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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1913
Page
3
The article outlines egg quality and handling tips for farmers including standards for No 1 eggs, reducing dirties, avoiding washing market eggs, and reducing breakage. It covers storage, gathering frequency, broodiness management, roosters removal, infertile eggs for storage, candling, and preventing odors, heat, moisture, and contamination to maintain freshness and value.
Utah farmers face a serious pest, the alfalfa weevil, first appearing in 1907. Adults are brown, 3 16 inch long, with a darker back stripe. larvae damage buds for about six weeks. Control urges rapid spring growth, early harvest, spring tooth and brush dragging, and four to five year rotation.
The Live Stock Journal declares deep plowing essential for fertility and moisture. It credits heavy draft horses as the first to enable deep plowing and large loads, noting a long controversy with shallow plowing and urging farmers to upgrade teams to achieve higher yields.
The Missouri experiment station finds dairy output hinges on digestive capacity and feed utilization. Appetite and assimilation vary among cows, and production follows intake. physical traits like chest depth, nerve power, skin quality, and udder and vein condition offer clues, though records remain decisive.
The excerpt describes cutting cowpeas, mowing, sun drying for a day, raking, and wind drying for another day before forming small and then larger bunches. Weather permitting, the crop remains in windrows before being brought to the barn for storage.
A piece urges valuing well bred poultry and fowls as essential for any territory’s poultry products. It argues that no region excels in poultry outputs without adherence to superior breeding standards.
A market gardener’s daily leftovers inspire a frugal householder to buy surplus vegetables and fruits at low prices. She cans tomatoes into catsup, dries and preserves beans and corn, cucumbers, beets, and fruits using a fireless method to save fuel and keep the home cool. Preparation times vary by item, with berries removed after about 45 minutes, apples and pears an hour, and pineapple about two and a half hours.
Pare and slice six tart apples and stew them, strain, sweeten and salt. Make a butter and flour paste, add ice water, roll thin, fold with butter, repeat set steps, cut into four inch squares, place a spoonful of sauce on one half and seal. Bake quickly, dust with powdered sugar after baking.
An accommodating silversmith warns against storing silver in white bags. He recommends dark red blue or green cotton bags like those used by jewelers and silversmiths. White bags may contain sulfur from bleaching that tarnishes silver, whereas colored bags avoid this effect.
Butter bread slices and cover with lettuce. Layer thin slices of cold mutton. Mix half a pint of seasoned peas with a spoon of salad dressing and a lettuce leaf. Place peas on bread and finish with another buttered slice.
Soak six thin slices of salt pork in milk and water overnight. Roll each slice in flour and fry until crisp and brown in lard. Dip in beaten egg then roll in bread crumbs and return briefly to hot fat for a final cook. A good relish.
A kitchen note suggests preventing icing from cracking by mixing one tablespoon of Sweet cream into each uneaten egg first. Stir, then add sugar until stiff before serving.
Instructions describe bleaching feathers using naphtha rinses and air drying, then sealing in an airtight box to expose them to strong sulphur fumes for successful whitening.
A brief tip explains mending torn matting by back and forth raffia stitches matching the color. It notes that even worn places can be successfully repaired using this simple technique.
A humorous social vignette features two women gossiping about Archie Blueblood and a proposed marriage. They mock his abilities in riding, tennis, golf, and driving, but concede he can swim. The unnamed narrator quips about keeping him in an aquarium.
A Clarkfield resident describes a long lasting itchy leg condition starting as red yellow pin head spots with dry scales. Despite many salves, Cuticura Soap and Ointment cured the condition after six weeks. Sample offers and an address for Cuticura are included.
A humorous exchange from the Philadelphia Record features a country barber and a caller who jokes about talking to himself while shaving. The snippet also advertises Mrs Winston’s Soothing Syrup for Teething with claims of gum softening and pain relief priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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