Inspecting Plants in Alfalfa Field Start with Alfalfa
Farmers can boost profits by growing alfalfa for feed, soil health, and higher crop yields alongside corn. The piece outlines methods for small patches and various seeding timings including late summer, spring with nurse crops, June seeding, and spring without nurse crops, plus bed preparation, seeding rates, and harvest care. It stresses lime and barnyard manure, weed control, and gradual adoption.
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Mississippi River
Nere
United States
Reliable Lice Remedy for Chickens and Roost Mites
A rural tip recommends mild greases such as lard or meat fryings as a dependable lice remedy for chickens. Apply grease to the body feathers, and treat roosts with kerosene once a week to combat mites without harming the birds if not applied too strong.
Teaching Lambs to Eat for Early Weight Gain
Farmers are advised to train newborn lambs to consume extra feed despite abundant milk from ewes. Early feeding promotes higher weights at a young age, improving growth and eventual yields.
No Place for Poor Farmer Opinion
A saying asserts a good farm makes a poor farmer rich by effort and time. It argues poverty in farming stems from misfortune or mismanagement rather than the land itself. The quote implies hard work yields wealth, while fortune favors the skilled.
Egypt’s ancient fashion shows high waistlines 2500 B C
Miss B M Carlandt of the Metropolitan Museum describes Egyptian dress from 2500 B C noting that women wore sheathlike garments, mustaches on men, wigs, and cosmetics. The article outlines Old Kingdom outfits, variations by class, and shifts toward beaded tunics, kilts, and outer wraps across kingdoms.
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New York
Egypt
B. C
B. M. Carlandt
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nile
Ptahhotep
Sakkara
Old Kingdom
B.C
Middle Kingdom
Empire
Perneb
Wien
Lower
Cairo Museum
Upper
Assiut
Stork visits cost more for a baby born this year
An analysis from London estimates total yearly expense for a 1916 baby rises 100 to 125 dollars versus 1914. Food adds 15, milk up four cents a quart, 400 to 450 pints yearly, baby foods up ten percent. Bottles cost a third more, heating methylated spirit doubles. Wool and cotton garments up 15 to 25 percent, medicines higher, perambulators about 25 percent dearer.
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London
Otter Attack Injures Hunter Near Petersburg
Homer Hays an eighteen year old hunter along White river near the Island two miles east of Petersburg Indiana shot at an otter he found on the river bank. The bullet struck the otter in the mouth but the animal dragged free and rolled into the water.
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Petersburg
Ind
Homer Hays
White River
Here
Ancient Mesa Verde ruin unearthed by Fewkes in Colorado
Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian uncovers a 1000 year old rectangular building at Mesa Verde Colorado near Mummy Lake with a large court three kivas and a potential irrigation system. A stone war club found in a cliff dwelling is noted as a rare warfare implement.
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Mesa Verde National Park
Denver, Col
Colorado
Jesse Walter Fewkes
Smithsonian Institution
Doctor Fewkes
Sun Temple
Es Verde National Park
Denver
Elmer E. Higley
Des Moines
Mesa Verde
Daniel’s
Doctor Higley
Mummy Lake
Spruce Tree Camp
Muminy Lake
Prospect House
Ancient War Club
Arummy Lake
Wetherills
Fewkes
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Pharaoh
New York Metropolitan
Albert Bond Lambert
St. Louis
Narragansett Pier
R. I
Dr. Fewkes
Southwest
St. Paul
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