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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
7
The article describes the new dairy barn at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. It notes a stable and milk house designed to produce milk as pure as possible under ordinary stable conditions. Features include steel stanchions fixed in concrete and a washable ceiling. Ventilation uses the King system with windows.
A detailed description outlines a separate milk house from the stable, a ventilated ante-room for milkers, and a straining room feeding a separator room. Milk is cooled promptly in a refrigerator and bottled for delivery, with a butter-making room as auxiliary. Three practical lessons are: separate milk house, milkers kept out of the separator, and immediate cooling after straining.
Instructions from P C Flaskegard stressing clean milk cans. Rinse with cold and boiling water, brush to scrub, air dry three hours, avoid leaving milk in the barn overnight. Proper can care prevents sour milk and a sour smell at the creamery.
The article advises frequent cultivation for young orchard trees and windbreak evergreens to prevent drought damage. It notes sod-bound trees bake and dry out in the July and August sun, stressing regular soil upkeep.
Mr. L. P. Bailey of the Ohio state board of agriculture outlines two methods to improve dairy herds. He stresses selecting the dam for dairy form and meritorious ancestry, and urges keeping calves lean and thrifty until cowhood. He advises mating practice and feeding to develop milk capacity, with heifers calving around 30 months for profitability.
Circular 115 from the Illinois Experiment Station shows a rigged board supporting scales and milk record. The illustration reproduces the plan clearly, with the general detail well presented.
An institute speaker quotes a saying about livestock and critique of feeding practices. He suggests variations like stuffing the steer and starving the cow or consigning them to the sausage mill if not worth it. He urges not feeding a cow dried bread but providing a varied diet.
With good management a sow should produce two litters a year and two or three sows will give as many pigs as the average farmer cares to fatten.
Guidance on packing for picnics emphasizes lightweight hampers, regulated size, and sturdy straw cases for bottles and cups. Use pilates for foods, wrap sandwiches in damp napkins, ice water, and waxed paper. keep lettuce dampened for a fresh table. Pack dressing separately, use individual salt pepper packets, and chill items to avoid heat.
A simple egg salad method details boiling eight eggs for fifteen minutes then chilling and chopping. It instructs making a dressing with flour sugar butter ground mustard and vinegar then cooking five minutes before pouring over the eggs and adding nuts if desired.
Remove tops and scoop seeds from small nutmeg melons to extract pulp. Cut pulp into pieces and mix melon juice with whipped cream. Freeze until stiff. Spoon frappe cream and pulp into hollowed shells in alternating layers, finishing with frappe on top.
A simple prepared salad combining one cup red kidney beans boiled until soft with one cup English walnuts or peanuts one cup chopped celery and about six olives chopped fine. Serve on lettuce bed with mayonnaise dressing.
A simple home remedy to remove grease from carpet. Sprinkle corn starch thickly on the stain, cover with newspaper, and leave for a day or two. Then sweep away the powder to reveal a cleaner spot.
A George Washington University professor, described as rotund and profound, overhears his children debating the meaning of absolute. The eldest asks if a man can be absolutely good, the second if absolutely bad, and a daughter if absolutely fat. He dies suddenly after the exchange.
A London mother details her son Owen’s skin ordeal from infancy to age fifteen. After failing hospital trials and desperate remedies, a six month course of Cutiura Remedies cured him, ending years of agony and raw skin. The letter is signed by Mrs. Lily Hedge from Camberwell Green, England, dated January 12, 1907.
A curios note in the column jokes about mountain lions becoming extinct and jokes about missing chances to shoot one, reflecting a lighthearted countryside mood.
Hall Caine writes of his youth starting at age five riding with his uncle from the lonely homestead behind Snaefell to Douglas, a city of about 10 000. His nickname Hommy-beg came from his grandmother who christened him and filled his memory with fairy tales and lore.
Miss Heamley recalls a man from New England who studied her face and asked if she was born that way, while Miss Knox confirms the moment and adds details about the inquiry.
A brief dialogue jokes about a man being a book keeper after a debtor says he lent a book five years ago and it was never returned. The exchange hints at a play on words with a librarian-like job.
A would-be masher in a parlor car sits beside a pretty girl and asks who occupies the seat. She retorts that no one sits there yet with sharp sarcasm. An ad for Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Peoria, Illinois follows, alongside the remark that a coat of arms doesn’t hide a skeleton.
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