Italian Immigrants who Shaped Early America
Giovanni Caboto and Amerigo Vespucci are named among early Italian immigrants who helped found North America. The article highlights Cabot, Vespucci, Tonti, Vigo, and Mazzei, noting their roles from exploration to trade and diplomacy and their ties to American independence and frontier expansion. It also recalls Columbus as a progenitor figure and points to the broader Italian influence in early American history.
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Giovanni
New York
Christopher Columbus
America
Columbus
Juan de la Cosa
Martin Alonso Pinzon
Francisco
Vincente Yanes Pinzon
Pero Alonso Nino
Luis de Torres
Diego
Bartholomew
Ferdinand
Antilles
Espanola
Hayti
New World
North America
Lief Ericsson
Green-land
St. Lawrence River
Vin-land
Giovanni Cabato
Cabata
Genoa
Venice
Bristol
England
Henry VII
Sayle
John Cabot
Matthew
Sebastian
Cabot
Halifax
Hudson Strait
Greenland
India
Newfoundland
Virginia Capes
Florida
Labrador
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Germany
National Library
Paris
Edward.vii
Mary
London
Muscovy Company
Columbia
Amerigo
Americus Vespucci
Florence
Italy
Véspucci
Spain
South America
Ojeda
Beieve
Mundus Novus
Asia
St. Die
Vosges Mountains
France
Europe
Mathias Ringman
Martin Waldseemuller
Vespucci
Waldseemuller
Americus
Amerige
Colombo
Cabato
Henri de Tonti
Lorenzo Tonti
Naples
Tonti
Marseilles
Toulon
Messina
Libisso
Metasse
Sicily
Robert Cavelier
Sieur de la Salle
New France
la Salle
Fort St. Louis
Starved Rock
D'Iberville
Lower Louisiana
Iberville
Mobile
Louisiana
Lower
Mississippi
Henri de Tont
Mississippi Valley
Francesco Vigo
Mondovi
Piedmont
Matteo
Maria Maddalena Vigo
Vigo
Havana
Cuba
New Orleans
St. Louis
Don Fernando de Leyba
Upper
George Rogers Clark
Kaskaskia
Clark
Vincennes
New Republic
Allegheny Mountains
Virginia
Robert Morris
West
Tonto
Philip Mazzei
Thomas Jefferson
Mazzei
Tuscany
Smyrna
Jefferson
Monticello
Mazzel
Poland
Alexander
Russia
Union
Controlling Hog External Parasites and Feed Losses
State University researchers outline economical feed use by minimizing parasites. Hog lice and mange mites reduce feed efficiency. oil treatments, cleanliness, sanitation, and sunlight help control pests. Lime sulfur dips at specified ratios combat mites, with warm solution enhancing effectiveness.
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Coffey
Department of Animal Husbandry
State University
WNU
Cost of fuel and travel in California beekeeping
A USDA UC survey finds 225 California beekeepers with a 1988 honey crop of 6,130,181 pounds traveled 1,493,628 miles. Transportation costs per pound vary by apiary type from 10 percent in Oregon Intermountain nonmigratory sites to 20 25 percent in migratory California operations.
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United States Department of Agriculture
University of California
California
Oregon
Intermountain States
Pig Crop Shrinks Under Drought and Low Prices
The agriculture bureau projects this year’s pig crop as the smallest in many years due to last summer’s drought shrinking feed grain output, low hog prices, and an unfavorable hog to corn ratio. The spring 1935 pig crop was about 20 percent smaller than 1934, down roughly 7.4 million head, with corn belt production dropping about 22 percent.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Ample Food Supply Expected This Year
A report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics states the United States will have plenty of food in the year ahead. The food supply should exceed recent average consumption, remain below the five year average, and be about 5 percent above 1934 disappearance and about 9 percent above 1933 levels.
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United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Notes and Trends Across England and Ohio
Agricultural jottings note revival of oxen plowing in England and the role of paint in farm sanitation. About 600 Ohio farmers compare hybrid and standard varieties. Cornell bulletin finds men in farm families consume more eggs and milk than women. Fresh uncooked garbage is good swine feed. Some sausages now bear U S Grade No 1 labels. US agricultural economics data show milk use at 100,713,000,000 pounds in 1934-8 vs 100,169,000,000 in 1933.
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Cornell
United States Bureau of ‘Agricultural
Patching Hint Gives Value to Leftover Dress Pieces
The Housewife suggests using leftover cotton dress scraps to make handkerchiefs that match the garments. These handkerchiefs can later serve as patches, having been washed as often as the dresses and matching as a patch.
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Public Ledger
Inn
WNU
German Inventor Aims to Age Violins With Silk Lining
A Popular Mechanics summary describes a German inventor who claims harsher tones in new violins result from resin buildup in the sounding board. By lining the inner side with a thin skin, he speeds aging, making the instrument resemble old violins whose tone stems from wood fibers and tree rings vibrating in unison.
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Germany
Postum Free Week Offer Promises Health Drink
The Postum Company offers a full week's supply of health giving Postum free to any reader who writes for it. An advertisement in this paper outlines the free trial, urging readers to request the sample and learn its benefits.
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Postum Company
What a Blessing if They Could Only Devise Some Way
The remark laments lacking a method to tax talk and curb endless chatter. It notes the potential benefit of such a device or policy to reduce discussion deemed wasteful or loud.
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