Dairy and Livestock Notes From Iowa and Abroad
A wide survey of dairy markets, breeding, and farming practices. The piece discusses milk pricing, British trade policy, dairy byproducts, turnips and mangels for stock, and the Royal show at Doncaster. It notes the U S Senate moves against orders in council, and stresses better cattle breeding, dairy education, and farm youth access to agricultural colleges for improved future yields. It references Iowa creamery developments, the Homestead premiums, and the need for superior bloodlines like Allerton's to sustain genetic progress.
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London Live Stock Journal
Doncaster
Denmark
Molland
France
Wallace
Minnesota
Iowa
Agricultural College
The Coming Sheep in Iowa Farming Now
A historic shift in Iowa agriculture moves Americans toward mutton consumption as Merino breeds, once valued for wool, adapt to meat production. Economies in beef cattle and hog disease prompt farmers to invest in mutton sheep, improving both meat supply and wool quality with the use of medium wool bucks. The article notes widespread adoption, price trends, and expected market growth as flocks expand across the state.
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Iowa
Jowy
Local butchers push prices as beef from distant ranches arrives
The passage notes price increases for town consumers while cattle are moved to Ohio and back for local use. It mentions dependence on Texan and Mexican beef, with relief seen in mutton sheep and a reference to a declaration amid hot weather against Armour's ranch cattle.
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Irene
Armour
Cattle feeding and flax oil meal mix for Iowa farms
The article argues for better long term cattle care and feeding practices over frontier methods. It promotes improved breeding, knowledge among practical farmers, and the use of flax seed oil meal to fatten cattle and boost milk yield. It also notes Europe and America balance on oil cake, and urges Iowa farmers to grow flax for feed and income. The piece reflects on coastal Maine anecdotes about isolated communities, emigration, and frontier hardship, contrasting rural progress with superstition and nostalgia.
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Europe
England
America
Great Britain
Russia
India
Towa
Iowa
Happy Little Girls Read Aloud On Sixth Avenue
A New York Herald paragraph describes two young cash girls walking home each evening. One eleven or twelve, the other a brunnette a bit older. The taller girl reads aloud from a book while the pair walks with the 6 o clock throng. They hear a duchess and an earl in the dialogue.
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South Thomaston
Maine Coast
White Head
Monhegan
Monhegan Island
Boston
Bangor
New York
Casco Bay
Basket Island
Portland
Kennebunkport
York County
Basket
Atlantic
United States
Isle On
Haut
Penobscot Bay
Swithh
Sixth Avenue
New York Herald
The Antiquity of Goase and Goose Etymology
The New York Evening Sun discusses the ancient domestication of geese and traces the word origins from goose in English to ganse in German to ansa in Latin and to Sanscrit, noting language change through Digamma and pronunciation rules, reflecting deep prehistoric links to geese.
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Max Muller
Ansa
Muller
New York Evening Sun
Blarney Stone Legend Tied to Cork Castle
The article describes Blarney village in Ireland and Blarney Castle built by Cormack MacCarthy the Strong in the mid fifteenth century. It notes ruins attract thousands of tourists yearly due to a stone said to grant the gift of fluent speech to anyone who kisses it.
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Blarney
Ireland
Cork
Blarney Castle
Cormack MacCarthy
Muskerry
Detroit Free Press
A Clever Retort From An Old Lady Witness
An elderly witness before magistrates refused to remove her bonnet saying law compels a woman to take off her bannet. A magistrate joked you would like to sit here and teading. The woman replied there are old women enough already. San Francisco
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San Francisco
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Barm and Stock Yard
James Wilson
Bnrror
Pee‘Maria
Massachusetts
Northwestern
St. Paul
Prof. Robertson
Canada
Plains
New York Dairy Association
United States Senate
House of Lords
Ivo, Bennett
Henry C. Wallace
Orient
Purdue University
Indiana
Jose
Ames
Allerton
Walter Scott
Williams
Cruickshank
Hammond
Bates
Fiahoe
Isleau Haut
Maria
Anaster
Neey Holt
Washington State
Bwalonadt Mitty Riven
Cre
Eilfe Swallowinig
Dixeitie
Itneratt
Edinsburgh Philosophical Journal
John Cummings
Havre
Tnixen
Charlestown Hospital
Isis
Guy’s Hospital
F. Davis
Gilver
Crook
Miles
Logan
Buchanan, Mich
Brutaonytation
Pip
Harmon Jones
Stephen Ham
Loutrie
Ham
Jones
Dock
East St. Louis
Paris
Fulton (Mo
Riley & Young
Kossuth County
Key & Young
Algona
Lowa
Merritt
GRO. H. Smith & CO
Cedar Rapids
Lowash
D. L. Down
Ana
Fay
Ci ‘Ata Laauet “Atoz ER
L. K. Garfield
Agts
Newhone
Wonton Sea
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