How High Can a Balloon Rise
The altitude a balloon reaches depends on size gas fill and weight carried. A 43000 cubic foot balloon with one person can rise to 20000 feet with illuminating gas or 27000 feet with hydrogen. To go higher a bigger balloon is needed. The Royal Meteorological Institute of Berlin used an 800000 cubic foot balloon funded by the German emperor to study the upper atmosphere.
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Royal Meteorological Institute of Berlin
Meteorological Institute
Harper’s Magazine
A Bad Way to Feed Birds Warned by French Physicians
French doctors warn that feeding pet birds by mouth to beak can cause a parasitic throat and lung growth in young birds, a practice common in Europe and often fatal, urging owners to stop this habit.
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Europe
A Good Route to Try Traverses Rich Territory
A good route to try traverses a region rich in undeveloped resources with vast potential for agriculture horticulture stock raising mining and manufacturing. The narrative hints at broad prospects and future development opportunities across multiple sectors in the territory.
Scenic Route for Tourists expansion of Frisco System
The Frisco System advertises extensive service between St Louis and Kansas City with connections across Missouri Kansas Arkansas Oklahoma Indian Territory Texas and the Southwest and between Kansas City and Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Georgia Florida and the Southeast and between Birmingham Memphis and other points in Kansas Arkansas Oklahoma Indian Territory Texas and the West. Full route and fare information available from any company representative or Passenger Traffic Department Saint Louis.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Texas
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
Birmingham
Memphis
Ares
Breeding Guernseys: selection of dam and sire rules
In a Pennsyl vania Guernsey breeders paper M E T Gill outlined methods to produce representative Guernseys. He emphasized selecting a clean bred foundation dam from proven blood lines and then choosing a sire within the same lines to cross without causing defects. He urged breeders to use stock that reproduces strong qualities and approaches standard benchmarks.
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Pennsylvania
Good Points of an Ayrshire Cow
The Ayrshire should primarily show high milk capacity with a large udder that milks out well. It should have a strong constitution and the ability to convert feed above maintenance into milk, be muscular yet not coarse, compact but not pony shaped, and be attractive in appearance as described by M A Scovill from a Kentucky experiment station.
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Ayrshire
M. A. Scovill
Kentucky
Milk Feeding Schedules Vary by Daily Yield in Cattle
Farmers note range of daily milk production from eleven to twenty two pounds and detail feed plans. For eleven pounds: alfalfa hay ten pounds, ground wheat four and half pounds, cottonseed meal two pounds. for twenty two pounds: alfalfa hay fifteen, Kaffir corn meal eight, ground wheat134 pounds. vary hay, straw, bran, and meals per composition. The Skimmilk Cow discussed as dragging average production down.
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D. H. Otia
Kansal
Stover
F.C. Davis
Macaachusetts
New England
Homestead
Springfield
Chicago
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