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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
6
Indiana State Fair opens in Indianapolis with extensive women focused exhibits. Kitchen crafts, butter making taught by Purdue experts, art and crafts shows, poultry and dairy displays with prizes totaling thousands, and lectures on dairy and home economics attract rural and urban visitors.
For the Indiana State Fair the State Board of Agriculture published its judge list before the exposition. Morse of Chicarro will judge ribbons in draft horses. McDonald of West Lebanon awards coven horses and prizes in light harness saddle and pony classes. Bell of Chicago will judge prizes. Vestal of Plainfield presides over mule judging. Four cabile show judges include N. H. Gentry Sedalia Mo for Shorthorns, Herefords and Polled Dourhams. Thomas Clark Beecher Ill for Aberdeen Angus Red Polls and Galloways. LL McWhorter Aledo Ill for airy cattle. Prof. M. A. Scovill Lexington Ky. Sheep judges cover Shropshires Oxfords Hampshires R J Stone Stonington Ill long-wools Hal Swrootford Paris Ky all fine wools Jiriah Privitt Greensburg. Four men name winners in tee wwine pens Lloyd Mugs Kokotao Berkshires Poland Chinas D W Brown Union City Chester Whites Duroc Jerseys Hughes Atkinson Sterling Ky Hampshires Thomas Winnedge Hope Mule foots. Poultry judges include C V Keeler Winamac James A Tucker Concord Mich O L McCord Danville W W Fike Morristown.
Classified notice shows S. A. Royster offering a large roomy property with a barn shed and land for rent or sale. Specifics are partly illegible but imply a substantial rural holding.
Representative Bates of Pennsylvania hailed the rural free delivery system as a major public benefit, noting routes rising from about 9,000 to over 40,000, and arguing the 285 million dollar annual appropriation boosts farm land values, market information access, and postal revenues while encouraging better roads and faster mail delivery. He contrasted Republican progress with Democratic opposition in prior administrations.
Extreme heat risks hit horses and owners must adjust care. Suggestions include bran mash twice weekly, saltpeter in feed for overweight horses, longer dinner breaks, removing harness during meals, and rotating middle positions on three horse teams. Signs of heat exhaustion require immediate cooling and hydration, with whisky or ammonia-based remedies only if symptoms worsen.
A rural guide notes treatments for pigs coughing using licorice and ginger, coal tar down the throat, and pig care. It advises udder hardening in cows from lying on hard stalks, poke root mixtures for swelling after milking, and lamb colic linked to overfeeding milk with grazing on new fields reducing incidents. It also mentions acetate of lead applied to growths to remove warts in fava animals with care to protect tender skin.
An editorial urges local cleanup of streets parks and vacant lots to spark civic pride. It recommends forming a low cost improvement association, planting street trees and expanding once initial blocks succeed, stressing broad public enthusiasm and progressive beautification. It notes the ink plant produces red ink that turns black after hours.
The article argues liberal summer feeding of a small grain ration improves milk flow and cow condition into winter. It cites experiments and dairymen noting hay and grain balance, protein needs, and a tested method of mixing ground corn with bran to boost palatability and butter yield.
Mrs William E Corey wife of United States Steel president plans a $1 000 000 program to support American girls studying singing in Paris. The project includes a Paris opera house linked to a Paris school of singing with top masters and Jean de Reszke as adviser. The school may be near Folie.
Mrs. Root oversees a six room New York apartment kept by a single maid as the couple begins married life simply. Alicia Livingston Stryker, daughter of Flamiston college president M Woolsey Stryker, is the bride. Elihu Root Jr. is the son of the secretary of state. Marcia Wiltis Campbell.
A well known comedian on a first night at the B theatre handles a stage blunder with wit. He pretends a friend is arriving from the left while the friend enters from the right. He quips sly dog I saw you in the looking glass yonder and the audience roars with laughter rather than hiss.
A breeder notes hogs need ample clean water from well or spring and a mudhole for wallowing during heat. He says such water and mud do not injure hogs and provide much pleasure as they soak in the mud with water from a spring.
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