Farm and Home Advice on Boys Leaving the Farm and Garden Scheduling
The piece reflects on farm family life and why sons seek city life, urging a nurturing home on the farm. It offers garden timing for fall sowing of spinach and kale, fall greens from turnips and cabbage stalks, and spring crops like radishes, lettuce, rhubarb, asparagus, peas, onions, and early potatoes with deep cultivation and good drainage. It also promotes farmers visiting city markets to study trade practices and system development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Institute
Business Tact in Farming Patching Losses Into Gains
Farmers can avoid pure price drops by processing crops into higher value goods or redirecting surplus into stock feed. Evaporating apples during plenty created a market for scarce, high quality product later. Grain damaged or low value can be fed to livestock to recover costs.
Henhouse Flooring Preference Highlights Earth and Cement
The excerpt argues against board floors for henhouses citing cracks that harbor lice. It favors earth floors with stone drainage and coal ash covering, but deems cement floors most satisfactory as they won’t rot like boards and won’t crack to invite infestation.
Management of manure and storage tips for farmers
Advice on handling manure to speed rotting, proper litter control under roosts, keeping apples and pears fresh without mold, and how decomposed manure benefits early planting. Emphasizes avoiding loss of ammonia in heaps and using rotted material for quick spring start and better pea growth.
Incubation Tips From Poultry Keeper On Snowy Forest and Chicks
The article discusses snow depth in forests providing soil protection and uniform temps for incubation. It offers guidance on incubator placement in cellars for stable heat and clean air. It also covers early chick hatching temps and the need to keep chicks warm to prevent chilling and bowel disease.
Rut Farming and the Sheep and Nog Problem
The Rural World comments that rat farming thrives from energy and knowledge gaps, while strict survival of the fittest governs agriculture. It notes sheep protection through fences fails against dogs that breach barbed wire and argues against night watchmen for small flocks due to cost and practicality.
Emperor William Visited David’s Tomb in Jerusalem
A New York Herald summary notes that Emperor William gained access to the tomb of David during his Jerusalem visit, while Johannes Winkler claims a Christian view earlier this year. The true tomb lies beneath a mosque, with a counterfeit sarcophagus on display above.
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William
Jerusalem
David
Germany
Johannes Winkler
Volksbladt
Litz
Austria
Raphaele Lorenzo
Muhammedan
Herr Winkler
Bethlehem
Peter
St. Helena
New York Herald
Beggar Syndicate Recruits in Paris for U S Destinations
A Paris syndicate recruits beggars from France especially in poor quarters and ships them to American cities where medics are scarce. Recruits receive travel funds, pay passage themselves, and hand over twenty five francs daily to the outfit in exchange for their disguise as Belgian deserters.
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Paris
France
America
New York
Dogskin fashions and a poet in the skyline
In Northern China natives wear dogskin garments while dogs of a shaggy breed are raised for pelts and killed at eight months. A man tells a girl she is pretty, then forgets, yet the memory lingers. A poet writes of The Rent in the Clouds atop a high room in a skyscraper.
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China
Lig
Ronalle
Asecon
Indianapolis
Lad
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Bowe
Alwayna
London Journal
Tomb
Kateer
THE
Encyclopadia Britannica
Abraham Lincoln
Werner
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Yale
Harvard
Columbia
Morocco
Knauss & Dewey
Fremont
Indiana
Fremont Eagle
Warren D. Wells
Otepbena, Powers
Wood
Powers & Wood
Reeves Jewelry Store
Angola
Ind
Bank of Fremont
Fremont, Indiana
Susay Baw
Benker
Newz
G. Batt
Emory G. Melendy
Jotary Public and Insurance Agent
Fremont, Ind
John G. Yeagley
D. N. Young
D. H. Patchen
EaGue
Corre Mae &c
Scientific American
New Y York
Rand-McNally
Gaide
United States
Mexico
Ohio
Mississippi
Tablea
Aean
Ae Co
Chloag Cago
Aetacetene
Young Bonth
Dai Cir
C—Le
Pleasant
Waterloo
Auburn
Fort Wayne
Ty. Blow
Ing North Tar
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