Barley as Feed Comparable to Corn in Value for Livestock
The bulletin notes barley nearly matches corn for feeding value and should not exceed half of horse or cattle grain rations. For best results, crush or coarsely grind barley for digestion and to prevent mouth injury. soak whole grain for hog feed. Ground barley with skimmilk yields premium bacon. barley suits sheep well and can be fed whole or crushed.
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Tennessee
Bulletin of
United States Department of Agriculture
Wisconsin Farmer Praises Simple Drainage Plow
A Wisconsin correspondent of the Orange Judd Farmer extols a homemade Yick-like drainage plow. He built it in a day for about $3, using it with two horses to dig ditches up to three to four feet deep in clay soil, noting efficiency, cost savings, and wide applicability for tile work.
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Wisconsin
Orange Judd
Minnesota
Plank Drag for Winter Use Described by Rural New Yorker
An Ohio Rural New Yorker correspondent outlines an easily built plank drag for soil leveling. Crafted from a 7 to 11 foot plank with side boards, draft chain, and standing boards, the device works in varied soils, simple and durable, useful for readying fields and smoothing surface irregularities.
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Ohio
New Yorker
Pruning In Winter Advice For Orchard Trees
The American Cultivator says winter pruning removes dead branches now to save spring work. Leaves may remain. cutting close to the trunk prevents stub growth. Dead limbs harbor insects and diseases, so prune to protect the orchard. Burning dead limbs is recommended to destroy pests.
Orchard pruning and winter gardening advice note
Orchard and Garden outlines practical tips for fruit tree care planning permanent labels with zinc strips, protecting with windbreaks, storing ladders with paint, improving tools, preparing soil for spring bedding plants, diversifying crops, and pruning by removing dead or diseased branches to boost orchard profitability.
Farmer Parade Image Sparks Contrast In Town
A farmer driving a prancing horse rig leads a parade through town while another farmer toils in a field behind the plow, each showing his claim to parade presence in opposite settings.
Winter Keeping of Vegetables
Farm and gardening notes advise on storing Irish potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbages and onions for winter use. Potatoes and beets should avoid freezing, carrots tolerate a little cold. Cabbages wrapped in newspaper and hung upside down keep best. onions require a cool dry airy place.
His Dollar Bill Ends Up In Woman's Pocket
In West Philadelphia a generous businessman tried to give a woman a dollar he claimed she dropped. The woman misread him and kept the bill after a tense moment. He later learned the bill had been taken by someone else on the platform.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Times
Fire Eaters The Trick of Breathing Flames and Snarks
A historical survey of fire breathing tricks from ancient times to modern stages. It notes Cunus the Syrian slave in 120 BC and describes a flame bursting method using a burning flax ball, nostril inhalation, and protective pastes. It mentions protective dress methods and old ordeals and cites Harper's as the source.
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Cunus
Sicily
Ennis
Harper’s
Making a Picture Lover by George Moore
A caustic sketch of English art patrons and their motives. After a rich dinner, Brown boasted of buying Leader for £1,500 while Smith, intoxicated by wine and memory, imagines a village and decides to acquire Leader as well, showing how money and taste corrupt art patronage.
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England
Brown
Smith
Miss Jones
Fie
George Moore
Proper Breathing Technique From the Boston Herald
The article explains diaphragmatic breathing with slow deep breaths, placing hands on the ribs to feel expansion, and noting the diaphragm as the floor of the chest. It describes how the diaphragm attaches to the backbone, ribs, and sternum and how breathing fills and empties the lungs.
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Boston Herald
First Cup of Tea Brewed On Shapleigh Estate
The Shapleigh estate at Enot in New Ireland is credited with the first brew of tea in the country early in the seventeenth century. Nicholas Shapleigh, a wealthy English tea dealer, funded a 1623 expedition and sent his son in law to explore the new world. The son-in-law reached not Kittery Point, and two years later Nicholas settled in Eliot, with the estate remaining in his descendants’ hands.
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Shapleigh
Enot
N. IL
Nicholas Shapleigh
England
New World
Kittery Point
Nicholas
Eliot
Loston Globe
Old Acquaintances Hint at Forgotten Past
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet recalls a past encounter with a colorful line about a stray cut and a medieval alley. The dialogue pivots to a purple velvet doublet figure who opened a castle casement and tossed a boot jack, identified playfully as the speaker.
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van Queer
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Marvelously Low Prices at Our Stores
We will sell at both stores all goods at a marvelously low price for cash or trade. No checks, other than our own, taken at these extraordinarily low prices. We call your especial attention to our large stock of.
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G. M. Bentley
Tennessee
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Baltimore
Duffey's Pharmacy
Denton
Chas. H. Redden
Denton, Maryland
Feed and Sale
A. E. Cooper
Maryland
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Willams Thomson
Chesapeake Steamship Company
Chesapeake Line
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Pier & Baltimorh Tight Street
Cor. Lee
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Wichmond
York River Line
West Point
Richmond
Light Street
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Southern
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Greensboro
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F. Jouxson
Tennessee Wholesale Nurseries (Incorporated
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T. H. Evans & Company
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Thomas O’connell
Merchant Tailor
Market Street
Wilmington, Delaware
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