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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1894
Page
12
An Ohio Rural New Yorker correspondent builds a dry, frost proof room beside the kitchen as a substitute for a cellar. The double walls and floor create dead air spaces and controlled climate to store vegetables, with summer sunlight and ventilation via a window. The cost exceeds a traditional cellar but offers greater utility and dryness where digging is impractical.
Professor Georgeson of the Kansas agricultural college urges attention to feed efficiency noting waste when feeding corn to steers. He argues that saving nearly every bushel is possible with better feed practices in the west. He also notes Russian thistle is annual and seeds are short lived. if not allowed to seed for two years, the weed can be exterminated.
The article urges beginners to study apiculture, blending science and art, and to avoid gadgetry. It notes winter care for summer colonies, feeding sealed honey frames, and preserving ice for farm use with simple materials, citing The Farm Journal and The Prairie Farmer.
A brick described by an Ohio farmer notes a structure ten feet long by thirty four feet high and three feet four inches wide. The item is open at the top and lacks a bottom, with a simple rough specification.
Reports advise on dairy feeding stalls and yard construction for cattle and hay waste control. wage inquiries show migratory hiring in dairy districts. Illinois allocates 500000 for state fair grounds. Dakota irrigation via windmills discussed. Emphasis on drainage before profitable crops and wheat fed at home due to low prices.
Lord Duff seeks a vanished $25,000 diamond-set watch after losing it from a marriage gift. An expedition aboard the English brig Hope searches Bird island in the Seychelles, using dredges and divers to raise a sunken dhow wreck believed to hold the watch.
A sunburned diving team frees a sunken dhow to reveal six deck layers, an array of Arab and Persian coins, muskets and swords, and evidence of a slave cargo with bone remains. The haul includes a found jewel hidden in Lady Daff’s baggage and a false deck for double slave holds.
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