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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1894
Page
3
A guide on barn construction stressing surface drainage and sanitary design. It covers costs per animal, stabling and storage space, manure yields, and specific layouts for sheep and hog housing, plus a proposed pig town concept and the impact on mortality and cleanliness.
Miss Alice Azeez, a 19 year old Arab princess living in Brooklyn, plans to enter Harvard annex this fall. She believes men in her country may not publish without long titles and hopes to gain writing privilege after American and English university studies. She aims to found a library monument to her father and advance women in the Orient. She knows Arabian and several other languages and her needlework is displayed in New York and Cambridge museums.
The article notes shifts in florist glasshouse design with wrought iron piping for heat and overhead layouts. Steam and hot water heated systems compete, while simpler, larger structures with iron rafters and slate benches spread from conservatories to forcing houses and pits.
French experts showcased wall trained fruit trees while the World's Fair featured A. W. Hopkins of Peru with the Black Jack Favorite foaled 1892. His jennet and colt pair were described, and care instructions for jacks included housing, grazing, and breeding routines. Additional notes covered horse shoeing, market mating for driving teams, and international breeding organizations at 12 Hanover Square London.
Rural New Yorker reports mulching strawberry plants to slow fruiting. Kept mulch late causes plants to finish behind peers by 10 days to two weeks. This enables a prolonged berry succession or shifted crop to ease market glut. A New England authority recommends Bordeaux spray after harvest to combat leaf blight and repeated sprays when new leaves start.
Bricks made from crushed oats corn and fodder were shown to prominent horsemen visiting the Chicago fair. The British government recently ordered a large shipment of compressed fodder from the United States signaling a potential expansion of this commodity trade.
The piece surveys houseplants and flowers, noting orchids have not captured national interest as chrysanthemums and carnations have. It highlights white climbers like climbing niphotos and Souvenir de 8. A. Prince roses, Mine. Haste, and the rising passion for seedling chrysanthemums, plus Cattilaya labiata orchids and top-selling items such as geraniums and verbenas.
The article describes a cheap movable hurdle to fence sheep in any field or yard. It details panel dimensions, post and brace setup, oak supports, and notched rails. The design, popular in Ohio, is strong, durable and easy to build and relocate.
The article explains a winter poultry house design by Webb Donnell from The Country Gentleman that provides open air exercise for fowls during bad weather. A projecting scratching room attaches to the main shed, with ground close windows, night doors, and a loam floor topped with hay or straw to keep birds comfortable indoors yet active.
Mrs. James Roake of Peekskill New York recounts severe illness lasting years including back kidney and head pains along with numb spells and gloom. After using Dr Greene's Nervara blood and nerve remedy her health improved and she says her husband and daughter also benefited and urges others to try it. Dr Greene of Boston offers free consultation by letter or in person.
Opening display for Cloaks and Furs features jackets and coats 88 to 52 inches long in Fine Kersey Mixtures Beavers Cheviots and Elysian Beavers priced from 7.50 to 25.00 Capes in new styles seen as highly in demand. Also offered monkey fur coney electric seal wool seal mink sable Persian lamb and Alaska seal furs at low prices.
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