Farmer's two ear corn dream and seed breeding ideas
The author argues corn yields stagnate at about thirty bushels per acre despite many improvements in farming. He urges seed selection and deliberate breeding to raise productivity, sharing a personal experiment with two eared stalks and noting how pure, measured selection could yield significant gains with careful handling and record keeping.
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Department of Agriculture
Federal Department of Agriculture
Agriculturale Colleges
Éidge
Old House Fire Sparks Ailing Family's Escape
John and Sarah Hayden face ruin when a swindler’s debt strands their son David’s farm. Movie crew proposes buying their decaying riverfront house to stage urban ruin scenes. A secret letter reveals foreclosure. a staged blaze saves the Haydens from destitution as they depart for the western farm.
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Brookdale
John
Laura
Haydens
Sarah Hayden
David
David Hayden
John Hayden
Rupert Dale
Ulm
Dale
W. G. Chapman
Paris Donkey Tail Gag Lands Clown in Jail for Swindling
A Paris Gingerbread fair attraction shows a donkey with its tail where its head should be. The audience pays a penny to view the trick. The clown is detained by police and faces a likely severe sentence for swindling.
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Paris
London Standard
Uses of Leisure in a College President Speech
Dr Henry Louis Smith new Washington and Lee president argues leisure can be a cultured asset. He vows to curb gambling drinking and vice and urges students to balance play with study and duty citing Burritt and Lincoln as self taught examples.
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Henry Louis Smith
Washington and Lee University
Elihu Burritt
Abraham Lincoln
Rastus Questions Illness as Doctor Diagnoses Chickenpox
A comical exchange shows Rastus anxious about catching illness while a physician reassures him with a simple chickenpox diagnosis. The humorous dialect underscores a misunderstanding of disease and care.
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Rastus
Ladies’ Home Journal
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Wow
Horace Markley
SS Zars
Augustus Goodrich Sherwin
Nap Pop Brera
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