Dry Farming Congress Set With Billings October Meeting
The Dry Farming congress is organized to press its claims on dry farming methods as feasible. The Fourth Dry Farming congress will meet in Billings Montana October 26 27 and 28 1909 with exhibits from thirteen Western states and aims to show non irrigation crop growth and the value of dry farming districts amid arid lands and homestead opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer
Billings
Montana
United States
Dry Farming Congress
Water for the Bees and Farm Tips from the Chicago Journal
Practical farming notes emphasize supplying bees with water, wind protection, weed control, and weekly hive care for larger yields. Anecdotes cite a Chicago newspaper man earning 225 dollars from honey with minimal weekly hive work. Also covered are chick feeding, alfalfa planting prep, and a Sacramento stream power example. A portable canning machine for farm produce is described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Journal
Draft on Doubletree Leverage in Team Drafting
The text explains how horse draft varies with lever arm lengths determined by clevis and draw pins. In diagram one lever arms are equal, so each horse pulls the same. In diagram two the ahead horse gains a longer lever arm and pulls less, while diagram three reverses so the ahead horse pulls more.
Feeding Pigs and Farmhouse Food Crops from Old Notes
The article outlines dry and mixed feed methods for pigs including corn meal, beef scraps, and wheat bran, advises cooking dough, and warns to feed warm not hot. It explains sow-centered gains, urging keeping piglets with sows until grain feeding starts. It covers orchard tasking, goose handling, farm work hours, transplanting tips, and valuing uniform vegetable quality over oversized showpieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Morgan Horses Legacy From Vermont Ancestry And Traits
Forty years ago Morgans were favored road horses tracing to a single ancestor Justin Morgan foaled in Vermont in 1793 with blood largely thoroughbred. Descendants include Blackhawk Bashiw Golddust Ethan Allen Ben Franklin Gen Knox and Daniel Lambert. The Morgan type is short legged thick with a round barrel and noted for intelligence courage and endurance. Farmers of the North Atlantic states posted about 984 dollars in farm crop value last census year while South Atlantic farmers averaged 434 dollars though Southern farms averaged 108 acres and Northern farms 6 acres.
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Morgans
Justin Morgan
Vermont
Blackhawk
Bashiw
Golddust
Ethan Allen
Ben Franklin
Knox
Daniel
Lambert
Morgan
North Atlantic States
South Atlantic States
Duel Over a Sausage Ends in Duel Downfield
Two French dragoon officers at Mazamet clashed over a cafe sausage on Good Friday. Lieut Gand and Lieut de Bourmont dueled near Carcassonne. Gand was wounded in the right arm and the feud remained unresolved as they left the ground.
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Rench
Mazamet
le Petit Meridional
Lieut. Gand
Lieut. de Bourmont
M. de Bourmont
Leutenants
Carcassonne
Dr. Sempf
M. Cabines
Petit Meridional
Carcassonne, Were Mr. Gand'a Seconds, While MM. de la Baume and Mignot
Meutenante
Dragoon
Ponce v Roman Catholic Church confirms church as legal entity
The U S Supreme Court affirmed the Porto Rico Supreme Court ruling that the Catholic Church edifice, funded by municipal sources, is a legal entity entitled to property rights. The case cites treaties and concordats with Spain and the papacy. Damages for an ex‑employee and wage claims were addressed, with judgment for the plaintiff on the complaint and related matters discussed. The text also covers election contest jurisdiction and constitutional questions tied to district courts and legislative power.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
United States Supreme Court
Roman Catholic Apostolic Church
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of
Spain
United States Circuit Court
Flanders
Canada
Federal Reporter
Idaho Supreme Court
Tonray
Crushed Again and Other Oddities in 19th Century Ads
A garbled collage of 19th century ad snippets and fragmented dialogue includes queer prompts about age, remedies, and social roles. It mentions Mrs Winslow’s Boots, a rug comment, a command about beating it, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil for rheumatism, a critic’s remark on appearance, a phonetic shoe powder for feet, and a jokey court scene about breach of promise.
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Jack
Heston
Houston Post
Portland
Ane
W. A. Wise
E Wise Dental Co
UNC
Washington
Ste
Oregon
Rama
Chicago Inter Ocean
Sacramento
Cal
Bows
Minnesota Agricultural College
Bailey
Farm Life Commission
Oberlin Times
Houston
Castoria
Chas
Pletcher
Murray Aeneet
York Erty
Mra. Denham
Denham
New York
Wothers
Mra. Winslow
Baltimore
Baltimore American
Lt Euros Pata Awailen
Amartioy
Ub Tate
Ae Free
Auldrwt A. 3
Olmutod
le Ray
N. In
Harry Stuckley
Daisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers
Gouden A Oike
Mal
New York City
C. Gee Wo
Doctor
Buea
Joe
Chinesh
Anthina
Pekin
China
Wafe
C, Gee Wo Medicine Co
Pleat St
Cor
Morrison
Portland, Or
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Crescent
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