Essential Points for a Practical Poultry Yard Advice
Denton Journal outlines key poultry management tips from interbreeding avoidance to housing and feeding. Emphasizes keeping hens under two years, selecting top layers, saving kitchen scraps, and maintaining strict records for profit. Notes breeds from Ottawa experiment farm favor White Leghorns Plymouth Rocks Wyandottes and Brahmas for eggs flesh and maturity.
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Searn
Gilbert
Ottawa
Canada
Useful Corn Binder Shown In Practical Farmer Plans
A handy device for binding shocks of corn uses a 20 inch hardwood strip with end holes for a 10 foot rope. A windlass of 213 feet long shaped to fit a hole in the middle of the strip binds shocks as rope tightens. A straw band holds stalks after rope removal.
Meadow grasses and flooding beat, use timely sowing
Heavy meadow grass is valuable and if quality falls short it can be cut wet and fed with nitrogen rich foods. Flooded meadows yield heavy fescue. stimulate it and sow multiple varieties ripening together. If yields lag harrow or plow after freshet to encourage sod and reseed. Avoid old practices that harm crops, like late July cultivation of corn roots, which invites drought loss.
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Philadelphia Farm Journal
Magnificent Statue of Jupiter Olympus Faces Rival Temple
A debate over the world’s most magnificent wonder pits the gold and ivory statue of Jupiter Olympus against the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The Jupiter statue, by Phidias, stood sixty feet tall and featured a gold robe, a cedar throne inlaid with precious stones, and scenes of Niobe, Hercules, and Victory on a Sphinx. The piece wowed observers with its grandeur and inspired later artists, as described by the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Jupiter Olympus
Diana
Ephesus
Jupiter
Phidias
Heaven
Earth
Niobe
Hercules
Brooklyn Eagle
Swallows at Sea and the Coincident Curse of Gold
Swallows swarm a steamer off Port Said as a sudden storm drives hundreds to seek shelter on deck. Captured birds are freed after the squall ends, with one dying. A second piece links gold prospectors to violent demises, citing numerous named cases from US and Australian mines and prompting cautionary superstition.
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Port Said
Egypt
England
New Castle
America
George H. Fryer
Fryer Mill
Denver
Great Standard
California
Colonel Story
William Fairweather
Alder Gulch
Farrell
Meadow Lake
San Francisco
Homestake
John Homer
Pryor
Ninemale Clarke
Eureka
St. Louis
Finest Carpets Bound for Pon tambleau Palace
Paris letter notes two colossal Gobelins tapestries transferred to the palace by the president. Ordered by Napoleon III in 1868, the yellow ground piece measures about eleven yards by ten, the black ground piece nearly thirty feet square. Estimated values range from 40,000 to 50,000 pounds, with real worth perhaps double.
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Napoleon III
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la Sevonnerie
Louvre
Versailles
Paris
How Sir Gavan Duffy Looked
Mrs. Carlyle in her Journal recalls Sir Charles Gavan Duffy as having a plain horselike face during a visit to Chelsea. Duffy recounts Cromley painting him with a Shelley like dreamy face, shown to Daniel O Connell who joked about the likeness.
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Gavan Duffy
Cromley
Shelley
Daniel O'Connell
Duffy
Nke Duffy
O'Connell
London Star
Digging Earthworms and Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
The piece mixes practical worm gathering advice from the St Louis Globe-Democrat with a discussion on heliacal rising in ancient Egyptian astronomy. It explains Earthworm collection using a long sharp stick and a rotary twist to coax worms from soil. It then describes how ancient observers used heliacal rising to mark stars before sunrise and notes the Nile timing.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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