Don't Move or Cry Out! Obey Orders in Fort Armstrong Tale
In 1832 Lieutenant Knox on duty at Fort Armstrong faces threats from disaffected Indians. He sails on the Warrior to St. Louis where he meets Judge Beaucaire and gambler Joe Kirby. A plot over a stolen stake and enslaved women unfolds ending with Knox aiding an eventual escape plan.
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Knox
Regular Army
Fort Armstrong
Rock Island
St. Louis
Judge Beaucaire
Joe Kirby
Devil's Own
Rene
Kirby
Joe Carver
Beaucaire
Carver
Pete
Haynes
Amos
Beaucaire Place
Rene Beaucaire
Escape by Night from the Landing Aboard a Concealed Engine Boat
A covert river escape unfolds as the protagonist, aided by a Negro boatman named Sam, seizes a steam keelboat at the Landing. Rene travels with him and the trio heads upstream toward Illinois shores, seeking a hidden station and the elusive Amos Shrunk while evading pursuers.
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Saunders’ Creek
St. Louis
Carver
Kirby
Illinois
Sam
Rene
Canada
Donaldson
Slindlg
Ohio
Inois
New England
Amos
Mississippi
Missouri
Cow Testing Proves Profitable Across Vermont Herds
USDA summary shows in South Chittenden Cow Testing Association that milk per cow rose from 4487 to 5831 pounds and income over feed cost climbed from 44.05 to 86.47 in one herd. another rose from 4500 to 6426 pounds with income over feed cost up from 23.00 to 67.20. Overall average production increased from 4900 to 5215 pounds and butterfat from 196.2 to 202.5 pounds, with income over feed cost up from 54.22 to 89.68 per cow.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States Dairy Division
South Chittenden
Vermont
Removing Grease From Wallpaper With Soda and Heat
To lift grease spots from wallpaper place blotting paper sprinkled with carbonate of soda against the stain and press with a moderately hot iron. The blotting paper absorbs the grease while the soda preserves the paper color.
Milk as a wartime staple and livestock focus
An editorial advocates saving cows and stock for future raising, praising milk as an almost perfect food. It urges breeding up, producing more, selling less, and using milk to feed families and farm animals, noting butter cheese and ice cream as wholesome products.
Skimming Milk and Cream Testing for Butterfat
Skim milk quickly after milking and cool the cream at once. Test cream from 35 to 45 percent butterfat to keep it workable and easy to test. Rich cream preserves better, reduces stickiness, and leaves more skim milk for feed while lowering express charges.
Dairy Notes on Culling and Cooperative Testing
Dairy notes advise removing unprofitable cows in favor of chickens or a pen of shoots for skim milk. Emphasizes feeding the farm, not just the cow, and that dairy animal conformation matters as much as building design. Surface cooling requires cans placed in the tank immediately. urges cooperative cow test associations to weed out losses and identify top cows.
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McClurg & Co
BY Irwin Myers
St. Louce
Massa Donaldson
de Iinois
Ruassuer Creek
Ul- Nois
Bam
San
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