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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
3
iCE em ye iCE em ye CISTERNS UNDER BARNS. Tivery barn will shed enough water to stock and cattle. If this water is filtered and heated in basement cistern, it benefits drinkers and milk quality. Native trees supplant foreign varieties. experts now favor native species for growth and profit, Boaston Cultivator.
The text outlines conformation criteria for horses including strong forelegs, large barrel, elevated withers, straight back, broad loins, bent hooks, small sound feet, and pattern alignment. Each horse undergoes rigid inspection and any failing to meet all requirements is rejected. Under four year olds may be rejected unless exceptionally fine. accepted animals receive a hemp halter free of charge from the Government.
In cautious spring planting, dig holes in fall or winter when soil is unfrozen. Two feet wide and deep, drill drainage, keep soil dry to plant earlier. Mr. Vergon’s orchards near Delaware show hundreds of ready holes and thrifty trees. December yield near 6000 bushels of apples.
Farmers report repeated failure to beat Pekins with crosses like Onyuge, Ravens, Aylesbury, or Muscovy Pekin crosses. Pekins remain strongest for market. For laying ducks, provide animal protein daily and cub clover, plus soft cooked turnips with bran and cornmeal. Keep duck quarters dry and straw with two inches depth.
Government rules specify cavalry horses must be well bred and superior in class, gentle under saddle, free from visions habits, and able to move cleanly in walk, trot, and gallop. Required geldings are four to eight years old, 16.1 to 16 hands high, 950 to 1150 pounds, with uniform hardy color, small head and ears, large eyes, long sloping shoulders, full chest, and good overall conformation.
The article advises farmers on soil feeding with stable manure and cheaper alternatives. It explains plowing under corn after harvest, sowing cowpeas, and turning under fodder before frost to improve next year’s crop. It recommends sowing rye or wheat to create fall and winter pastures, and cautions not to let seed mature when turning under. Coloman's Rural World.
Guidance on selecting strong hens for hatching eggs and proper handling. Advice covers gathering during cold weather, laying eggs on soft cloth in a single layer, turning daily, and not keeping eggs over four weeks. Also describes a candling test for freshness and the logic of sourcing eggs near home to reduce damage and shipping costs.
The Vermont Experiment Station tested four methods to feed corn to cows and steers to determine preservation for winter use. Whole plants in a silo, cribbed and ground ears with silage, shocks cured and cutter processed, and husked ears ground with stover fed. Silage yielded best dairy output. shocks showed stronger steer growth.
Curious items abound from a frozen brick report in Europe to sugar distilling in the South and a worm’s-eye view of telephones, rail travel, and milk production. The piece notes convicts employed on North Carolina farms, a siege veteran’s death in Missouri, and a Greensbury MD beef roast ending with an old colt as curiosity.
A Baltimore Herald item describes a curious fashion gadget a tiny lantern with glass sides mounted on a foot thong, resting tongue for support. It notes electricity and oil as light sources, with a tiny storage battery carried in the pocket and a flexible insulated wire to the lamp.
Laggan resident John Taorner complained to magistrates that distillery refuse polluted a nearby stream. His ducks and hens allegedly drank the churned liquor, causing hens to reach delirium tremens stages while others were too tipsy to be presented. Distillery output on Sundays paused, resuming Mondays. Taorner produced a hen in an incipient delirium tremens state as evidence.
A Bourbon County Infirmary inmate aged seventy five has married seven times, converting religion five times. Widow of her sixth husband she sought a pension, then a permit to wed husband No.7 who is blind. Advised marriage would void the pension, she coolly replied she values a husband more than a pension.
Mrs Lucretia Eator aged 101 died at Head of the Bay Rockland Maine leaving to her nurse a jar of butter kept in her trunk for twenty seven years The butter looked well she reportedly said New York Sun
A Rochester reader reports on Parisian legal life as described by The Rochester Union and Advertiser. He notes high costs and barriers for young lawyers, including gown rental, instructors, and conservatory voice training, with poverty delaying client income and limiting entry to the profession.
A visitor questions the new resident about the servant's place in the house and the woman replies the house pleases her though she cannot understand how people like them came to occupy it. The exchange captures social tensions over class and occupancy in a Washington Tar source dated to historic records.
A garbled vintage ad card describes Tettorine as a fragrant ointment with healing power for various ailments including itching and rough skin. It claims benefits for scalp and skin conditions, with references to Dr King’s and other patent medicines, price for a trial bottle and mail order details.
A woman was found unconscious in the street and rushed to a hospital where morphine sores were noted. Once a respected publishing house employee in New York, she declined rest, turning to morphine, and doctors identified a womb illness that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound might have cured. A letter from Pittsburg praises the remedy after years of womb troubles and ineffective doctors.
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