Development of Fruit: New Lime and Pineapple Hybrids
Fruit experts report two lime hybrids Palmetto and Riverglade progress to commercial status, offering small seedless early harvests and larger, seedier varieties. The Morton citrange, a frost hardy cross, promises lower costs and broader growing zones. Pineapple hybrids reach fruit in four years with superior flavor, suggesting renewed seed propagation to rejuvenate older varieties.
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Department of Agriculture
New York Post
Washington
United States
Florida
Miami
Fla
J. Sterling Morton
Nebraska
Cleveland
Eustis
Glen St. Mary
Georgia
West Palm Beach
Conquering the Colorads dam plan described
The St Louis Post Dispatch reports that the Laguna Dam north of Yuma Arizona will be the first great American river fully held by a dam. It will be 4800 feet long with three concrete walls and top width 244 feet weighing 400000 tons. In low water it will irrigate 100000 acres. in floods the Colorado will flow over the top.
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Colorado
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Laguna
Yuma
Ariz
Paris Hotel Offers Rain Shower For Guests
Guests at a Place Vendome hotel can order artificial rain via a Paris cablegram to the Washington Star. Pipes high in the courtyard trigger a shower beneath a twenty five foot diameter umbrella, cooling guests on hot days.
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Paris
Place Vendome
Washington Star
Philadelphia Y M C A to Build Arch Street Headquarters
The Philadelphia Y M C A plans an eight story Arch street building costing 500000 with dormitories for 200 men, two large gymnasiums, social and educational departments, a roof garden restaurant, and a 25 by 70 foot swimming pool. It will house 600 700 young men and a library lecture hall and night classes.
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Philadelphia
Young Men's Christian Association
Arch Street
Broad
Philadelphia Public Ledger
John W. Pepper
William M. Longstreth
Wiliam R. Nicholson
Arthur Newbold
Joseph M. Steele
United States
Walter C. Douglass
Philadelphia Association
Herbert C. Caskey
Central Branch
Washington
New York
Chicago
Toledo
Camera Club
A Dog's Great Devotion at Riverhead
A house fire frightened a small dog owned by Lawyer Robert P. Griffing. The dog fled to the third story window, appeared to laugh and dance upon seeing its master, then leaped to the pavement below. Besides a minor leg injury, the dog escaped unharmed.
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Riverhead
N. Y
Robert P. Griffing
Wealth of Japan Reported At End Of 1904 Wealth
An official government return shows Japan's total wealth at the close of 1904 totaling 6,510,403,000 dollars, or about 145 dollars per person. The figure reflects the nation's accumulated assets and per capita share as compiled by state authorities.
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Japan
Wheat Train for Kansas Teaches Best Wheat Use
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway with Kansas State Agricultural College plans a wheat instruction train in August across Kansas. Five professors Miller Willard Ten Eycke Brown and Shoesmith will lecture on replacing seed with the best wheat to boost yields from 3 to 5 million bushels yearly. The dairy and corn trains previously run by Santa Fe and the college are continued with this effort aiding farmers nationwide.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Kansas State Agricultural College
Kansas
Kansas City Times
Santa Fe
Agricultural Colleges
The
Agricultural College
Miller
Willard
Ten Eycke
Brown
Shoesmith
Grasshopper Dinner Night Fracas in Lake Huntington
Gregory Williams, 14, of Brooklyn visiting a Sullivan county cottage, brought two canfuls of grasshoppers for fish bait. At a family dinner the lid was opened, releasing hundreds of insects into the room. Women fainted, guests panicked, dresses were spoiled, and the room cleared after an hour as hoppers skittered among the dishes.
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Gregory Williams
Brooklyn
Lake Huntington
Sullivan County
N. Y
Port Jervis
New York
Gregory
Deepest Gas Well Planned At Waynesburg Penn
Carnegie Steel aims to drill a 6000 foot deep gas well near Waynesburg Pennsylvania, surpassing all prior depths by 1060 feet. A steel derrick has been erected, with government geologists to study earth makeup over a mile underground and assess vast gas sands beneath the Waynesburg field.
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Carnegie Steel Company
Waynesburg
Penn
Pittsburg
New York Times
Girls in Wheatfield Save Crops Amid Labor Shortage
Former State Senator John T. Yeend of Washington travels to his Dry Creek ranch where family members join the harvest. Alma Yeend and Alice Yeend help on the header box and derrick as Mrs Yeend and two daughters cook for the large outfit. The family sacrifices seaside vacation to save the crop.
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John T. Yeend
Washington
Dry Creek
Wallawalla
Wash
Alma Yeend
Walllawalla
Insane Town Farm Horse Ben Tillman Declared Incurable
A Waterbury Connecticut dispatch to the New York Times reports a town farm horse named Ben Tillman judged incurably insane. The horse displays unpardonable tricks such as standing on its head in gardens and squealing at night, defying regulations and damaging its stall. Veterinarians call this a rare case of equine aberration, noting calm behavior under harness and in shade but complete mischief in sunlight.
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Ben Tillman
Waterbury
New York Times
Colorado to Create Humane Education Department
The Colorado state bureau of child and animal protection plans a new humane education department. Schoolchildren statewide will receive humane instruction under a state law requiring such education in public schools. Professor Joseph Reed, former Glenwood Springs principal, will head the department and work without salary.
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State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection
Colorado
Denver Dispatch
Joseph Reed
School
Glenwood Springs
Fashion Forecast Bandeau Doomed By Popularity In Paris Models
AMY VARNUM reports that the bandeau or cache peigue in Paris fashion is falling out of favor as its popularity grows. The piece notes exaggerated versions become grotesque while newer small chapeaux regain favor, including round turbans and boat-shaped designs with fine straw, bound ribbons, and ostrich plumes.
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Ln Mode
Camilla
Leech
Amy Varnum
Home remedy for cleaning light cloth coats
Instructions describe cleaning light cloth coats at home using oatmeal and whiting. Lay the coat flat, mix equal parts oatmeal and whiting, rub evenly with clean flannel into the fabric, shake and rework until clean, then press the wrong side with a warm iron.
Restoring Silk Color by Sal Volatile or Hartshorn
When color has faded from silk due to acid it may be restored by applying a small amount of sal volatile or hartshorn to the spots.
Different Cries and Remedies From Old Time Household Advice
A fragment section outlines baby cries: normal loud strong hunger temper and indulgence patterns with distress signs and contortions. It also offers beauty tips, advising buttermilk to remove freckles or sunburn and a home remedy lemon borax sugar mix. A vanilla sugar flavoring recipe uses vanilla beans, alcohol, and sugar with rock candy prep.
Handy Water Heater Attachment for Lamps
An inventor describes a pointed conical liquid receptacle with a handle and lid that fits lamp chimneys of ordinary size. It has external flanges to space walls for gas flow and three or more legs for support when moved aside from the lamp.
Hints for Farmers Cob Meal For Hogs And Fowls Quarters
Hints from American Agriculturist explain cob meal benefits for hogs including bowel health digestion and appetite, plus notes on building fowls houses with winter quarters by Oct 1 using muslin windows concrete floors and proper orientation.
The Herd Boar selection guidance from Iowa swine breeders
The guidance stresses early selection of a herd boar by visiting the breeder and choosing a vigorous healthy pig with breed markings. It cautions against focusing on single traits like heart girth or ears and emphasizes a balanced combination of good points for a productive pig.
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E. H. Henderson
Iowa
The Fail Pigs and Market Ready Bacon Hogs
A Michigan farmer writes in American Agriculturist on feeding pigs for quick weights by April and May or over winter using clover corn fodder roots and cheap feeds. He notes dairy wastes help finish growth and that much feed is gathered from fields. The method yields excellent pork and bacon hogs.
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Michigan
American Agriculturist
Calf Feeding Test Shows Milk Diet Advantage
In England calves fed whole milk for 112 days gained 1.5 pounds daily, versus 1.07 pounds with separator skim milk and cod liver oil. Oil intake capped at about four ounces. A warm feed relished by calves combined oatmeal, ground linseed meal, linseed cake and lentils in 8 5 8 4 ratios cooked overnight with salt and molasses, three pounds meal to five quarts water.
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England
Remedy For Shoe Boil From Foot Care Note
Instructions advise an incision large enough for a finger to drain a shoe boil. Tear loose adhesions, syringe cavity with 1 percent carbolic acid, then wet all parts with insect tincture of iodine. Syringe with carb arized water until it heats. Put a boot on the foot to prevent recurrence.
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C. V. Bread, V
National Stockman
Dairy Jottings and Farm Care Tips From Agricultural Journals
Practical guidance for farmers from American Cultivator and American Agriculturist on dairy cow management grain feeding silage timing salt and bedding, care of farm horses including collar fit and breast care, and keeping water clean for chicks with milk and buttermilk noted as beneficial for broiler-raising prospects.
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American Agriculturist
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Howard K. Parkinson
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