Home Made Corn Marker Instructions From 19th Century Farm Journal
A detailed diagrammed guide describes assembling a corn marker with parts labeled A through H. It explains removing wheels to adapt the marker for sled use, how clevis holes affect draft, and the correct arrangement of planks runners and rings. The article emphasizes achieving the best marker by attaching B No. 2 to B No. 1 and securing H on the ring, with E used as handles during field turns.
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Orange Judd Farmer
A Place for Milk Pans
A dairyman with many cans can drain them thoroughly using a cheap wall or post setup. Two posts spaced apart hold boards with hooks to catch can handles, secured by rope loops. The method uses space efficiently and can adapt to a building wall.
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St. Paul Dispatch
Self-Feeding Salt Box Improves Farm Utility
A simple salt box design uses a 10 inch by 4 foot back board with side panels nailed to it and strap hinges for the lid. The end piece and bottom miss the board to keep rain out, a stake supports the front, and gravity closes the cover, though animals may still access contents.
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H. H. Hershey
Feeding the Dairy Heifer
The heifer for dairy use should be fed generously from first to last to promote growth without excessive fat. Rations should be oats, bran, clover, and shorts to build a fat forming habit only when milk production is needed.
Sugar corn planting advice and apple tree care
A Farm Journal note advises last planting of sugar corn near Philadelphia by July 1 and a mid June planting as well to capture late market better prices. It adds a farmer’s experience that trimming suckers in June reduces sprouting later in the year.
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Philadelphia
Farm Journal
Use of Sweat Pads in Harness Fitting
An Iowa Homestead article discusses sweat pads for horses, noting conditions where they justify use when horses begin spring work and stay fresh in summer. It cites issues of sogginess, friction, and the need for a well fitting collar to prevent irritation and ensure work willingness.
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Iowa Homestead
Profit in Early Turnips for Market Gardeners
Market gardeners with direct consumer trade can profit from growing turnips especially early varieties. The illustration features Early Milan, a premier white turnip noted for fine grain tender flesh and white skin. It has a small top and a single red tap, fitting compact ground and home use, making it worth trial by farmers for table or market.
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Milan
Indianapolis News
Uncle Sam Potato Gains Favor With Growers
The Uncle Sam potato variety shows heavy yields and high quality under ordinary culture. Tubers are uniform in size with few small specimens, and the season is medium to late. It performs best on sandy or loamy soils, with potential improvement on heavy soils after extended testing.
Churning Hints and Farming Tips From Midland Farmer
A collection of practical advice on churning without splashes and making attractive butter molds. Also guidance on hoe use to cultivate a fine, friable surface and a note on weather conditions and Arctic flowers in error.
Humorous Gossips and Snatches From Early 20th Century Dialogues
A collage of quips and set pieces from fictional and mock dialogues. It features classroom exchanges about Washington and a doctor patient joke, a waiter’s stock reply, and ethnic dialect humor, with punchlines about fads, feuds, and family life.
Woman's Best Friend Patrictes Maid of Honor Plans
A Yonkers States man recalls wedding etiquette as the bride asks who will give her away and who will stand as maid of honor, reflecting on tradition and friendship.
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Patience
Patrice
Yonkers Statesman
Sign Wasn't Right Miss Elderly Born In Wrong Time
Dialogue fragments show a man questioning why Miss Elderly never married. She replies the reason lies in being born under the wrong phase of the moon, implying no suitable man appeared. The exchange ends abruptly with the line there wasn't any man in.
Undefinable Charm Turns Off Certain Gentleman
In Chicago Tribune style dialogue, a fair young woman notes Mr. Squinch possesses an undefinable yet apparent attribute that bores her. A friend adds she has never endured him, calling him peculiar with gimlet eyes, while the woman agrees and emphasizes the effect.
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Squinch
Chicago Tribune
The Limit. A Dialogue on Divorce and Cooking
A brief exchange mocks court limits on divorce for poor cooking. Pike jokes courts won’t grant a divorce over bad meals, prompting the others to laugh at the juridical limits and domestic quirks.
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Pike
Boaton Evening Transcript
Borrowing Trouble
Mildred a college girl asks roommate Katherine for ten dollars promising lifelong debt. Katherine replies from experience that she believes the debt will be lasting and serious.
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Mildred
Katherine
Hero Worship and Public Critique Discussed
A dialogue on hero worship contrasts immediate admiration with later critical scrutiny. The exchange cites a Baltimore editorial tone and references alarm at admiring great men before discrediting them through public letters.
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Jim
Jam
Baltimore
Mrs Wright of Oclwein Iowa Benefits From Pinkham’s Compound
A New York woman testifies to relief from ovarian pain and headaches after using Lydia E B Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She describes severe cramps and fatigue, noting improved health after early doses and urging others to try the treatment as a cheaper alternative to doctors.
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F. Wright
Oclwein
Iowa
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Ion Pes
Lt. Pinkham
Adelaide Prag
St. Ann's Ave
New York
Referson Machine Co successors to John Poole Portland Oregon
Portland machinery advertisement for Referson Machine Co successors to John Poole at Morrison Street offering Parsons Hawkeye automatic self feeding stump puller 100 horsepower two horses Buckeye sawmill machinery engines and boilers Eli and Stickney gasoline engines note to write when in need of machinery products.
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Referson Machine Co
John Poole
Morrison St
Portland
Oregon
Parsons Hawkeye
Horner
Buckeye
Eli and
Stickney
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Phwat
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Ladphia Press
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Elsie
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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Nora
LA Follette Co
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Porti Land Academy
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