Preserving Fruits and Milk at a Factory Farm
The article describes canning methods for plums and peaches with details on peeling, syrups, and use of skins. It shares Damson plum preserves and peach canning steps, plus peach butter and short cake. It also discusses sterilized bottled milk production, purity, and byproducts at a Paris-connected dairy facility with pig waste feeding, celluloid use, and ongoing demand coordination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pessie Wilcox
Farmers’ Review
One Aspect of the Milk Supply of Paris
Prof. Charles R. Henderson reports on an analysis of Paris milk showing only 14 of 100 samples good or tolerably good. He notes adulteration by water due to low delivery wages, and describes the Rothschild milk plant process from farm to pasteurized sealed cans shipped to about forty Paris shops.
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Charles R. Henderson
University of Chicago
Baron Henri de Rothschild
Rothschild
Societe Scientifique d’Hygiene Alimentaire
la Loupe
Paris
Chartres
Dr. Rothschild
Ata‘fon
Summer Salads And Dressings From A Home Kitchen
A compact guide explains chilling ingredients for salads and dressing choices. It covers French and mayonnaise dressings, flavor tweaks with Tarragon vinegar lemon juice onion juice and peppers, and includes practical recipes for Rice and Tomato Salad Fruit Salad and Holland Salad with detailed steps and ratios.
Large Tile for Ditches and Drainage Standards
The article argues for using at least four inch tiles in tile ditch systems, including laterals, noting older 2.5 inch tiles often fail to drain land effectively. It warns that smaller tiles clog from sediment, and a single failed piece can render all tiles above it inoperative, especially when mains reach six to eight inches.
Preventing blemishes in young horses and hog disease notes
A lengthy discuss on horse wound care stresses immediate cleansing removing foreign matter and avoiding ointments or pasture exposure. Proper stall confinement antiseptic use and avoiding blue stone and soap overuse prevent scar formation. The piece also calls for stricter disease control in swine including hog tuberculosis sources carcass disposal laws and medical farming boards.
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A. S. Alexander
Farmers’ Review
Miles
Hog Inspectors Complaining About Hog Market Tuberculosis
Chicago Stock Yards inspectors and veterinaries warn that tuberculosis remains a common disease in marketed swine. They link outbreaks to feeding on entrails and offal from dead animals, noting a practice of buying dead animals to feed to hogs. The exposure is described as widespread in major centers.
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Boards of Health
A. S. Alexander
Farmers’ Review
Chicago
Hints From a Housekeeper Mixes Practical Domestic Tips
Mrs. Riggs shares practical household hints from cleaning to cooking. She suggests using old handkerchiefs as dusters for furniture and instruments, greasing tinware with lard to prevent rust, adjusting meal textures, parsley buttered potatoes, a simple date pie filling, using stale bread to clean shades, and repurposing window shades.
Useless Work and Useless Expense
A Farmers' Review column warns that overplanting and poor timing waste labor and money. It cites fields weeded but not cared for, waterlogged cropland, and wasted prep work, urging careful planning and market access before large expenditures.
Eggs That Wont Roll Off
In July Country Calendar, it notes California murres nesting on cliff faces with no nests, only single eggs placed in niches to prevent seaward drops. The murre egg top shape prevents rolling, and experiments show eggs spin and halt near edges, proving their taper and tough shell limit movement.
Competition in perishable and long keeping fruits
To growing very perishable fruits like strawberries the producer comes into competition with only a limited area of country, but the grower of long keeping fruits like winter apples must meet the competition of the world.
Raccoon Found Cash Hidden in Elk Brook Quarry
N O Toole a quarry worker in Elk Brook New York hid his money in the quarry rather than a bank. After a raccoon chased by workers entered a cave a stone blocked the entrance and was removed. In the dirt they found an old tin can with $11. O Toole claimed the money, but wonders where to stash it now.
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O'Toole
New York World
Mirage in Maryland Mirages Seen Over Trappe July 11
Dr James S Chaplain reports a remarkable optical fusion observed in Trappe Talbot county at about 7 p.m. on July 11 by several residents. Mrs John R Mullikin described a half mile distant miniature river scene in the lower atmosphere lasting about thirty minutes on a hot damp day near the Choptank river.
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Maryland
James S. Chaplain
Trappe
Talbot County
John R. Mullikin
Baltimore Sun
One Way to Raise Fish in Chat tahoochee River
James H. Bagwell hauled a river basket he had lost last year near Chattahoochee Park. He found three good sized fish in the basket previously recovered. the basket resurfaced yesterday with the fish alive and larger. The report appears in the Atlantic Journal.
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James H. Bagwell
Chattahoochee River
Chattahoochee Park
Atlantic Journal
Absurd Official Blunder at Chatham Barracks
The British admiralty built grand barracks at Chatham and prepared a large room for a court-martial with a brass plate. It was discovered, before use, that naval courts-martial must be held at sea on the Water.
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Chatham
Surprise for the Bully and the Dog’s Revenge
A West Bromwich magistrate recalls a tale of a small dog that after being defeated by a butcher’s bull terrier gathered six other hounds. They fed on meat stored earlier and then led the group to a fray, thoroughly whipping the terrier in revenge for the dog’s disgrace.
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West Bromwich
Westminster
Court to Decide Knotty Point
Maine courts will decide if a will with a signature cut after signing remains valid. The probate case in York County challenges Ellen Greene's will, offered for probate but contested by interested parties.
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Knotty Point
Maine
Ellen Greene
York County
Fat Beauty Standards Across Cultures Mentioned
Von Humboldt notes Guiana natives praise women as fat and with narrow heads. A traveler among the Kirghiz of Asia reports beauty judged by fat, while a husband emphasizes his wife’s weight when praising her.
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von Humboldt
Guiana
Asia
Divorce In New Brunswick Ends After Six Years
In Maine divorce is seen as easier, but in New Brunswick a six year judicial battle ended at Fredericton last term. The cases, long under court consideration, finally severed the ties binding the couples.
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Maine
New England
New Brunswick
Fredericton
Bald Eagle Drops Lamb in Harmony Dooryard
A large bald eagle dropped a lamb in Pearl Martin’s Harmony Maine dooryard. The lamb, three or four days old, sustained a few claw scratches but remained alive and well. Martin is raising the orphan as a cosset.
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Pearl Martin
Harmony
Parrot of Fitchburg Mistress Dies After Her Loss
The pet parrot of Mrs. Lorenzo Curtis of Fitchburg died one week after her passing. Brought to the country forty two years ago from the Spanish islands, the bird had a wide vocabulary in both English and Spanish.
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Lorenzo Curtis
Fitchburg
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