Fattening Ration for Steers in Kansas Farm Study
A Kansas farm discussion outlines a feeding plan for 900 pound steers focusing on manure production. It compares costs for corn, bran, and cottonseed meal, argues for a ration using wheat straw as rough fodder, and explains processing steps to maximize digestion and weight gain. It warns that fattening on a narrow margin requires efficient manure capture and suggests a gutter system to preserve both liquid and solid waste for field spreading.
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McRamsey
Stewart
A Kansas Man Builds Wealth From Sheep Flocks
A southern Kansas farmer profiled by the Breeders Gazette shares how he started with less than a thousand dollars, bought several flocks, and now raises sheep profitably. He emphasizes careful management, selecting only productive animals, grazing on stalk fields, and efficient winter feeding to support about twelve hundred pounds of wool per year.
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St. Louis
Jtan
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Kansas
Breeders’ Gazette
M.narraxe
The Sucking Colt in the Fall
The article warns farmers against early weaning of spring colts and promotes gradual, concentrated feeding. It emphasizes nursing frequency, oats, and oil cake, with two weeks of preparation before weaning. It warns that improper winter feeding leads to dullness, poor growth, and lack of symmetry, urging balanced, reinforced nourishment.
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Uro
Luis
Stalrfield
Ike
Live Stock Journal
The Dairy and the Family Cow Debate by Curtis
Colonel Curtis of New York argues for a single purpose dairy cow over jack-of-all-trades breeds. He champions the Jersey as the ideal butter cow while noting Devons and Red Polls offer some beef, and criticizes Shorthorns for drifting toward beef and milking dual aims.
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F. D. Curtis
New York State
Jersey
Lucy
Durham
Hanover Creamery Reports Rapid Butter Making Trial
Professor G H Whitcher of New Hampshire State Agricultural College describes a rapid butter making experiment at the Hanover creamery. Milking began at 5 pm with 60 pounds of milk processed in 20 minutes, 45 pounds of skim milk and 15 pounds of cream produced, butter formed by 6 50, and ready for the breakfast table by 7.
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G. H. Whitcher
New Hampshire State Agricultural College
Hanover
de Laval
Coliege
Cream Separation Breakthrough Cuts Milk Churning Time
A historical note praises a new mechanical cream separation method that reduces from days to hours. It claims cream can be obtained from 100 pounds of milk in eight to ten minutes, versus traditional delays of 24 to 48 hours and longer delays with cold setting. It highlights the speed of invention over old practices.
The Apiary The Way To Success In Comb Honey
In Rural Home advice by M. Dooliit on bee hives brood frames and queen fertility to maximize honey. expand brood nests by dividing weak stocks and placing brood frames, then add boxes with comb starters as honey flows. Also tips on storing crops seed potatoes seed corn and winter vegetables with emphasis on dry cool storage.
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Tom
Wheat Culture Good Wheat Crop From Right Farming
A essay by D W Sanborn argues a good wheat crop comes from a four to six year crop rotation with clover preceding wheat. Clover supplies nitrogen, deep roots loosen soil, and manure is conserved. A simple soil test with plats guides use of nitrate of soda, bone black, and potash. costs estimated at five dollars in New York.
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South Missouri
St. Louis
New York
D. W. Sanborn
Journal of Agriculture
Pennsylvania State Agricultural College
Germantown
October to Winter Guide on Storing Vegetables
Notes advise finishing fall work quickly with sowing and harvests wrapped up. Sowed crops like wheat should be done. corn, potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, and cabbages stored for winter. Turnips and cabbage endure frost best. sorting at harvest reduces waste and directs best for feeding.
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N. J. Shepherd
Germantown
The Hop Crop in New York Slumps Under Aphis Plague
New York hops yields collapse amid June aphis swarms and widespread mildew damage. Honeydew byproducts blacken soils. 15 percent root injury noted. Last year’s 150000 to 175000 bales fall to an estimated 5000 to 15000 of inferior quality. Prices rise, Pacific coast output forecast at 46000 bales. Experts warn New York may not supply even a bale per brewer. industry hopes shift to old stocks and overseas hops.
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New York
Pacific Coast
Washington
Emmet Wells
United States
Joseph W. Forwool
Bouckville
N. Y
Uncertain Crop Insect Damage Reported This Spring
The article notes widespread crop damage with 74 percent destroyed and mentions a persistent pest arrive seasonal pattern observed over eighteen years. It records confusion over a new kind this spring and cites complaints as early as May 1 with peak activity from May 20 to June 4.
What Farmers Should Know Sowing Bluegrass and More
Practical farming notes urge removing cattle from mowing lands before harsh frost to protect roots and prevent low quality forage. It covers mulching strawberries, rye sowing timing, corn risks after October, potato handling, dairy feeding, and practical seed and fertilizer experiments.
Time Works Wonders A Curious Jersey Crime Tale
A Chicago Herald excerpt recounts a New Jersey tale of reversal. A bank president, famed for wealth and status, is ruined by a young colored maid who steals silver. the president’s downfall includes morphine, arrest, trial, and four years in Trenton prison. The tale ends with both in the same prison cafeteria, a dramatic moral of fate.
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Chicago Herald
New Jersey
Jersey
Trenton
Bink Prexiaen
aOy
Careey Court
Jersey Bank
What He Saw In Charleston
A Chicago Herald traveler recalls Charleston during the earthquake era. Reports business shutdowns, banks and theatres closing, newspapers pausing. Yet at the ballpark the game continued with players and spectators undeterred by aftershocks and wobbling home plate.
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Charleston
Chicago
South Carolina
Onte Street Newsboy and Dealer Peanut Installment Plan
A street scene shows a newsboy asking for five cents for peanuts and a dealer replying that it costs one cent. The boy proposes an installment plan one cent down and a weekly payment, joking about foreclosure if unpaid by month end.
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Newsboy
Rough on the Reader Poem Begins with a Grim Line
A New Orleans Picayune piece introduces a poem starting with the line we wish to die away from home. The text hints at roughness on rats but clarifies the intent.
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iNew Orleans Picayune
Valuable Books Offered with Weekly Globe at Low Price
Public notice highlights a list of indispensable family books offered at single low prices with bold type editions bound in cloth and includes The Weekly Globe for one year. Orders require four yearly subscriptions and promise durable volumes and broad accessibility.
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Globe
Free Book Offer For Subscriptions And Renewals
To secure a free book send your subscription and another subscriber’s, along with $2.20. Choose from a list including Guizot Civilization, Smith Bible Dictionary, Robinson Crusoe, Milton Prose Works, Lamb Elia, Gulliver, Vicar of Wakefield, Cromwell biographies, Bacon essays, Smucker’s History, History of Religions, Pilgrim’s Progress, Rip Van Winkle, Self-Help, Shakespearian quotations, and more.
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Marine
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Tomb
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Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Cromwell
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Hood
Locke
Widow Benott
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Chinese Gordon
Special offers on 19th century book sets with The Globe
Advertises bundled shipments with The Globe for one year at varied prices and free copies for multiple subscriptions. Lists Irving works, Chambers English Literature, Gibbons Rome, Hans Andersen stories, Dore engravings for Bible and Paradise Lost, Cooper Leather Stocking Tales and The Spy, and Redpath Illustrated History of the United States, detailing subscriber counts and amounts for free copies.
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Globe
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United States
Globe subscription offers with illustrated dictionary and Robinson Crusoe
The Globe prompts package deals including Webster’s Illustrated Dictionary 620 pages with one year for 4 or free for eight subscriptions at 8. Robinson Crusoe deluxe edition with 16 illustrations by Stothard and intro by Dobrow is offered with The Globe one year for 1.55. Agents receive regular cash commission on the newspaper ordered with a book.
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Globe
Thomas Stothard
R. A
Austin Dobrou
Daisy Henry Seeks Husband After Boston Trip Goes Astray
Daisy Henry, wife of Nebraska farmer George Henry, waited at Harrison Street Police Station all day in Chicago. She left Omaha for Boston with her husband, but he disappeared after a train stop, leaving her to search the city while she holds his telegrams and $6 for safekeeping. She plans to receive him when he returns, promising to take him back to Omaha.
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Omaha
Daisy Henry
George Henry
Nebraska
George
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Chicago
City
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Niagara Falls
Stillwell
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