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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1905
Page
8
The Department of Agriculture reports a new nearly stingless bee, developed from Caucasus stock, promising gentler handling for amateurs and higher honey yields in cities like Washington and New York. Secretary Wilson champions the department’s research and expanded apiary program as a boost to American farming.
Secretary Wilson travels to Chicago to inspect incoming stock trains and their loads. He aims to improve care and compliance with the law, urging railways to better handle shipments while avoiding hardship to shippers. The cattle in yards are reportedly well cared for, with rails promised to cooperate and enforce the rules.
Growlog and Making Maple Sugar outlines the Maple Sugnar Industry in Bulletin No. 58 by the Bureau of Forestry prepared by Waliau BF Vox and Wilam F Hubbard. It includes a discussion on mante sugar adulteration by Chemist Wiley. Hubbard, a bright Bureau of Forestry employee, recently drowned canoeing on the Potomac near Washington.
Observations from Assian territory indicate Eskimos maintain higher body temperatures than Europeans. Data from December and July show Eskimos at 98.7 99.4 degrees, with naked exposure in zero Fahrenheit conditions and habits like drinking ice-cold water. Arctic travel notes describe Mikimos sleeping naked, and Hikinas bedding near the snow roof to utilize rising warmth.
In Greenwich England a quirky shop offers herbs once used by grandmothers for ailments. Bottled teas from sassafras catnip horehound and other herbs are sold though some remedies prove deadly polgols. The piece contrasts old time cures with modern harmful drugs and notes changes in health beliefs.
The article argues that cleared areas in the South are rapidly developing a perpetual timber supply as young trees mature. It notes northern interest in Southern forests, government forestry efforts, and a Louisiana lumber company adopting sustainable practices to keep forests from exhaustion, ensuring steady future lumber availability.
An imperial agricultural official notes Cuba research soon after the Spanish American War. He discovers a dairy house near La Juan Hill capable of housing several cattle, enclosed by timber and barbed wire from battle ruins used by both sides during combat.
Last March whitefish in the New York Aquarium reached about two inches. They feed on minute life forms and later on finely chopped silver and mosquito larvae. The aquarium has run a mosquit exhibit for two to three years showing stages from rain barrel wrigglers to pond pools. The keeper notes large wrigglers can be collected per gallon of water, illustrating artificial rearing of tiny fry.
In Orrville Ohio George McCarren senior once tied an aluminum plate to a crow and bet with a fellow naturalist that the plate would be returned within twenty years. The crow was killed by a Holmes County farmer and the plate returned to McCarren’s grandson. The elder McCarren died before learning the outcome, leaving a treasured memento of his eccentric wager.
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