Haying on a Big Scale in the Great Basin
The article explains large scale hay handling in the Great Basin between southern Oregon and northern Nevada, detailing two main methods. The slide method uses a huge inclined plane with a four horse buck and net, stacking hay rapidly, while a derrick method employs a crane to place hay on stacks. Both aim to reduce labor and protect alfalfa leaves, though the slide method risks leaf loss and uneven packing, causing holes as hay settles.
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Great Basin
Oregon
Nevada
The Vigorous Lima Bean in Drought Affected Areas
Trainwater to drain into the stack. This could not be of so much importance if all of the crop were fed the year it is cut. Much hay is held over to be fed the next year. If not properly stacked it deteriorates in value. The Vigorous Lima Bean. While garden work stalled by drought, lima beans remained green and growing in the southwest, says Texay Farm and Ranch.
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D. Grifiths
Bureau of Plant Industry
Texay Farm and Ranch
Tsa
Hints For Angaust Garden Advice
Keep soil stirred in the vegetable garden amid crowing weather for weeds. Sow lettuce late peas and winter radishes. Cover squash joints with soil to deter borers. Harvest onions when bulbs form. Spray currant bushes for leaf blight after gathering with Bordeaux mixture. Celery and early table beets sown this month. Cultivate main crop of cabbage.
Seeding to Grass and Cucumber Mildew Notes
Seeding guidance discusses fertilization and manure use to maximize hay yields, with specifics on seed mixes and timing. It also covers cucumber and musk melon downy mildew, recommending Bordeaux mixture sprays and timing for protection. A new paper berry box is noted for berries with an illustration.
Ventilated berry box and Bordeaux sprays in agriculture
The passage notes a ventilated berry box that is odorless and suitable for transporting strawberries long distances. It discusses Bordeaux mixture formulations to protect peach foliage, mentions the 8-6-50 formula, and cites alternatives from Cornell and other experiments. It also describes large Mexican cattle ranches called haciendas in northern states with hundreds of square miles and thousands of cattle. It ends with reference to San Jose scale control using Oregon California washes at Illinois stations, noting cost effectiveness and comparison to whale oil soap solutions.
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Mexico
Cnttle
United States
Sonora
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Republic
San Jose
Oregon
California
Illinois Staton
Flying Fox stars at Coopersburg Jersey sale in 1899 booming bids
At the Cooper sale in Tdnden Grove Coopersburg Pennsylvania May 30 31 C W Lawson bought many Jerseys led by Flying Fox the sale’s star at 7500 dollars. Flying Fox claimed Jersey fame since 1899 champion in New Jersey and later bred many prize winners. Lawson bought about twenty five other Jerseys price 300 to 1600 each as Dreamwold aims to build a premier Jersey cattle herd. Also notes on prize butter and milk quality stressing producer credit and clean milk handling.
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Tdnden Grove
Coopersburg
C. W. Lawson
Scituate
Mass
Flying Fox
Jersey
Javuny
Society For Bulls
Lawson
Dreamwold
L. W. Sughty
National Stockman
Colt
New York Board of Health
Jersey City Ferry
Corn For Silage and Top Crop Considerations
A Breeder's Gazette correspondent notes that covering silage is unnecessary, with wet straw aiding the top, and warns against spoilage if the top is not smoothed after filling. The writer prefers white corn suited to southern Ohio latitude, favoring dent corn for fodder over grain, and suggests not husking unless for horses.
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Ohio
Dent
Ted Cob
Acon Tire
Dulinger
Woman suffrage test ends engagement in tale
In a Chicago Record-Herald snippet a wealthy maiden rejects a suitor who asks for marriage unless he supports woman suffrage. She declares her husband must see her as a cherished dependent, not an equal, before she will wed. The exchange highlights suffrage as a defining personal criterion.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Silos Buildable Cheaply By Eight Sided Design Methods
A DP essay by Wagener argues silos can be built for a fraction of cost using an octagonal shape and two layers of tech hemlock boards with felt between. Details cover materials, frame, ventilation, and a 12 by 21 foot silo holding enough silage for twelve cattle for six months, with an outline of steps and timing.
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Wagner
Yew
Guo
Practical Farmer cheese making by P F Morgan method
Practical Farmer describes a step by step cheese making process using night and morning milk. Heating to 90 then cooling to 85 degrees, adding rennet, cutting curd, draining whey, pressing in muslin and hoop, then salting and aging four hours to several weeks, with notes on temperatures and handling.
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P. F. Morgan
Vatedictory Paper Quips and Quibbles Spark Debate
A fragment from a Georgia citation critiquing a local paper notes the publication was there to stay yet inadvertently earned enough to persist. It mocks wit as impossible without provocation and recalls a barb that sharpens rather than wounds, reflecting period newspaper banter.
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Vatedictory
Georgia Citer
Alleg
Constitution
Angora goats offer profit despite rough pastures
The Department of Agriculture cites breeder letters noting goats’ limited meat sales and price gaps with sheep. Reports from Missouri to Texas discuss market demand, price proximity to ranch sheep, and that Angora goats thrive on brush in dry lands, with mohair earning three times wool and bucks showing strong fleece yields.
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Department of Agriculture
Thoms
Mastin
Missouri
G. A. Hoerle
New Jersey
Kansas
Cty
Chisago
Oscar Tom
Oregon
Josephus St. Barnett
Arizona
E. H. Jobson
New Mexico
H. F. Fuchs
Texas
J. R. Standley
Iowa
P. Baller & Sons
San Jose
G. FH. Bloodgood
Buffalo and Elk Market Opens at Chicago Stockyards
A permanent market for buffalo, elk, and deer has formed in Chicago after a Columbia Montana rancher sent a shipment of six buffaloes, nine deer, and four elk to the stockyards. One buffalo bull fetched a favorable price from Lincoln Park officials while other buyers took deer and the remainder were sent to Philadelphia and Fort Wayne for park use.
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Buffalo
Eli
Chicago
Columbia
Mont
Lincoln Park Commissioners
Philadelphia
Fort Wayne
Sense of Touch and a Publisher's View on Historical Novels
A fragment discusses tactile sensitivity with skin and mucous surfaces, noting certain body parts are more sensitive. It then quotes a publisher challenging an author’s historical novel, saying the writer fails to convey truth or plausibly please readers.
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Chambers’ Journal
Cage Post
Two Babies For a Cent Poster Prompts Local Concert Plan
A souvenir poster found in Nova Scotia by a recent traveler advertised a concert and fair in Mrs Parson's sitting room at 2 o clock. The flyer, printed on rough red titled paper, charged admission of 5 cents for adults, 2 cents for children, and offered two babies for 2 cents.
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Nova Scotia
The Meat Market Outlook and Prices Forecast
The piece examines beef pork and mutton futures amid high corn prices. It notes cattle from South Dakota arriving in Chicago June 16, weighing about 1073 pounds, selling at 5.10 per hundredweight. It predicts beef prices steady for years, pork rising with sow litters, wool pressures, and urges potential vegetarians to plan ahead as poultry may become cheapest if home grown.
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South Dakota
Bend
Kent
American Agricultural
Cure for Indigestion in Ewes and Other Farm Remedies
An Indiana reader writes in Breeder's Gazette endorsing a carbolic acid remedy for sheep indigestion after a poor root crop winter. The note also cites veterinary tips for horses and cattle, including flaxseed mash, mineral mixes, and arsenic in bran mash for heaves, and teats care with tannic acid and water.
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Ewes
Leverett G. Higley
Indiana
Invention Wormer and the Unbeard of BOARTVar
A garbled New York press excerpt mocks an invention named Wormer. It parodies a claim about a non slipping shed cake of BOARTVar. The Atchison Globe notes a man in a spade watches workers and reframes the term critic as fearer.
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Wormer
New York
Presa
San
Atchison Globe
Tabernacle Construction and Its Spiritual Significance
A devotional outline on Moses' tabernacle duties, the sacred furniture, and priestly consecration as symbols of Christ. It links Exodus chapters 25 to 30 with New Testament imagery, noting the ark, lampstand, altar of incense, burnt offering, and laver, plus the pillar of cloud as divine presence.
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Moses
Egypt
Mount Sinai
Hell
Bonef
Christ
Bluner
Lohn xii
Don Galgary
Tabernacle
God
John Xyil
Paul
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Niewepa
Cor
New England
Cornell Agr
RR. Rogers
Marshall
Marshall Condensing Company
Southern Michigan Condensed Milk Company
Morenci
Mich
Rogers
Ae Rer Pte Sy Ee
Burroughs
Natere
Sheriden
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