Designs for Uninsulated Icehouses by USDA Dairy Division
USDA dairy division presents typical pole and framed icehouse designs for uninsulated farm icehouses. Details cover floors, walls, posts, drainage, doors, and roof with emphasis on center-floor drainage, stone and gravel trenches, and optional porous drain tile to vent warm air. Includes preservation of below ground elements. Also a brief note on keeping only laying hens and limiting egg production to 30 per year.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Dairy Division
Pole
FILL DITCHES AND GULLIES
Br 1 Throckmorton Kansas Experiment Station notes rapid growth of ditches and gullies on slopes if neglected. Stopping water with straw brush and stones builds gradual dams to trap sediment and drain water. Stones best. boards straw straw and brush for shallow ditches. cement dams need water outlets to avoid ponds.
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Throckmorton
Kansas
Prevention Tips for Roup in Poultry Keeping
To prevent roup there is no cure. Use clean quarters and floor, fresh earth if dirt, regular cleaning though not daily. Keep the poultry house roomy enough to double as a playroom during storms. Provide clean feed and water.
Old as the race story of the day in the United States
The article traces Thanksgiving origins beyond New England to ancient Egypt, Jews, Greeks, and Romans, noting festivals linked to harvest and gratitude. It cites Plutarch on Bacchus rites, Thesmophoria to Demeter, and describes the American observance developing from early proclamations, Lincoln’s 1864 decree, and the modern mix of religion, family, and feast centered on turkey.
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New England
Rome
England
Plutarch
Bacchus
Temple
Demeter
Ocritus
Simichidas
Thalysia
United States
Radford
Lincoln
Turkey
Akase
Donati
Thanksgiving Fable Turmoil Between Turkey And Peacock
A farmyard tale shows a turkey deriding a vanity rich peacock. The peacock defends pride while noting Thanksgiving is near and compares appetites. The fable ends with the moral that beauty is skin deep, but edibility is real.
Opposition to Thanksgiving In the South in 1856
The passage notes that Thanksgiving was largely unknown in the South until around 1856 when Governor John of Virginia urged its observance in a letter to the legislature, but faced strong opposition labeling it a New England superstition.
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South
John
Virginia
Praise in seasonal imagery by J. G. Holland
Poetic invocation praising summer bloom autumn bight bending wheat and maize health and sickness to the Lord of light and the Lord of darkness. The verse echoes devotional contrast between growth and peril attributed to divine forces.
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J. G. Holland
A Thanksgiving Poem a Hankful for the Day
A reflective Thanksgiving poem by Marian G Haw expressing gratitude for daily pleasures and blessings. The voice thanks God for light, work, affection, clouds, skies, clothing, food, birds, flowers, rain, children, sorrow, snow, moonlight, night, laughter, tears, and growing years.
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Marian G. Haw
Bright Lad Beating Time Clock In Office Tale
An office boy impresses with quick wit and efficiency after a week on the job. He quietly pioneers a method to beat the time clock, prompting remarks on his intelligence. A remark turns to a joke about financial failure when he sells horseradish door to door.
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Pines
Bressant
Bowela
Bright
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