Practical notes on dairy and poultry care for farmers
The article gives practical guidance on dairy sanitation and egg production. It warns steam sterilization must reach all wood to kill germs, discusses Australian butter exports and government grading, addresses false branding of cheese and butter, and urges separating breeding and laying flocks. It also advocates varied, natural feeds for fowls to improve egg quality and shelf life.
Dairyman Hogs: Choose Quality Breeds for Profit
Elias Gallup argues dairymen should phase out scrub hogs and improve hog quality. He notes high grade pigs yield better meat and profits, urges breeders to compare Berkshire and Poland China, and cites experiments finding similar feed needs for equal gains.
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Lot
Berkshire
Poland- China
Elias Gallup
Poultry Breeding and Yard Sanitation Tips
Poultry brief advises keeping yards clean to prevent pests and disease. It recommends spading foul areas when ground permits and placing incubators in stable, slightly variable environments, suggesting cellars as an effective, controllable location for incubation on larger operations.
Belgium Dairy Education Aims to Export Quality Butter
The article describes Belgium's growing dairy education program aimed at boosting exports, driven by cooperation and rising home demand. Flemish traveling dairy schools, bacteriology teaching, and microbe science are used to teach cleanliness, cooling, pasteurization, and cheese ripening.
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Belgium
London
Australia
Brain Diseases in Poultry Warns Farmers of Delaware
A Delaware Agricultural College bulletin warns that poultry are highly vulnerable to brain diseases caused by indigestion or intestinal worms. It describes vertigo with unsteady gait and possible epileptiform attacks, and advises ice on the head, purgatives, rest, bromide dosing, and worm treatment as applicable with no reliable cure for epilepsy not due to worms.
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Delaware Agricultural College
Hair health and protective head coverings discussed
The passage argues that bare heads suffer from exposure to weather causing colds and headaches while a full head of hair provides warmth light and ventilation. It notes healthy hair does not retain perspiration or impurities and no artificial covering can fully replace it.
Cornstalk Diseases and Cattle Safety
The Nebraska Experiment Station reports beef losses from feeding cornstalks and reviews theories on cornstalk disease. Frost has little impact. avoid exclusive stalk feeding and mix in hay oats or straw. When infected, treatment is mostly ineffective, but chloral hydrate drench has cured some cases.
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Nebraska Experiment Station
Royal stance ends horse docking trend in England
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales have ordered that no horse shall be docked. The move, spurred by cruelty protests, is expected to end the practice. US and Europe horse counts are listed, highlighting breeding concerns and risks of unpedigreed stallions being pushed with false pedigrees.
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Australasian
Melbourne
Australia
Agricultural Department
R. M.S. Ophir
London
Department of Agriculture of Australia
Department of Agriculture
England
Victoria
Prince of Wales
Live Stock and Trade Notes From Various Regions
Reports from Texas Wisconsin Minnesota and Washington detail cattle disease losses drought feeding shortages and fire damage to ranches and packing plants. Marcus Daly’s trotting brood mares holdings cited. woolen manufacture imports and exports show sharp shifts between 1895 1900 across eight month periods.
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Lee
Washington
Fayette
Texas
Marcus Daly
Wisconsin
New Brighton
Minn
Sherman
United States
Horse market shows strong demand at New York sale
A New York horse sale moved 702 head for a total of 352180 dollars. Average price surpassed 500 dollars per head, signaling robust activity in the industry.
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New York
Trains Bicyclists and Track Riders The Versatile Pickard
O L Pickard, trainer of Johnnie Nelson and Johnnie Lake, is praised as a versatile force in cycling. He rides, trains, tunes motors, builds training tracks, and keeps spare wheels and motors ready to ensure swift, reliable support during races. His meticulous prep is credited with Nelson’s success across five hard wins.
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O. L. Pickard
Johnnie Nelson
Johnnie Lake
Pickard
Nelson
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Mission of Tongue in Art and Language
The piece argues literature is art using language as its material and vows form and beauty emerge. It notes practical ages degrade rhetoric and fear of associating language with art, yet demand for good English persists despite rhetoric’s tarnished image.
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Spencer
Atlantic Monthly
Presence of Mind Wagon Afire
A ragman sets his wagon ablaze after a hot sale and a loud yell spooks a household. The fireman arrives, the horse is thrashed into motion, and the crowd gawks as the wagon burns. The vendor vows to sue the city.
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Detroit Free Press
London Hotel Cecil Mix Up Ends In Bathroom Blunder
An American man staying with his wife at the Hotel Cecil in London returned to a locked door and, after calling out for his wife, heard a male voice reply sternly that the room was a bathroom, not a beehive, prompting a humorous misunderstanding.
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Hotel
Cecil
London
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