Pleas for the Playground from Education to City Life
Prominent voices urge playgrounds in towns to shape civic virtue and personal growth. Froebel argues common play fosters community and self-awareness, while Pittsburgh advocates warn that neglecting childhood happiness fuels urban social ills and delinquency.
Beautifying the Home in Modern American Architecture
Critics call for originality in architecture while a new, virile style quietly forms in the female house. Charles M. Cheney notes beauty arises from simple elements of composition and design within traditional restrictions.
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Charles M. Cheney
Stevenson’s Remark On The Common People And Sailors
Stevenson recalls a voyage on a steamer that seemed rough but full of sailors to chat with. He argues the great man enjoys mingling with what society labels as common folk who live their own ways beyond laws and edicts. The common people, he says, are the genuinely natural and interesting ones.
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Stevenson
Why call me an amphibian in capitalisation debate
Natural History notes a humorous exchange where Mr Dustin Stax prods about being called amphibian. The joke hinges on capitalization methods versus land and water life, suggesting the speaker shifts to water when the land tires him.
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Natural History
Dustin Stax
Dusting Powders and Sprays Keep Poultry Free of Vermin
A bulletin outlines practical methods to control lice and external parasites in poultry houses. It details dusting powders based on Lawry formulas, repeated applications, and use of squid spray or paint with seronene and carbolic acid. Cleaning regimes include incubating chicks away from older flocks, thorough fall cleaning, pairwise sprayings, and multiple dustings of birds to maintain a nearly parasite-free poultry plant year round.
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R. C. Lawry
New York Cornell Experiment Station
Plaster of Paris
Coupling A Trailer Wagon Demonstrated In Illustrations
A method by M Konkel in the Nebraska Farm Journal shows preventing wagon jams by running the trailer tongue under the lead wagon with about two feet between beds. Use a chain or wire around a coupling pole and looped through the tongue end for a holdback.
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M. Konkel
Nebraska Farm Journal
September farm tasks guide a month of preparation
A farming bulletin outlines September duties for fall prep. Inspect fences, repair, whitewash poultry houses, weed berry beds, sow cabbage and cauliflower, nitrate celery for growth, prune clover for sheep, fatten cows for butcher, delay shoeing horses, vet a potential boar, cautious green corn feeding, address white honey crop notes, control Hessian fly, and rotate wheat on the same ground.
Colts Ruined by Long Drives Deal with Dan
A fragment notes that many promising colts are ruined by long forced drives with their dams, criticizing excessive driving as a cross precaution. The text references damage to young horses and questionable practices affecting their future performance.
Horticultural tips and horse market notes for readers
The piece covers gardening advice on gooseberries currants raspberries strawberries and winter bloomers. It also notes pruning effects on trees and gives market value ranges for pure bred and grade mares and their progeny.
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