California orange industry seeds from 19th century grafts
The text traces a 19th century origin of a seedless orange variety from Brazil and its spread to California. It notes the view from a Wall Street Journal quote about early propagation, mentions shipments beginning in 1873, and highlights the large modern logistics with tens of thousands of freight cars and millions of boxes. It also includes unrelated satirical quips about marriage and aging.
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Buta
Brasil
Ames
California
Wall Street Journal
Jesus Heals and Helps in Matthew Eight Teachings
In this February lesson by Rev. P. B. Fitzwater a study of Matthew eight outlines Jesus healing a leper and centurion’s servant, heals Peter's mother in law, casts out demons, and opens the eyes of two blind men. It emphasizes faith, humility, and Jesus' power to heal and deliver.
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Jesus
Pin
Jesus Heath
Peter
Christ
God
Jesus Christ
David
Mesalan
Heroes and Cowards Quote by Can on Westcott
A reflective passage asserts that great occasions reveal heroes or cowards within us, showing character through quiet growth and sudden crisis. The author notes that strength and weakness emerge subtly as life unfolds.
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Canon Westcott
Faith as an Almighty Thing Like the Eternal God
A brief reflective piece on faith’s power likening it to the eternal divine. The text frames faith as a proving force and test from God, invoking Luther’s view to underscore spiritual resilience and constancy.
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God
Luther
Control Erosion by Deep Plowing and Drainage
Erosion on hilly farms results from rainfall, slope, geology, and vegetation. Deep plowing, subsurface drainage, and hillside land management improve soil absorption, channel runoff, and hay and pasture cover to limit soil loss. Methods include crosswise plowing, uphill furrows, reversible plows, hillside cultivation, cross rows protection, and建设 terraces, stone or grass stabilization, and occasional wooden or metal flumes.
Overdo Evening Feeding for Fowl Comfort and Appetite
The text advises overfeeding in the evening rather than underfeeding. It emphasizes leaving little grain in the litter for morning scratching and ensuring the straw is free of grain at least once daily. It praises a skilled feeder who paces rations to stimulate appetite in large fowls without letting them consume everything they want.
Commercial Fertilizer Boosts Michigan Crops Survey Finds
A Michigan survey of 100 to 707 farmers shows fertilizer raising yields across five crops. Corn up from 36 to 47.5 bushels per acre on 260 farms. potatoes from 115 to 173 on 100 farms. wheat from 16.5 to 27.4 on 712 farms. oats from 38.0 to 52.8 on 44 farms. beans from 12.2 to 17.7 bushels on 114 farmers.
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Michigan
Agricultural Hints and Farm Tips from a Historic Column
Agricultural hints discuss soil sweetening and manure use, dairy barn sanitation, alfalfa requirements, buckwheat honey flavor, leaf nutrition, and vine use for covering structures. The piece also notes bee mating season, selecting vigorous, well-colored roosters for hens that passed culling.
War memories and a mixed ad wrap from London
A tale from V C officers in London recalls a wounded man carried across No Man’s Land, joking about the rifle fire as he mentions turning and walking backward for a spell. The page also contains a string of oblique adverts for seed potatoes, a Brown County farm for sale in South Dakota, and a family policy offer from an old line insurance company in Des Moines Iowa.
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London
Ralinthan
V. C
Yosford Brow. Co
Coneaville
Brown County
South Dakota
James River
Enya
Hargain Price
J. Cc. Simmons
Aberdeen
Noth Dakota
Tanna of Ite
Bend
OLD Line Company
Towa
Des Moines
Iowa
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Mr. Puff
Sir Walter Raleigh
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
Louisville
Roe
Phillips
Magnesia
Philips of Magnesia
P. B. Fitzwater
D.D
Meaber
Ona Bins Institute
Western Natvepaper Union
Halping
Tomic
Tesun
New York
Pennsylvania
Willys-Overland
Willys- Overland, Inc
Toledo, Cghio
Ihallar
Ore
Mosern
Willis W.vose
Champaign
la Rochefoucauld
Mra
Margie W. Sacramero
Mrs. Wilcox
Mra. Wilcox
GoLtp
Betty Crocker
Washburn Crosby Company
Mllaten
Betty Cracker
WHQ
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