Hints for Farmers Monty Mixes and Gopher Fight Tips
The article blends practical farming notes such as a home dye for wood with warnings about Ben Davis apple rot and crop rotation. It also covers lawn care to curb crab grass, cooperative gopher control, and the Kansas City Stockyards plan to test hog cholera antitoxin in trials overseen by city and state officials. It urges better seed, packing, marketing, and correspondence courses to reach more farmers.
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Kansas City
Missouri State Agricultural College
Pigs Eat Well to Wean Fast in Farm Journal Plan
The Farm Journal advises feeding piglets in a separate enclosure with whole oats on a platform and sweet milk in a clean trough to encourage rapid growth toward early weaning. After weaning, move sows with the boar to clover pasture, then separate. pasture reduces extra feed until the second litter, which counts as clear gain.
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Farm Journal
Hints For the Orchard Cultivation Advice
Farm guidance on pruning suckers at tree bases and trunks. Suggests mowing around orchard trees and burr row, avoiding air bruises and bark damage. Recommends training little trees, removing stray supports, leaving wires for stability, and avoiding grain or grass crops in young orchards. Stir soil biweekly until August and apply manure after rainfall.
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Farm Journal
Remedy For Cowpox Prevents Spread Among Cows
The Breeder's Gazette advises isolating the cow to stop cowpox spread by the milker. Prevent exposure in cows, give a tall dose of epsom salts at onset, follow with hyposulphite of soda, and warn in feed or water. Sponge udders with hyposulphite solution, then apply glycerite of tannin to sores. Use a sterilised milking tube if a teat is inflamed, ensuring it is properly boiled and baked before use.
Leask to the Colts Shoulders
A historical note explains that tender shoulders in a young horse during its first season lead to lasting soreness, while proper care and a successful first season strengthen the shoulders and prevent future issues.
Treatment For Worms In Cults
A veterinary home remedy describes mixing salt sugar tobacco dust iron powder worm seed and recommends giving a teaspoonful in feed daily for three weeks. It advises storing tools in a cupboard by the barn to keep dust out, though the cupboard alone adds little value.
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Farm Journal
Boar Care and Feeding Advice From HistoricNote
Farmers are advised not to use a deteriorating boar for service and to avoid overfat or undernourished males. A well preserved silage diet is promoted as beneficial for digestion health and vitality, acting as a mild laxative similar to green fodder.
Mysterious Tunisian Troglodyte City Revealed
An 8,000 inhabitant troglodyte capital, Mata tas, lies between Gabes and the Sahara in Tunisia. Dwellings are circular pits dug into rock with arched roofs and patios. Homes include connected rooms and a courtyard, built to shelter from the Sahara’s sun and heat.
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Tunisia
Nies
Gabes
Tunisian
Sahara
Hich
Bar
Rep
Chicago News
Sleep positions debated by eminent French doctors
A Paris Matin survey gathers opinions of French medical men on the healthiest sleep position. Delorme and Debone favor back sleeping, while Landoury advocates comfort by habit and rightsided sleep. Letulle and Hackard present opposing views with Hackard noting left or right both acceptable for heart health.
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Paris
Delorme
Army
Debone
Daveniere
School of Hygiene
Landoury
Letulle
Medical Academy
Hackard
Mrs Brown Hosts Literary Lions at Private Party
Mrs Brown, an attractive social figure, entertains a dinner party with several male guests around a corner table. The range of professions includes a coffee broker a doctor a machinery salesman and a reader of books and newspapers. The scene ends with Brown introducing a newcomer as her new F exchange.
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Mr. Brown
Extinct Bird Joke in School Lesson
A teacher in a school birds division asks for an extinct bird name. Bessie answers with Dick Dick, joking that it is her canary, and the cat extracted him. The exchange shows light classroom humor about extinct species and misheard terms.
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Bessie
Marquis designation as second in five orders of nobility
The marquis is the second rank in England's five orders of nobility. The term arose for those who managed border marches. Marches denote boundary lands between England and Scotland and between England and Wales.
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Eingland
Scotland
England
Wales
Calcio, Florence's National Game Through 18th Century
Florence in early times played calcio, a kicking game watched by locals on Piazza Santa Croce. The season ran January to March and drew ladies and gentlemen of the city. The last recorded match occurred in 1739.
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Florence
Piazza Santa Groce
Calcio
Office Boy Fires Back in Frustrated Exchange
An angry employer questions a young man about idle time while the office boy retorts that the fault lies with the boss. The humorous exchange captures workplace tension in a brief Chicago News moment.
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Chicago News
Fortune’s Smile and Frown Admonition
A concise proverb attributed to Antonius cautions against arrogance in prosperity and dejection in misfortune. It reflects timeless advice on humility and resilience amid changing luck.
The Early Bird
A brief aphorism notes that believing early rising guarantees success is an unreliable path and may lead to failure.
Annual Slaughter of Squirrels in Russia
Report claims twenty five million squirrels are killed annually in Russia to control pest populations.
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Russia
The Fiction Hero in an Ordinary Good Fellow
An editorial voice from the Atchison Globe extols a plain good man as a true hero, arguing that fictional Look heroes lack relatable virtue and that real men embody genuine courage and integrity.
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Atchison Globe
Pneumatic Skeletons in Birds and Tire Analogy
A study contrasts hollow bird bones and light skeletons with air filled structures, noting ducks and hornbills vary in marrow and fat content while frigate birds and turkey buzzards show extreme lightness. The piece argues pneumatic bones are not always essential versus the value of pneumatic tires for bicycles.
Dichotomy term adopted by medical press for referral fees
A London Hospital note explains a botanical term dichotomy borrowed by the U S medical press to describe a form of illicit business. It means the division of a surgeon or specialist fee with the practitioner who refers the patient.
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United States
London Hospital
Daily exhortation on living up to best spiritual possibilities
Quote from Lillian Whiting urging individuals to strive daily to live up to their highest spiritual potential. It emphasizes personal responsibility to self, friends, society, and community, not just occasionally.
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Lillian Whiting
Mysteries of Existence Reflections by Carlyle
The quote ponders existence and wonder, noting no one rises from the dead yet thousands rise from nothing. It contrasts human limits with inner power to lift hands, marking Carlyle in a contemplative voice.
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Thomas Carlyle
Keeping Up with the Times Commentary
Editorial urges readers to align brain and body with modern ideals to avoid lagging behind. It emphasizes developing faculties and senses to meet the demands of the era.
Daily Thought Motto Rungs as Simple Sermon
A French axiom highlights the value of leading by example by showing that a strong act can teach more than words. The saying frames diligence and consistency as practical guidance for behavior and ethics.
Foley’s Honey and Tar Cures Coughs Said by Norway Merchant
Louis Boon of Norway Michigan writes that Foley’s Honey and Tar cured his boy’s severe cough and a neighbor’s ill child who doctors had given up on was cured by taking Foley’s Honey and Tar. He notes nothing else is as safe and certain in results and cites M C Van Dorn as the seller.
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Louis Boon
Norway
Mich
Foley
M.C. van Dorn
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