Gentle stingless bee found by Department of Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture reports a Caucasian stingless bee, discovered by Apiarist Frank Benton, that can be handled without gloves or smoke. Trials show it remains amiable despite rough handling, promising easier beekeeping. Benton tours for further study, including India and the Philippines for giant honey bees.
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Department of Agriculture
Carniolans
Department
Frank Benton
Caucasus
Cincinnati
Ohio
Benton
Mr. Benton
Globe
India
Philippine Islands
Care of Livestock in Transit Improves Humane Shipments
Secretary Wilson visits Chicago to inspect incoming stock trains and loading methods. He informs the Livestock and Railway Committee that while he will modify orders, the aim is to enforce humane handling of interstate cattle shipments without unduly hampering commerce. He praises conditions in yards and predicts better compliance by railways, advancing department effectiveness under his eight-year leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Chicago
Pame
Maple Sugar Bulletin Notes Adulteration Study
The bulletin on growing and making maple sugar includes a discussion of maple sugar adulteration by Chemist Wiley. Prepared by William F. Fox and William F. Hubbard, the report notes Hubbard’s death in a canoeing accident on the Potomac near Washington.
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Bureau of Forestry
William F. Fox
William F. Hubbard
Wiley
Hubbard
Potomac River
Washington
Bodily Heat of Eskimos in Alaska Observed
Observations in Alaska show Eskimo body temperatures higher than Europeans. Data from December and July report Eskimo means of 100.2 and 99.4 degrees, despite living in near freezing. Eskimos reportedly sleep naked indoors, drink ice-cold water, and build beds near hut roofs to utilize rising warm air.
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Alaskan
Southern Timber Supply and Forestation Prospects
The article argues that reforestation in cleared southern lands with young trees creates a constant timber supply. It notes northern lumbermen looking to the South, rising land values, and the importance of preventing waste and fires. It praises government forestry efforts and a Louisiana company’s renewal plan to ensure perpetual supply.
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Northwest
Government
Forestry Bureau
Southern Railway
South
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Louisiana
Bureau of Forestry
Department of Agriculture
Use of Herbs Declining in Greenwich Village Shop
A quaint Greenwich village shop titled An Herb for Every Pain offers hundreds of herbs once common in grandma’s kitchens. It lists remedies like bugleweed, sassafras, catnip, and mullein brewed as teas, with some herbs labeled as poisons under strict rules. The article laments the shift from old family remedies to modern drugs, arguing the loss of traditional cures was a mistake.
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Greenwich
Fneland
No Rebate Tribulations There
The piece notes the President should smoothly handle the railway issue in China, asserting there is no obstinate Senate blocking the move. No further details on dates or figures are provided in the readable text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
China
Dairy Relics Found on San Juan Hill Postwar
An agriculture department official in Cuba after the Spanish American War reports discovering a dairy house near the summit of San Juan Hill. The enclosure uses timber and barbed wire from wartime trenches, illustrating how peace follows devastation and a location tied to Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Cuba
San Juan Hill
Roosevelt
Whitefish Hatchlings Grow On Mosquito Diet At Aquarium
In New York Aquarium’s hatchery about 400 whitefish born last March now average two inches. Early feeding used finely chopped herring roe and liver. now they eat mosquito larvae. The aquarium has a mosquito life exhibit showing wrigglers from rain barrels to ponds to supply live food.
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New York Aquarium
Aluminum plate tales mark crow wager across Ohio
George McCarren of Orrville owned a tiny aluminum plate reading return to George McCarren Orrville Ohio. His father had tied a plate to a crow in a bet with a fellow naturalist in Akron about the bird’s age, promising return if the bird died or survived for twenty years. The crow was shot in Holmes county, the plate returned to the elder McCarren’s son, and the wager ended with the elder man long gone, making the plate a cherished reminder.
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George McCarren
Orrville
Ohio
Decorge McCarren
McCarren
Akron
Angers
Holmes County
McCarrens
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United States Department of Agriculture
New York City
Government Apiarist Geo Forarine
Agricultural Department
Beb Corner
Southern Timber Supply
San Suan Hill
Postum
Wellsville
Ia Age
The
Marlin Fire Arms Co
New Haven, Conn
Remington Typewriter
Eas Lakge
New York
Nassau Street
St. Louis
4Th and Olive Sts
Crader and
Ditcher
Western Wheeled Scraper Co
National Photographic Chemical Company
Wlth St. and
Penn Ave
Washington, D. Cc
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