Dairies Explore Cheese Yield and Patent Butter Packing
The article discusses milk components for dairymen focusing on butter-fat and caseine, noting butter-fat responds to food quality. It describes trials with Jersey and Dutch cows, and suggests nitrogen-rich feeds may boost milk and cheese yield, while rich fat content can affect cheese quality. It also details a new patent for butter packing by William R. Tipton of Lebanon, with box and tray designs to improve shipping and moisture control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Wm. R. Tipton
Lebanon
Dairy Notes and Moonlit Verses from Maine
Dairy notes warn against milking a cow while she eats noting lost production if meals are skipped. A Maine fair dairy dispute favored a Jersey, praised for clover fed milk. The poem The Harvest Moon contemplates autumn skies and silent longing under a serene celestial light.
Mind cure movements and quack therapies warned about
A historical critique discusses mind curers patent medicine venders mesmerists and faith healers criticizing their claims to cure all diseases through mental power. It cites skepticism from the era about cures and recalls anecdotes about John Adams and a benefactor as illustration of trust in questionable remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Latpais
Hahnemann
Pedrote
Western Medical Reporter
OM Iam Adams
Tell
Adams Express
Charester
Tike Obdiund
Man Adams
Raves
Chece
Phan
Encare Ee
Adams
Waldo
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
First English Bible printed in 1535 by Miles Coverdale
The 1535 English Bible, without publisher name, was Coverdale's work using Tyndale material in the New Testament and Pentateuch. It mixed originals and translations from German and Latin, later known as the Great Bible with curious renderings and archaic phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Miles Coverdale
Tyndale
Joash
Jeremiah
Oslahad
Leela
Bers
Bers’ Journal
Longevity Theories and Observations From Historical Texts
The article surveys opinions on human lifespan, citing Buffon and Easton on factors affecting longevity such as exercise, air, and simple diet. It notes that only a fraction reach centenarian status, with heredity, environment, and temperance influencing lifespan, and references a Minneapolis Journal summary on drinking and diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lewis
Coord
Easton
Buffon
Probero
Phrey
Sion
Hum
Minneapolis Journal
Turning Grain Into Butter In Rural Dairy Practice
A rural account describes Bixson’s Belle the Jersey cow producing 1029 pounds of milk a year and a test to convert grain fat into butter. It explains feeding regimes feeding twenty four quarts of grain daily and the dairy economics of fat in grain versus high priced butter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bixson
Jersey
Ana
Abe
Biseson
Convenient Bag Holder Pitched by Indiana Farmer
J T W Luckey of Decatur Indiana writes to the Practical Farmer describing a grain handling aid he calls a convenient bag holder. He notes the device eases pouring grain into sacks and could save time and reduce spills for farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.T. W. Luckey
Decatur, Ind
Portable dairy saver folds for field use
A farmer favors a foldable de vise that fits in a bag and can be carried when not in use. It is operated by water driven De Laval components with skimmed milk pumped to a nearby tank. Cream chills in cold spring water and is processed into barrels at 66 degrees in warm months and 6 degrees in winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Desari
Medioa Sania Pas Eerom
Bopte Gygensbort
Gastoun & Des Sysie
Negtnem
de Laval
Winter dairying preparations for cows and stables
Practical Farmer advises readers to ready stables and milking areas for winter. Emphasizes maintaining warm, well ventilated spaces with ample air, instant access to bedding and feed, and easy water supply for cows during cold weather. Avoid keeping cows outdoors after temperatures dip below forty five degrees.
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Maine
Mazrest Moon
Barth
Mike
Eolemn Pest
the Falth Care
Crewe
Prin
New York
Rissom
O. M. Ulrich
Courar
Smoker
West Front Street
Elk Wood
Place OF
Plainfield
B. Miller
Pierson Hardware
Plainfield Produce
Ratitan Mills
North
R. J. Shaw
Ocs Lyr
Front Street
Park Avenue
Hallock & Davis
Hatters
Dent
Omer
A. M. Griffen
Front ST
F. A. Dunham
Neté.tyr
N. J
D. W. Ryde
Piano
Warmone
MATIE
Somerville and Easton
Philadelphia
BE. R. Pope, P. M
E. Plower’s
Wand
Aes
Prop St. Oethar
I. D. Cook
Lehigh
Pirbet
Pio
Bert
Deti Lyr
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