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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1908
Page
7
Practical guide on late fall and winter vegetable storage. Details include cool dry air for pumpkins and squash, cool damp cellars for potatoes, barrelling carrots parsnips beets and turnips with sand, careful harvesting, drying onions, cabbage wrapping, and tomatoes kept cool and ripened before frost with occasional turning as a farming practice.
An old tale speaks of a garden overtaken by burdock where two aging snails survive among trees and a forest of weeds. They recall a vanished estate, dream of palace feasting, and seek a bride for their young, guided by ants toward a royal match.
An old snail couple preside over a burdock forest and imagine a grand future in a distant nobleman's palace where snails might be boiled and served on silver dishes. They raise a child, arrange marriages, and pass the forest to a new generation, who live simply and contentedly, unaware of their own demise.
A practical method to prepare dry fuel from corn cobs in a wooden box. Fill a pail with kerosene, submerge cobs upright, then use six cobs for a stove fire. Cobs burn for half an hour or more, with oil helping ignition. Green wood can be kiln dried for better burning.
A Canadian farmer describes a method to reduce silage spoilage. After filling and trampling the silo, he adds a two inch layer of clover chaff dampened with salted water, which preserves the silage and keeps the surface clean for feeding.
A Sunday School lesson expounds David's kindness to Mephibosheth as a type of God's grace to sinners. It links Mephibosheth's broken condition and dependence on the king to Christ's redemption, urging penitence, gratitude, and continual reliance on divine mercy.
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