Domestic Prices Rule Home Markets Says National Stockman
The article argues export shares influence American prices for cereals and livestock, noting that even less than one percent exported can set home market values. It cites wheat and beeves, emphasizes foreign demand as a price arbiter, and stresses domestic regulation by competition. a Farm Journal excerpt urges humane, mild horse handling and kinder treatment to improve labor and animal performance.
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National Stockman
Chicago
New York
Liverpool
Meadows Need Careful Grazing and Proper Manure Use
The article advises not overgrazing meadows and to add well rotted manure as top dressings after hay removal. It explains young stock vs mature animals' impact on soil nutrients and warns that late autumn grazing damages soft soils. It also notes benefits of ensilage for milk fever prevention and summarizes varied farm notes on clover, feeds, and crops.
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Farmers’ Review
Pratt
Elgin
En silaged corn fodder aids dairy forage in west
The article notes a cool moist climate favors root crops and a hot dry prairie summer hinders them. Silaged corn fodder emerges as the cheapest preserveable feed. Dr Pratt’s earth pit method proves simple for storage, signaling increased use among western dairymen where land is costly.
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Prairie States
West
Pratt
What His Wife Told Him to Say
A humorous tale from Texas Biltings about Bob Nickelby who married a wealthy old maid for her money and Mrs Nickelby who was painted to look like a doll at a ball on Austin avenue. Sam Chuzzlewit notes his wife is young and naturally attractive, and Nickelby boasts of their wives’ beauty.
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Texas Biltings
Bob Nickelby
Sam Chuzzlewit
Austin Avenue
Geoffrey Branscombe
Mabel
Geoffrey
Alice
Beauty
Mable
Harry
Harry Stretton
Er Guardian
Geoffry
Encouraging The Beautiful For The Useful
Quote attributed to Goethe praising beauty as a motive that elevates effort toward usefulness.
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Goethe
Weather Dread: Albany Sees Thunderbolts From Heat Wave
An Albany paper warns that ten days of extreme heat have sent huge amounts of electricity and vapor aloft, promising a rapid return as thunderbolts. It predicts thunder showers big rains hail storms hurricanes tornadoes cyclones with structures uprooted and trees twisted as if uprooted by a mower.
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Albany
Learning Under Difficulties Telegraphers A Minature Line
Washington Star recounts how Tiwo Farmer Boys learned telegraphy at home on a farm near a railroad. Brothers improvised practice with nails, wood, and a makeshift line, saving earnings from wood sales to buy batteries and instruments. The elder brother later joined the Baltimore and Potomac railroad and signals nightly from his block with red and white signals.
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Washington Star
Baltimore and Potomac
Chance
Withal
Baltimore
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
From Pain to Death
A New York Sunday Mercury fragment laments graves and battle fields used as nourishment for crops. It notes opium preparations from poppies and paregoric dulling pain while babies are lulled by the remains of soldiers who perished in a deadly battle.
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New York Sunday Mercury
Waterloo
Linden
Artistho Rufus Zogbaum and writers in Harper and Century
Rufus Zogbaum, known for military subjects seen abroad, published War Pictures in Time of Peace about a French campaign and The Home of Tommy Atkins on Aldershot. A Night with the Germans is promised next year. W D Howells plans The Rise of Silas Lapham for Century and returns to Bartley Hubbard in a November chapter. An editor quotes Sam and John Walker debating shelled corn for cattle feeding.
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Rufus Zogbaum
Harper’s Magazine
Tommy Atkins
Aldershot
Sam
John Walker
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