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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1910
Page
6
An illustrated plan from the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station describes a poultry house 20 by 18 feet with a cement floor, 8 feet 6 inches high at the front, and 6 inches less at the rear. It details framing, siding, roosts, nesting areas, curtains, doors, light frames, and summer sash. The design accommodates 80 to 100 mature fowls.
The drawing shows a gate hung that can be raised when snow is deep. The gateway is widened by a removable panel set in an iron well case buried in the ground. The panel fits to cleats on the posts and lifts to widen the opening, with a latch and wire rod to fix positions. Main gate length is ten to eleven feet, panel about six feet.
Feeble cries from a man adrift on a large ice floe were heard by ferry workers near the Battery. Frank Dugan and Patrick McGann helped pull him ashore after a difficult rescue. The man identified himself as William Wissman, 42, of 216 East Forty-first Street, who fell from a dock and drifted a distance before reaching shore. He recalled seeing the Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges.
The paper explains bitter milk stems from lactic acid bacteria dynamics rather than weeds or udder condition. It notes pasteurized milk is especially affected, spores survive, and outbreaks can persist. Remedies include udder cleaning, hyposulphite injections after milking, thorough sanitation, or introducing good sour milk to reestablish normal flora.
A French method called the Nodon-Brottonneau process uses electricity to season timber. Wood is submerged in water with borax resin and carbonate of soda, with positive and negative plates connected to a dynamo. Current drives sap from the wood while borax and resin fill the pores, then the timber is dried.
A witty reflection on luxury as a social fuel. The speaker suggests fools profit from it while the multitude is fed by crumbs, and Providence allows inequality to sustain happiness. If all were wise and luxury vanished, only the few would have true contentment, while others would be envious and miserable.
Kineo correspondent reports Crawford Johnson, a renowned Maine guide, hooked the largest square tail trout from Moosehead Lake near Tomheagan stream north of Kinco. The fish weighed eight pounds two ounces and measured about twenty three inches long.
A young suitor asks about his chance of marriage. The magazine editor’s daughter replies that the offer is declined with thanks and regret, stating it is impossible to accept at this time. This exchange appears in the St. Louis Star.
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