Margaret O Reilly Seeks Abbotsville Holiday Escape
Margaret O Reilly, now fifteen, is invited by Sir Frederic Flower to spend holidays at Abbotsville with Carmen Flower. Ruthven hesitates over Peg O Reilly joining, but the Flowers welcome her, while Master Hamilton looms as a disruptive factor in the Kensington household.
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Carmen Flower
Margaret
Abbotsville
Mrs. Garrett
Ruthven
Peg
Kensington
Margaret O'Reilly
Argaret O'Reilly
Carmen
Sir Frederic
Mr. Ruthven
Frederic
Abbotsville Heiress and Two Girls Arrive at Grand House
Margaret O'Reilly and Carmen arrive at the fifteenth century Abbotsville mansion to an empty house schedule for themselves. They marvel at the gardens and Monks' Walk while the sharp housekeeper Webb notes hair and cream shortages. The sisters explore corridors and a shaded veranda as they contemplate the uncle who secludes himself and a possible secret.
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Margaret
Covent Garden
Miss Prism
Blackheath
Abbotsville
Carmen
Floralia
Webb
Miss O’reilly
Miss O'Reilly
Mrs. Webb
Miss Carmen
Margaret O'Reilly
Umbrella Crisscross in a Broadway Car and Milk Cooling Facts
A New York World anecdote shows a dignified man with an umbrella in a crowded car as a baby asserts possession and the scene ends with the umbrella surrendered. The second part, from the Department of Agriculture, emphasizes cooling milk quickly after milking to slow bacterial growth and prevent souring.
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Broadway
New York World
When She Tromped In Whist Aimed At Dr Belman
A tale of a whist game where a maiden lady trumps the doctor’s best card and explains her choice as judicious. The doctor questions her, she calls him an old fool, and she never plays cards again.
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Dr. Belman
How Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm
A Hoard's Dairyman excerpt contrasts two farming approaches. Uncle John praises silos and practical methods while a prideful neighbor resists, claiming expense and vanity. The tale frames profit from embracing fact over ego and notes mortgage relief to aid sound farming.
Tainted Milk and Advancing Agricultural Practices
Agricultural notes warn taints in milk arise from cow diet or bacterial growth with immediate versus delayed flavor changes. Other items discuss glasshouse farming, fowl diseases and remedies, creameries cooperative plans, coop floor care, and the future of profitable mutton sheep breeding and early lamb production.
Wisconsin oleomargarine sale ban upheld in Madison test
An Adams Dairy Commission action enforces Wisconsin law banning sale of oleomargarine colored to resemble butter. An eastern dairyman argues breeding success hinges on a farmer's willingness to mingle with dairy stock, noting cows have social natures that affect milk and fat production.
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Adams
Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
Poultry House Benefits in Orchard Settings
The orchard provides a large range for fowls with access to greens, bugs, and worms that aid trees. Key is dry drainage to keep roosting quarters safe from storms. Orchards often best for poultry, especially when space limits exist on farms and summer building favors such placement.
Improvements for Hen House Maintenance and Hygiene
The text advises tearing out fixtures to remove hidden mites and refitting roosts for easy coal oiling. It stresses level roosts, preventing bumble foot in heavy hens, and using sand or gravel to fill low areas to curb dampness. Avoid mud around the hen house with sand gravel coal ashes or sod.
Wild Leghorns Tamed by Gentle Handling in Winter
Leghorns are naturally wild but can be subdued with care. In winter when outdoors are limited, use a muslin front on the scratching shed to keep fowls inside. At feeding time move among them quietly to gradually accustom them to human presence.
Lesson on Feeding Stock from Massachusetts Proverb
A historical proverb notes it is folly to feed good food to poor stock and better to feed poor stock with good food, illustrating careful management of resources for livestock. The quote reflects agricultural wisdom attributed to Massachusetts Plowman.
Hog Raisers Advised On Preventing Hog Disease Losses
Practical farmer guidance emphasizes a broader summer feed, wells for water, controlled and rotated grazing, and strict fencing to keep hogs on each farm. When disease appears, separate wet from sick stock immediately to limit spread, moving affected animals to a separate pasture.
Queer Features in the Cattle Trade
Great Britain remains a major beef cattle importer with hundreds of thousands bought yearly. England exports a modest number from its southern regions and some cattle reach the European continent. UK live cattle exports rose from 1245 in 1890 to 8282 in 1894, Belgium and France receiving the lions share while Germany bought few. The surge partly reflects the 1893 drought’s lingering impact though overall export activity is uncertain.
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Great Britain
England
Europe
United Kingdom
Belgium
France
Germany
Silage Proves Effective for Fattening Sheep
An Illinois feeder reports high gains from silage in sheep fattening, with up to twenty pounds per head in ninety days when grain is fed alongside. He has fed as many as 10,000 head on ensilage at once, finding silage as useful and safe for sheep as for other livestock.
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George W. Franklin
Montreal Journal of Agriculture
Illinois
Pink imitation law fails as NH voters demand butter
The New Hampshire board of agriculture secretary says the law requiring imitation buter to be colored pink is a complete success. People will not use it but demand butter instead.
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New Hampshire Board of Agriculture
Sheep Pasture Changes Boost Flock Health
Advice notes switching pastures and yards improves sheep well being. Apply rotation when flock appears puny and stressed to encourage better grazing and condition.
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Rutavens
Maggie
New York
Department of Agriculture
Dairy and Poultry
John
Plainview
Minn
Greenwood Prairie
Mellette
Colorado
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