Improving Farm Poultry Breeding and Stock Selection
Practical guidance for mixed farm flocks focusing on dual purpose breeds like Plymouth Rock Wyandotte Rhode Island Red and Orpington. Emphasizes rigid selection leg bands records age marks and multiple breeding pens to maximize egg and meat output while avoiding breed shifting and poor stock.
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Plymouth Rock
Wyandotte
Rhode Island
Orpington
Hugh Chisholm Hosts Dinner For Britannica Contributors
The Britannica project brings together 1500 editors in England and America. 40 000 articles amount to 50 000 000 words across 28 volumes printed on India paper and ordinary stock. 64 editors support Chisholm who has run the project for eight years and plans to return to newspaper work.
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Hugh Chisholm
England
America
Chisholm
India
London Times
Chosen Senator From Maine Charles F Johnson
Charles F Johnson, born in Winslow on the Kennebec, is set to become Maine's first Democratic senator since 1856. A Bowdoin graduate of 1879, he studied law and taught school to fund his career, gaining admission to the bar in 1886 and practicing in Waterville.
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Augusta
Hannibal Hamlin
Kennebec
Maine
New England
Johnson
Bowdoin College
Waterville
Georgia governor elect Hoke Smith exposed boll weevil plot
Governor elect Hoke Smith of Georgia exposed a New York cotton speculator plot to release boll weevils to crush future crops and profit from shorting the market. A letter sender from New York provided key details, and Smith warned Southern farmers as experts met in Atlanta to plan against the insect. He is described as a North Carolina native who studied law in Georgia and served as secretary of the interior under Cleveland from 1893 to 1896.
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Hoke Smith
Georgia
New York
Cleveland
Mr. Smith
Atlanta
Smith
North Carolina
Electric Railways Expert to Build New New York Subway
A movement in New York to build and operate a new subway aims to ease congestion. Frank J. Sprague, famed electrical engineer and Edison associate, is among leading bidders. Others include William McAdoo, John Brady, and current subway managers. Transport bottlenecks overwhelm millions of residents today.
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New York
Frank J. Sprague
Mr. Sprague
Thomas A. Edison
Navy
Willam McAdoo
Hudson River Tubes
John Bradey
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Wieter
I. G. Halpin
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Western Newspaper Union
Cement
Willem Cae
Electric Railways