Farm Advice Promotes Fruit Gardens and Sheep on Small Farms
The article emphasizes growing vegetables at home to improve health, recommends a one horse harrow for small-scale garden work, and suggests shade strategies for poultry. It argues small farms can raise sheep efficiently on 15 to 20 acres with rotating fields, and reflects on farmer boys' past labor compared with modern life.
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America
Norfolk
St. Paul
Poultry Yard
Billy
Mr. Dalton
Mr. W. Allen
Tm W. Allen
Tilly
Dalton
Care of Lambs for Twins and Weaklings
In twin births place lambs with the mother in a small pen for a day or two to prevent straying and help bonding. Weak lambs need vigilant care. if they cannot stand to suck, hold them up and milk milk into their mouth, or ease the ewe gently and aid the lamb to suck to prevent chilling and death.
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New England
Saving Clover Hay Methods For Good Harvest
The article explains saving clover hay depends on favorable climates and warns curing in bad weather is difficult. In large areas the shock method is impractical and it is better to cut after the dew to preserve quality.
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Iowa Homestead
Two Methods for Catching Plum Curculio in Orchards
The article outlines two proven techniques to capture the plum curculio. It recommends daily tree jarring after fruit set for three weeks to trap weevils, and placing large flocks of chickens in coops or yards under trees to deter pests. It also discusses stock management, veterinary milk indicators, egg hatching variability, and using weekly milk measurements to monitor cow yields and health.
Boy Billy Finds Fortune In Boarders From Boston
A Maine farm family, hard hit by bad crops and debt, advertises for boarders. Billy Allen secures two Boston clerks as guests, boosting family income and morale: and the guests, impressed by the boy’s care, return next summer with friendship and a bearskin as a keepsake.
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Billy
Boston
Traston
Pembridge
Maine
Dalton
W. Allen
Wes
Thomas Dalton
Edward Cornish
Ife
Allen
Allens
Cornish
Emma
Canning
Aunt Sue
Vanderbilt Family Hosts Brief Visit From Depews
Asheville dispatch reports Senator and Mrs. Depew made a brief 60 mile stop at Biltmore during their travel to New York. The party, including Miss Alice Roosevelt, rode to the mansion where hurried talks and a horse show followed before the eastbound train departure.
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George W. Vanderbilt
Asheville
Charlotte Observer
Depew
New York
Biltmore House
Mr. Vanderbilt
Maud
Galt
Alice Roosevelt
Washington
Mr. Depew
Grown up picnic tests Johnny Lane's patience at Silver Lake
A small boy named Johnny Lane, the only child under 15 at a Silver Lake picnic, navigates grown up etiquette. He tries to pass cookies and gingerbread to a younger companion while adult guests assign duties and tease his eagerness for cake. The scene shows a playful hierarchy and Johnny's attempt to earn an invite to a future Long Pond outing.
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Ile
Johnny Lane
Silver Lake Picnse
Johnny
Long Pond
Professor Describes Alcohol Effects on Animals In Paris
In Paris, Professor M. Grobaut of physiology notes animals pass through stages of intoxication from gaiety to sadness and solemnity ending in death. He cites curious bits and a drunken kangaroo displaying brutal aggression under liquor.
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M. Grobaut
Paris
Imaginary trouble echoes in light Philadelphia banter
May tells Flo a joke and Flo dismisses it as old. May retorts that the joke is indeed old and Flo should know. The quip surfaces amid a column style aside on how imagined troubles can sting more than real ones.
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May
Flo
Philadelphia Press
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