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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1902
Page
3
The English Orpington is a large low set heavy breed gaining favor in this country. It traces to Minorca Plymouth Rock and Black Langshan blood, yields good eggs with smaller shells, and should have a broad massive body on short legs with white skin and close plumage as shown by an English illustration.
Beekeeping tips for wintering and hive management. Start with a few hives and guard against robbers and moths. Honey weight for wintering is about 30 pounds. avoid overheating honey as it harms color and clarity. Use non iron vessels for wax rendering and feed at night to avoid robbing. Do not disturb bees in cold weather when they are quiet. Three castes in hive queen worker drone. Unions of weak colonies improve winter stores. Honey stored in a cellar loses flavor and turns watery.
The article explains dry-picking turkeys for market by removing pin-feathers and plumping in ice cold water for four to five hours, then hanging heads-down to drip in a cool place. It cautions against scalding dry-picked birds and recommends quick scalding for home use to remove feathers and entrails.
The Nebraska Farmer notes domestic water fowl such as ducks and geese excel on farms with ponds or lake access. They provide eggs feathers and meat, adapt to climates, and fetch good market prices. Success hinges on predator control, disease vigilance, and diligent management.
The illustration from the Farmers Advocate details a comb honey setup with a cover cushion of hay, a cotton duck layer, and 22 section papers. Measurements and apparatus include a 36-section unit, brood chamber, ventilation wedges, a floor offset, multiple stands, and a comb honey super with a three eighths inch divider and five sixteenths inch bee space.
The Automobile Club of America law committee in New York discussed reciprocal duty freedom for touring vehicles crossing the border. George F. Chamberlin urged similar treatment as Canadian Wheelmen's association, seeking duty free crossers with proper tickets and port permissions. A committee was set to visit Canada to pursue the aim.
The London Telegraph prints a verse on ratification of the isthmian treaty. Balboa is shown with a Spanish steel rod as he gazes at the Pacific and thanks the Queen of Heaven for the glorious guerdon. Four centuries later Nature speaks of Spain's sins and a coming larger legend. England and Colombia move toward a hopeful union across the waters.
Census Bureau release shows cotton manufacturing value at 336,974,882 dollars, up 25 percent since 1890. Establishments reached 1,051, capital employed 467,240,157 dollars, wages and salaries rise sharply, average wage earners 302,861, total wages 90,384,532 dollars, and material costs 176,551,527 dollars, with significant gains across officials, salaries, and earnings.
Lord Pauncefote introduced Arthur Stewart Raikes as the new first secretary of the British embassy at the state department. Raikes, a Cambridge graduate who entered service in 1879, has served in Athens Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro. Queen Victoria awarded him a jubilee medal in 1897.
The Midlind Farmer advocates perches, weekly coats of crude oil and paint on perches, and clean nest boxes with fresh straw. He warns against feeding fowls old sour swill, noting sick hens and bad eggs result from unfit food.
A 114 year old Texas residentSaac Brock of Bosque Falls near Waco recounts a long life and high regard for Dr Hartman s Peruna remedy. The veteran claims Peruna protects against climate related ailments and la grippe and credits its use for strength and health across his century plus life.
An advertisement invites readers to request a free book on catarrh from The Peruna Medicine Co in Columbus Ohio and to write Dr Hartman at the Hartman Sanitarium Columbus for free medical advice with a full case statement.
The January issue of the dainty monthly The Four-Track News from the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad outlines California focused travel features. It includes Luther L Holden on The Land of the Sunset Sea, plus Egypt Then and Now by George Eade and other pieces by Jane W Guthrie and H R Bryan on Hudson New York. It also notes practical articles on pruning olives grain and sugar beets.
A collection of brief, punctuation light quotes from periodicals including Tit Bits Atchison Globe London Tattler and others. The snippets hint at social interactions, music taste, friendship, and a wife describing her husband as kind during illness.
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