Seed Selection and Hand-Picked Wheat Yields Grower Success
A Wisconsin grower reports that hand-picking seed wheat boosts yield from 67 to 72 bushels per acre across trials, with finer kernels giving higher output. Experiments cited from Professor Blount and Belgium practices show hand-picked seed and precise row spacing improve wheat crops. other notes discuss meat meal and green bone as poultry feed, advocating whole-grain diets and cost-effective bone sources.
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Blount
Belgium
Stable Safety and Barn Additions From Old Farm Notes
A fragment from Orange Judd Farner stresses keeping reins tied to avoid runaways and outlines barn expansion ideas. It describes a tack opening, the need for secure reins, and a built addition to a farm barn that increases stall and manure shed space with ends projecting to form open sheds.
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Orange Judd Farner
Green bone and meat meal boost poultry nutrition and forage use
An article from American Agriculturist discusses the value of green bone as a protein source for poultry, noting fresh bones and meat meal as essential feeds when forage is scarce. It warns meat meal can taint in heat and urges gradual introduction to poultry diets.
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J. Frank Ma Hiuer
Hattie
Theoretical farming's rise in modern agriculture
The piece argues farmers gain most when science and theory guide practice. Sons educated in agriculture return home to improve breeds, crops, and livestock. Progress rides on openness to study, experimentation, and institutional learning despite some failures and bankruptcies.
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United States
Philadelpha
Humorous Quips and Domestic Laughs From Old Papers
A collage of brief jokes and light verse quotes from Detroit Free Press Chicago Post New York Times Washington Star Boston Transcript Puck Judyge and Town and Country. The humor covers taillors bills dark fears clever witticisms about wealth luck and marital banter. Notable lines include a tailor's bill demand an oil strike joke and a playful remark about salary.
Narrow Escape and Courtroom Barbs in Classic Jokes
A cluster of vintage quips and anecdotes: Miss Fisher debates with Misa Kuchler and a blunt lawyer challenges a witness as a woman. A hustler upholds getting up and humping. A youthful housewife meters cooks by strength. A memory joke about phonographs lingers with a mother-in-law. A clever author jokes about unpublished works and Dickens.
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Drollehon
le Iiargo
Frightened man and restless boy in a strange parlor
Tit-Bits notes a young man in a parlor with a chaotic scene as a four year-old boy feigns fear in a mirror and a girl in a nearby room appears, suggesting troubling circumstances without clarity or direct action.
Oaths and fraud controls at London banks
London Daily Mail notes bank staff take annual oath to secrecy and strict fraud checks on notes and securities. It cites the system as preventing evasion and outlines how records gauge firms’ credit by examining past dishonors and securities offered. It also surveys a vast Horse Market across the United States with counts, values, and regional origins.
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London
London Daily Mail
Porto Rico fossils and sea life spark Smithsonian notes
Porto Rico yields new freshwater leeches and dozens of sea crabs and shrimps described in five Fish Commission bulletins. Mona Island near Porto Rico reveals caves and unique fauna as the Smithsonian receives bird and animal specimens and a lighthouse is erected. A playful Washington Star column overviews whales, bones, hunting, and a cautionary tale of a captive display.
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Porto Rico
United States Fish Commission
Blanchard
Smithsonian Institution
Mona Island
Mammoth
Kentucky
Washington Star
Lipton Fails to Move America's Cup Despite Huge Expenditure
The piece notes Sir Thomas Lipton spent about 1.5 million dollars over decades trying to win the America's Cup, calling the pursuit a remarkable display of gravity. It contrasts this with the Oak and Vine fable about beauty and restraint, ending with a moral on beauty, virtue, and sentiment.
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Henriest
Thomas Lipton
Westminster Abbey
British Islands
Uy Tronk
New York Herald
World News Snippets From Late Nineteenth Century Dispatches
Various brief items cover topics from safety shoes affecting electric shock, dragonflies preying on mosquitoes, Malay States research institute in Kuala Lumpur, an electric gangway for Dover Calais mail service, Jerusalem aqueducts reusing water, Vienna sewage irrigation plan, praise for American press by London Times, mahogany hunting in Central and South America, to Metz city finances showing a surplus of $219.50.
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Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Jerusalem
Vienna
Danube
Herr Noebel
Posen
England
Berlin
Central Wit
South America
Wigon
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Aled
Jim Brown
Detroit Free Press
Dons
Tam
Chicago Post
New York Times
Bacon
Egbert
Yonkers
Boston Transcript
Fortune
Newlywed
Bob Bigfront
Puck
Chicago Record-Herald
Dicken
United State
Texas
Iowa
Rhode Island
Nevada
St. Louis
Chicago
Buffalo
New York
Orseas
Atlantic
Transvaal
Germany
China
Norway
Sweden
Chizago Chronicle
Hacen Maria
Mer San Buey
Spain
Mme
Maria Christina
Prench
Albert
Prussia
Cotswods
Saya
London Graphic
Johnny
Arctic
Chicago Tribune
Department of Agriculture
Dover
Calais
France
London Times
America
Moberly Bell
Metz
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