Rattlebox Weed Described Its Range and Dangers
A government bulletin details Crotalaria sagittalis known as rattleweed or wild pea. It is a hairy annual with yellow pea like flowers, pods that rattle when seeds detach, native to eastern soils and Missouri valley bottoms. It poisons horses and occasionally cattle, first noted by Dr. Stalker in 1884 amid bottom disease research. Burning fields after seed maturity reduces seed content in hay without harming perennial grasses.
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Atlantic
Minnesota
Kansas
New Mexico
Connecticut
New Jersey
North Carolina
Missouri
South Dakota
Iowa
Stalker
Winter squash storage and fall webworm notes
Farmers advise harvesting squashes before frost for better storage and sorting by ripeness to extend the season. Also described is the Fall web worm Hyphantria cunea with practical remedies including cutting webs, burning large nests, and Paris green sprays when safe for fruit.
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Hubbard
Seed selection notes on ripening with varieties
Agronomy snippet discusses how ripening stage varies by variety and how to judge the best harvesting point. Mentions M. G. Kainsb. and outlines reasonable prospects of success for different seed types.
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M. G. Kainsb
The Roadster: A Definition of the Ideal Road Horse
An authority defines the roadster as 15 to 16 hands high, about 1100 pounds, sound and straight, with a solid color and level head. It must be bold, capable, willing to work at 12 mph or 100 miles in ten hours, and show a 2:30 gait when urged, without spur or whip. Breed requires nervous energy and intelligent lineage.
Efficient Poultry Feeds Prove Bone and Animal Meal Superior
Experiments show the cheapest effective foods for hens stimulate laying. reduced bone and animal meal yield better results than previously thought. Animal meal costs less than corn per egg output, since corn alone is insufficient.
Tent Caterpillar control tips from horticulturists
An illustrated guide advises farmers to remove and burn tent caterpillar eggs found on trees in fall or winter. It explains methods to cut branches with tents, burn or drown the nests, and use long pole shears to prune nests in early morning or evening. The species is Clisiocampa fragilis.
Planting Chestnut Trees on an Abandoned Farm
A Country Gentleman contributor shows simple seed planting methods that produced chestnut saplings two feet high after varying results. The piece compares effective and ineffective techniques using forks, furrows, and light coverage, stressing nature and simple labor.
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Country Gentleman
Birdless world would end human life after nine years
A French naturalist argues that without birds the world could not sustain human life within nine years. He contends that pests would overrun orchards and crops despite sprays and poisons. The Philadelphia Record records the assertion.
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Philadelphia
The Lost Word and Worry Worn Women in Home Arts
A mixed excerpt blends poetry and domestic advice. Bliss Cameron reflects on a lost word sought in nature, while a long column urges women to curb fretfulness, support husbands, and practice careful care of table linen with practical laundering and stain removal tips.
Coats Gain Fur Trimmed Appeal For Autumn Wear
A covert coat gains decorative fur touches this autumn with mink piping on revers fronts and tails. Gray brown and green basque style with fitted figure, rounded hip tail and folded shoulder revers show growing demand as fur-touched wraps enter active service.
Amiable Love and Wise Companionship Across Ages
Temple Bailey argues that true amiability is love worthy of genuine relation. Women should seek elders for companionship and support younger people in heart and ambition, using tenderness to guide younger romances toward understanding.
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Jack
Betty
Temple Bailey
Our Cooking School Seasoning Hints and Cakes
A fragmented cooking note lists salad dressing seasonings with pickles olives capers and fine minced bits. It suggests Boston baked beans with sweet cream, apple pie with Japan tea and nutmeg, corned beef hash with stock and cayenne, and a pond lily cake with rose and strawberry flavors and pink sugar icing.
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Boston
Japan
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Rattlebox
Colorado Experiment Station
Paris Green
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Nebraska
Wade Cary
Council Bluffs
Bliss Cameron
Moses P. Handy
October Woman's Home Companion
Presbyterian Journal
Paris
Brooklyn Eagle
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