Artichokes as stock food and other farm notes
Purdue bulletin discusses artichokes as pig feed with varying seed costs, planting methods, varieties, and potential yields up to 1000 bushels per acre while noting debates over nuisance versus value. It also covers sunflowers as stock feed, bee forage, and fuel, plus lima bean cultivation tips, harvest, and machine threshing.
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Plumb
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station
United States
Kansas Experiment Station
L. N. Bonham
Ohio State Board of Agricullture
Coburn
Simon Cox
Tlinois
Dietary studies at University of Tennessee 1895 findings
Prof Chas E Wait led a Tennessee study on student and family diets at the University of Tennessee under the U S Department of Agriculture. Bulletin 29 compares intake and nutrient ratios with New England data and physiologist standards, noting Tennessee and Missouri show lower protein and higher carbohydrates and fat than the standard.
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Missouri
Connecticut
South
University of Tennesee
Department of Agriculture
Union Building
Washington, D. C
University of Tennessee
Chas. E. Wait
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Office of Experiment Stations
The
University, of Tennessee
O. W. Atwater
Chas. D. Woods
Department
New England
Tennessee
How to Hang Pictures in a Home Gallery
Instructions on hanging pictures suggest placing paired panels side by side or on the mantel line, reserving portraits for solitary display in a dedicated room if numerous. When arranging portraits a match pair should sit side by side with a specific left-to-right balance, and framing should be considered after placement.
Moving greenhouse on wheels promises flexible crops
A novel movable forcing glass house rests on two wide railroadlike tracks and carries its own engine and boiler. It can be shifted to protect different crops across seasons, letting florists grow diverse plants in sequence. The design suits small and large scales, enabling year round production and rapid crop rotation.
An Old Fashioned Pillar Rose Garden Testimony
A garden note extols the Cabbage rose for sturdiness and fragrance. It describes planting in deep two feet holes beside a gate with rich barnyard soakings beneath six inches of garden soil as a stabilizing top layer. The writer notes the rose's vigor in a single season and protection of tender tips from frost.
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Florence Holmes
Jack Frost
Paris Green Variants and Lime Mixture Advice
A Massachusetts experiment notes true Paris green is 54 percent arsenious acid with 4 percent soluble in cold water and 8 to 9 percent in boiling water. A new process Paris green contains 58 to 63 percent arsenious acid and dissolves more in boiling water. It may injure foliage when added to heated lime mixtures. Use milk of lime or Bordeaux mixture to reduce toxicity and protect crops.
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Paris
Maynard
Electricity in Agriculture Lights a New Farm Era
A feature on electroculture explains how electric light and soil current could replace sun for plant growth. It covers methods, risks, and experiments by scientists at Amherst, Ithaca, and West Virginia, plus a New Jersey farmer’s use of arc lights and electric plows to boost yields and extend seasons.
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California
New Jersey
Old Sol
South
Toms
Vienna
Jersey
Nevel
Cell
Amherst
Mass
C. D. Warner
Ithaca
N.Y
Bailey
West Virginia
I. W. Rane
Warner
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George M. Weber
Worchester Club
Skippack
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Weber
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University of Tenne
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Johnstone Murray
Scilly Islands
Isles of Scilly
Covent Garden
Scilly
Veronica
Escallonia
Mus
Paris Green
Rune
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