Cabbage Worms and Loco Poisoning Remedies Warned
The article advises dusting cabbage with paris green and flour or using pyrethum powder as heads form. It recommends kerosene emulsion spray and tobacco decoctions for plant lice on trees and flowers, with multiple applications four to five days apart. It also notes loco weed poisoning in cattle and horses, suggesting magnesium sulphate as a laxative and antidote, and warns against immunity developing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
C. D. Marsh
Automatic Dump Wagon Patent Demonstrates Seated Dump
A Connecticut inventor showcases an automatic dump wagon with a pivoted wagon box. The lever behind the driver’s seat holds the load in place and, when released after turning in the seat, the box dumps automatically. This design lets the driver stay seated, saving time.
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Connecticut
Road money needed, Illinois roads to be improved
In Peoria H F Gross secretary of the Farmers' Good Road League and special USDA agent argued that forty years of road spending has wasted money on dirt roads. He said black land in Illinois could support good hard roads as in Massachusetts at a moderate cost to landowners, perhaps not exceeding current road and bridge taxes.
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Peoria
H. F. Gross
Farmers’ Good Road League
National Department of Agriculture
Ilinoig
Illinois
Massachusetts
Milk Temp Affects Calf Milk Value Says Chemist
The calf gains a unique value in fresh milk while warm from the cow and before cooling. Once cooled the constituent cannot be restored by warming. Feeding calves milk sweet and hot could reduce castrated steers sent to the block.
Weed Affecting Stock Causes Million Dollar Loss in Colorado
The text notes unpleasant effects of an unspecified weed eaten by stock on the plains east of the Rockies. It estimates Colorado losses from this source at about a million dollars annually and mentions the National Bureau of Plant Industry has been reviewing the issue.
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Plains
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
National Bureau of Plant Industry
Havre de Grace
American Bridge Company
Ibsen
Southport Globe Onions Dominate East Coast Markets
Connecticut’s Southport Globe onions are praised as the finest among popular American varieties. Widely grown in Ohio and New York districts, they command top prices in New York City markets. The red, white, and yellow Southport Globes are noted for large, solid bulbs, thin fragrant skins, and mild flesh, making them an ideal crop.
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Connecticut
Oho
New York
New York City
Southport
Disk Plows Offer Superior Soil Breaking in Dry Ground
The twenty four inch disk plow is advised as superior to other sizes. It pulls easier, pulverizes soil more effectively, handles dry hard ground better than mold board plows, requires less sharpening, and resists clogging. Do not furrow wider than eight to ten inches. Using two twenty four inch plows cutting eight inches each is better than one larger plow cutting sixteen inches.
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Egypt
Petrie
Amazon
Miselasippi-Missouri
Nile
Germany
Jena
Gottingen
Jean
France
Italy
Field implements describe drag for breaking clods and smoothing soil
The field drag breaks down clods and produces a fine surface and is useful with a spring tooth harrow or a disk. The 6x6 inch pieces run 6 to 10 feet long and are laid edgewise, bound by cross pieces of 144x6 inch material.
Farm News Notes From Across The World
New Zealand shows strong demand for Shorthorn bulls of the milking strain. Kangaroo rats threaten Santa Cruz vineyards, feeding on young buds and vines. A Morgan County West Virginia farm boy Frank Culp was mauled by an animal, his leg nearly chewed off. Secretary Wilson predicts bumper crops nationwide with favorable conditions for record yields. A Connecticut farmer uses incubator methods to start potatoes by sprouting seed tubers in a warm rack room before field transplant.
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Farm News
New Zealand
Santa Cruz
Cal
Morgan County
W. Va
Frank Culp
Wilson
Connecticut
Trachodon Exhibit Reveals Giant Duckbill Dinosaur Details
Curator Henry Osborn unveils two Trachodon specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. A rearing pose and a feeding stance illustrate a seventeen foot tall herbivore with a four by two foot head housing up to 2000 teeth. Discovered in Montana near Miles City, the fossil traces a late Cretaceous inland sea environment.
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Henry I F. Osborn
Museum “of Natural History
New York
Hfe
Montana
Miles City
Fossil Find on Montana Bad Lands Draws Barnum Brown
Two cowboys on Montana’s Bad Lands sight bones in cliff rubble. One mistakes buffalo bone for fossil. a kick reveals brittle ribs as fossils. A third rancher learns of the discovery and sells rights, eventually yielding them to Barnum Brown of the Museum of Natural History.
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Montana
Barnum Brown
Museum of Natural History
His terrible eyes and the Cass legend
A vivid portrait of Senator Cass with "terrible" eyes that could paralyze people. An anecdote recalls a Washington National Hotel incident where a stranger mistook Cass and faced his fearsome gaze, leaving him shaken and fleeing twice in one day.
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Cass
Webster
New Hampshire
National Hotel
Washington
Senator
Michigan
Ifello
Senator Cass
Congress
Fragmented Inquiries and Facts Span Vast Topics Across Regions
The text surveys land holdings, canal receipts, charity factories, inheritance rules, climate extremes, ivy cooling, Tintern Abbey digs, Bryn Mawr history, deep-water diving limits, large wood blocks for bridges, Ibsen critique, cellulose plastic, pyramid theories, great rivers, and global dueling practices. It weaves miscellaneous notes from geography, science, history, and culture into a broad, mosaic snapshot.
Wild Bill Moonshiner Guilty in Georgia Federal Court
The notorious mountain moonshiner known as Wild Bill was found guilty in a Georgia federal court. Before sentencing, the judge spoke of his long criminal record and showed pity, then sentenced him to six years at the Atlanta federal prison. He muttered as he left the courtroom that he was glad the judge wasn’t angry.
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Wild Bill
Georgia
Atlanta
Her Mission at the Church to Pray for Husband
A Smart Set line notes Ethel has gone to the church to pray, sparking a wry exchange about her supposed husband. The joke hinges on the irony that she has no husband. The piece uses humor to reflect a social moment.
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Ethel
Not Important. Houston Post Quotation on Lost Cook
A fragmentary quote from the Houston Post notes a wife overwhelmed by the loss of her cook as her husband elopes. The exchange emphasizes personal detail over broader context.
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Walla
Tintern Ab ‘Bey
Monmouthshire
England
Bryn Mawr College
Joseph W. Taylor
British Admiralty
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