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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1888
Page
6
A poetic fragment recalling a young country life by the moss grown piers and a stone bridge. The speaker spends days at noon by the mill, lingering in the shade and peering into the calm stream, amid wild rose briers.
The Indiana sunlit day ends as Ab Slacker reports a fearsome wild man in Big Timber countryside. Old man Bitley and Ab chase the creature, uncovering a crippled deformed youth found in a ruined cabin with a feverish mother. A famine of facts, a rescue by Dr Hawkins, and a burial seal the tale of the warned wilderness and a vanished radical scare.
Boys in the San Monica mountains began a new trade by catching rattlesnakes with a corded box and shipping them to Los Angeles. Chinese buyers use the snakes for medicine, paying 40 cents to a certain amount. The Gardiner Me report notes humorous editorial quips about kitchen scents and a tale about a man who piped water for his business after ten years of wife fetches.
The article stresses spring water as the purest source for dairies and outlines filtration, pipe choices, and spring-house construction. It advocates non corroding metal pipes via Bowen method, wooden spruce pipes, and careful burial. Details on spring-house design include stone construction, tank dimensions, overflow, cooling, and moisture control with lime if needed.
Aimed at beginners, this piece outlines ideal cow age for prime buying four to six years, best post calving timing, and indicators of udder health including vein prominence, skin softness, teat condition, and symmetry. Emphasizes quiet disposition, large clear eyes, and contented behavior as factors correlating with higher milk yield.
An article traces the augur’s discovery in 1680 by Benjamin Pugh from an iron hoop tool to wood boring. It describes American inventors Thomas Garrett and the single screw augur, East Coast manufacture, England and Germany usage, and the evolution from hand made to polished modern tools with steps in forging, welding, twisting, straightening, grinding, fitting, sharpening and polishing.
An old traveler outlines two selling approaches in the trade. Some push immediate offers with samples and fixed prices, while others wait to build rapport and pleasure before presenting bargains. Both methods can yield large orders, depending on the buyer, with many salesmen employing both strategies. The piece cites a Philadelphia Accord excerpt and notes a New York tea firm failure alongside a Nebraska weed article.
A collection of domestic tips and agricultural notes from various papers. Advice covers preserving ginger, feeding sheep, cooking methods for pork and corn, potato preparations, woodford padding recipe, egg white and glycerine hand care, poultry feeding tricks, cold remedy with salt water chest wash, and pickled cabbage onions with spice and alum.
A Victorian era advisory outlines simple economical poultry houses to protect fowls from disease and cold. It cautions against crowding, promotes lean to shelters against barns, and argues that cheaper, durable, and cozy designs suffice for winter, with easy construction by farmers.
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