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Newspaper
Sheridan News
Location
Sheridan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
7
Neighborhood highlights oat corn planting weather affects fruit damage and busy farm scenes. Residents attend a Sunday school convention at Christian Liberty Sunday. Social visits include Emma Fancher Ella Wade J. Padgett and many families across Terhune Sheridan and Indianapolis with church services and a G A R encampment trip noted.
Preaching at Antioch last Sunday marks progress on the M. E. church. J. J. Pittman is reported not better at this writing. Mrs. Baker of Nebraska visits her mother Mrs. Amanda Parr and relatives here. Dr. J. A. McGee and wife visited their daughter Mrs. Jesse Dulin. Charles Paddock and family dined with Claude Pogue and wife. Sun Mary and Argyle Paddock spent Saturday with grandparents W. H. Haines and wife. Samuel West and family called on friends Sunday evening.
The South Adams column reports farmers busy planting after sunny days with five rainy days in May 1908. It notes frost and low temperatures in May 1907 and early June weather, along with social visits among local residents including the Staggs, Emery, Cox, Hinshaw, and Goins families. Rev. Isaac Green preached at Lamong.
Uncle Tommy Trueblood and Mrs Agnes George are on the sick list. Harry Marlin and family of Nep tune Ohio are visiting Aunt Lizzie Baker and other relatives. G W Beam and T D Baker families dined with the Bakers. Albert Kellum and family visited Sunday with Frank Dunn and wife near Roberts Chapel.
The article lists visitors from Baker's Corner, Deming, Sheridan and Arcadia plus locals like Homer Myers and J Johnson. It notes Mr Smalley buying a Greenfield grocery and moving there, Miss Ethel Carver to Marion for school, and Harvey Toole in Atlanta. A Sheridan driver had a tire delay west of town Friday.
Our vicinity enjoys good health as neighbors share visits and gatherings. W S McMurtry and wife stayed with Cicero relatives Thursday night while Mary Wyatt of Terhune visited Edith Ryan. A flurry of Sunday and Friday calls includes the McMurtrys with C E Hines and others, and many townsfolk attend church and meals with local families.
A sizable group attended an East Union Sunday meeting with Rev. Knapp presiding. Numerous residents made weekend visits or trips to nearby towns including Indianapolis and Rochester with delegates from the Ekin Rebekah lodge heading to the Grand Lodge gathering in Indianapolis.
Swain and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Fred Neal. Elwood Moore and wife visited, along with Lem Ven.
A rural bulletin covers preserving fenceposts with a corrosive mixture and tar coating for longevity, plus gatepost construction tips. It also discusses dairy cow feeding, urging feeding cows to appetite when a return in milk is adequate, and notes dairy farming's fertility advantages versus grain farming as a farm enrichment argument.
Farmers Advocate notes weeds cause uniform losses across crops with weed seeds lowering alfalfa seed value and oats and wheat incurring heavy dockage at elevators. It urges immediate field clean up to ease farming and reduce annual weed battles.
The sheep is a dry land animal and will not continue healthy for any length of time on wet, springy soil. These wet places are ideal breeding ground for internal parasites and other troubles that prey on the sheep. Foot diseases are induced by these conditions, and those with experience with genuine foot rot will avoid causes that lead to this trouble.
After each milking all pails pans strainers cans and separators must be thoroughly scalded with boiling water. Boiling water is the only agent that keeps dairy utensils clean and sweet. Milk should be strained into cans and moved from the stable promptly. Do not let milk or cream stand exposed in cow stables as they absorb odors quickly.
A Chicago Inter Ocean tip suggests feeding adjustments for hogs with limited mobility. Recommend less corn and more bran and oats, plus eight to ten drops of wux yomica twice daily. Maintain bowels with green feed or oilmeal and other loose-bowel promoting feeds.
Ducks lay well for three or four years with peak production in the first two years. Breeders rarely keep them beyond year two.
The text emphasizes meat meal as essential for ducks and prescribes a diet where ducks receive one-tenth of their food as ground meat mixed with cornmeal, wheat bran, and cut clover hay or another green feed. It reflects instructional guidance on maintaining ducks for optimal performance.
As spring heats up, hog pens must be kept clean to prevent filth odors and disease. The note warns that warm days accelerate germ growth and neglect invites outbreaks among growing hogs.
Dry hydrate of lime formed by slaking fresh lime with water to a fine powder is a caustic insecticide. It kills dagger larvae of asparagus beetles slugs on currants pears and plums and other moist surface larvae. Apply in the morning when plants and insects are still damp.
A dairy note stresses meticulous record keeping of all milk and feed, human labor, and capital invested. It urges producers to know exactly what they are doing and maintain precise accounts for income and expenses.
The wall runs over 1700 miles along the northern boundary in a zigzag path. It spans mountains gorges rivers and plains with a base twenty feet thick and a top of fifteen feet. Turrets rise thirty five to forty feet every 200 300 yards. Exterior faces use well cut granite blocks in mortar.
The chemist says T A Linton's Stock and Poultry Food is the highest grade stock food in the state.
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