Model Farm in Pennsylvania Shows Manure Driven Fertility
A clergyman turned farmer pays off a mortgage on a 15 acre Pennsylvania dairy farm through strict stable housing of 17 Jerseys. The system uses complete manure recycling, balanced rations, and daily manure application to fields, producing about 26 gallons of milk per cow daily and 2,400 dollars yearly in milk sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Pennsylvania
Quincy
Stewart
Department of Agriculture
Editorial Office Dominates Department of Agriculture Publications
The Department of Agriculture runs a vast Division of Publications editing about four items daily. Last year 1 463 new works passed through, with Weather Bureau outputs dominating 400 of them. Over 12 million copies of remaining titles printed, and 1 000 drawings created by department artists. George William Hill leads the division, advocating short crisp pieces for popular farmer readers. Joseph A. Arnold assists, guiding practical publication.
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Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
George William Hill
Mr. Hill
Joseph A. Arnold
King Alfonso Shops Hats in Paris Delightful Anecdote
An account recalls King Alfonso strolling Rue de la Paix during a Paris visit. Three young men drew attention in a hat shop when the Spanish monarch asked for three hats, one for his mother one for his sister and one for his aunt all in one box. The king then departed to the hotel leaving shop staff in high spirits.
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Alfonso
Paris
Rue de la Paix
Demoiselles de Magasin
King Alfonso
Farm bulletins as vast mine of agricultural knowledge
The speaker extols farm bulletins as a treasury of practical subjects and a potential farm library. Bound together they would form volumes from top agricultural experts based on wide ranging scientific experiments, offering valuable guidance to farmers nationwide.
The Bread Pill as the Most Important Remedy
A medical discourse claims the bread pill is the most important remedy physicians use. It notes the pill is often sugar or sugar solutions, harmless in small doses, and given to reassure patients who believe they are ill, under a doctor’s guidance.
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Maire
Sylvania
Gospel
Guy Elliott Mitchell
The
Arnold
Jersey
True Blue CO
Dept
Boston
Mass
Anderson Binding
New York
Woodlawn Nursery
Malden
Mase
Henderson
Peter Henderson & CO
Cortianoe Sr
New Yoan
W. ML. Crane Company
Recess, New York, N. Y
H. D. Hemenway
Hartford School of Horticulture
Doubleday, Page & Co
America
Hartford
Connecticut
Maxwell’s
Homemaker Magazine
Fisher Building
Chicago
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