Farm Advice From the Dairy and Orchard Almanac
Practical notes on farming practices from crop and livestock care to soil, fertilizer, pruning, feeding, and housing. Includes guidance on silos, silage, manure, breeding, egg selection, pruning, and pasture management with emphasis on avoiding overfeeding, proper ventilation, and timely harvests.
Twenty Two Years of Turkey Breeding Lessons
A turkey breeder reflects on lessons learned over 22 years emphasizing selective breeding, avoiding inbreeding, managing flocks in safe locations, timing of breeding and feeding, and maintaining cleanliness. He shares practical habits such as using thoroughbred bronze breeders, separating breeding stock, raising poults with careful nutrition, and training hens to respond to calls.
Leghorn Hens Hatch Eggs and Guard Chicks
A writer notes Leghorn hens make good mothers while sitting on nests. A Leghorn incubated 20 eggs and hatched 19 in July with a basket-nest setup. They are light weight, rarely injure chicks, and will fiercely defend their young against intruders.
Poultry Breeding Advice From The Page
Keep stock healthy clean and comfortable. Not all poultry failures are due to hens. The first duck eggs are hardly ever fertile. Do not starve growing chicks one day then gorge them the next. Blood spots can appear in eggs. Ducklings begin laying at five months. Chick care requires heat but not excessive heat. Do not let chicks squeeze through slats. Poultry breeding is a labor of love and labor.
Luke 4 16 30 Nazareth visit and Jesus reads Isaiah
A lesson on Jesus return to Nazareth, his reading from Isaiah 61 in the synagogue, and the claim that this Scripture is fulfilled in him. It explores reactions of locals, the danger of unbelief, and the mission anointing described in Luke 4 18.
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Don’t Read About Heat Wave Rhetoric This Month
A fragmentary verse admonishes readers to ignore sunstruck jokes and rules about keeping cool. The lines urge not to stress over the rising mercury and to resist overwork, offering a playful, ironic counterpoint to weather fatigue.
Man-Vain Man and the Victorian Everyday Gallantry
A satirical portrait of a man who performs small acts of gallantry for public approval yet blinds himself to real virtue. He toasts himself for chivalry while chasing vanity, gambling, and impractical pretensions, revealing a hypocritical mix of pride and fragility in social life.
The Brave Are the Tenderest Cannibals Quote
The sub chief questions serving the man who fell leading the charge at the banquet. The cannibal chief cites a poetry book stating the bravest are the tenderest, as the meal proceeds.
No-title excerpt from a social clash over class
A natural commoner scolds Harold for playing with the Kaddish boy and his family’s new $900 car. She disapproves of their supposed lower class status and warns Harold to avoid washwoman’s children.
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Harold
Unrepentant Alice-So Maud Divorced
The excerpt notes that Alice-So Maud is divorced and remarks on her past haste in marriage. It mentions a monthly alimony of $200 to Kate, implying ongoing financial arrangements and judgments surrounding the divorce.
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Maud
Kate
His Reason. First dance words I long to hear
A fragment from a Princeton Tiger piece depicts a courtship moment where one partner asks for a spoken line during the first dance to confirm closeness. The other replies that silence would leave him unaware of being in his beloved's arms.
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Princeton
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