Captain Smith Seizes Privateer Greyhound in Bold Night Raid
Smith slips aboard the Greyhound during a nighttime escape attempt, disables the watch, overpowers a guard, and imprisons Major Jones. He then secures the ship, frees crew members, and orders a plan to take the Ellen and depart with the privateer, as guards and crew begin to rally.
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Smith
Ellen
Greyhound
Tie
Cautioualy
Major Jones
Jack
St. Lawrences
Captain Smith
Cap'o Smith
Gantlin
Mr. Brown
Robinson
Bob Gantlin
Brown
Spardeck
Martin
Eien
Mr. Cleft
Kale cultivation and transplanting methods for Oregon soils
A detailed guide from the Oregon Agricultural College on growing kale in valley soils, covering soil preparation, fall plowing, early spring transplanting, drill and hill methods, thinning, mulching, and moisture management. It explains when to harvest greens, feeding kale to dairy cows, proper grazing and feeding rates, and seed selection from frost-hardy plants, with a request for growers to report results.
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Seren
Ting
Hee
Department of Agronomy
Oregon Agricultural College
Corvallis
Oregon
Boston Brown Bread Recipe Seeded With Molasses
A simple Boston brown bread method uses rye meal Indian meal flour and molasses mixed with water and baking powder and salt. The batter is poured into a tin and steamed for four hours yielding a hearty loaf.
Wheat yield in India stated at about 11 percent beshels per acre
An official report places India’s average wheat yield at roughly eleven bushels per acre. The figure highlights a modest productive level and may influence agricultural policy discussions.
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India
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition opens in Seattle June 1
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition will open June 1 in Seattle with 800000 eight candle power lamps powering a city sized spectacle. Canada funds a $100000 building and green exhibit shipping from London while the US government plans $600000 to ensure Alaska Hawaii and Philippines representation. The event features a gold leaf clad eighty foot Alaska shaft a submarine torpedo boat test lake exhibit and a cannery display highlighting salmon runs.
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Seattle
Great Northern Railroad
St. Paul
Alaska
Hawaii
Philippines
Canada
London
Puget Sound
Washington
United States
California Promoion Committee
California State
Why Black Powder Cannot Substitute for Dynamite in Blasting
Black powder is often used for blasting but cannot match dynamite in strength. More of it is required to do the same work, needing larger drill holes. In some cases a small bore is enlarged by a dynamite charge to create a larger cavity, then filled with black powder. F B Thomson Washington State College Pullman.
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Thomson
Washington State College
Pullman
Cow Abscess Not Tuberculosis Says Washington State College
A reader asks about a cow abscess on the side and whether to test milk for tuberculosis. Experts from Washington State College in Pullman say the lesion is likely local inflammation, not tuberculosis, and that the cow may recover once the abscess heals.
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Washington State College
Pullman
Fudge Making Instructions from a Vintage Recipe
Roil together a cup of sugar with grated chocolate a gill of milk and a quarter cup of molasses. Stir often and when a bit hardens in cold water remove from heat beat hard add vanilla beat again and pour into buttered tins cut into squares.
Optimist Invests In Pol Fab Box Faces Dark Life
A cautious investor buys a box of political fables and becomes entangled in troubling life choices. The tale follows the pull of ambition into ethical shadows and personal consequence.
Proper pruning technique for large branches
The guide urges smooth clean cuts when removing large limbs. It stresses sharp tools for clean edges, cautions two cut technique, and to saw 18 inches to 2 feet above the origin to prevent bark tearing and encourage faster healing.
Technique for Splitting Limbs in Two Cut Method
The text explains a two cut method to split a limb and secure a stub. It notes cutting first on the underside then on the upper side to overcome the evil results of splitting, as illustrated.
Oleomargarine and Butter Quality Debate in Illinois
A discussion on oleomargarine versus butter highlights the need for sanitary standards in dairy and ice cream production. It notes Illinois laws tightening factory cleanliness and Worcester Mass Board of Trade urging workers to wash hands and wear clean garments before handling ingredients.
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Illinois
Worcester
Mass
Bee Culture as a Profitable Farm Pursuit
The article notes beekeeping yields profit with small apiaries. It recommends farmers keep a few hives, start with half a dozen colonies, and sell surplus honey. It advises learning through books, papers, and visiting a seasoned apiary before starting.
Egg Incubator Care on Eighteenth Day Hatching
Beginners wonder why eggs in the incubator should not be turned or aired after day eighteen. Chicks prepare to pip the shell and position themselves to pip on the upper side. Moving eggs can tear the membranes and cause fluid to dry around the opening, holding the chick tight and risking death.
Census of Fowls Reveals Huge U.S. Poultry Stock
The last census records 283,598,005 laying age chickens in the United States valued at 70 million dollars. Eggs they lay would give 208 eggs per person annually if shared. Fowls total value 55.8 million dollars would yield 1.12 dollars per person if sold. Animal products exported weigh 846,800 tons and yearly eggs total 970,863 tons.
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United States
Dairy firm uses whey to make butter and cut fat loss
Lawrence Dairy Products has built a plant to manufacture butter from whey and about twenty five factories supply separator cream from whey. The process yields about four pounds of butter from one thousand pounds of whey and increases returns by roughly 2 and a half cents per hundred pounds. The whey remains valuable for feed and souring is slowed by higher separator temperature.
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Siver
Rodman Jefferson County
New York
Lawrence Dairy Products
The Hen's Health Health Rule for Hen Droppings
Dr. Salmon of the Bureau of Animal Industry explains how to judge a hen’s health from droppings. Proper droppings should hold shape and be dark with grayish white, warning signs include too much carbohydrates or lack of meat, watery dark droppings with red mucus indicate excess meat, and greenish diarrhea signals unsanitary conditions.
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Salmon
Bureau of Animal Industry
Transplanting Trees for Better Root Growth
The text advises saving all possible roots when transplanting established trees while allowing more cutting for young fruit trees. It emphasizes removing broken, mangled, dried, or dead root parts and notes that fresh, healing roots and new rootlets indicate good recovery prospects.
Cement Hog Wallow Problems in Farm Yards
A Journal of Agriculture report describes cement hog wallows built in farm yards with cobble stone rims to keep water clean. Water quality is compromised by oily residues poured into the wallows, which hogs ingest. The crude practice risks harm to hogs and water exposure, with potential use of harmful remedies.
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Journal of Agricultura
Make a Self-Feed Device to Slow a Bolting Horse
A Farm and Home note describes a simple self-feeder for a horse. Constructed from inch boards, it fits a feed box and acts like a poultry hopper so the horse receives grain in small amounts. A slanted bottom ensures all feed exits into the trough at a safe pace.
How to make butter from cream recipe
Instructions describe heating fresh milk on the stove until just before boiling, then straining to gather thicker cream. Repeated churning with frequent cream gathering is claimed to reduce trouble and speed butter production. Small quantities of cream may be churned by stirring in a crack if treated this way.
China Peanut Crop Trades Reach Pacific Ports and Britain
China grows peanuts across northern provinces and ships them mainly to Russian Pacific ports Siam Japan and Great Britain. The United States buys about $500 000 worth annually.
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China
Russian Pacific
Siam
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Poultry Picking and Feeding Guidelines
Fat hens and many eggs go together with cooked beans as rich feed. Separate hens that fail to lay from those that do. Dry or nonlaying hens deserve different feeding from productive birds. Breed matters, as a ring streaked or speckled hen may excel, but not always.
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