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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
6
A fragment discusses improving health through small steps rather than bulk growth. It mentions methods to secure fruit preserves against bacteria. The text covers covering can tops with a knife handle and dipping lids in hot paraffin for storage in a cool dark cellar.
A column describes varied sandwich fillings from jam with cream cheese to banana pineapple mix with strawberry jam. Other ideas include tomato cucumber bacon cottage cheese spreads, salt pork between chow chow, and raisin bread with fudge. Also listed are corn dainties, patty pie, and a nut and cheese roast with lemon.
Practical guides on drying corn and beans and canning tomatoes. Directions cover selecting ears, blanching, drying, salting beans in crocks, soaking, and processing jars with proper sealing and timing for quarts and pints. Contains cautions on temperature, aging, and storage.
Franklin D Roosevelt era note cites Hoover calling the food crisis a grave danger and urges elimination of waste and self sacrifice by Americans. He says people should eat plenty but wisely and without waste to prevent collapse of civilization.
Barley is valued for protein and minerals and is being revived as a substitute for wheat flour in bread. It offers a gluten free option and is used in pone, breakfast foods, and scones with varied ingredients like milk, baking powder, and beef drippings.
A compact verse fragment presents the speaker noting that the wheat is his concern while all else follows God’s will. The line emphasizes toil and faith as duties shaping daily life. Source attribution to Kipling appears in a misquoted form.
A scattered advice column offers tips for homemakers including eye rests during phone use, green hoops as plant supports, a handy griddle pan greaser from a salt sack, safe driving with children, fruit label alternatives, and glass cleanup with a wool cloth. It also urges maintaining a home task list and includes a dated cake recipe with spices and frosting.
In his farming experience W F Baird argues that on many farms ten to one hundred more sheep can be profitably maintained alongside existing cattle and hogs. He notes sheep profitability, field productivity gains, and practical shelter needs for a flock to boost profits without costly barns while emphasizing proper care and ventilation.
Ohio experiments fed three pig lots for 30 days with different feeds: lot 1 ear corn and clover pasture, lot 2 rye, lot 3 ear corn and rape pasture, plus tankage. Daily gains averaged 0.82, 0.57 and 0.75 lb per pig, with feed per lb of gain 2.66, 6.34 and 2.91. Lot 2 joined lot 1 on clover for 26 days. clover pigs gained 0.75 lb day and used 3.64 lb feed per lb gain, while the clover lot gained 0.87 lb day with 3.16 lb feed per lb gain.
The pedigree of an animal reflects its ancestors for five or six generations. The value lies in the natural law that like produces likeness, where similar traits are passed through lineage.
A cautionary note urges farmers not to sell breeding cows or brood sows despite high current prices or fear of asking prices, warning such actions could jeopardize future calves and litters.
The piece recounts how England under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake met the Spanish Armada of 1588. It details the fleet sizes, tactics, fireships, and endurance that frustrated Philip II’s invasion, with Drake and Howard displacing the Spanish near Calais and Dunkirk, and the English navy preserving sea power.
A report from London Tit-Bits discusses the idea that dogs possess a sixth sense beyond the five humans use. It cites examples of dogs locating masters in crowds and returning home after long train journeys, suggesting an extra faculty scientists have yet to identify.
England's first almanac was the Kalendar of Shepardes printed in 1497, forty years after Gutenberg. From then on almanaecs proliferated with prognostications added to calendars. An early specimen shows Drognosty venevon by Master John Tubault on lunar influences, peas, war, and yearly illnesses with celestial constellations under kings and princes.
Aunt Tildy bursts into a fire house in Richmond complaining Jeems Henry has been conjured. She asks to notify Dan to go see a car-cleaners’ sem porium and says Doctor Cutter distracted two blood vultures from the pendercitis while fearing nepro pneumonia and German contagion.
In a heated exchange, Bliggins is derided as a sour flush while Bropdio Bob resists trouble from sentiment. He refuses to hear Bliggins compared to a plain discard, defending a purty hand in the deck for bluffing purposes.
A device confines the dark area to around the egg during candling. It allows a single room to be used for candling, grading, and packing, reducing unsanitary conditions and eliminating light from entering from above. The method speeds grading and offers better interior visibility of eggs.
Chicks raised with hens are prone to lice which slow growth or kill them. Powder the hen with insect powder before pairing with chicks, then repeat at intervals. Inspect chicks for lice on head wings and vent, and rub grease such as lard on infected areas. Apply grease moderately and recheck frequently.
Capons reach full size before fattening at ten to twelve months. Fatten them two to three weeks before marketing if kept in dark coops. Feed cornmeal middlings and milk, wet but not too wet. Use cracked glass as digestion aid, but grit is safest. A farmer should keep many male birds as capons fetch higher profits than turkeys per pound.
Henhouses must ventilate in summer and winter. Birds roost higher if perch space is ample, ten inches minimum. Open, airy houses reduce heat and odors. a north side two foot high opening aids cooling. remove windows, add screens, keep doors wide open.
Be sure the brooder is cleaned and disinfected frequently and regularly. Vermin and germs of disease should not be allowed to get into a brooder but if they should invade they develop more rapidly in warm weather than in cool.
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