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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1902
Page
3
A historical column reviews dairy innovations and poultry traps. It covers milking glove tubes from Australia, cleanliness and dairy practices, Siberian butter trade and regulations, and the trap nest for hens to identify laying patterns and breeders. It also notes sow milk yields from Wisconsin tests.
The illustrated coop and run are serviceable for restraining chicks until they grow. One inch mesh stops chick egress and rat ingress, while two inch mesh is an option. The movable design suits strong, easily relocated setups.
A discussion on the risks of using immature stock in breeding shows that mating young cockerels with pullets harms hardiness and fertility. Breeders warn of weakened eggs and offspring, urging buyers to verify that eggs come from mature stock. Advanced breeders favor mature stock to preserve vigor and reliability.
Prof H L Russell explains cheese mold as a biological process driven by surface mold spores thriving at high moisture and temperature. He notes mold growth drops at around 40 degrees and lower curing temps prevent extensive mold, reducing losses, and comments on shifting butter imports from Canada Ireland and colonial sources affecting English markets.
In Constantinople, a cosmopolitan capital, many religions and ethnic groups coexist yet clash. The piece describes the city’s diverse clergy, the persecution of Armenians after 1896 massacres, and the relative political caution of Greeks and Jews who avoid political meddling unlike Armenians who remain active in public life.
A Virginia bill would exempt women from operation restrictions to allow them to carry weapons. Citing recent assaults, proponents note women have pistol training and practice clubs. A Suffolk schoolteacher travels rural roads with a pistol, illustrating local support for female armament.
Elizabethtown Kentucky reports a 60 year old Civil War veteran who owns his war money and the clothes he wore at Lee’s surrender. He has slept in a bed only four nights in six years, rides in a sleigh infrequently, and has never married or attended church. He is described as well off, neighborly, and honest.
Dean of French Litterateurs Ernest Legouve, senior of the French Academy, has completed his ninety fifth year. He entered the academy in 1855. His best known plays are Adrienne Lecoutreux written with Scribe and Me in which Ristorl acted. He is reported to be as good to fish and full possession of his faculties.
A cockatoo at Central Park Zoo has shed red and gold feathers, turning its plumage white after a confrontation with a macaw. The bird initially fought, fell to the floor, and spent the day hidden before the color shift was noticed by staff the next morning.
A long description of a silk cotton tree in Nassau Bahamas. The plant, native to South America, stands out on New Providence Island with immense buttressed roots and twisted branches. Planted over two centuries ago by John Miller, its large seed pods yield soft silk used by natives for pillows and mattresses. The piece emphasizes its bloom and local legends of elves and gnomes around the hollows.
In northern Scotland there lies Culbin Sands a twenty square mile drift area between Nairn and Findhorn. Once fertile land with farms, a village was buried in one night by a vast sandstorm. Remains surface when dunes move and old domestic items surface. Local lore recalls a dramatic escape of inhabitants from the blinding sands.
A four foot diameter, twelve foot long fog horn will be placed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It uses compressed air through double valve disks to create a deep roar every two minutes, followed by a shrill shriek ten seconds later. Three six by twelve foot air tanks and three engines power the automatic plant, heard twelve to fifteen miles away on favorable days.
The excerpt argues chestnut groves and full-grown trees yield far more per acre than cereals and could feed more people. Humboldt is cited estimating a banana orchard could feed twenty five, a potato field two, and a wheat farm one person. It envisions a future with trees as main food sources, reducing labor and climate issues.
In Horsell England the funeral of Richard Brettell solicitor of Chertsey featured a red and blue four wheeled farm wagon drawn by two farm horses. Six farm laborers walked beside the wagon for the two and a half hour journey from Chertsey to Horsell and carried the coffin into the church at the service.
Hugo Lonitz of Neuhaldensleben Germany promotes a two part flower pot as the best now on the market. The inventor, a renowned florist, states that air circulation around the earth in the inner pot helps plants grow not only faster but healthier.
Workmen on the Marquis of Yalland estate in Orkney uncovered a subterranean house about thirty six feet long. Excavation revealed habitation signs including ruined walls bones of sheep oxen boars ash whales deer horns stone trestles pottery and bone fashioned implements. Four massive pillars of water worn stones on end supported the roofing feature stands out in the find.
A thimble case made from a palm kernel grown in Peru, showcased about forty five years ago at a Crystal Palace exhibition in New York, features a carved openwork leaves and stems design. Also noted are three birch trees growing on a pine stump at Tilden's Point, Maine, each tree small in diameter with roots running down the stump’s sides.
Rising eastward shingle drift has forced a new lighthouse at Dungeness Point England. The Deal firm secured a contract for 33000 to build it, making this the third lighthouse at the site. The original, built sixty years ago, is now a mile inland, and its successor sits about half a mile from shore.
After years of trials the Austrian army equips several battalions with snowshoes. During maneuvers in the Austrian Alps the footwear proved immensely useful to the troops.
A visitor notes many bells near pagodas in Burmah tapped by wooden mallets to wake the god Squirrels Nest in a curious display. In Winter Park Florida a church fire reveals a four foot thick squirrel nest blocking the chimney top. Ancient manuscripts from the sixth to twelfth centuries show little ink fading despite age.
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