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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1894
Page
4
An agricultural note notes the nuisance of corn stubble on fields and praises a neat farmer’s preference for clean fields. It mentions an implement from the American Agriculturist for gathering corn stalk waste and improving land readiness for spring oats.
A detailed report outlines a six inch by three inch oak rake bar with curved steel teeth for stubble removal, plus a lifting handle. It reviews wheat feeding on low priced grain, sugar beet experiments, hedge fences as windbreaks, and ice house design to reduce heat loss. Also notes on experiment stations funding, global agriculture, and Chinese secret societies.
The passage describes a Mandarin duck, noting the male’s chestnut back and light red breast with white underparts, chestnut wing feathers with green lips and black white shoulder bands, crimson bill and pink legs. The female is described as half gray and brown, and the ducks are noted as easily tamed though quarrelsome at first.
A report describes water power transmitting its force via a wire to farms and buildings, enabling feed, water pumping, lighting and heating without extra cost and saving labor across the countryside.
Farmers are urged to stock well with essential fee and focus on quality over price. The article notes cattle prices, heavy weights, and feeding efficiency as key profit drivers, with guidance on corn fodder, ditching waste, and avoiding nonproductive stock. It highlights Kentucky's tobacco production and the impact of production costs on profits.
An 1676 account recalls Colonel Benjamin Church capturing Annawan with drum and corn pounding noise. It notes Nipmuc rock mortars across Nipmuec country near Kitville and Neith Hill, soapstone vessels found in Millbury and Sutton, and a Millbury trough on Ramshorn Stream used historically as a hen watering trough. The excerpt ends with a stark remark on Chinese warfare and a Tien Tsin magistrate's refusal to aid wounded Chinese Red Cross members.
The North American buffalo faces extinction after railroad expansion and overhunting. A vast 75 000 head herd in Montana’s Musselshell, Missouri, and Yellowstone triangle is driven to ruin in four months as rail lines block retreat and killers close in. Shipping data from Yellowstone towns Glendive and Miles City show 300 000 buffalo hides and 185 250 elk deer antelope skins shipped.
A remarkable nine pearl cross known as The Southern Cross was found by Clark in Raeburn Western Australia aboard the Ethel. Discovered in 1874 the cross formed naturally and remains a unique lusus natura now valued by Australian financiers at ten thousand pounds.
An article explains that shrinking rifle calibers require denser projectiles. Tungsten offers greater hardness and density than lead, enabling a bullet to penetrate steel plates at long range. Lead performs worse. Price of tungsten is high but may fall soon.
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