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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
7
Advice on raising stock with practical steps to keep birds healthy and productive. Emphasizes clean warm coops, ample sunshine, fresh air and water, disciplined feeding, dusting and scratching areas, varied diet, and regular washing or disinfecting. Recommends rotating breeds, avoiding overcrowding, and introducing new blood annually from reliable breeders.
Scientific American notes a ventilator for brooder houses by C W Brick of Crosswicks New Jersey. It describes an improved ventilator with heating of the air induced by the device and an exterior safety valve to prevent too strong a current of air entering the brooders.
The article offers practical tips for duck and chicken keepers focusing on feed quality, green forage, water purity, and uniform stock. It notes Pekin ducks are less suitable as alternates to chickens, stresses soft food for rapid digestion, and warns white exhibition birds may yellow plumage from constant corn feeding.
A housekeeper uses a card catalogue system like a library to organize recipes. Cards in a cabinet drawers labeled Dinner Soups Entrees Salads Meats Desserts let her quickly select meals, add new recipes from newspapers and magazines, and keep everything tidy. The inexpensive setup proves highly practical and time saving.
The article advises thorough cleaning of storage receptacles before adding new flour to prevent white flour worms. It warns against residual old flour, stresses washing tin containers with clean water and soap and drying completely, and recommends cleaning wooden bins. When buying in paper bags, check bag creases for worms before untying to avoid infestation.
Melt butter and flour then whisk in milk to boiling. Season with salt celery salt and pepper. Stir in turkey strips, spaghetti pieces, and sliced mushrooms. Bake in buttered dish until crumbs brown and cheese melts.
A historical excerpt describes making soft cookies with butter sugar eggs nutmeg cloves and flour. It covers mixing, adding flour and baking powder, folding in whipped whites, rolling to a quarter inch thickness and baking, then keeping them soft by wrapping in cloth and storing in a tin box.
This rustic dish soaks thick bread slices in about a pint of broth then mixes with butter salt pepper and two beaten eggs. A pinch of grated nutmeg and chopped parsley are folded in before shaping into small flour dusted balls and boiling lightly in broth for two minutes before serving.
A simple pickling method suggests slicing one dozen cucumbers and six onions, salting with half a cup for four to five hours, then draining. Add half a cup white mustard seed, a tablespoon celery seed, half cup olive oil, and one quart vinegar for the pickle mix.
A cook advises adding a little vinegar to the water to boil eggs with cracks. Cracked eggs cook as satisfactorily as undamaged ones when treated this way.
Dean Curtiss of Ames Agricultural College notes Canada backs agricultural education with experimental farms in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and full university college programs in Alberta. He cites Manitoba and Saskatchewan funding, cooperative creameries and elevators, and strong vocational training shaping a robust farming future across the western provinces.
The article describes dairy breeds including Shorthorn and other dairy lines, offered at cost with long-time payments. It reports Western Canada grain yields in 1913 as excellent but not abnormal, with wheat 30 to 45 bushels per acre and strong results in other small grains.
In a candid exchange a man confesses to kissing Miss Sweet in a dark hallway and explains he claimed it was a mistaken identity. He says she feigned anger to calm the situation, but she grew genuinely upset afterward.
A dated wit references an alumni dinner in New York where a college president remarks on women with degrees. Timothy Woodruff retorts that such women “know it all.” The column ends with a comment on vaudeville jokes and old ads for Mrs Winslow’s Syrup and Red Cross Ball Blue.
A Missouri Brunswicker verse parable describes the knocker as a two legged creature formed from leftover bad substance, with a cork screw soul and jelly backbone. It warns that honest men turn away and angels seek shelter as the knocker passes.
A compact line compares a servant to iron and playfully defines a maid as capable of all chores, framing a domestic scene with wit and gendered humor. The exchange highlights craft and service within a household.
A sentiment expresses the deep satisfaction women feel when confident in their appearance. The statement highlights personal fulfillment tied to grooming and attire, suggesting empowerment through self-presentation.
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