Steel Track Tested at Minnesota Experiment Station
The Minnesota experiment station reports on a steel rail track tested for road inquiry. Rails eight inches wide with half inch flanges run on cement filled channels, tied every ten feet, with cross bars belted to rail bottoms. The system failed on dirt and gravel, required stone to guide wheels back, and would cost about 2500 dollars per mile, with macadam enhancing effectiveness. The note suggests rail remakes or stone beds to improve wheel regain and reduce washout risks, from Orange Judd Farmer.
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Minnesota Experiment Station
Office of Road Inquiry
Department of Agriculture
Orange Judd
Marvelous Mountain Road Opens New Alamogordo Line
The Alamogordo and Sacramenta Mountain railway, a 21 mile route up the Sacramento mountains from Alamogordo New Mexico, features extreme curvature and high elevation gain. Designed for lumber freight with 60 pound steel track, it promises scenic value and potential as a health resort destination, despite initial locomotive challenges.
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Alamogordo
Sacramenta Mountain
al- Inoegordo
Sacramenta Mountains
Tularosa
Sacramento Mountains
la Luz Canyon
Palmers ' Lake
Hayden Dhide
al- Sinogordo
Denvey Republivsa
Bad Ronis Stop Castner
The packers at some of the potteries of East Lisernool Pa have had to stop work because the roads in the vicinity are so bad the farmers are unable to bring any straw for the packing of the pottery. It is probable straw will be shipped in by rail from towns. Possessing sufficient enterprise to maintain a system of passable highways.
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East Lisernool
Care of Young Trees and Field Tips from Farmers' Voice
Article offers practical methods for transplanting and caring young trees, including root trimming, trenching, root protection, and soil packing. It covers adjusting planting depth to soil type, pruning injured roots, and painting large root wounds, with added notes on muskmelon from Siberia and road surfacing with rollers.
Impassable Roads Stir Debate On Farm Progress
A Bay City Tribune excerpt argues that bad roads hamper farm prosperity and sugar factory prospects, with a Saginaw farmer noting grain transport impossible due to county road conditions. The piece links road quality to rural advancement and pricing, urging action. It also includes agricultural notes on Black Knot in Plums and winter spraying guidance using carbolic acid solution.
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Tne
Bay City
Mich
Tribune
Saginaw
Bay County
Cty
Paginaw
Ray
Be A Strong Stanchion In Cattle Feed Lot Illustration
An illustrated description presents a sturdy cattle stanchion built with vertical bars one or two inches thick, bolted at top and bottom between slat strips. The design mirrors oilier bars and can be made heavier if desired, with bolting at the base.
Mechanism of a cattle stanchion in lift and drop
A description from American Agriculturist explains a cattle stanchion assembly. The device uses side strips and a hinged left strip to hold the vertical post in place, allowing the animal’s neck to pass. When raised, the post rests. when lowered, it locks, and the animal can be freed by moving a mised strip.
Grading Up a Herd and Dairy Herd Care
The piece argues for grading up herds with a first class bull to prevent gradual degeneration and boost vigor and productivity. It emphasizes selective culling, the costs and benefits of buying fine bulls, and the need for proper feeding and management in dairies. It also notes skim milk’s value and a humorous Kipling anecdote about his grandfather.
Tin Plate Mills Rise With McKinley Tariff Boost
Pittsburg correspondent notes the tin plate industry in the United States expanded from one small mill in 1891 to 52 plants employing about 30,000 workers. Prices fell since tariff enactment, Welsh influence waned as American mills grew, and automation plus new mills boosted output dramatically. Wages ranged from 1 to 2.50 dollars daily with recent 10 to 15 percent increases.
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Pittsburg
New York Star
United States
Tne
Cleveland
America
Sun
Sheffield
England
Chicago
Wages and political misreadings of labor votes
The piece rails at how wage earners are urged to vote for plans harming their pay and laments workers’ political naiveté. It traces wage trends through tariff blocks, from Cleveland to McKinley, noting how tariffs boosted wages and employment, while democratic policy shifted the labor balance.
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Stiz
New York Tribune
Democratic Party
Cleveland
Harrison
New York
McKinley
Relics of Kipton Man Show Old Lamps and Indian Relics
C E Sherwood, once of Kipton now in Oberlin, owns relics handed down in his family. A brass lamp from Scotland uses a crude chain as a boat shape bulb, a tin lamp with a top oil tank burned whale oil brought by Arctic whaler Captain Cisco, and several valued Indian relics. Sherwood is also an inventor working on a cooling method to separate cream from milk.
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C.E. Sherwood
Kipton
Oberlin
Scotland
theSit
Cisco
New York
Sherwood
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Old Eldred Corner
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B. Thompson
C. M. Braman
Cashier
H. P. Foskett
Enfield Avenue Savings Bank
Lorain
Ohio
Board OF Directors
I. D. Faxon
Thomas Folger
C. E. Wilson
W. A. Braman
W. Fancher
H. Babcock
Henry Wurst
H. C. Wood
J. B. Vincent
H. J. Barrows
Harry H. Smith & Co
Elyria
Cheapside
Harry H. Smith
Biggs & Everard Co
Fria
Old Homestead Remedy Co
Minacada Inne Periment Station
Koi
Marvelous Mountain Road
W. St. Moore
Siberia
Utah
California
Sien
Essen
Evers Migebrete
Plains
Rudyard Kipling
George E. Macdonald
Macdonald
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