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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
8
The essay contrasts English and American home building. It highlights long family ownership, sturdy houses, and enduring gardens as valued in England, while Americans chase quick improvements, imagining future moves. A couple moves from city life to a half acre, creating a thriving garden, poultry, and a handsome house, showing lasting value and happiness from well kept grounds.
Farmers receive two Department of Agriculture bulletins on animal feeding and bread making. The feeding bulletin explains balanced rations for fat and muscle, with examples using corn and nitrogenous foods, and notes free copies via Congress members or the Secretary of Agriculture. The bread bulletin compares human fuel value and cautions corn bread as a one sided diet for man. Switzerland’s cantons formed a defensive league in 1201, broom corn harvests reach 42 million brooms worth about 15 million dollars, and Alpha Centauri is about 25 trillion miles away.
A jumble of trivia from Oscar Hunt’s football ties to hats in demand for comedians. Notes claim a cuble foot of earth weighs five and a half times water, and a 16 inch cannon costs as much as five years of a private’s wages. It mentions prehistoric ruins near Carshalton, and unlikely comparisons like a fly stronger than a horse.
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