Navy reform urged to attract enlisted men to service
The article argues that the naval profession is a good business and that most enlisted men would make it a life career if allowed to live normal lives. It calls for a single cruise ashore per cruise, minor reforms to daily life, and fair treatment to reduce turnover and save taxpayer funds on recruiting and training. It also notes broader news items from 1911 including Beriberi eradication in the Philippines, labor politics in Washington, and other varied topics with brief updates.
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Our Navy
Mensionar
Bits of Good Verse and Seasonal Ballads in Verse
An anthology-style cut from Baltimore Sun echoes with verses praising steadfast courage and cheerful resilience. It includes stanzas about enduring hardship, sleighing scenes, and young heroes who brighten travelers with songs. Notable lines evoke gifts beyond wealth, kindness guiding wanderers, and playful fantasy with nature imagery.
Timely Farm Topics on Tent Caterpillars and Control
A discussion notes Malacosoma erosa in the United States with intervals of forays across the country. It cites heavy damage in 1911 on railroad tracks between California and Oregon and in Portland suburbs, and outlines natural enemies and control methods including arsenate of lead sprays for fruit orchards and shade trees, winter pruning to destroy egg masses, and burning tents in spring.
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Oregon Agricultural College
California
Oregon
Portland
Brewer's
Polish Horns for Show Cattle Method
A. S. C. subscriber shares a polishing process for cattle horns. Begin with course and fine rasps, then scrape with glass. Sand with coarse and fine sandpaper or emery cloth, smooth with a leather strap and charcoal powder, flesh side down then up, to achieve a perfectly smooth surface. Finish with sweet oil applied by cloth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Agriculturist
Maxims on Home Trade Urge Local Support for Community Welfare
The piece urges residents to patronize home institutions over foreign shops to strengthen wealth, schools, and real estate values. It argues that sending money abroad harms the town, lowers local business, and shifts power away from the community, while bankers can help connect with farmers to boost local commerce.
Home merchants can emulate catalogues to win local trade
The piece urges home merchants to imitate big city catalogue houses using local newspapers as a weekly outreach. It argues catalogues rely on printer's ink and mass reach, while suggesting local shops can match low prices with lower costs, reaching every household regularly without costly stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. M. Cart
Carr
World’s Biggest Gold Dredger In Operation On Pacific Coast
The largest gold dredger in the world has begun operation on the Pacific coast at Hammonton California. The 125 foot long electrically operated dredger requires 720 horsepower, with 200 horsepower needed to operate the buckets.
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Pacific Coast
Hammonton
Cal
Practical Winter Cabbage Storage and Farm Health Tips
A compilation of rural notes on preserving cabbage through cold storage using hay or dry litter, plowing dry soil furrows for storage, and keeping heads frost free. Also covers turkeys needing outdoor range, fall pig growth, a grain poison for pests, chicken pox treatment for poultry, and cautions on feeding root crops to breeding stock.
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Iowa State Experiment Station
Winter fed heifers profitable says Illinois man with long experience
In a Country Gentleman extract, HH F Hoss of witness states that feeding western heifers through winter yields more profit than grass finishing. On a 400 acre farm he grows grain and roughage, buys only all meal, and uses substantial ground to finish heifers for May markets when prices peak. He argues self feeding devices and corn fodder rations maximize returns, with 100 to 160 head per winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
F Hoss
Ross
Road to Farm Prosperity From Cowpeas to Clover
A stallown merchant recalls a shift from single crop farming to diversified husbandry after college professors taught farmers the value of cowpeas and clover. Farmers who once traded with him when they grew one crop are now wealthier, raising livestock and buying where prices are lowest.
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Uck
Artichokes Featured in Hog Diet Decline
Artichokes once valued for hog feed are dropping from some farmers plans. They are easy to grow and beneficial for hogs, but the bogs can harvest them.
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Kansas
Storage technique for protecting products in cold dirt
The text advises placing a five to six inch dirt layer over stored goods to let it freeze, then covering with about one foot of soil to achieve near perfect storage. It stresses soil depth and freezing as the key to preserving items.
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Walter BR. Brookins
Mr. Brookins
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