Late planting and market woes curb farm prospects
A roundup notes corn delays and poor seed as common causes for weak crops, while fruit prospects often fade when markets fail. It highlights hens sold at $20 each after a success in an Australian contest and favors cement road culverts over wooden ones for highways. It warns cattle milk shows and dairy potential hang on feeding, and discusses motorcars on steam railways, cheap farm twine from Minnesota convicts, the rise of mutton over beef, road tax changes, and aged poorhouse death reflecting thrift failures.
Farm advice and rural observations from an old note column
A rural column offers practical tips on farming, poultry, and road improvement. It discusses egg and butter markets, calving practices, labor hours, and the value of catch crops. It promotes a new earth road maintenance method as cost effective for towns and townships, arguing it could lower taxes while improving infrastructure.
Waste Acres on Roadways Could Boost Land Use
Opinion argues vast railroad rights of way lie waste and costly to maintain. Proposes leasing rights of way to adjacent farmers to plow seed and harvest tame grasses, turning waste acres into productive land and improving highway and farm appearance.
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Sorthwest
Jine
West
Fair Prices For Farm Products Questioned As Balance Seen
The article lists current primary market prices for hogs beef butter eggs corn oats and hay and compares them to farm costs such as land value per acre wages mower harvester wagon buggy fence wire and twine with interest rates. It argues agricultural prices are near balance and farming remains a solid business despite critics who want lower prices and wages and harsher terms from government and the current system.
Business On The Farm Cost As Propulsion For Progress
The article argues farms rarely measure production costs for crops and animal products. It urges treating farming as a business, noting many farmers lack clear cost data for corn, butter, beef, or pork. It suggests adopting cost accounting to improve efficiency and profitability.
Offal as Hog Feed Sparks Growing Protests
A rising protest targets feeding animal offal to hogs and calls for vegetarian pen feeding. The piece notes the hog as a cosmopolitan scavenger among domestic animals, compares it to the hen, and mentions state efforts to curb offal feeding. It argues sentiment fuels the protest and questions why hens are treated differently.
The Dairy Cow and Farm Dairy Focus
The dairy cow yields best when dairy farming is the principal focus of the farm. Proper silo use, higher quality cows, and careful dairy ration management double butter output, from about 165 pounds per cow annually on minor dairies to roughly 330 pounds on scientifically managed operations.
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Eastly
Hold of Western Ideas in Norway
A St Louis Globe Democrat correspondent explains how Norwegian emigration to the American Midwest has spread American political ideas to Norway. It details suffrage expansion inspired by Kansas and Minnesota, a republican-leaning Storthing, and Norway’s sovereignty from Sweden, including consular issues and the royal question.
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Norway
Sweden
Missouri
Mississippi River
Saya
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Dakotas
United States
Post Office Department
Knute Nelson
Stammersfest
Tromso
Kansas
Colorado
Gina Krog
Susan B. Anthony
Storthing
Bernadottes
General Assembly of the People
American Congress
Germany
Europe
Vasgal
Yale installs giant telescope to spy on Harvard crew
Yale at Gales Ferry Conn installs a large telescope on the veranda of the Yale crew club to monitor Harvard practices on the Thames. Reported by the New York Tribune the setup lets Yale detect any movement two miles toward the navy yard bend.
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Yale
Thames
Gales Terry
Harvard
George St. John Sheffield
Navy Yard
Return of Hoop Skirts Catches Chicago Fashion
Mme Walcot tells the Dressmakers' club in Chicago that over 2,000 women wear hoop skirts now. Orders pour in from fashionable women, using a three-coil featherbone design to keep skirts off feet and away from sidewalks. she claims it protects against microbes in the city.
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Chicago
Mme. Walcot
Dressmakers’ Club
A Rosebush With a Record in Leeds Missouri
John Kickbush a farmer of Leeds Mo has a crimson rambler growing over his house he believes to be a champion in productiveness The bush planted two years ago has yielded 12 65 dollars in roses this season and recently produced a bunch containing 180 roses from the ramblers growing in bunches
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John Kickbush
Leeds
Kansas City
Man Names Newborn After Japanese Heroes
An officer at the War Department tells the Washington Star he has heard of widespread enthusiasm for Japanese victories. He cites a striking case in Washington where a man announced his newborn would be named after Japanese heroes Toge Oyema.
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War Department
Washington Star
Washington
Toge Oyema
Sidelights on Norway women and the new woman era
A Pittsburg Dispatch correspondent sketches Norway as a nation of poor yet high spirited people devoted to home and country. Norwegians embrace education for girls, ski running, and strong independence. fisher folk along fiords are reserved and restrained in affection. urban Christiania features courtesy and social mingling. The piece notes a shifting labor market with biannual changes of domestic workers and a formal six month job commitment.
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Nerne Fisher Folk
Norway
Pittsburg
Arctic Circle
North Sea
Earth
Elert Smith
Christiania
Storthing
Parliament
National Employment Office
Cance
Vast Coal Field Reported in Houwania Discovery
An immense coal field has been discovered in Houwania. If properly exploited, this field could supply the demand for all the Balkan states.
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Houwania
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Fatete
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Oscar
Bjoernsen
Bjoernson
Stockboln
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