Milk Fever Causes and Silk Worm Rearing Notes
The article discusses milk fever origins, debunking uterine vessel clot theory and noting occurrences before calving. It covers breed susceptibility, onset timing, and breed differences, then shifts to Kansas Industrialist silk worm instructions, including rearing on osage orange or white mut leaves, egg storage, feeding, and transfer methods, ending with a nostalgic vignette about the hardworking farm wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Feeding cattle and hogs for profit in mild weather
The article argues that with a likely abundant corn crop and moderate prices, early feeding of cattle or hogs is profitable. It emphasizes starting as soon as practical, selling when gains slow, and notes green corn and ears aid weight gain. It also warns about fattening in harsh weather and shelter needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Florida
Mississippi
Missouri
Wife on the Farm
The article highlights the farmer's wife enduring hot days and busy mornings, waking before dawn to serve breakfast and support the farm. It portrays Mrs. Gale as an emblem of steadfast rural wifely duty amid heat and worry.
Successive Crops of Poultry for Profit
The article outlines a method to maximize poultry income by raising successive broods from February to July, selling early, and culling old stock. It argues this prevents overstock, avoids wasted feed, and supports next season's breeding with careful timing and disposal of surplus stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yorker
Ohio
America
O. F
Climate notes and crop reports from the season
Osage orange pruning advised three times in summer. Coal tar valued for hardening garden walks. Delaware peach crop forecast at 10,000,000 baskets—the largest since 1875. English wheat at 80,000,000 bushels. Spring grains and hay expected deficient. Gardeners consider soil heating with hot pipes. Tobacco crop largest ever. Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky plantings exceed previous highs. New Zealand wheat 6,183,178 bushels with 25 bushels per acre average. export supply about 4,000,000 bushels. The common garter snake is noted in the text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Virginia
North Carolina
Kentucky
New Zealand
Glaciers Loom Over Sea as Ship Encounters Alpine Ice
The voyage nears a blue ice wall one and a half miles long and 300 feet high, with icefalls, caves, and a field of broken ice forming in the sea. Passengers view deep fissures from a 500 foot overlook while glaciers from the Fairweather range loom nearby.
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Mer-de-Glace
Mont Blanc
Pacific
Fairweather
Origin of billiards and the cue explained
A London pawnbroker William Kew is credited with inventing billiards in the 16th century using a yard measure to push three balls. A black-letter manuscript notes a borrowed board and a stroke named cannon, with clergy from St Pawlos described. The term bill-yard evolved to billiard and kew to cue.
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London
Wm. Kew
William Kew
St. Pawlos
Sam
Bill
Scientific Curiosities and Stamp Trade Notes
A survey of diverse science facts reports on whale heart size bee and wasp comb orientation dragonfly lenses measurements and Saturn rings variability. It also covers stamp collecting markets with Scott stamp dealers in Brantery and high values for rare issues including Madeira Porto Rico and Peruvian stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enga
Porto Rico
Madeira
British Guinea
Scott
Brantery
London
Vanderbilt
Bostonian
Rare stamps mania noted in Brattleboro sale overvaluation
The New York Sun discusses a Brattleboro postal stamp sold for 300 dollars, tracing the stamp collecting craze from its origins through the high prices for rare issues. It notes the Brattleboro stamp likely mispriced and cites a 100 dollar value as more plausible, while outlining the early American use of stamps in 1846 and the global rise of philatelic collecting.
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New York Sun
Brattleboro
Tom Moore
England
Atlantic
Re Union
America
New Haven
New Mexico Exhibit Promises Living Wonders for New Orleans
Paul Langhammer, New Mexico’s commissioner, arrives to display resources for an extraordinary show. He teases two 25 foot living trees, oversized beets and cabbages, and a range of cacti from 12,000 feet to low valleys. He also reveals a growing menagerie including bears, wildcats, foxes, antelope, deer, beavers, eagles and owls to form a zoological nucleus for a future New Mexico garden in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orients T men-Democrat
Paul Langhammer
New Mexico
Langhammer
Jemez
New Orleans
President Washington’s Early Presidency Expense List Discovered
The Washington Post reports a hand written account from 1789 to 1796 unearthed by H M Zimmerman. It lists items such as two dogs for guard duty 13 patent lamps damask curtains a massive desk and various loans and purchases including 100 looking glasses a Franklin stove and a French painting.
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Washington
Washington Post
George Washington
H. M. Zimmerman
Ninth Street Northwest
Farmer Basset
Martha Washington
Keely Guarded Secret for Nine Years Frustrates Stockholders
Keely the motor man has kept a confidential nine year plan and stockholders are growing weary of the secrecy.
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Keely
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Agricultural
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Washington City
Bureau of Silk Culture
Congress
Popular
Wales
Alfonsia
Meudon Observatory
F. A. Forel
Morges
Mer de Glace
Brazil
United States
Carvalho
Rio de Janeiro
de Champs
Paris
Stock Directory
Dennis M'Killip
Red Willow
Reeaniere
Hayes County
Airo
W. J. Wilson
Postoffice
Max
Dundy County
Nebraska
Henry T. Church
Osborn, Neb
Red Willow Creek
Frontier County
Spring Creek Cattle Co
Indianola
Neb
Range
Publican Valley
Deee
Spring Creek
Chase
McCook
C. Brcanbrack
Stokes & Troth
P.O
Carrico
George J. Frederick
McCook, Neb
John Hatfield & Son
Republican River
J. B. Meserve
Spring Canyon
Frenchman River
Chase County
Joseph Allen
Osborn Office
J. F. Black
Pesmisen
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