Low Cost Poultry House With Shed Roof Design
The illustration from Country Gentleman shows an exterior view of the lowest cost serviceable poultry house. It features a shed roof with refined trim, light frame construction, matched boarding on sides and floor, and interior layouts with double nest rows beneath roosts. Sunlight is limited to the south side to control heat, with barrels under platforms for droppings and a leaky waste system improved by dry loam or road dust on the floor.
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Poultry House
Manure Experiments at Utah Station and Forage Notes
Director Sanborn reports wheat yields highest when manure is plowed under and second best when applied on winter surface on level soil. Harrowing manure in gives better straw to grain ratio than surface or unmanured plots. Beal notes alfalfa is often unprofitable alone but useful with grasses. orchard grass benefits pastures and meadows. Nebraska beet pests include leaf hoppers and wetworms. arsenites and kerosene emulsion show promise. life history of worms still uncertain.
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Utah Station
Sanborn
Beal
Michigan
Michigan Agricultural College
Professor Beal
Nebraska
The Push Wheel Marker for Straight Garden Lines
A correspondent in American Gardening extols a push wheel marker for precise garden layouts. He notes old markers require two people or backtracking, and presents a design using beveled wooden wheels on an iron rod with a central handle to set even onion and vegetable beds.
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Woodbanks
Northwest thistle threatens wheatfields across vast regions
The weed, described as the worst thistle in America, resembles a tumbleweed but has three-spined clusters and red fall color. It spreads rapidly after arriving 15 years ago with flaxseed and now covers 25 000 square miles across North and South Dakota Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin and Wyoming. Senator Hansbrough seeks a 1 000 000 federal appropriation to eradicate it, arguing its impact rivals pleuro pneumonia.
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Wheatfields
America
Northwest
Hansbrough
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Breathing on Bees Alters Bee Movement, Expert Advises
A beekeeping writer notes that blowing with a focused, vigorous breath can subdue bees and coax them away from brood cells. He contrasts this with blowing lightly as one would on hot glass, which provokes a sharp, painful reaction.
Western Brevities Record From Rural Wisconsin And Plains
Wisconsin farm institutes leader W H Morrison dies after long service as state superintendent. Nebraska sugar output: Grand Island 1 835 900 pounds, third syrup 140 000 gallons, fourth syrup 175 000 gallons. total sugar 575 000 pounds. Norfolk plant active with 3 860 000 pounds sugar produced. Central Kansas grasses ranked Grehard, alfalfa, red clover, taller fescue, Kentucky blue. Logan Utah wheat trial yields 10 tons manure per acre add 6.6 bushels wheat and 660 pounds straw. manure pays. Russian thistle covers 30 000 square miles in the Dakotas. limited spread with well cultivated sod. Iowa corn average 85.7 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from 15-year average.
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W. H. Morrison
Wisconsin
Morrison
Collector North
Nebraska
Grand Island
Norfolk
Logan
U. T
Dakotas
Iowa
Remarkable Jury Foreman Confesses Hidden Killings
A London murder case features a jury foreman who, after a guilty verdict, reveals he himself killed the murdered man. The foreman, a trustworthy farmer, admits the other party struck first with a hayfork. in self defense he caused a fatal wound while seeking the weapon. He feared his confession would ruin his farm and family, so stayed silent for years.
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Dyer
Jelmane
China Opium Curse Wrecks Land and Crops in Flowery Kingdom
A 19th century missionary warns that seven tenths of China's population smoke opium and about two thousand die yearly from its effects. He cites famine linked to opium cultivation, rising rice prices, widespread shops, and brutal social decay as opium spreads through officials and laborers alike.
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China
Iike Nd Zacn
Eccentric Traits Of Great Minds And Royal Figures
A collage of quirks from George IV to Kant and Coleridge reveals how famous individuals courted peculiar habits. From George IV near-throws and Wig clashes to Mozart jotting melodies in pockets, the piece sketches idiosyncrasies across rulers, philosophers, and poets.
Realistic theater wolves terrorize audience in New Jersey scene
In Elizabeth New Jersey a stage scene from Across the Grove brought live wolves on stage frightening the audience. A wolf gnawed through a net and charged footlights prompting a manager and guard to restrain the animals. One wolf died after being pounded.
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Elizabeth
N.J
California Fruit Grower Foresees Orchard Strategy
The California Fruit Grower argues commercial limits on fruit variety. He says New York grape enthusiasts boast many varieties shown at the Worlds Fair and challenges California to similar breadth. He urges focusing on profitable varieties and cites over 2000 apple kinds as impractical for business.
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New York
California
Significant Experiments with Cholera Bacilli
A report from Scientific American notes experiments by Professor Uelman Roe taken to test cholera bacteria. Infected letter remained bacilli after 23.5 hours, bacilli survived on post cards for 20 hours, died rapidly on coins, and were transmitted from meat to surface after contact. Experiments also show finger contamination and subsequent bacterial growth on roast meat.
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Uelman
Roetook
Americul
Murderer Will Dutton Hanged at Cartersville Georgia
A murderer named Will Dutton was executed in an open field at Cartersville Georgia in front of about three thousand spectators. He had prepared a statement and portrait in book form and sold copies for twenty five cents to fund his burial. He signed autographs to speed sales before the trap was sprung.
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Cowper
Dicelzez1an
Pope
Campbell
Mozart
Coleridge
Kant
Will Dutton
Cartersville
The Comma Bacillus Experiments At Vienna
Six doctors from the Institute of Experimental Pathology in Vienna conducted self experiments with the comma bacillus to study its effects. Volunteers including Dr Haterlik Dr Steckmaye Schuetz Graf and Herr Rose swallowed large doses and mostly recovered within a week. Prof Stricker notes the bacillus causes illness symptoms in weak individuals but not in cholera.
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Vienna
Isky
Themelves
Haterlik
Steckmaye
Schuetz
Graf
Herr Rose
Stricker
Hops in California Leading Nation in Growth
California takes the lead among hop producing states with the fastest gains and strongest yields per acre. While New York and Washington have larger acreage, California shows higher product increases and superiores sizing and flavor of Pacific hops attracting eastern and foreign buyers as exports rise. The dry hot climate minimizes blight and mildew, and hops mature in a second season and remain productive for up to ten years.
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California
New York
Washington
Oveton
Pacific Corpet
Hats and wealth myth in Mexican culture and western fashion
A fragment discusses high priced hats adorned with gold or silver trims and the idea of carrying wealth in a single hat. It contrasts Mexican and Western ideas, noting extravagant hats priced around 500 and $200 saddles seen on fine horses in western states.
Odd Irish Farmer Parable and Household Tips
An anecdotal Irish farmer tale explains life in three stages from youth to manhood to old age. The piece then gives practical kitchen tips to keep celery fresh by drying and storing in darkness, then soaking before serving. It notes the Empress of China observes restraint on extravagance for her 60th birthday, banning gifts of silk and jewels.
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George IV
Pennants
Hic
Herschel
Anne
England
Nan
China
Aerial Castle Proposed for Antwerp Exhibition
An extraordinary plan by M. Toblenky and allies aims to build an aerial castle for the Antwerp exhibition next year. The structure resembles a giant tower with two connected capsule chambers, supported by four anchors, rising over 100 feet with up to 15 passengers per ascent every twelve minutes.
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Antwerp
M. Toblenky
Peis
Chicago
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