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Newspaper
Townsend Messenger
Location
Townsend, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
3
Dairy and Poultry notes discuss churning delays due to cream acidity or temperature, urging careful ripening and a 58 degree churn temperature. It covers silos in New Zealand, round and stave designs, oleomargarine taxation debates, and issues in cheese curing and retail quality, stressing market impact and industry reforms.
The article warns against free range access when corn is available as it fattens hens and reduces laying. It advises fencing hens from hog yards and limiting roam time to maintain egg and meat quality. Emphasis is placed on year round fresh eggs, avoiding stale taste, and balancing fall and winter production for steady supply.
At the Kansas board of agriculture annual meeting John A. Craig of Iowa Agricultural College outlined desirable breeding traits in rams and ewes. He emphasized masculine ram features, strong neck, deep chest, springy live fleece, dense belly wool, straight legs, and balanced flesh. Ewes should be long in the face with slender necks and refined features.
The text urges balanced breeding to improve ewe quality and lamb growth, favoring a wedge-bodied, deep chest ewe with even flesh and strong breeding. It argues against inbreeding and crossbreeding alone, emphasizing informed selection by a knowledgeable breeder to combine good form while removing faults.
Advice on developing pullets in the fall emphasizing free range, frame formation with wheat oats bran middlings and limited corn. Warns against overfeeding, explains crop digestion and the need for grit to aid the gizzard, and cautions about crop bound as a major risk.
In East Asia markets hand made papers from Korea and Japan show strong potential amid rising prices. Hanji and minogami differ in composition and size while Japanese jackets and trousers used in war era display paper sewing techniques. Chinese hand made papers are colored on one side for cards and wrapping, with large worship-center consumption and regional export links.
Scottish American notes averages for occupations show butchers at about 170 pounds the heaviest, hotel keepers 167, clergymen 164, masons 162, farmers 161, dockers and bartenders 160, and tailors 145 pounds, with several other trades in between. This highlights open air, healthier work as a fattener.
A humorous New York Weekly excerpt mocks old house style and kitchen layouts as Mrs Suburb critiques a Queen Anne home. The agent defends features while noting a water-filled cellar used historically in sieges. Queen Elizabeth is joked about in food terms as brown Betty.
The piece argues aluminium could largely replace copper tin and nickel in many products. It notes lighter weight, resistance to tarnish, and lower cost with rising demand. Applications span printing rollers culinary utensils and consumer goods, with growing use in bicycles, lighting, and military equipment among continental armies.
A Mobile lawyer known for fighting spirit killed a man after retreating to create a safe moment, then claimed self defense citing the wall as the limiting factor. He was acquitted, with witnesses saying he had retreated to the limit of the law.
Fraulein Ulrike von Levetzow, Goethe's lifelong muse, dies at 94 in Triplis Bohemia. The poet met her at Marienbad and Carlsbad when she was 18, inspiring his Triology of Passion. She never married, living to honor her memory of the poet. Triplitz Castle remained a literary shrine.
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