Rise of Agricultural Colleges and Scientific Farming
The article traces the 1862 Morrill bill establishing land grant colleges for agricultural instruction, notes early distrust of farming studies, and chronicles a shift to scientific agriculture. It highlights soil chemistry, plant and animal breeding, seed improvement, and the impact of experiment stations on yields and farm management. It ends praising perpetual knowledge and farming as a noble pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodall
Humane slaughtering reforms spread in German led regions
Germany moves toward humane slaughter with Saxony enacting strict bans on bleeding before unconsciousness. Cattle are stunned by central forehead blows or with more precise devices. Butchers may use a slaughtering mask or powder charges, and innovative poleax guns appear in England. Abattoirs in German Italian Swiss and other cities operate under municipal supervision.
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Germany
Saxony
England
Science Based Farming Gains Favor With Farmers
Farmers increasingly favor scientific agriculture as they learn farming aligns with the laws of plant and animal life. Science provides classified knowledge across astronomy, medicine, chemistry, geology, biology, entomology, and bacteriology to preserve facts and aid progress.
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Yiusbandimen
Electricity in Agriculture Promises Crop Boost from 30 to 40 Percent
In England Prof Sir Oliver Lodge reports tests using lines of electricity over fields to stimulate plant growth. Wires run at about 100000 volts with positive current on poles per acre and negative to earth. Treatment lasts several hours daily, avoided in bright sun, and may hurt at night. Wheat yields rose 30 to 40 percent with better market prices. other crops improved too.
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Sir Oliver Lodge
England
Whitewash the Henhouse for Clean Poultry Housing
The article advises poultrymen to limewash henhouses periodically. For small houses mix quicklime with water to cream thickness, add salt for adhesion, boric acid for sanitation, and washing blue to prevent yellowing. Larger houses may use a sprayer for application.
Fashion Alda and the Silent Dress Trend at Theater
A young man in an orchestra chair praises the current mode of dress. He touts the sheath-like gown for its clinging softness and quiet presence, claiming late arrivals no longer disrupt others with rustling silken petticoats and even prefers the quiet shoes to squeaking.
Kerosene Price in Corn Exchange Says Journal
The Kansas City Journal notes a historic corn to kerosene bartering rate from twenty years ago and explains the modern ratio where one bushel buys five gallons of kerosene. The seller now expects 3 cents in change.
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Kansas City Journal
Notes by a Working Farmer
Food given to unprofitable animals is wasted. With a variety of stock, one can utilize all foods. Best breeds do not insure most profit without proper treatment. All foods for plants must be soluble to be available. It is the little economies that count up most in the end. A high selling price does not lessen the cost of production. Concentrated foods should always be fed with those more bulky. It needs faith in your occupation to bring about complete success. It rarely pays to feed for a merely possible increase in price. Underfeeding stunts growth and overfeeding is a waste of food and of time. There is more profit in growing an animal than in fattening and already grown.
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Morrill
Vermont
Harper’s Weekly
Minnesota
Mankato
Farwell
Rojestvensky
St. Petersburg
Sinovi Petrovitch Rojestvensky
Baltic
Vladivostok
Far East
Sea of Japan
Hawke
Lee
Farragut
Craven
Chicago Inter Ocean
Rosestvensky
Pacific
Manchouria
Japan
Russia
Togo
Admiral Rojestvensky and the Sea Power Question
The obituary reflects on Admiral Rojestvensky who died in St. Petersburg and his failed 1904 1905 Baltic to Pacific voyage. It weighs his role, court judgment, and the wider implication for Russia as a maritime power and its potential to build a capable navy.
Smuggling in the Philippines Dispatches From Oriental Ports to Manila
A Manila Times report details smuggling expanding in the Philippines with a cargo of khaki landed on Luzon and moved via Laguna de Bay to Manila. The Sulu archipelago hosts a large illicit trade, aided by swift vintas from Borneo. Opium suppression boosts drug profits, while authorities plan fast cutters to target Sulu and other coasts.
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Oriental
Philippine Islands
Luzon
Laguna de Bay
Pasig
Manila
Baker
Sulu
Borneo
Dynaks
Philippines
Iutilo
Beiru
Laguna
Old-Fashioned Woman and the Umbrella Omen
A reflection on the stereotype of a housebound or superstitious woman who warned that opening an umbrella indoors foretold death. The saying mirrors Victorian era caution about household taboos and superstition.
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Admiral Rojestvensky
Cys Bay Ha Geran
California
W.L Douglas
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CATIO
W. L. Dougina
W. L. Douglas
Spark St
Brocktom
Mass
C. Gee Wo
Pekin
China
C. Gee Wo Medicine Co
First St
John A. Salz Co
Lacrosse
Wis
Greene
Yonkers
Bridget
Chicago Tribune
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