How to Keep Grain Seeds Free From Smut Diseases
The article explains smut as a parasitic fungus affecting wheat and barley, detailing two common wheat smuts bun t and loose smut, their appearance, life cycle, and how spores spread. It urges farmers to select seed from clean fields, plant only certified seed, raise seed in seed plots, and use preemptive seed treatment to prevent multi million dollar annual losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paxton Toilet CO
Bostos
Macm
Sheep Exports Decline From 1908 To 1910
In 1908 the United States exported 94,600 sheep while 1910 figures show exports dropping to 38,600 head, reflecting a substantial fall in livestock trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Poultry Farmer Reports Odd Double Yolked Egg Record
A farmer recounts starting with 12 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets last December, selling eggs at 30 cents a dozen to earn 20 dollars, and noting a single double yolk egg weighing 3.5 ounces and measuring 8.5 by 7 inches. He describes practices including a 60 degree warm coop, buckwheat and various grains, potatoes, occasional scrap meat, grit and oyster shell, and strict water and feeding schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay
Saga & Writer
Defy Age: Mrs Hull Writes Verses to Defy Time
Missouri born Mrs Hull aged sixty eight or near seventy prides herself as a rhymster not a poet. She won six hundred dollars for Missouri state song words after a nationwide contest. Her life and youthfulness derive from verse making, not fame, with a simple daily creed: write verses and defy old age.
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Mrs. Hull
Missouri
St. Louis
Ponce de Leon
Florida
Spain
Lizzle Chambers Hall
Hadley
Cambridge
Masa
Radcliffe College
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wendell Phillips
Longfellow
Doctor Holmes
Miss Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miss Chambers
Pike County
George Eliot
Marie Clive
Verson
Wind Powered Lighting at Cosely Church Novel Scheme
A wind driven lighting system powers Cosely church near Birmingham. A 80 foot steel tower supports an 18 foot diameter windmill feeding an electric generator, lighting 27 church lamps, 2 chapel lamps, 2 vestry lamps, organ pump meter, 30 rectory lamps, and charging a storage battery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cosely
Birmingham
England
Pitiful eczema cure tale with Cuticura remedies
A mother reports a severely inflamed eight week old with widespread eczema treated with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After four weeks the baby is cured and grows hair back. The note claims dramatic improvement from the New England era advertisement style.
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Mra
T. B. Rosser
Mill Hall
Cuticurn
Fragmented Ad Fragments and Trading Pleas for Remedies
An OCR dominated clipping presents a jumble of ads and lines. It includes mentions of a police report about a robbery, cure claims for Carbolic salve, and patent medicine pitches for Allen's foot balm. It ends with a wary line about trust in a grass widow and grave care.
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Lizzia Chambers Hull
Eczema
Guesa
Meriwether & Hdwards
Clarkay ‘Teste
Rey
Samuel Ytcher
Inna Hele Salle
Senate
Seias Orited
Bears
The
Granteed
Foodard
Castoria
Ath
Coca-Cola CO
Coca-Cola
Wix
Dix
Cole
Ruggiste
J. W. Cole & Co
Black River Falls
Wigs
Allen
Bowelle Brws
Olmond
le Roy
N.Y
Libby
Libby, Woneitt
Jle
W.N. U
Chicago
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N. Y
Daily Fly
Cis
Bae
Cer Press
P. K
Bend Postal Gotalik” I
MTT
Ken
Witzgerald & Co
Waahiggins
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