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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1902
Page
3
In Hoard's Dairyman Buff Jersey recounts a Sioux Falls creamery experiment creating a 600 pound butter room using an $11.05 chest cooler. The design features layered flooring, odorless building paper, ice racks and drip boards to maintain stable temperatures with minimal waste.
John Forster notes reasons for failure in horticulture including disobeying laws, poor timing, and setbacks from weather and pests. Proper ground prep, judicious planning, bird allies, and careful handling of tree peddlers are urged. Failure does not prove inability. find and master one's work.
Testing shows the best cows are steady producers over a full year rather than high short-time yields. Moderate longterm milkers are ideal for breeding, and milk quality should be tested periodically to guide selection.
The Orange Judd Farmer notes that 241 million bushels of corn were ground in the census year, about half the wheat consumption. Much of the product fed livestock, but a significant amount fed table use. Europe’s lack of appreciation for corn bread and "rye and Injun" is remarked.
A Rural New Yorker description details a plum package with California plums packed in four ventilated baskets. The 16 by 16 by 434 inch crate uses slatted sides, air circulation features, and a tin rim for rigidity. Each basket weighs 1 1/4 ounces and the total package about 3 pounds.
Farm Journal offers orchard guidance covering pruning diseased pears burning blighted trees timing for crate purchases, thinning overbearing peach trees, August and September borer control with knife and wire, and planting hardy plum trees in protected yards with proper spacing and temperament considerations.
Will N Harben author of Abner Daniel and Harper & Brothers releases a Georgia life tale about a lone cabin dweller who plans to heat lye and douse hogs after they sleep under his house. The plan backfires when hogs topple his cabin and leave him bruised and shirt torn.
A Wheatland farmer finds his pig pen splintered and unrecognizable after a cyclone. A man nearby watches cows lifted into the air, then dropped to resume grazing. A Manitou Beach barber recalls a piano seen flying northward over the lake with music audible. The stories come from reliable sources.
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt explains frappes as cooling blends that are neither drink nor food, with ice shaved by a shawer and salt ratios for ice and rock salt. It also provides a batter fritter recipe using pineapple juice, flour, egg yolk, and frying fat, finished with lemon juice sugar and soft sugar on a hot dish.
Pin striped shaded taffetas and hat trims from blossom leaves to clover clusters define the season. Bright green Crown hats with tulle and mignonette, leather belts with harness buckles, three point hairpins, and gray alpaca skirts with silver flounces headline a Spanish influenced millinery and dress display.
The piece notes Carl Mann the vegetarian setting a Berlin to Dresden 125 mile record in 27 hours 13 minutes 14 seconds beating a meat eater by 1 hour 45 minutes. It compares Mann's feat with the Greek Marathon run and mentions Emperor William planning a July 14 race between his Mete schooner and the Coronation cup in 600 guineas with Cecily entering.
The passage lists varied items including an opera glass design, expansion of metals when cooled, and the poisonous white poppy. It notes a water-filled bedroom aid for absorbing poisonous exhalations and mentions Hawaii’s population with large Asiatic components, mainly Japanese and Chinese, plus several thousand Porto Ricans.
Letters from readers praise Peruna as a remedy for female weakness and headaches. Mrs. Esther M. Milner of De Graff Ohio reports complete cure after four bottles and urges others to try it. Miss Mamie Groth of Platteville Wisconsin says she is free of back pain and headaches after using Peruna. Dr S B Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium offers free guidance to women and invites cases for personalized advice.
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