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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
3
The article describes a farm bull pen setup with a pulley operated door from the feed room to the bull stall. The breeding pen and runway door stay closed unless accessed, and feeding happens through a sliding trough. Watering is done via a trough, while the cow is fed first and the man steps out before the bull enters.
An old world native now naturalized in the United States, stink grass is coarse and weedy with an unpleasant odor when fresh. Drying reduces odor and improves palatability for hay. It is an annual, easily killed if unwanted, and air dried plant contains about 13 percent protein and 2.15 percent nitrogen. It could be valuable feed though not widely used.
The clean milk problem affects 9billion gallons annual US supply. Per person daily intake around 1.1 quarts including butter and cheese uses. Retail value about 4.5 billion dollars yearly, about one fiftieth of national wealth. Wholesale dairy value roughly 600 million, with low dairy price implications. Best laying hen ration suggested as protein to carbohydrates ratio.
Betty Cleaveland dreams of Miss Letitia Houghton's pink mauve crepe dress as rival girls vie for the prize. Tracy Dunlop and Betty navigate affection and social miles while Miss Letitia judges their Aim at virtue and propriety in the stylish circle.
A playful domestic exchange unfolds over oatmeal misnaming hot Scotch as a drink. The wife explains her misapprehension while the guests and husband laugh at the comic confusion about what constitutes hot Scotch and the oatmeal dish.
Ek Toldt of Vienna and colleagues argue experimental skins of young foxes reveal horned scale like structures similar to pangolins after removal of calcified tissue. They claim this supports a shared lineage with scaly anteaters, presenting what they call conclusive evidence.
A short Stray Stories vignette recalls a bachelor and a benedict trudging home with a hopeful view of marriage. The bachelor envies the benedict and urges returning to the club as a path to a waiting welcome and a home.
Recipe details a bread making process using four pounds flour and milk, with steps to mix, ferment, shape into small pieces, proof for 24 hours, then bake about 15 minutes. Includes instructions for scoring, brushing with milk, and finishing bake for a light elastic loaf.
Practical household notes cover frying cold cereals with gravy, keeping nickel bright, shoe care, and dust control near chimneys. Recipes include pickled red cabbage, almond delight pie, chestnuts with apples in salad, and a French soup made from milk and potatoes with eggs for a rich finish.
A new luncheon dish combines fried apples and onions with bacon. Sliced apples are used without peeling, onions are peeled and thinly sliced, fried together, then bacon is fried to crisp brown and served beside the mixture.
Smooth jelly tips say to add one gallon of fruit batch with hot jelly and one teaspoonful of soda when green scum appears to remove grit. Tripe a la Lyons instructs slicing boiled tripe, frying in butter with onions pepper salt and parsley, then finishing with vinegar and serving with lyonnaise potatoes.
Cleveland journalist George W. Kelvey recounts Artemus Ward’s quixotic tale of roaches. Ward described a roach boat voyage in a walnut shell with toothpick oars, a rescued roach fed boiled egg, and the roach's lifelong gratitude filling Kelvey’s home with roaches.
Two light pieces feature Mr J W Barrie of What Every Woman Knows fame sharing a humorous anecdote about a friend taking a pinye to a show and a hat problem at a theatre. A riding school joke explains mounting on the left side due to swords on historical riders.
A southerner investigates a noise at his chicken house and demands answers. A trembling voice from the far corner replies that there is nobody there but the chickens, delivering a humorous local color moment in the magazine story.
Tha Din praises contentment and warns restless souls. The ad touts Defiance starch as a superior home laundering option, claiming it keeps shirts stiff and finished without sticking and offers durability and pleasure in use.
A Kansas City Journal quotation contrasts valor with discretion through a travel joke about tipping in Europe and returning by a different route. The quip pairs bold action with cautious choice in a witty regional note.
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