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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1894
Page
1
The column reviews health claims like the Oxydonor Victory and promotes vitality through simple routines. It also surveys winter fashion, advising on hats, veils, turbans, and the black and white trend with rich fabrics and trims from Lord & Taylor.
The Montreal Herald notes coal ashes make a bulking, porous substitute for gravel in hydraulic lime and sand concrete. Wood ashes fail similarly. ram the mix firmly to form a durable, smooth, stone like floor.
The fair drew large exhibits across classes and praised progress. Drought hits cranberry crops in New England New Jersey and Wisconsin. Proposal to place Adirondack and Cascade regions under New York control to preserve forests. Alfalfa trial succeeds in Wellesley Massachusetts. Mrs Hattie Mason recommends Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy available from druggists and dealers.
The October returns show general crop conditions with corn at 64.2, wheat yield up to 13.1 bushels per acre, oats at 24.5, rye 18.?, barley 19.3, buckwheat 72.0, potatoes 64.3, tobacco 84.6, and rice at 89.8. Regional variations occur with southern corn softer and western gains.
The American Bee Journal urges beekeepers to cultivate local markets for comb and extracted honey to reduce losses from shipping. It emphasizes testing honey samples, visiting buyers, taking orders, and delivering high quality product. It notes prices for liquid honey and warns against rushing sales when crop is small.
The agricultural department advocates using screenings and low grade wheat for animal feed and placing only the best wheat on the market. Equal parts of wheat and corn improve fattening. for growing animals corn is less suitable than wheat or oats. Wheat should be fed in small quantities and mixed with other grains. roll or grind wheat into a coarse meal for feeding, alone or with cornmeal or ground oats.
The Rural New Yorker argues that intensifying farming can cut land use and costs. If the same yield requires half the land, taxes, fencing, and travel drop, while half the seed and same fertilizer may yield better per-acre profits.
The author depicts the midways of the intestine as a lit little alley, blind and dark, leading nowhere. It catches stray contents and remains a pocket out of sight.
Excerpt discusses Clydesdale horses bred near the Clyde with Flanders stock and later improved by Shire blood. It notes traits like endurance and strong pasterns, and cites General Pool on mating thoroughbreds with draft mares for superior stock. Also includes Mrs. Walters on women’s suffrage and temperance.
A veteran beef grower advises timing cattle feeding to maximize profit. Keep calves nourished naturally then wean and switch to kim milk, then ground feeds before pasture gain. Harvest weight targets range from 500 pounds in fall to 600 900 pounds by March, with price expectations and fall feeding.
The Bryn Mawr dean M Carey Thomas is described as one of the youngest leaders in education at 27 when she took office. She has lived in England, admires British ways, and hosts literary guests at her Bryn Mawr home The Deanery. Agnes Repplier is a close intimate and admirer.
From the New York woman suffrage campaign headquarters in Rochester, chairwoman Mrs. Jean Brooks Steenleaf calls for renewed petition work aimed at pushing a suffrage bill through the legislature. Two consecutive legislative majorities would place the issue on the ballot, contrary to the convention’s stance.
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