Arizona Senator's career and a mix of 19th century notes
Survey notes ARCUS AURELIUS SMITH an Arizona senator born January 24 1802 in Kentucky. It recounts his early ambitions his funding of Tombstone and his role in arts politics. Anecdotes describe Washington clashes with Cannon and Tawney and a fashion remark about a delegate in Washington. Baseball season opens April 11 with league matchups and Pacific Coast league introduces sleeve numbers. Various April anniversaries and a contrast of cost of living in prisons are mentioned along with Arbor Day and the first aero show details and Secretary Knox's Caribbean tour plans.
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A Merchants Scheme That Boosts Home Trade
A merchant describes an advertising scheme using numbered cards distributed to customers. When ten cards are returned with purchases totaling five dollars, the origination customer receives five dollars worth of goods free. The plan creates a growing mailing list, positive word of mouth, and a self perpetuating chain with minimal risk. The merchant claims the cost per fifty dollars in sales is just a fraction of a dollar, making it a favorable gain.
Hints for Home Trade Advertising Strategy
The excerpt stresses that effective advertising grows from experience and must fit the store. It warns against cheap circulars and notes that initial failures may pay off later, suggesting persistence across multiple efforts to recoup costs.
Goat Browsers Clear Brush and Raise Kids for Value
A Minnesota correspondent notes goats effectively kill dense brush by continuous browsing, eating oak, cedar, briars, grapevines, and many other plants. They can pasture with other stock, resemble sheep but stay separate, and two years of grazing on forty acres can eradicate heavy brush, while also yielding kids and mohair fleeces.
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Orange Judd
Goats Browse Weeds and Grass Forage in Fleece Production
Goats eat leaves and many weed varieties as part of their diet, though some breeders say tame grass aids fleece growth. Grass can be sown in year one or spring of year two, and goats do not pull grass like sheep. Grass often regenerates naturally after goats browse, aided by soil fertility from browsing.
Sandy Bancroft’s daring foray behind enemy lines
Private Sandy Bancroft scouting in Santiago 1898 steals into a Spanish house for rations. Trapped, he escapes through a chimney, captures a Spanish officer, and returns under cover of a coordinated rescue as the line closes in. The episode ends with the captain questioning the late nap and Bancroft presenting the captured officer.
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Simple rubbing post for hogs
A Breeder's Gazette item describes making a rubbing post for hogs by nailing burlap to a post near a shed or fence. It instructs inverting a large oil bottle over a plate with a wire from the cork to feed crude oil onto the burlap, creating a rubbing post that lasts and will be used by hogs whenever they pass.
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Breeder's Gazette
Marsh Land Crops for Marshes and Pastures
Advice from Orange Judd Farmer lists best marsh land crops such as corn potatoes cabbage buckwheat timothy and alsire clover for hay. When soil is firmed by rolling small grains like wheat barley oats and rye flourish. Excellent tame grass pastures can be developed on these marshes with proper care.
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Orange Judd
Proper Spring Tree Care and Orchard Training
A practical guide urging yearly spring planting of trees, thorough spraying to prevent bugs and blight, and proper hole size for full root growth. Notes include gum drops indicating borers, manure benefits, and training young trees with low-headed pruning from top down and bottom up.
Impaction in Sheep Remedies and Warnings
Iowa Homestead warns that impaction or indigestion in sheep is dangerous and can kill valuable stock. Early signs include restlessness, lying down, and foaming at the mouth. treatment involves a homemade remedy of epsom salt ginger and water given slowly down the throat, with care to avoid choking.
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Iowa Homestead
Weed problem costs American farmers big losses
In discussing improved farming methods tests of seed corn deeper plowing and pure bred stock the speaker stresses thorough cultivation to free fields from weeds. The annual loss to U S farmers from weeds nears 100 million dollars highlighting weeds as a major agricultural challenge.
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Kamsas
Science Notes and Claims From Global Research
The note cites unusual ideas about banana and potato sentience and reports on the International Aeronautic Exhibition. It mentions vaccination as a voting qualification and an Italian professor’s claim about radium in ordinary dew. The United States has issued nearly ninety thousand patents for inventions.
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