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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
6
A Michigan inventor offers a bottle design that lets cream be drawn off through a small bottom opening. The plug at the top is pierced to admit air, enabling flow, and each plug must stay with its matched bottle for reuse.
A reader asks about ropy milk its cause and cure. Ropy milk is caused by certain bacteria found in dirty stagnant water that contaminate cows udders and milking utensils. Cure lies in absolute cleanliness including scalding utensils lime coating and boiling water followed by stable cleaning with limewash.
A Missouri Valley Farmer writer describes a simple tool made from one by four board with evenly spaced holes to operate multiple barn stanchions. Bolted to the stanchions, a single sever at the end can close all guards, with the end lock remaining as the only required lock.
Dairymen worry changing cow feed harms milk flow, but repeated scientific experiments show that adding to the regular feed often improves milk flow.
The piece argues there is money in dairying despite common doubt, requiring a blend of quality cows and effective management to make the venture profitable. It highlights the need for sound stock and disciplined operations to boost returns.
Guidance on bull management includes pasture, shed, and fencing for safety. feeding with a mixed grain ration of wheat bran and ground outs, high daily forage. staging and timing of service to balance milk production. separate pastures for young bulls and rules to prevent impotence. emphasize herd management to avoid debt.
A Breeders' Gazette excerpt describes a barn with a cement basement and cement floor. It details wall thicknesses: eight feet clear height, side walls 16 inches bottom 12 inches top, end walls 14 inches bottom and top. The driveway passes through at ground level or about four inches above. The text ends mid sentence noting the cost.
The owner states the total is about $3,000 with roughly $1,000 for cement base and wall. The barn houses 28 cows, split 14 per side, plus eight horses. It includes one box stall, one double stall, four single stalls, and a harness room.
A dairyman sent a bottle of milk to Paris for the exposition and it returned after 28 days still sweet. No preservatives were used, and the only precautions were sterile dishes and bottle and cooling milk immediately while maintaining a low temperature.
Guidelines on gradual ration changes for calves and feeding frequency. Warns against overlarge land holdings and poor silos. Emphasizes regular feeding and milking, udder care for sick or baking udders, gentle handling of heifers, and Ayrshire udder characteristics.
William A Radford offers readers free advice on building topics and presents an economical six room cottage design 20 by 88 feet with a straight sided plan and a two partition stair for light. The layout emphasizes economy over parsimony and includes a 12 foot square living room and a larger dining room with a convenient private living space.
The text outlines a small house layout focusing on a cozy living room nook with tufted materials and shelf space, a low desk near a window, and built in porches. It also describes a hallway used as a telephone rack and a den sized 5 by 8% feet, plus porch construction as economical and integrated into the home.
A guide to crafting edible table decorations from sugar and candy. It describes making sweetmeat flowers with colored icing, wire stems, and sugar petals to adorn birthday cakes and dinners. Suggestions include white snowdrops red berries pink roses and violet clusters with leaves for table arrangements.
The article describes summer gowns featuring pannier silhouettes likely to become the season's rage at resorts. It highlights a black and white check silk pannier dress trimmed with black taffeta bands as an illustration.
Jewels of today grow more beautiful each season with stones in varied colors creating tartan effects. Rings brooches bangles and up to date pieces feature dark gems accented by brilliants. New hair bandeaux and necklaces use small diamond wreaths and buckles on velvet ribbon forming collars or jeweled hair bands. The craze replaces the tiara as the season’s must have jewelry.
A description of Russian crash fabric used in home decor. It covers dressing table covers luncheon cloth and metal table runners. The cloths are embroidered in colors or stenciled to match the common style and sometimes simply hemstitched with a wide hem.
Step by step guide to making a blotting pad using cardboard leather or kid scraps. A 16 by 12 inch base with leather corner reinforcements is glued to the board. The cover uses dark blue art material lined and edged with cord to fold over the pad.
A woman in a small unit built a wide shelf across a bedroom end and placed six to seven hat boxes on it. She wallpapered the boxes in a rose design to match the room. The boxes formed a decorative frieze that created a practical storeroom. An external cupboard door list labeled each box contents.
Advice to wash khaki and tan garments with a little brown dye in rinse water and starch. A ten cent dye packet dissolved in boiling water and bottled lasts a season, helping prevent the washed out look common after laundering.
Simple preparation details rose water blend with ten drops oil of tartar and half an ounce oil of almonds added gradually. Shake well and bottle. Provides a fragrant skin care preparation described as an easily-made toilet requisite.
The Millinery Trade Review notes parasols in dome bell pagoda and palm leaf shapes. Matching hats and parasols are preferred with wide bands of white green cerise purple and blue Latin parasols edging in black velvet. Embroidered or plain strip parasols remain fashionable.
Navy blue and violet dominate millinery with light threads of cerise orange and green gray straw. New flowers show influsnes of these mixtures with poppies of shot taffetas following white velvet blooms. Petals rest on green crepe de chine, bordered around, centers formed by ostrich feathers in black or yellow.
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