Germany's meat reform raises prices while improving safety
The United States Department of Commerce and Labor reports how Germany's new meat inspection law, with strict imports curbs amid disease fears, raised dressed meat prices while expanding high standard abattoirs in Mannheim and Hall in a system that segregates meat by quality and disease status.
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Ermany
Faderland
Germany
Russia
Denmark
Sweden
Europe
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Mannheim
Rhine
France
Apple Growing Methods Show Greater Yields with Tillage
A New York Department of Agriculture survey of 1 138 orchards across Wayne and Orleans counties found tilled orchards five years or more old yield about 500 percent higher than those in sod. Increased gains arise from better care, including fertilizers, spraying, and pruning, beyond tillage alone.
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Department of Agriculture
New York
Wayne
Orleans
Study Confirms Fertilizers and Spreading Boost Orchard Yields
A New York survey of two major fruit counties shows fertilized orchards yield 55 bushels per acre more than unfertilized plots. Sprayed apples averaged 2.02 dollars per bushel on 8 430 bushels, while unsprayed yielded 1.80 dollars per bushel on 6 365 bushels. Planting distance and site elevation also influence annual yields from 186 to 229 bushels per acre, with well-drained, elevated sites favored.
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New York
Up-to-Date Weather Reports From Vessels By Wireless Telegraphy
The Weather Bureau developed a four word code to compress date hour position pressure wind and sky into a message for ships at sea. Coastal wireless stations would deliver alerts to Washington and issue storm warnings to vessels in the area. The Campania hurricane of October 11 illustrates potential saving of forewarned crews.
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United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Washington
Campania
Inexpensive Brooder Working On A Dollar
The Agriculture Department outlines a chicken brooder costing under a dollar. Connecticut experiment station reports excellent results in sheds or colony houses. The lamp housing is a 3 ft square box of 10 inch boards with tin covering and ventilation holes on each side. A floor of matched boards holds an 8 inch central hole capped by an old tin.
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Department of Agriculture
Connecticut Experiment Station
Colony House
Homemade Brooder for Chicks Described in Bulletin
A 10 inch pan with a perforated base forms the heat source beneath a table 2 feet 6 inches square on short legs. A curtain of old felt is tacked around the table to let chicks pass, with 4 inch high boards surrounding the setup. At ten days old a board is removed to create a bridge to the floor. The full description is in Farmers' Bulletin No. 7 available from Congress members or the Secretary of Agriculture.
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Farmers’ Bulletin
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Double Yorked Eggs and a Frugal Squire
Squire Meadows of Four Corners trades a fresh egg for a darning needle. The storekeeper, a cordial grocer and post office operator, offers a drink to customers as part of local manners.
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Four Corners
Squire
Perkins
Meadows
Weather Bureau fog and ice alerts aid trans-Atlantic ships
A proposed system would let the Weather Bureau transmit fog and ice limits on the Grand Banks to liners and vessels to adjust courses and avoid danger. Separate anecdote covers Secretary Shaw arriving late at the Treasury, narrowly avoiding a guard’s challenge, and a comic tale of a mistaken bottle and egg swap with a storekeeper.
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Weather Bureau
trans-Atlantic
Grand Banks
Shaw
Ian
The Future Mikado in Japan and Its Imperial Family
The piece contrasts Japanese imperial family harmony with American domestic discord. It notes Empress is older than the Mikado, is not mother to the five royal children, and discusses succession and legitimacy concerns given her age and the emperor’s offspring.
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Japan
Imperial Family of
Empress
Mikado
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