Torcello Villa: Ruins and Byzantine Arts on the Lagoon
The article tours Torcello in the Venetian lagoon, describing its ruined baptistery, the cathedral and Santa Fosca, and the early Byzantine influence. It notes the island as a former refuge city, its sparse modern life, and how art and architecture reflect a transitional era.
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Attila
Italy
Altinum
Torcello
Greece
Rome
Holland
England
Sir Martin Conway
Venice
Malamocco
Lagoons
Burano
Santa Fosca
Cval
Constantine Porphyrogenetos
Cathedral
Stile design praised for easy construction
J H Vaughan of Rio Vista Texas, writing in The Progressive Farmer, extols a simple stile that is quicker to build than a double flight of steps. The same steps serve for both ascent and descent, with one side going up and the other down, stepping over the top wire.
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J. H. Vaughan
Rio Vista
Tex
Rye as a Fattening Feed for Hogs
Rye as a hog feed ranks slightly below corn but is practically equal per bushel for weight gain. Mixing grains adds variety, so some rye is often fed with corn. It should be ground or soaked if grinding is not feasible.
Caring For Lambing Ewes During Winter Weather
An Oklahoma Farm Progress guide advises sheltering ewes in winter to ensure strong lambing. Provide dry, comfortable stalls away from hogs and dogs, keep wool dry, feed hay plus a fair grain ration with oats and a touch of corn, and use straw bedding. Separate ewes ready to lamb and keep them until the lamb can suck and bond with the mother.
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Oklahoma
Farm Progress
System for marking pigs by ear cuts
The article describes a pig marking method by ear cuts agreed by Harry Seltz of Washington County Nebraska. It assigns numbers by ear positions: lower right ear cuts 1 2 3 4 and upper right ear cut 5. upper left ear cut 10. lower left ear cut 20. Combinations yield numbers such as 30 or 39.
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Harry Seltz
Washington County
Neb
Arguments for Metal Posts in Fencing
The piece argues metal fence posts are durable and economical for farms. They can be driven without setting, resist rot and fire, provide ground lightning protection, and are cheaper over time than wood where timber is scarce. Grounding is easy but often neglected with wire fences.
Feeding during growth prevents lasting stunting in animals
The passage warns that missing gains during the growing season cannot be corrected later by excess feeding. Stunted stock seldom recovers, and boosting growth after poor early care is costly compared to optimal feeding when animals are healthy and vigorous.
Orchard fertilizer advice from C M Burritt
Barnyard manure is the best fertilizer for the orchard says C M Burritt of the department of agriculture. It should be applied at a load to three to five trees at least once in three years. Commercial fertilizers are hardly advisable unless careful experiments show their value.
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C. M. Burritt
Department of Agriculture
Concrete Silo Shown As Durable Storage Option
The piece highlights a concrete silo praised for silage storage and near indestructibility, noting availability of gravel and related materials.
Set strawberry plants in spring for best yield
The article advises against fall planting under ordinary field conditions. Spring setting yields a full crop in 16 months, while fall setting produces smaller, inferior crops in 21 22 months. It recommends dormant transplanting and winter straw cover to delay planting.
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N. M. Edgerton
Combat San Jose Scale in Dormant Trees
Winter is best for spraying to combat San Jose scale and avoid leaf injury. Lime-sulphur solution is recommended, especially before spring buds open on peach trees. Winter also suits borer control with careful probing and minimal girdling.
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San Jose
Green
Winter Damage in Orchard from Ice and Snow
Ice and snow freeze to branches and crush peach trees. Snowbanks around young trees break branches. When this happens, the only remedy is to detar...
Cascarets Promise Quick Relief From Bilious Headache
An advertisement touts Cascarets for bilious headaches and sick feeling caused by torpid liver and clogged bowels. It claims the 10 cent box cleanses the stomach, removes sour food and poisons, and leaves the head clear and bowels regular by morning. It ends with a quip about men realizing too late.
Its Place Raspy Letter Advice Motifs
A brief exchange notes a rasping letter and counsels filing it away. The fragment hints at archival handling rather than public action.
Kidney flushing salts promised to cure ailments from meat intake
An advertisement claims meat causes kidney strain and related ailments and promotes Jad Salts a grape lemon lithia drink for flushing kidneys. It asserts four ounces of salts daily before breakfast improves kidney function, neutralizes urine acids, and prevents bladder weakness.
Man Demands Entry to Lunatic Asylum at Night
A man rushes to the asylum entrance at night crying to be admitted for suddenly going insane. The keeper, startled, sticks his head from a first story window and scolds him for coming at such an hour, calling him crazy.
California Syrup of Figs Ad for Children
A vintage advertisement urging mothers to replace castor oil and calomel with California Syrup of Figs for child cleansing. It touts a gentle yet effective laxative that cleanses liver and bowels and appeals to be loved by children. Ends with store purchase details and a 60 cent bottle claim.
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California
Adv
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