Poultry as Profitable as Pork Says Mr Hyde
A published letter by Mr Alex Hyde urges farmers to raise and fatten poultry for market, noting poultry can be cheaper to feed and often earns twice beef price. He argues boys should run daily tasks with parental guidance, and that poultry care yields higher returns than pigs with similar effort.
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Alex. Hyde
New York Times
Massachusetts Ploughman
Ohio
Middle States
New Englam
Littve
Mr. H
Loss in Grinding in Farmer Testimony on Wheat Weights
A fourth Gentle man correspondent recounts testing grain weights at a mill. He notes winter wheat yields about 40 pounds flour and 12.75 pounds bran per bushel, with waste 1 to 1.25 pounds. A spring wheat sample produced more waste and less flour, illustrating variability in grinding outcomes.
Wartime Field Weed Control Note Dewberries
To destroy dewberries the text discusses winter hard conditions and deep tillage. It describes breaking peat, turning roots, harrowing and cultivating to remove all roots, then burning gathered roots. The field was reseeded with corn and clover after, and dewberries did not reappear. Lime and manure are noted to boost top growth, smothering the weed, while sheep are fed when other forage is unavailable.
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Wien
Practical Farm Remedies and Feeding Measures Advise
A column offers old time tips for protecting harness from rats using cayenne pepper oil and aloe mixes, plus carbonic acid. It suggests stumps can be burned out by saltpeter in a hole with kerosene after six months, and stresses careful feeding and proper weights and measures for farming, noting a range of handy tool sizes.
Method for improving fowl nests with mixed materials
The author describes making nests by placing a cut tarf and a shovel of mould sand or ashes in a box or banket then a layer of shirt straw. This helps keep eggs from rolling and provides more even temperature than loose straw nests, aiding hatching.
Ash proportions of burned grain and timber compared
The text notes that burning a ton of wheat grain leaves about forty pounds of ash, oats yield about eighty pounds, and oak wood only four to five pounds of ash. It presents a comparison of ash production across these materials.
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Oata
Household Hints and Reflections From Rural Digest
Practical tips on cleaning wallpaper drinking orange juice and lemon water for health avoiding lead pipe water remedies for pimples and hoarseness a method for making light airy desserts and a long personal note on marriage vows and mutual restraint over twenty years of marital harmony and family life.
Fragments of Humorous Notes and City Jokes Across Regions
A mosaic of wry quips and wit parades from Yonkers to Cincinnati, touching on jokes about spouses, voices in churches, fools of travel and business, and odd newspaper rhymes. It lists puns on Brigham Young and Turkey, plus anecdotes of editors and odd habits, all in a clipped, columnar row.
Scientific watch testing in Geneva and power cost debates
A report from Mr. Charles H. Upton details a 52 day chronometer trial at Geneva observatories with 84 entries, 29 meeting all criteria. It notes winning timepiece averages 0.26 seconds daily variation, 0.43 seconds position departure, and 0.01 seconds temperature compensation error, praising expert skills. It also discusses corrected costs of water power at Fairmount Works, arguing steam power is preferable under many conditions due to efficiency and reliability. A Siberian railway survey proposal seeks $50,000 for initial African exploration and a line of steamers to Liberia to transport materials and laborers for a future road project. Additional notes cover airtight flooring, a test for fire resistance, an inexpensive pencil eraser made from caoutchouc, and a paint-stripping mixture using pearlash and lime.
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Charles H. Upton
United States
Geneva
Switzerland
State Department
Journal of the Franklin Institute
Fairmount Works
Philadelphia
Henry P. M. Birkinbine
Fairmount
Birkindine
Hirkinbine
Conteresa
Liberia
Central
Africa
Ynhw
New York
Norfolk
Charleston
Process of cast steel making in a blast furnace
Coat steel is formed by melting mixed blistered steel scraps in a refractory crucible. The melt is heated in a blast furnace for three or four hours then run into moulds. After forging in a tilt hammer the cast steel is finished.
Soll gold solder alloy composition and brazing notes
Soll gold solder consists of four parts gold one part silver and one part copper. It can be softened by adding brass but increases oxidation risk. Britannia metal mix includes 150 pounds tin three pounds copper and ten pounds antimony.
Ferocious Owls Attack Nearby Residents in Overnight Incidents
An account from Hovest and Stream dated February 7 describes a young farmer's son attacked from behind by an owl while crossing fields and again later by another owl scarring his face. The report notes screech owls at twilight provoked repeated territorial attacks by nearby birds.
New York Aquarium Nip the Chimpanzee Dies of Enteritis
Nip the chimpanzee aged about four inches head diameter and thirteen inch skull circumference died after a cold and tuberculosis of brain and lungs. Post mortem the brain showed humanlike convolutions as doctors plan microscopic study for the Neurological Society of New York. Nip’s sister Tuck may receive a funeral.
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New York
Nip
Tuck
Aquarium
Professor Hammond
Smith
James R. Wood
Valentine Mott
Little
Sayre
Bates
Darling
Janeway
Spitka
Assis
J Hi. Taylor
Island of
Reil
Spitza
Hussey
Owen
Neurological Society of New York
Port Royal Harbor Aims as New Grain Trade Outlet
The Port Royal Docks Warehousing Transportation and Banking Company plans docks warehouses and steamship lines to Europe South America and the West Indies. Cincinnati Board of Trade endorses the project as a major entrepot for grain and cotton regions of the West and South. A map view underscores Port Royal's strategic Atlantic location.
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Chicago
Florida
West Indies
Northwest
Port Royal
D. C
Atlantic
Europe
South America
Wstern
Cincinnati
Board of Trade
City of
Port Royal Harbor
United States
Graim
Great Southern Railway
Western trade diversion eyed as steamship routes loom
The article discusses potential shifts of Western trade from local wharves to Port Royal along the Ohio and Seaboard routes. It notes the need for large capital to establish steamship lines and offers below-rail costs as an incentive. Cincinnati Board of Trade resolutions signal planned use of enhanced harbor facilities, with Chicago and Cincinnati backing the move.
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Ohio
Seaboard
Port Royal
Atlantic
New York
Cincinnati Board of Trade
Chicago
White House Diet Keeps Cold Water as Dinner Drink
At presidential dinners cold water becomes the sole beverage, replacing wine which was previously drunk as freely as water. The change marks a shift in the White House dining practice with emphasis on water hospitality.
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White House
Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills Promote Quick Relief
Birtovs Affected and Liven Complaints Costromanss Company are swiftly removed by Dr. Jayne's Sanative Pills. Tiny will be found mild and certain in their action and may be taken at any time without risk from exposure.
Outdoor sports weekly journal publication in New York
The paper in question is a weekly outdoor sports journal published at 3 Murray Street New York. It highlights its status as one of the best sporting papers in the country and notes readers will find frequent extracts from its columnists.
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Murray Street
New York
Colurans
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