Inbreeding and Feeding Advices From an Old Almanac
Improving Live Stock discusses the role of inbreeding in horse and sheep advancement, the use of Messenger blood, and the need for new blood to sustain stamina. It also covers gluten meal feeding for dairy cattle, combing with bran and cornmeal, and a winter heat boost, plus a ready salt box design for cattle with specific dimensions and a guiding notch to encourage licking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hambletonian
Diomed
Sir Archy
Glencoe
Lexington
How to Prune Large Trees and Grafting Insights
Practical notes on pruning large trees and grafting over two to three years. Do not remove all branches at once to avoid shock. Pear, plum, and cherry can be grafted similarly to apples. No need to wait for old or new moon. timing is flexible. F. C. Bartlett sold 12,000 pounds of scoured wool from his own flocks, earning about $1,200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Bartlett
Socorro County
N. M
Rufus Dawes
Gimblett
Nearth
North
Mannix
Lady Franklin
Partridge
Blunt
Sylvia
Port Arthur
Norfolk Island
Macquarie Harbor
Richard Devine
Dem onstration Fights Sheep Fraud and Insect News
In Wilmington a demonstration educates buyers to seek the real article of sheep. The Rhode Island Experiment Station explains froth on grass comes from spittle insects. Guidance on roots for sheep and cabbage maggot remedies follows, plus notes on vast meat freezing capacity in Britain and clover seed adulteration risks.
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Wilmington
Del
Rhode Island Experiment Station
Hemiptera
Woman and convict unite as storm drives escape to safety
Rufus Dawes escapes in a night voyage aboard the Lady Franklin as a hurricane nears. Sylvia Frere's memory returns, revealing Richard Devine’s courage and past wrongs. The voyage ends with Dawes vindicated, Devine reformed, and England welcomed with justice and mercy.
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Old
England
Rufus Dawes
Lady Franklin
Sylvia Frere
Maurice Frere
Mr. North
Australia
Richard Devine
Sleep and mystery of self hypnosis and body during rest
A discussion on sleep describes self hypnosis as a force we exercise during sleep to wake at set times and notes how the body and brain rest differently in slumber. It adds observations on tear glands, heart function, and the brain’s pale state while asleep.
Right to the Letter and Other Humorous Snippets
A collection of brief newspaper jokes and quips from the era. Anecdotes include a New Yorker and a London jeweler anecdote with C OD initials, a cartoonish servant exchange, a civil war joke about Major Longbeau, and a stage past remarks about a new cook.
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Longbeau
Atlantic
Cleveland
Monkey's Rouge and the Monkey Face Tree Influence
The article notes Kamala as the red dye from Mallotus phillipinensis fruit glands. The tree is called monkey face tree because monkeys rub the fruit on their faces to color them, illustrating heredity influence observed in Madras Mail.
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Madras Mail
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E. Montague Nelson
London
Argentina
Great Britain
Department of Agriculture
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S. W
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Prison Island
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Tasmania
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Sleep
Ape of Death
Corea Daily News
Calais
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Tower
Plymouth Colony
Philip
Brookfield
Mass
Albany
Five Nations
Duke of Marlborough
Blenheim
Elector of Manover
George I
Montmorenci
Canada
Lafayette
Fort Schuyler
Mohawk River
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Mont Blanc
Bonaparte
U. S
Commodore Preble
Tripsii
Plattsburgh
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Paris
Napoleon
Barrow
Parry
Bolivia
Peru
Charles X
New London Bridge
Vera Cruz
United States
New Orleans
Rossini
Congress
Lawrence
Arkansas
Baton Rouge
New Creek
House of Lords
Phenix Park
Dublin
Portland
Ore
Portsmouth
N. H
Henry M. Stanley
Africa
King of
Belgium
Central Asia
Wheat Syndicate
San Francisco
Plymouth
Kemmler
Auburn
Corinth Canal
Santa Cesario
Carnot
Lyons
Li Hung Chang
Japan
Spain
Martin Thorn
Sing Sing
William Guldensuppe
State of
the Weekly — Historian
Success Magazine
Cleveland News
Stubb
John
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