith of Cambridge Indiana recently sold a draft of thirty five shorthorns from her herd. Bulls and bull calves averaged 152.2 dollars and females 161.2 dollars. She plans to maintain the Oakland herd begun by Gen Sol Meredith and continue by her husband until his death. She will soon go to England to select and import top animals from the original home of shorthorns. She may become a noted breeder akin to Lady Piggott of England.
Advice to cut out agricultural articles and paste them in a scrap book arranged alphabetically by sutlets. Have family assist with pasting to build a bulky yet searchable farm library for quick reference.
A circular seeks wool growers and sheep and wool association officers nationwide to provide names and addresses. The information will go to A. W. Delano, president of the National Wool Growers association, care Edward Young, 119 Maryland Avenue NE, Washington DC, to lobby for protection and oppose free trade.
An 1860s advertisement extols Dr Marchisi Catholicon as a female remedy for ovarian troubles inflammation ulcers and related conditions. It claims cure of bearing down irregularities and weakness with headaches and nervous debility. Products sold by druggists with pamphlet available from Dr J B Marchisi Wren New York and B F Spencer Druggist. Also promotes Parker's Tonic and High Arm Singer sewing machines with agent notices.
Batesville Carving Company files August 1 1885 in Ripley Circuit Court for name change to Greeman Brothers Manufacturing Company. Hearing set at next term in Versailles Ripley County Ind on September 7 1885. Interested parties must appear by August 15 1885.
The text details three carp varieties the scale or true carp, the mirror carp, and the leather carp. It notes Germany favors the scale carp for flavor while calling the others inferior, and mentions small, pony carp sold in Kentucky and other states that resemble little the true carp.
Growers report unusual onion maggot damage in some areas and suggest preventive steps. A remedy is sowing 490 pounds of salt per acre in early spring. Also a mixture of salt with water one tablespoon salt to one gallon water may help when applied to young plants and repeated as needed.
Good News for the South reports cotton, corn, and tobacco will be the largest ever known, fruits and vegetables also strong, sugar crop better than 1884. With such prospects, business is already picking up. all depends on the farmer.
Instructions describe sweetening grape juice, boiling in porcelain kettles, skimming impurities, bottling in glass bottles, corking and sealing. Kept cool in a dark place, the juice remains wholesome for a long time and serves as a drink or medicine.
Ranchers at Francklyn Land and Cattle and Goodnight ranches, plus C. J. Jones of Garden City, hold buffaloes with about fifty head and more in the Neutral strip area. Buffalo calves fetch about 50 dollars, robes 15 to 20 dollars, and steak runs about 12.5 cents a pound in Dodge City, signaling potential profitability from buffalo farming.
A Rural New Yorker essay praises the huckleberry once neglected in favor of apples and grapes. It urges horticulturists to select, cultivate, and raise seedlings to reveal the berry’s potential, imagining it rivaling cherries in size and flavor and promising fortune to any discoverer.
The text urges shading only on high pasture points and warns against dairy tasks without a taemometer. It mentions lambs from ewes receiving good fresh pasture and notes over 24,000,000 fish eggs placed in Maryland's eastern shore waters.
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