Feeding Poultry In Winter With Animal Matter And Seed Harvest
Feed experts advise supplying animal matter in winter to poultry flocks kept indoors. Green cut bone meat scraps and skimmilk aid egg production, with careful limits to avoid bowel trouble. Seed harvest before hard frost advised to secure kafir and cane for next year, selecting uniform heads and storing seed dry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Bell
G. E. Thompson
Feld
Kansas Agricultral College
Thompson
Late fall plowing aids early oats seeding
Late fall plowing of oat land prepares fields for spring sowing. It helps heavy soils by freezing and thawing, ensures readiness when frost and moisture allow, and increases chance of early, successful oat crops. Delayed plowing risks missing spring seeding opportunities.
Alfalfa Hopper A Menace In Virginia Fields
United States Department of Agriculture warns southern Virginia alfalfa growers about the three cornered alfalfa hopper. The pest girdles stems by sap feeding and resists arsenical sprays. Control measures include burning field debris and fencing along ditch banks, with fall or winter destruction of hibernating sites and grazing restrictions. Also describes a DIY crowbar tool for blacksmiths and farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Arizona
California
Rocky Mountains
Cascade Range
Hammer End Tool For Nail Pulling And Garden Onion Advice
An article describes shaping and tempering an end like a hammer claw for nail pulling, with tempering guidance and a groove cut in the inner side. It extols use for fencing and removing old nails. It also gives fall onion sets advice with trenching, spacing, mulch with horse manure, and spring hoeing for early onions.
Wandering Islands and Boundary Tricks of the Rio Grande
Discussion of the wandering river islands along the Rio Grande creating diplomatic tension between the United States and Mexico. A historic 1848 boundary rule and later conventions resolved many cutoffs and land transfers, preserving the river as boundary while letting inhabitants keep or change citizenship as needed. The piece also touches on blood cell basics, New Zealand oddities, and a light quip about practice.
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Rio Grande
Mexico
United States
Rio Grande City
Gulf
Texas
Josiah Turner
Galveston Ranch
Turner
Musical Term Rest Question From Washington Star
A humorous exchange has Mr Growcher asking about a rest in music. The response explains a rest as the time it takes to change the record in the neighboring music machine, illustrating early vernacular humor from the Washington Star.
That's Different. Mrs Exe and Mrs Wye Debate Servants
In a humorous exchange from the Boston Transcript, Mrs Exe complains about modern servants while Mrs Wye notes the cost differences. They joke about virtues for pay and the impracticality of hiring a substitute, referencing a $4 to $5 weekly wage.
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New Zealand
Australia
Temple of Fame
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Battle of
Harold Bell Wright
D. J. Paul Roebuck
N. Dukestreet
Langaster
D.C. Martin, M.D
S. Broad St
Lititz
Bell Prones
R. James C. Brobst
Lititz Springs
Dr. D. Alonzg Long
Broad Street
W. L. Woerner
E. Main St
Orrick
Warren S. Buch
E. Grant St
Lancaster
Lititz, Pa
Howards. Young
Piano Tuner
East Orange St. Lititz, Pa
Hassler
Penna
Geo. L. Keath
Justice of the Peace
Brunnerville
Stephen B. Kissinger
W. Marion St. Lititz
Hershey & Gibbel
Scriveners
Ind
Schnerer
South Spruce St
John H. Tshudy
Broad St
Second Ave
Packard and
Bostonians
la France
Mayfair
W. M. Grube
East Main Street
Paxson
Paxson Manufacturing Co., Inc
Lanson
Miller & Hartman M.S. Miller & CO
Lancaster, PA
Coal Lumber
SLATE
Long & CO
C. E. Greenawalt
Queen Street
Samuel C. Steffy
Greenawalt
A. R. Bomberger & Co
Peruse Villa Dairy
Brubaker
John D. Bair
Blue Ball
Litita Water Company
Becker and
Janssen
Id. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
First Consult
Thomas W. Steffey
N. Broad St
Bell
Maurice River
E. C. Ritchie Railroad
Www
D. Fichthorn
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