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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1911
Page
6
A collage of lighthearted anecdotes and social observations from Idaho’s Silver Messenger column. The write ups joke about dieting, fashion, transportation schemes, alarm clocks shipped to Peking, a bread trust, milk production, and quirky legal and gender notes involving Chicago, New York, and various American locales.
A historical account describes Dyak clothing and adornments as civilization advances. It details women’s ornate silver jewelry, beadwork, shell bracelets, corsets of cane, and dyed cloth Badges cover men’s warpath attire with rings, shells, and silks. It notes drastic beauty practices including dental modifications, hair removal, and eyebrow shaving as part of evolving Dyak appearance.
Dora Van deleur recounts a perilous rhinoceros encounter during a month long northern excursion. Mounted and inexperienced, she and her party pursued the animal across plains as it eluded bullets and outpaced the pony. After a dramatic chase the rhino vanished, leaving the horn as a hoped trophy out of reach.
A foreign visitor in Washington says American women fail to honor tea with proper ceremony and restraint. The observer notes even French and German women prefer coffee, while English and Oriental customs elevate tea into a social art. The piece urges Washington and New York women to adopt tea as a refined daily ritual at home gatherings.
In Monte Carlo an Englishman in the gambling rooms causes a scene by revealing chalk marked 17 on his boot sole. As everyone bets on 17 the wheel lands seven and the room erupts in laughter when the trick is revealed. The incident is related from Dagonet Abroad.
In Lowell Vermont a large operation mines high grade chrysotile asbestos. About forty men are employed with a projected output of 100 tons daily. The Lowell mine is the only commercial producer of this asbestos type in the United States, with one other developmental mine in Wyoming.
A historic overview defines dry farming as conserving rainfall on irrigated land before ditches. It explains rainfall loss by percolation and evaporation, soil types to target, and techniques such as deep plowing, subsoil packing, soil compaction, and summer fallow to maximize moisture for crops including wheat and asparagus.
The article outlines soil mulching to prevent evaporation and winter kill, describing two mulch types foreign materials and soil-based. It notes moisture retention, air flow benefits, and optimal mulch depth, warning that light rain and irrigation can damage mulch and waste water.
Hon F W Mondell of Newcast Wy president of the dry farming congress at Spokane Washington explains the term dry farming. He says a narrow sense means conserving natural moisture for crop growth in low rainfall regions while a broader sense advocates scientific agriculture to preserve and utilize moisture for best continuous results. He outlines principles: deep plowing to eight inches and finely pulverized soil to hold winter moisture. rough land loses rain to runoff and fails crops.
The text urges selecting beat specimens bred from the specimens and mating them with knowledge of their breeding ten cies. It stresses housing them properly, feeding them with the best foods, and ensuring each needed factor is provided to produce variation in the section sought.
Dairy notes advise against rushing calves to pasture and emphasize calf cleanliness to prevent scours. It covers hay types, feeding milk and skim milk, pasture quality, and the balance between Hereford beef and Holstein milk production. It warns about varying cow performance and the need to match feed to individual cows for sustained milk output.
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