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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1896
Page
2
Vermont farmer J W Newton argues dairy farming preserves soil fertility, yields higher profits, and provides steady income. He claims butter offers strong per pound value, portability for remote markets, and that dairying integrates farm fodder into finished products. He highlights skill, female suitability, morality, and growth prospects as key advantages.
The speaker warns against buying low quality cows and overfeeding, urging breeders to focus on balanced rations, careful watering, and understanding each cow's tendencies. Emphasizes using own stock, selecting butter or milk cattle, and prioritizing feed like wheat bran, middlings, pea meal, linseed meal, and good brewers’ grains for profitable dairy and beef production.
The advice notes ensilage is inferior to clover and praises clover as a top balanced feed. It warns late cutting yields poor milk production and recommends soil treatment with wood ashes or muriate of potash and ground bone for clover sick soils.
Advice on milk house construction favors double walls with resin on both sides of studs and limited south or west openings. Suggests a north side orientation, matched flooring, a box shaft for ventilation, and a simple door or slide to control drafts. Recommends $75 separators for eight to ten cows and describes a method to granulate butter by careful cream handling and staged dilution.
John Speir of Glasgow reviews animal feeding trials on milk fat and solids. Experiments show young grass and grains raise fat percentage, some feeds improve butter yield and water content, while oil does not boost fat. Plan proposed by North Carolina station would price cows by milk fat tests, drying up poor milkers to improve national dairy stock.
Swiss cheese making is a major industry with large consumption and exports reaching $11,000,000 last year. Cantonal schools teach theory and practice, with a twelve month course covering hygiene physics chemistry pasturage and accounts. The federal government also sends students abroad to study methods of renowned Italian cheeses Pauasean and Modena.
The Rhode Island Station calls milk fever in cows a brain disease and notes inheritance in many cows. An English professor on milk chemistry says yield depends primarily on the milk glands and cow’s environment, not just feed or blood condition. A dairy writer adds that steady milkers tend to be well fat yet not overly fat, as the old dairyman selected.
The piece argues tile drainage boosts soil fertility by improving air and moisture conditions, aiding microbes and nitrogen uptake, and enhancing plant health. It links drainage to sturdier stems in wheat and oats and to better road surfaces via underdrains and side tile lines for permanent improvement.
Water destroys dirt roads and drainage is crucial to building and maintaining them. Dirt roads are highly vulnerable to water, with side ditches often poorly constructed and insufficient to keep roads passable during wet periods.
Chinese gardeners in Utah share intensive soil culture using liquid fertilization. A hogshead system channels manure or fertilizer through boxes and troughs to moisten and feed crops, with simple taps and doors controlling distribution. The technique suits lawns and gardens, aided by windmill pumping where gravity fails. Tomatoes benefit from weekly irrigation, careful cultivation, and ridge shaping to protect roots and boost yields. lime dusting combats flea damage.
A concise note states that Black farmers own 120,000 farms. In Shanghai an organ is crafted from bamboo.
The new Lattice elastic stocking and legging feature an open work lattice pattern for superior comfort and vein benefit. The red rubber used is a specially prepared, soft, and comfortable material, providing protection and support while aiding circulation.
Patents issued last week to inventors from Nebraska Iowa South Dakota and Iowa include Burke Wilbur Draver Evans Wiltfong Weeks Scott Rekenthaler and more with items such as lawn mower knife sharpener sifting apparatus bedstead brace railway time indicator and corn cultivator shield. Notable inventions include a fuse lightning arrester perpetual calendar safety pin beefsteak tenderer toy balloon and gear combination for bicycles among others. Patent information available by Sues & Co United States Patent Solicitors Bee Building Omaha Nebraska.
To keep pies fresh for the second day after baking, brush the under crust with beaten egg and place the tin on ice for thirty minutes. Then add the filling and bake quickly to prevent the crust from soaking.
A collage of vintage testimonials promotes Hostetter’s Bitters, Syrup of Figs, and Piso’s Cure for Consumption as universal tonics. It mixes jokes and crowd quotes from newspapers, citing protection from seasickness to biliousness, with family and doctor endorsements.
A collage of small notices and quips from old newspapers. Items include a joke about a police force as a farce from a teacher, an ad for growing 40c wheat with Salter's Seed Co and a LaCrosse catalog offer, a claim about Hall's Catarrh Cure, a misprinted note on cleaning lamps, and a tooth cutting remedy for babies. The mix reads like a late 19th or early 20th century classified page with brief ad lines and humorous anecdotes.
A new book on Cripple Creek gold is issued by C. W. Crawford at the Masonic Temple in Chicago. Illustrated in three colors by E. S. Rice, it explains ore location, milling, treatment, mining titles, and mountain camping, including Cripple Park’s Appolinaris Springs. Second edition in press. price 50 cents, postage-paid for five names and addresses.
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