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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1903
Page
2
An Orange Judd Farmer note explains using a simple home made brooder to exploit an early sitter. A brooder box with a tank for heat allows chicks to hatch under the hen and be raised in warmth. This enables resetting the hen for multiple broods within nine weeks with minimal losses.
Agricultural notes describe forestry research by Toit with 12 scientists, alfalfa grown across northern states, and government inspectors approving redissolative animals. Vaccines save cattle from death, West forming elements concentrated in fats, and the department promoting one man farms in small pine woods to suit farmers managing such land.
On large farms poultry thrive with unlimited range and plenty of waste seeds and grains. Fowls forage energetically and need attention only occasionally, yet they protect crops by destroying injurious insects and larvae.
A rural note explains that horses suffer frostbite from icy bits in cold barns and warns farmers and teamsters against placing metal in a horse’s mouth. The piece urges care to prevent injury during winter harnessing.
A late 19th century suggestion from the Scientific American proposes using an ordinary barn lantern to warm a horse’s bit when temperatures drop. A special cap would fit over the lantern and support the bit with the bridle above. The illustration clarifies the plan, with room to modify details without changing the principle.
The piece explains a method to calm a balky horse by gently patting the head and tapping each hoof a light and a strong tap on the frog while the driver holds the lines, using diversion and kindness rather than force. It claims success in about 99 of 100 cases and notes the horse’s simple intelligence.
The text notes that about 500 hens can support a moderate family with manageable expenses, and that operations scale with flock size. It adds that one person can tend roughly 1,000 hens as efficiently as 600, implying higher proportional costs for smaller flocks. It also reports 1902 livestock transit losses by sea: cattle 0.13, sheep 0.89, horses 0.65, lower than 1901, and stresses warm shelter for fall calves in winter.
Instructions from Pilgrim on careful lace making to avoid visible piecing. Emphasizes planning braid continuation, tracing starting points, and ending at floral bases. Advises knotless finishing, proper thread management, and maintaining pattern contrast with heavier front stitches. Continuous, precise technique is urged.
A new method for finishing a gift pillow uses two shades of two inch satin ribbon woven through 18 strips, each three-quarters yard long, for an 18 inch square pillow. Narrower ribbon requires more strips and effort. The pillow should be covered with silk or mercerized cotton for a neat appearance.
A method for finishing a ribbon sofa pillow is outlined. The woven portion is attached to a chosen ribbon shade with nine inch ends folded to form loops and the raw ends tucked and sewn to the sides. Embroidery silk stars may be added in outline stitch in alternate blocks for decoration.
The Danville field houses about 2900 coal miners who praise their national president John Mitchell for his role in the strike and before the strike commission. They note Mrs Mitchell was born in Catlin near Beardstown and grew up there before marrying John Mitchell.
A Chicago Daily News note proposes a versatile substitute for chicken pie. Bake a rich crust, fry quail or rabbit in butter until brown, simmer in stock with tomato catchup lemon juice currant jelly cloves and seasonings, then bake again in the crust to brown.
Listings for Roudebush, Frazier, Kazier Hicks and other attorneys describe offices in Batavia Ohio and Cincinnati. They offer loans negotiations, prompt attention, and general law business across Clermont Hamilton and surrounding counties.
Warren J. Lynch and W. P. Depps are named to posts in the Gen. Pass. & Thr. Agt. system as assistant G. P. and T. A. in Cincinnati Ohio. The appointments indicate a reorganization of local transit administration and designate Lynch and Depps to lead operations and passenger services.
A speaker notes how innocence calms fierce natures and purifies behavior. Pure hearts attract virtue, while corrupt ones reveal and amplify vice. The idea presents an image of moral magnetism where purity draws out the best and repels the worst in others.
The article describes a twentieth century mantel and fireplace in a white enamel wood mantel with brass and copper elements. It highlights an adjustable pierced shutter, brass fender with high brass or copper seats, and a low front bar, noting the open fireplace remains popular for sitting rooms or libraries and suits steam heat.
An advertisement extols Nebraska as a land of plenty with cheap land, favorable climate, and profit from grain and livestock. It invites readers to request Camel or booklet guides and to visit on cheap excursion tickets available on certain Tuesdays via the railroad agent in Eustis.
Norfolk & Western timetable in effect September 23 1908 lists east bound trains from Cincinnati to Roanoke Richmond Norfolk and through routes via the Norfolk and Western. Commuter trains run between Cincinnati and Sardinia daily except Sunday, with arrivals and departures at the L N R station Court and Broadway. No. 24 is a daily through train to Roanoke Richmond and Norfolk with Pullman sleepers Cincinnati to Bluefield and Roanoke.
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