Weather Bureau and Macaroni Wheat Propaganda
The Weather Bureau records are used in courts to prove weather conditions in civil and criminal cases, affecting damages from wind, rain, and lightning. The macaroni wheat program, led by the Department of Agriculture since 1899, shows rapid yields from 60,000 to 70,000 bushels in 1901 up to nearly 20,000,000 in 1904, with wide adoption in the Great Plains and rising exports.
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Weather Bureau
Ilinois
United States
Europe
Russia
Mark A. Carleton
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Carleton
Sea of Azov
Great Plains
Northwest
America
North Dakota
Texas
Records of Dairy Cows In the United States book urges better farm bookkeeping
The Bureau of Animal Industry publishes a valuable book with halftone illustrations of record cows and presses dairymen to adopt a complete farm accounting system to identify profit sources. It notes a quarter of dairy cows do not pay, and another quarter fail to yield annual profit, stressing data-driven improvements for a paying dairy industry.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Trials of a Turkey Raiser in Congress
Members of the House mock Representative Charles D. Landis of Indiana for his turkey raising efforts. Landis bought bronze turkeys and funded a lavish turkey house with heated rooms and literature on getting rich from turkey farming. One fine hen escaped to the woods, five broods later died after a rainstorm. A woodland hen and her brood then joined the scene.
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House of Representatives
Charles D. Landis
Indiana
Landis
Turkey
The Vegetable Vonder and Related Facts
The excerpt blends quips and trade notes from 1900s era. It cites 593000 cattle exported in 1904 with UK 287000 Cuba 135000 Canada 8000 Belgium 18000 and 15000 to others. UK annual ham consumption about 200 million pounds. King Victor Emanuel hailed as top European shooter. Australia’s first frozen meat shipment in 1880, 400 sheep from Melbourne, market growth from 1890 with 100 million pounds frozen beef veal and 66 million pounds frozen mutton and lamb exported. British Columbia Fish and Game club plans to import many English pheasants to western Canada. Inside out fashion: shoes for fat women now lace up on inside ankle. Fruit blossoms colors limited to white pink scarlet purple. violet and yellow not seen.
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Australia
Melbourne
Ric
Press Publishing CO
Aldine St
Boston
Mass
Automatic Watering Pot Hint From German Papers
German publications describe a simple automatic watering device for houseplants. A cotton wick draws water from a pail through a bent tube and saturated wick, supplying individual pots via strands. In warm weather cover the pail and wrap the tube to prevent drying. The inventor reports reliable performance.
The Young Hand Fixes Farm Pump For Five Dollars
A farmer’s pump fails and neighbors fail to fix it. A young man from a nearby farm succeeds after brief tinkering. He quotes five dollars, and the owner protests. The bill lists 15 minutes’ work .50 and “skill and common sense” at 4.00, totaling 5.00.
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Joe
More Eggs Than Kings Inn Tale
A quaint anecdote recalls an innkeeper who served his sovereign eggs at a guinea each. The king notes eggs are scarce, but the retort says kings are scarce, not eggs. The tale highlights royal excess in a humorous bill anecdote.
Representative Longworths Violin Collection Highlights Names
Longworth possesses two violins used in public life along with a collection that includes a Stradivarius a Guillaume and an Amato, illustrating a notable array of instruments tied to his career and cultural interests.
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Longworth
Seoul Population Report Claims 22 Thousand
A report places Seoul as Korea's capital with a population of 22 thousand. The figure highlights early urban density in the region despite modest size.
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Seoul
Korea
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Weather Bureau Lore
Guy Elliott Mitchell
Connecticut
Weather Service
France
Italy
Wilson
New Mexico Experiment Station
The
Blue Ridge
Washington
United Kingdom
Cuba
Canada
Belgium
Countries
King Victor Emanuel
British Columbia Fish and Game Club
Taru
Amet
Sanksa
Eiamn
Wenorky
United
Bates
Bruins
Germany
Plumosa
Celosa
Campanula
Calandulia
Tonopus
Cineraria
Colum- Line
Gills
Sweet William
Anemone
Solanum
It& Via
End of Paradise
Bite Bells
Scotland
Glendale Nursery
Dept
Everett
Mito Agigtodte Pises & Brooder
H.m.bheerco
Arar
SiPau
Minn
Burpee’s
Watlue Burpee & Co
Philadelphia
Larry
Toalay
True Bio Co
St. John's
John’s Tla Mender
E. N. Corneau & Co
River Street
Chicago
Butler
Giotto
U.S. Commission
Battery Place
X.Y. City
Roc
Columbia Novelty CO
Miss
Anderson Building
New York
the Sea Gul al Ei
Inary Ovelt Os Depts East Bost
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