Turtle fishing off Key West in decline due to wasteful methods
The Montreal Star notes Key West Florida once-centered turtle fishery for three species green loggerhead and hawksbill has dwindled as improvident practices gather young and old alike. Green turtles prized for meat while loggerheads are larger and more numerous yet less valued. Hawksbills valued for tortoise shell with eggs used for food oil. Nets and cast lines used in turtling.
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Key West, Fla
Key West
Montreal Star
Atlantic
Long Island
Brazil
Keys
Florida
Virginia
West Indies
Bermudas
South America
Hawksbill Turtles and Their Market Trade Details
The article explains how hawksbill turtles are captured using nets, hooks, and a water telescope to locate them, then brought to surface and stored near Key West. It describes processing the shells for commerce, assigning values per pound, and notes humane practices improving over time. It mentions turtle habitats, transport, and an auction sale system, with miscellaneous notes on other species and survival.
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Key West
O. M.harger
Are Atlantic Magazine
Golden Wyandottes Breeding Fowls and the Bloodline Tale
The piece traces the commercial importance of hens and their products in breeding, noting the complexities of identifying offspring in fowl pedigrees. It recounts Joseph McKeeps Omro Wis idea to produce Bolten colored Wyandottes by crossing Seebright bantams, partridge cochin, Plymouth Rock, and white Wyandottes, resulting in golden Wyandottes with rose combs and black-laced feathers but no Wyandotte blood.
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Cohlin
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Joan
St. Louis Republic
Fred
Brendler
Volta
Joseph McKeen
Plymouth Rock
A Clock for the Blind and Other Fragments
A clock for the blind is described as a crude device using a copper dial with stamped symbols to tell time, made by the Missouri School for the Blind. The sequence then covers a posthumous sale of King George II’s wardrobe and miscellaneous quips, noting vast, unpaid wardrobes and anecdotes about critics, managers, and parental views.
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Missouri School For the Blind
History of events and notable figures from 1639 to 1904
A dense, OCR sourced list of dates and brief biographical notes. Mentions include the 1639 Hartford constitution, Franklin birth and death, 1770 Vermont independence, Morgan at Quebec, 1865 Fort Fisher, 1891 Sioux surrender, McKinley presidency, Taft era, and various international events. The text reads like a chronological roll call of anniversaries, appointments, battles, and civic milestones with many dates and persons named.
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Kansas Territorial
Lecompton
Napoleon, NL
Craint
Pensacola
Middle Creek
John Tyler
United States
Richmond
Greenway
Bayou Teche
Loutalana
Arkansas Post
Arkansaa
Sir John Lawrence
India
Society For
Paria
Sssault
Fort Fisher
North Carolina
Lyman Trumbull
Tilmore
United States Senate
Gov
Jenkins
Georgia
Meade
Gladstone
Liberal Party
House of Representatives
James G. Blaine
Benjamin H. Hill
William Johnston Ritchie
Canada
Albert Institute
Windsor
Prince of Wales
Iowa
Des Moines
Niagara
Northwest
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Henry Ward Beecher
F. B. Stockbridge
Michigan
William McKinley
Ohio
Toronto
Casimir Perier
Repub
Profit in Crop Rotation and Farm Notes Featured
Crop rotation proves profitable on Capt. William B. Lani’s four acre field with peas, corn, and clover. Portable colony poultry-houses are built locally. Early horse imports and breeding history noted. Ongoing spraying urged for orchards. West wheat values rise while conservative corn policy advised. Practical feeding shifts from corn to turnips clover for hogs. road-building with sawdust discussed.
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Lower
Delaware
William B. Lani
Colony
Indiana
Orange Judd Farmer
Boyden Pearce
Hancock County
Salt for Milking Cows and Cleanliness in Dairy
Practical dairy guidance on salt intake for cows and the two ounce daily guideline. Emphasizes placing rock salt in the manger and splitting daily portions. Also covers cleanliness in dairying, recommending soap and hot water wash, final rinsing with scalding water, and sunning vessels after cleaning.
Animal and Bird Farm Aids and Poultry Notes of 1910s era
Department of Agriculture of France cites values for toads swallows mice rooks and other birds in a quirky farm aid roundup. Articles describe salt curing squabs whitewashing poultry houses ladder work and the surprising power of gasoline in farming with practical tips and reflections.
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Department of Agriculture of
France
Inoculation of Alfalfa Shows Low Yield Without Lime or Lime
Reports from over 100 cooperative experiments across more than half of New York counties show alfalfa crops fail to prosper without lime or Indo ton applications. Only about one in five plantings reach a successful crop when neither lime nor Indo ton is used.
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New England
Virginia
Fearnaught
Aneomaron
Broomhall
Europe
North
Eas America
Stan
New York State
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Signor Rodi
Italy
Golden Wyandottes
King’s
George
England
Greville
Waste
Hartford
Conn
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Philadelphia
Montgomery
City of
New York
Vermont
Gen. Morgan
Compens
James Armstrong
Shelbyville
John Breckinridge
Kentucky
Great Britain
Bonaparte
Pomerania and
Rugen
Denmark
Randolph-Macon College
Navy Island
Sir Charles Bagot
Quebec
Vancouver Island
Hudson's Bay Company
Kanaan
Washington
Atva Adama
Colorado
Dawson City
Kingdom of Pruaula
Cummins
Toroaugural
Findley
Standard Oil Company
Rio de Janeiro
Victor Emmanuel
Atlanta
Taft
Lawrence Lowell
Harvard Univers’alty
Michael Shaughnessey
Galt Lake
Utah
Ectanicen Sass
Riley
Pigeoma
Simmon
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