Winter Lettuce Seed Immunity to Disease Achieved
The Bureau of Plant Industry reports a breakthrough in winter lettuce seed immune to common diseases. Dr. B. T. Galloway led two year efforts resulting in large early heads and seed from successive crops. The American Cultivator notes this could save the winter lettuce industry from collapse after years of strain.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
United States
B. T. Galloway
Green House
Butchering Device For Hanging Hogs And Small Beef
An Ohio Farmer feature describes a portable hog and small beef hanging rack. A long top stick with hooks allows multiple animals to be suspended, with a spread stick and rope system that lowers into a vise hook. Foldable bolts and a gear wheel design enable compact storage after use.
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Devia
Ohio
Planting Frozen Trees Imitates Slow Thaw Process
Nurserymen advise that thawing harms roots more than freezing. If trees arrive frozen, plant immediately or pack roots in soil or sand without thawing. Let roots thaw slowly to prevent damage, avoid immersing in water, and protect from warm air or exposure in a cellar.
Luxuries of the Farm Shine in 1905 Output
The annual products of dairying fruit and vegetable raising and poultry keeping totaled nearly 2 billion dollars in farmers hands in 1905, representing about three-tenths of all farm product value. Demand for these luxuries tends to exceed supply and high quality is often unavailable at moderate prices, leaving the public under fed in higher-grade goods.
Handy cow horn turnip and crimson clover soil improve
An agricultural note describes cow horn turnip as a soil ameliorator that improves texture and humus through decay. It details sowing alongside crimson clover in August or September to cover winter, with trials on Hope farm and elsewhere, plus a field test on a newly cultivated plot using turnips and clover seeds in alternating bands.
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Hope Farm
New Yorker
Oil Use on Hogs and Chickens Raises Farm Health
Farmers in Kansas report strong results from using crude oil as a pest control method. For hogs a thin layer of oil over wallow water eliminates dipping tanks and destroys parasites as hogs skim and swallow the oil. When water dries the oil rests on the bottom until rain returns it to the surface. Chickens get interior benchhouse coats of crude oil with two applications yearly claimed to immunize against parasites. Crude oil is cheap and recommended for farms.
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Kansas Oil Fields
Tragedy Under the Sea Diver Helmet Unfastened
In Simons Town two divers Kraming and Macphail worked at fifty feet when Kraming's helmet suddenly came loose. Macphail aided but could not lift the load and Kraming drowned, his helmet's failure unexplained. The magistrate ruled death by drowning with no foul play suspected.
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Simonstown
London Chronicle
Kraming
Macphail
Portable hog houses an easy move for Montana station
An Orange Judd Farmer piece describes a simple six by six foot movable hog house built with 1 by 5 flooring and 2 by 4 scantling. It outlines roof and end construction, a swinging door, and ventilator holes, plus tips on moving, spreading manure, and maintaining dry, warm winter housing.
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Montana Experiment Station
Orange Judd Farmer
Muddy Feed Lots and Shelter Improve Cattle Feeding
A summary of Illinois experiment station replies on muddy feed lots finds only 36 of 500 feeders reported shelter provisions. Some use brick or stone paving, others gravel or coal cinders with bedding, and a few rely on tile drains or graded yards to keep lots dry for feeding.
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H. W. Mumford
L. D. Hall
Illinois Experiment Station
Feeder Banks and Winter Orchard Protection Principles
Feeder banks provide dry walkways and keep cattle out of mud while feeding. Floors six feet wide collect wasted feed and droppings. Feed banks are two feet six inches high, three feet wide, sixteen feet long. Winter orchard tips advise clearing rubbish, preventing water pockets near tree bases, and using wire netting to deter mice and rabbits. Ensure drains are in good order.
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American Agriculturist
Farm drainage options across ravines and depressions
The text outlines three main methods to cross low ground between fields and extend supply ditches: earthen levees on both sides, wooden flumes on grade, or a buried pipe as an inverted siphon. Levees are cheapest but leak. flumes decay early. underground pipes cost more initially but prove cheapest long term.
Weeds and gate brace tips from American Agriculturist
The article explains weed control along irrigation ditches with graded banks and alfalfa as a cover crop. It also describes a simple wooden brace to hold a swing gate open, using a 1 by 2 inch piece of wood that snaps under a spring to stay in place.
Watering Fowls In Winter
It explains difficulties of supplying fresh water to poultry in severe cold. Earthenware fountains break from freezing, so wooden troughs are used and kept clean. Some poultrymen water three times daily with tepid water to prevent freezing, then empty troughs after hens finish drinking and store them upright until next use.
Economic Position of Farmers in New Economic Independence
The article argues farmers gain strength from improved finances and rising per capita demand. It notes faster growth in consumption of key farm products than population and a gap where demand outpaces production, boosting land values. It emphasizes farmers now hold a stronger economic position.
Pruning Tips for Deciduous Trees In Winter
Practical guidance from Country Gentleman notes pruning can occur after freezing weather and sap has run. Gardeners typically delay pruning of trees and shrubs until February and should seal large wounds with gastar or linseed oil paint to prevent decay.
The Most Deadly Snakes Across Regions
The passage compares dangerous snakes including the African mamba and the king cobra in India. It notes mambas’ aggressiveness, king cobras’ size and pursuit of humans, and warns that many venomous snakes share fierce temperaments. It highlights aggressive species across Australia, America, and West Africa as particularly deadly.
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India
Hamadryad
America
Care for Seasickness via Counteracting Ship Motions
An inquiry into remedies for mal de mer proposes a device that reduces sea sickness by producing short up and down chair motions. A chair mounted to legs uses an electrical motor and belt to create these brief counter motions, altering long ship movements into frequent minor adjustments.
Two Parish Churches in One Willingale Doe Churchyard
In Willingale Doe Essex two parish churches share a churchyard where Rev. Joseph Swayne is buried in both Willingale Doe and Willingale Spain. Local lore says two sisters once worshipped at Willingale Spain and quarrelled over a seat. the younger built Willingale Dee nearby with a matching seat.
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Willingale Doe
Essex
Joseph Swayne
Willingale Spain
Willingale Dee
St. James
Rainfall Drives Tree Growth Across Twelve Years
A Harper's Weekly report shows tree growth closely tracks rainfall. Over twelve years, annual rings formed vary with precipitation from 30 to 35 inches yielding ring widths between 0.11 and 0.15 inches. Drier or wetter years affect growth in the following season.
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Harper’s Weekly
Paper Corks Invented From Waste Paper
A new patented machine converts waste paper and pulp into corks said to rival regular corks. Tests by chemists and major cork users reportedly show these corks resist acids and solvents, offering superior performance over traditional corks.
Real Estate Transfers in Fountain County This Week
A list of Fountain county real estate transfers recorded in the past week. Transactions include guardianship and guardianship to J W Gookins, several lots in Veedersburg Newtown and Mellott, and various parcels in Attica Fulton and Davis townships with values ranging from 1000 to 4300 dollars. Names include William Kinneer Ira S Waggoner Sarah E McKintosh Jeremiah Booe and others.
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Fountain County
O. S. Douglas
Covington
O.S. Douglass
James W. Gookins
Veedersburg
Walde Kinneer
Guardian
J W. Gookins
K. Add. Ptor Bsks
O. P
A Adj
William Kinneer
J. W. Gookins
Manford Livengood
Ira S. Waggoner
Elizabeth A. Day
Jeremiah
Summer robes at Woodys season book left at bank
The season book of Hob son jack is left at the Bank of Kingman and parties owing for mares bred to this jack are asked to call and settle. The first man to introduce canning in the United States was Thomas Kensett an Englishman who learned the trade in England from Peter Durane who in 1810 obtained a patent for sealing food in glass pottery or tin. Kensett later founded a Maryland factory 1825 with fruits vegetables and oysters plentiful and cheap. The Civil War spurred military demand and postwar settlement along mountains and prairies sustained growth.
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Bank of Kingman
United States
Thos Kensett
Old Country
Peter Durane
Kensett
Maryland
Prairies
Kingman Clean Up Notice for Town Alleys
Public notice orders immediate cleanup of rubbish including ashes and tin cans in all alleys of Kingman. Issued by Dr A A Williamson.
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Kingman
A. A. Williamson
Ordinance Bans Bicycle Riding on Kingman Sidewalks
The Kingman Indiana Board of Trustees prohibits bicycling on all town sidewalks within Kingman in Fountain County. Violators face fines from one to five dollars as the ordinance takes effect after publication in the Kingman Star on July fifth, 1907.
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Kingman
Fountain County
Indiana
State of
Kingman Star
State of Indiana
Wilkey J. M. McHargue
J.T, Carter
Scott B. Ratcliff
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W. V. Stanfield
Tulia I. Bell
Newtown
Frac
C. R. Milford
John McKee
McD. S. & Co
Attica
Sarah A. Ellis
David C. Ellis
A. Cain
Warren O. Pearson
Wm. Gains
Riverside
Thos. C. Blackburn
Wm. Messerschmidt
A. Davis
Sarah E. McKintosh
A. Fulton
Eliza C. Pearson
Wm. J. Martin, Jr
A. Logan
Francis Hullihan
Jessie Funk
Woodys
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