Timely Farm Notes on Crops and Cultivation
This item surveys practical farming tips: popcorn patches for Ivory farm, insect resistance in carnations, maize tripling in Argentina over 15 years, deep spring cultivation without root disturbance, fine-particle soil tillage, weed management, and brief notes on asparagus and soybeans. It cites alfalfa seed yields from a Kansas farmer, a high national farm- product value in 1909, and potato blight control via Bordeaux mixture with scheduled sprays.
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Ivory
Kansas
Wilson
Missouri Leads U S In Frog Turtle And Terrapin Trade
The piece notes rising demand in eastern cities for frogs turtles and terrapins with Missouri shipping 445998 dollars worth last year. Missouri dominates as a frog producer and Dunklin Pemiscot and New Madrid counties supply most terrapins. Terrapins fetch high prices in New York and Boston and the flesh and tenders of Missouri terrapin are praised.
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W. D. Neale
Elsberry
United States
Missouri
Dunklin
Pemiscot
New Madrid
New York
Boston
Unique open air furnace for heating water outside
An old article describes building an open air furnace around a fire to avoid heat loss when boiling maple syrup or heating water. It suggests using a common drain tile as the furnace shell, sized to fit the kiln pattern inside, with a hole dug under the tile to feed the fire and create draft.
Handy Jack for hay rack device description from reader
A compact plan for a lifting jack to raise hay racks onto wagons or sleighs. Two upright 2 by 4 posts form a frame with a grooved wheel and a gas pipe roller fitted to a crank. Rope loops through guides and two hooks lift and position the rack, with crosspieces and a bolt pin to secure the crank during use.
Handy Marker for a Garden and Field Sled Marker
Handy marker for a garden or chard ground where a horse is impractical. The sled marker has rounded runners with end blocks and a sliding connecting board. A long strip is nailed on the blocks with screws to adjust width and spacing for easy row marking. Includes a card for drawing.
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Hays Homestead
Good Lessons in Plowing by J G Stein
Practical farming guidance stresses straight furrows with aligned starts to avoid wedges and extra turns. It recommends keeping a 16 foot grassed strip between fence and field to speed harvest, avoid reaping waste, and reduce labor in shocking and tying produced by the reaper.
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J. G. Stein
Botanist settles Leif dispute with Cranberry clue in Boston
Harvard botanist Professor M L Fernald weighs Norse landing claims in North America. He argues grape and wild crops cited by explorers are unlikely Norse discoveries, identifying mountain cranberry and native currants as the best botanical indicators and narrowing Vinland to northern coasts from the St Lawrence northward.
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Boston
Leif
Eric
Boston Bay
Bay of Fundy
St. Lawrence
Massachusetts
Commonwealth Avenue
American
M. L. Fernald
Gray ‘Herbarium
Harvard University
Rhodora
New England’ Botanical Club
Canada
Nova Scotia
New England
Scandinavia
Great Britain
Europe
Iceland
Greenland
Norway
Prior
Britten
Holland
England
Scotland
Schubeler
Vinland
Wineland
Maritime Provinces
Long Island Sound
Hssex County
Isles of Shoals
St. Lawrence River
Labrador
Vein Stitching Saves Man After Artery Laceration
Berlin surgeon Professor Sonnenburg treats a worker whose steel splinter ripped the thigh artery. After severing and stitching the artery with fine needles and silk, pulse returned within three days, proving normal blood flow. Sonnenburg notes prompt knife use is crucial in appendicitis cases.
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Berlin
Sonnenburg
Germany
Taxi cab venture eyed for Constantinople streets
English company plans to supply Constantinople with 21 taxicabs and 65 omnibuses to begin within a month. Signor Mazza says English managers will oversee motors and horse-drawn vehicles, with Turkish drivers and conductors. routes include Galata to Ortakoy and Galata Bridge crossing as modernization replaces horse trams.
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London
Constantinople
Ortakeny
Chichill
Signor
Moise Mazza
Sig. Mazza
Young Turk
Galata
Ortakeuy
Galata Bridge
Tunnel
Pera
Four Kisses Sell For Twenty At Omaha Auction
In the South Omaha live stock exchange lobby a St. Louis horseman Rudolph Franklin bid five dollars per kiss and bought four kisses from a group of women selling tickets for a charity entertainment. The auction raised funds, netting one hundred one dollars after more kisses sold.
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Omaha, Neb
South Omaha
Franklin
Frankyin
Miss Childs
Girl Works as Miner in Macon Missouri
A young woman in Macon Missouri works daily in a coal drift near town. She wears a pitlamp and handles a pick and shovel as well as the men. She earns three to four dollars a day and says the hard labor agrees with her.
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Macon
T. B. Swan Attorney At Law In Atlantic Iowa
T. B. Swan offers wills probated reports for administrators and guardians and appointments secured. Probate practice specialty with general law services. J. B. Rockafellow admitted to practice in state and federal courts Atlantic Iowa.
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4Th and
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic, Lowa
C. B. Clovis
Melcher's
Atlantic
Liowa
T. B. Swan
Towa
J. B. Rockafellow
Iowa
John H. Wood
BEN V. Wood Co
Savery
Sixth
Chestnut Sts
Lowa
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Manila Harbor
Naval Dry Boch
Dewey Anila
Dewey
Harvard
Professor Sonnenburg
Turkey
Eastern Metropolis
St. Louis
Chas, A. Grubb
Wood & Savery
D. O. Herbert
East Fifth Street
Max Emmert
J. D
Musson
C. G. Clark
Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
R. A. Gamble
Opera House
Chas. D. Finley
Chestnut Street
C. L. Campbell
Gillespie Building
A. S. Mullins
W. C. Heers
Smiley's Music Store
Green
G. R. Miller
Sulta
J. A. Giffen
C. Thurman Furniture Company
W. M. Bailey
Bell
Chestnut St. Atlantic
Butler
M. H. Butler
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