Feeding Pigs and Livestock at Kentucky Station Review
A Kentucky station study compares pig feeds including corn alone and mixed with soybeans, silage, and dried distillery grains. Soybeans prove highly effective with corn, while dried distillery grains are unprofitable except in small portions. cottonseed meal helps finish hogs. Open shed feeding outperforms barn housing for steers, with higher daily gains in sheds and lots. Sheep feeding favors corn over oats or barley for grass-based gains, with summer mutton production more economical on grass or grain and grass. Soybeans should not be the main grain with clover hay.
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Kentucky Station
D.W. Maysaya
Missouri
Columbia
Towa
W. 4. Kennedy
Experimenting With Steamed Silage at Oregon Station
Oregon station conducts home experiments on steaming silage. Officials refrain from conclusions pending repetition. Early results favor steaming. Tests filled silos with corn fodder then steamed. steamed silage stored well and was analyzed alongside salt treated and untreated samples.
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Oregon
Selection of Sows by H. P. West
A practical guide to selecting sows for breeding notes a strong start to halt the battle in pig raising. Emphasizes mature animals, vigor, body length, broad backs, deep sides, and ample teats. Highlights a broad blaze between the eyes as a sign of intelligence and good disposition.
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H. P. West
Hrntieh Emigration Totals 197,596 for Eight Months
The eight month total of Hrntieh emigration to all parts of the World reached 197,596, compared with Toss.
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Hrntieh
New Tests On Butter Churning At Reading College
Agricultural Department tests on butter churning show grains that absorb 14. per cent water and ripened cream loses more fat than sweet cream. Brine salting did not increase water content, contradicting Irish findings. Butter prices rose in Chicago through 1902 with peaks near 29–30 cents and heavier local demand. cheese trade rose about 10 per cent with June at 9.5 cents.
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Agricultural Department
Reading College
Europe
Ireland
Chicago
New York
Wall
Canada
Importance of Good Seed Corn in Iowa Agriculture
Long article notes nine and a quarter million acres of corn in Iowa. Adding nine bushels per acre could raise profits by over 20 million yearly. Emphasizes selecting good seed corn to boost germination, yield, and quality, and stores seed for next spring amid early frosts. Also reviews Egg and Poultry Trade 1902: storage eggs, prices from 14.5 to 26 cents, fewer in cold storage, and 1901 compares. Poultry season highlights scarce fowls and high prices. turkeys and chickens priced higher than last year. cold wet summer reduced turkey production.
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Iowa
Prof
P. G. Holden
Feeding Test Shows Limited Value of Sugar Beet Pulp
Michigan station fed two groups of four cows over two six week periods to test beet pulp as cow feed. Nine thousand four hundred three pounds of pulp equaled 268 pounds hay 172 pounds bran and 93 pounds corn meal. Milk output rose by 416 pounds with pulp but butter fat did not increase. Economical only if beet pulp is very cheap.
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Michigan
Spaying Animals Practice Questioned by Farmers' Review
W B Anderson argues against routine spaying of sows and gilts in farming. He notes early maturing hogs can be sold after seven to nine months, pregnancy shortly after breeding is acceptable, and immediate post weaning castration or spaying harms growth. He warns against keeping animals past farrowing and stresses market readiness over preventive sterilization.
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W. B. Anderson
Composition of Sheep's Milk Reveals Rich Fat and Solids
A study analyzing 171 sheep milk samples from six regions over three months finds high richness in fat and total solids. In Roquefort region samples the average composition shows solids 18.9 percent, fat 6.08 percent, sugar 5.53 percent, casein 6.64 percent, ash 0.96 percent, lime 0.25 percent, acid 2.66 percent.
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Branco
Roquefort
Milk of Spayed Cows Study in French Paper
A French report describes tests on the milk of spayed cows to see if it is more uniform than milk from cows that can bear calves. Variations still occur, but fat and sugar content rise notably. Researchers hope this milk may suit infant use, though proof remains pending. Absence sometimes makes the heart grow fonder of somebody else.
Lunch at Hog Sal A G Woodbury
A historical note on free entertain ment for animals and buyers at hog sales. The piece extols homelike hospitality, clean beds, and meals to improve buying mood, praising a simple lunch of hot coffee, cream, sugar, sandwiches, ham, beef, pickles, cakes, and pie as the best ever served for sales satisfaction.
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A. G. Woodbury
Inconclusive Test on Skimming Quaitien of Milk Jerseys
A fragment from Australia notes a test intended to broaden knowledge on skimmed milk from Jerseys Ayahires and Holsteins. Fat percentages vary, lowest in Jersey, highest in Holstein, but the difference is not marked. The report suggests some difference possible yet may be due to chance.
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Australia
Jerseys
Jersey
Planning a Grass Garden for the Coming Year
The article suggests a grass garden with about a dozen grass varieties for the coming year when a farmer is unsure which will thrive on the land. It notes that farm work methods change rapidly year by year with substantial overturning of old ideals over the past decade.
Palace Tales of Versailles Fontainebleau and St Cloud
Special correspondence recalls Versailles as a lavish royal seat with grand gallerys and mirrors, the Grand and Small Trianons, and Marie Antoinette’s preferred Little Trianon, plus Fontainebleau and St Cloud forests famed for hunting and historic escapades. Napoleon’s era, Francis I embellishments, and Augusta court fêtes are noted.
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St. Cloud
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Paris
Napoleon
Versailles
Fontaine
Palais du Herrenchiemsnes
Louis XIV
Mme. de Maintenon
Duchess of
Trianos
Fontainebleau
France
Tronaderoblem
Louis Vil
Francis 1
Leonardo da Vinci
Andrea del Sarto
Ita
Anna de Pegseleu
Ktampes
Louie
Napoleon I
St. Lica
Gallerie de Henri 11
Little Trianon memories in the Hamlet gardens
A nostalgic reminiscence of the Little Trianon and its Hamlet holds, recalling dairy maids in white frocks, the mill and Marlborough tower. Vivid rooms with octagonal ceilings, allegorical wall paintings by Nivolo dell Abbate, and references to Fontainebleau forests and grand landscapes.
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Trianon
Queen's House
Marlborough Tower
Nivolo Dell Abbate
Fontainebleau
France
Marvel of endurance Mme Brassard the fearless Alpiniat
Mme Brassard a Freec woman from Lyons keeps a small shop and followed the French Alpine troupe. She joined the Ninety ninth battalion then the Ninety seventh and climbed Mont Juvat Cot de Vanoise Mont Froid Mont Cents and Frejun with banket on her back. She sold cocoa to soldiers and earned about 150 francs from the maneuvers.
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Mme. Brassard
Lyons
Europe
Alps
Bayou
Mont Juvat
Cot de
Vanoise
Mont Froid
Mont Cents
The Difference in Lives and a Millionaire Envy Baldwin
A portrait of William H. Baldwin, 76, president of the Young Men's Christian Union of Boston, highlighting his five years leading the Y M C U and his impact on young men. The piece recounts an anecdote where a wealthy man expressed envy of Baldwin's influence and legacy in life and charity.
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Ome
United States
William H. Baldwin
Young Men’s Christian Union of
Boston
Baldwin
Mli
Cusa
Love of Habit Buried With Its Keeper Near Le Mans
Wealthy Chapelain of Le Mans clung to routines beyond life. He insisted on a chapel burial chamber serving as a daily sitting room, using a coffin mattress as a bed and planning to die with his pipe and tobacco pouch. He believed he would find comfort in the grave, a home he was used to, with his cherished belongings.
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le Mans
Chapelain
Lim
Spurgeon’s Railway Joke Recalled by Maiden Lady
In a train-carriage Spurgeon courted a maiden lady’s humor by noting his birthplace Basex Kelverson. She retorted that if St Paul had passed the place he would have said a very great apostle was born there. The exchange marked Spurgeon’s first hint of silent recognition.
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Spurgeon
St. Paul
Sioner
Reed Anecdote From Mis sour Representative Sparks Laughter
In a vivid recollection Champ Clark of Missouri described Mr Reed with sharp humor. He recalled the Greenback era in Massachusetts where Reed narrowly avoided defeat by 115 votes and misinterpreted celebrations at headquarters as a signal of victory. The incident, Clark notes, nearly cost the nation a great statesman.
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Reed
Champ Clark
Clark
Sipper
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Js Veroailles
Louis XIII
Glaw
Ludwig
Bavaria
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