Fads Dominating Food Choice Weigh Eye Appeal Over Taste
A 19th century survey notes consumers worldwide prefer look and color over flavor and nutrition. Preferences vary by country for eggs and butter, while sausages use color dyes to spur sales. Analysts warn ad campaigns influence purchases more than nourishment. Hodgins' car incident ends with mother-in-law left speechless.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Ploughing Contest Becomes Permanent Field Day Feature
Minnesota Agricultural College introduces a ploughing contest as a new field day sport. Freshman wins first prize a sulky plow and a senior takes third. Contestants form strong teams and must lay a twenty foot wide land with straight furrows and even weed turning judged on width depth evenness and weed suppression.
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Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Pioneer Press of
St. Paul
Hardy orange aims to brave northern winters
United States Department of Agriculture botanists pursue a hardy citrus hybrid by crossing northern edible orange stock with southern bitter orange. The project seeks a citrus tree that fruit with winter hardiness, potentially enabling orange groves from central Virginia to Kansas City and beyond.
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Lexington
Loursville
Cairo
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Jefferson City
Kansas City
The Art of Citrus Hybridization at the Department Nursery
A note describes hybridization and pollination using citrus trifoliata as a northern ornamental orange. It explains flowering stems, stigma ovary ripening, and pollen transfer from sweet orange to bitter orange at the Department of Agriculture orangery. Ten years of pollenation have improved the bitter orange fruit to good table quality.
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Massachusetts
Department of Agriculture
Orangery
An Adopted English Knight and Hoboken Pat
An English traveler in New York meets an Irish guide who boasts a long list of knighthoods. The Hoboken companion responds with a boastful, comic arrival of nights and wakeful periods. Senator Beveridge’s book remains on sale. Kentucky crops are expected to yield a large Cuban tobacco output.
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Pat
John Kenneth Edgerton
London
the Garter
Bath
St. John
the Golden Fleece
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Pathrick
Timothy Flannigan
Hoboken
Kentucky
Suburban Co Operation in Kensington Water and Power Idea
In Kensington Maryland a resident with a gasoline engine shares water from a neighbor's well and plans to run daytime water pumping and nighttime electric generation. The cooperative system now serves several families and could inspire wider co op utilities including telephones sewer water and electric systems.
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Kensington
Maryland
Washington
Doughnut punchline tease about hole size
A witty exchange asks how to improve doughnuts and answers with a joke about making holes larger. The lighthearted quip captures a playful bakery moment.
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