Farmers Note On Thistles Smut Pigeons And Slaughter
Methods to destroy thistles include cutting and plowing deep with crops like millet and rye, plus regular cutting and September plowing. Smut in wheat barley and oats can be prevented by seed treatment, corn smut has no known remedy. A pigeon trap is shown and pig slaughtering steps emphasize rapid cooling and proper evisceration for quality. Farm equipment for manure handling and road improvements for hauling bollocks are discussed.
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Timofa
Nebraska Yarmer
Frank Andrews
Axrhenistica
Weltes
Reggione
United States
Houlingg
Stiff tongue and onbooked turns in old farming note
The excerpt discusses threshing methods, costs, and grading impacts for corn belt farming. It compares machinery, stacking, and thrashing, noting per bushel costs, grain grades, and the potential market price differences. It also mentions icehouse construction and pig farming without corn using various feeds.
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Mn Heauin Experiment Strath
Fsnally
The Moadh Tree Borer And Cow Feeding Practices
The text describes the Moadh tree borer a wasp like insect that lays eggs at the base of trees its larvae bore into sapwood causing gummy exudation and disease while weakening the tree. It also touches on cow feeding noting oiling cows during drought and preserving green fodder until winter with fall grain abundance and pumping vegetables and grain plentiful.
Oregon residents urged action on recall and proportional representation
A broad campaign drafts constitutional amendments and laws for recall of officials, US senator election by people, proportional representation, and Huntley corrupt practices act. Prominent organizers form a Peoples Power League and seek $3,000 to fund the drive, naming Johnathan Bourne Jr and peers as leaders. Provisions outline recall petitions, recall timelines, and campaign finance rules.
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Oregon
Peoples’ Power League
United States
People's Instruction
Huntley
People's League
Johnathan Bourne, Jr
Earl G. Bronaugh
Jory Bronaugh
W. C. Bristol
Lee M. Clark
H. W. Drew
Lic Treasury
State of
Legislative Assembly
House of Representatives
Prohibition
Ttmn
Hoatley
Clackamas
Belef
Apple Fance and German Pickles From Old Recipes
This fragment outlines a method for simmering peeled tart apples with water and lemon juice, then sweetening with sugar and cinnamon for a sauce. It also provides a rough process for making German pickles using green tomatoes, onions, salt, vinegar, sugar, spices, and peppers, with a cooking and sealing step.
American husbands enslaved in eyes of a French observer
A French writer in Le Temps denounces American marriage customs, arguing that husbands are reduced to wage earners and servants while wives pursue costly pleasures. She claims American men are worn down by endless work, while wives read and dream of French ideals, leading to discontent and emigration of men.
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America
New York
Nowan
Railways and science notes from distant times
A long paragraph surveys old engineering and scientific ideas. It mentions English built railway engines still in service in Scotland, calculations about atmospheric weight, europlum in stellar spectra, and improvements in telephones. It also covers British signaling research, French and Swedish railway electrification plans, and reflections on mountain mills and child labor tied to cotton production and social uplift.
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England
David Gil
Royal Society
Joseph Taint
Arcturus
Pollux
Lants
Calais
Bou-logne
Havre
Sandette Nguehto
Dunkirk
Elbe
Stockholm
Jaffra
Sweden
Mountain Cotton Mill Experiment in North Carolina Hill Country
A Charleston News and Courier report describes a proposed cotton mill in the Blue Ridge hills near Ziecon North Carolina. The plan includes a mill village to study social and industrial impacts, highlighting Appalachia poverty and potential South novel textile features.
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North Carolina
Hill Country
Blue Ridge Mountains
South
Charleston News and Courier
Buile
Green River
Ziecon
N. C
Mil
Tts
America
Mill Inter
Walking Diplomacy on Indian Frontiers
An English official uses a walking negotiation with a native head man to seal a loyalty contract in India. They walk through villages in patent leather shoes and a European frock coat, the native insisting on walking and finally yielding only to ride. The agreement is reached after a humorous, prolonged bargaining moment and the contracting parties remain friends, recounting the episode with good humor.
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India
Stees
Hrntiah
Hiself
Not a Clean Sweep
A garbled excerpt from the Atlanta Constitution mixes a regional dialect poem about catastrophe with a note on Korea cotton potential. The text claims Korea could profitably grow cotton to about 130 million pounds annually, then abruptly trails into fragmented, incoherent dialogue about marriage and a husband.
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Korea
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Tenu
Tiia
the Supreme Court
Pete
Exme
Dralner
Walt
Piedmont
South Carolina
Mountain Cotton Mill
Atlanta Constitution
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