Profit in Ostrich Farming Rates and Returns in Phoenix
A Phoenix Arizona flock now exceeds 1000 ostriches with rapid growth as pairs hatch new brood each summer. Each pair yields feathers and eggs around 30 dollars annually, highlighting a promising avian enterprise. Canada shows booming trade with six year gains near 96 percent, per capita foreign trade about 77 dollars, and high exchange levels, while Britain contemplates asylums for cocaine addiction and a long slate quarry strike in Wales drags on.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Canada
Canadian Dominion
United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Rack for Tomato Vines and Vineyard Care
A historical note describes a foldable vine rack to keep tomato vines off the ground, with posts of heavy fence lath and hinged tops. It also cites a vineyard care plan from the Indianapolis News recommending soil enrichment with potash, acid phosphate, nitrate, crop rotation, and peas to improve humus and fertility for profitable viticulture.
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H. L. Bender
Indianapolis
Fertility for Plants and Soil Reality
Green's Fruit Grower explains that plant fertility must be dissolved in water before uptake. Manure decays before feeding crops, with effects lasting years from humus. Soils with abundant fertility often hide soluble food, released by frost, cultivation, rain, sun, and air.
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Green
Peach Yellows and Southern-Grown Peach Trees
The National Fruit Grower quotes J. H. Hale warning of yellows disease spreading through peach orchards. He urges planting Southern-grown trees to avoid loss and poor profits, stating Northern and Central trees cannot be depended on due to yellows. He claims he now abandons growing peaches in the North.
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J. H. Hale
Central
Perforation Invention Reaches Big Payoff
An Irish inventor named Archer developed a machine to perforate stamp sheets after long skepticism. He refused a $3000 patent offer, then accepted $20,000 following protracted negotiations. The note laments the difference between postage and revenue stamp perforation in 1898 and ends with a wry remark on everyday life amusements.
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Archer
New York Press
Hay Stacking Machines Revolutionize Northwest Farms
In the Northwestern States farmers rely on numerous hay stacking devices to handle large crops. Machines with mart booms and giant forks lift hay from wagons to high stacks, reducing labor from dozens of men to a few trained teams. Various derrick and grapple configurations operate on sleds or wheels, while hay racks grow longer and deeper to feed these systems.
Remarkable Bridge Over Indus River at Randu Kashmir
A perilous bridge spans the Indus at Randu in Northern Kashmir. The swinging three‑rope crossing uses brushwood ropes joined and forked stakes to separate strands. Crossing terrifies many. locals cross quickly with burdens, described as among the Himalayas worst bridges.
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Indus
Randu
Kashmir
Himalayas
Scraps From A 1900 Epistolary Note Page
The item cites a 1900 letter from Ocean Grove New Jersey praising Piso's Cure for Consumption as a reliable cough cold medicine. It also mentions market scouring by a manager seeking a clean play and contrasts American furnace output to British. It muses on creameries and butter color and notes odd quotes about Sitka Omaha temperatures and quarrelsome men.
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Ter Colon
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