Practical Poultry Keeping Tips From Bureau Bulletin
A Bureau of Animal Industry bulletin by Arthur Bell outlines selection, housing, feeding, and management for profitable poultry. It covers pure breeds, layering and meat aims, house design, location, size, and winter feeding formulas, plus economic notes on egg production and market value.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Secrety Wilson
Melvin
Theureau
Arthur Ell
Mr. Bell
Winter Egg Laying Contest at Lady Warwick College
Consul Daniels reports a winter egg laying competition at Lady Warwick's College in Sheffield showing that laying strain and family background outweigh breed. Four Buff Orpingtons yielded 49 eyes from Oct 11 to Nov 16 and 120 eyes from Nov 16 to Dec 16, noting that performance often comes from superb mothers and grandmothers rather than appearance or breed prestige.
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Lady Warwick
Ladies’ Agricultural College
Consul Daniels
Sheffield
England
Feeding Chickens and Ducks on Small Farms
Guidance on mash proportions for young chickens with a mixed feed of ground oats and wheat bran, cautioning against overfeeding with ground food. Recommends cracked grains from hatch to maturity and later switching to cracked corn and hulled oats. Notes green feed if possible and claims large farms raise thousands of ducks annually, one establishment producing 20,000 ducks per year.
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Maine
United States
First Prize Cooked Leghorns At St Louis Exposition
Instructions on keeping single comb buff leghorns describe interior chicken house layout with a rear full length roost platform three feet wide and three feet high, nest boxes, meat scraps as food, and a water dish that prevents splashing.
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Cook
St. Louis Exposition
Not the Laying Kind
A shy woman entered a Southern grocery with chickens to sell. The clerk asked if the birds would lay, but she admitted they were roosters after he failed to notice their tied feet.
Extending the Weather Service
Weather Bureau chief Prof Willis L Moors reports plans to extend rapid telephone weather forecasts to farmers in the United States. The service currently operates in New York Pennsylvania Indiana Michigan and other states with recent extensions to Maryland Virginia and West Virginia to benefit agriculturists.
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Weather Bureau
United States
Upo
Weather
Willis L. Moors
New York
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Michigan
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Contrasts in Traits and Projects Across Regions
The passage notes the bloodhound’s reputation as ferocious is unfounded, describing it as gentle as many dogs. It mentions the Pennsylvania Railroad considering a tunnel through the Allegheny Mountains and the Southern Pacific planning a Sierra Nevada tunnel. It also observes taller people often live longer and spring births yield sounder constitutions.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Allegheny Mountains
Southern Pacific
Sierra Nevada Range
Longworth near fame provokes tale of named Kentucky yearlings
A circulating story claims Nick Longworth visited H M Ziegler's Kentucky farm and nearly had a yearling named after him. Ziegler suggested naming a promising unnamed colt after Longworth, who agreed, envisioning a future success for the horse.
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Nick Longworth
H. M. Ziegler
Cincinnati
Longworth
Kentucky
Ziegler
Nick Longworth Names a Horse and Hermis Becomes a Legend
In a racing tale, Mr. Longworth selects the larger yearling and names it Nick Longworth after himself, while the other is christened Hermis. Hermis, famed as a top American racer, looms in local chatter even as Nick proves a modest betting proposition and invites good-natured ribbing from Cincinnati friends.
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Mr. Longworth
Longworth
Hermis
United States
Nick Longworth
Nick
Nor
Cincinnati
The Negro as a Farmer Washington DC address
Booker T. Washington in Washington DC declared the negro thrives in rural work where he owns and cultivates soil. He noted strong South demand for trained negro teachers leaders and farm managers and cited Tuskegee graduates finding immediate positions. He argued education serves both rising ambitions and practical needs of Negroes.
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Booker T. Washington
Washington, D. C
South
Tuskegee
Washington
Cork Won't Surface From 200 feet Depth
The passage explains cork sinks to 200 feet below the ocean surface and will not rise again due to water pressure, while at lesser depths it gradually returns to the surface.
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Cork
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