Angora Cat Breeding and Dorset Lamb Stock Notes
Angora cats show varied colors and forms with prized orange and blue coats. breeding aims for a refined head, long flowing mane, and a tail with broomlike hair. Dorset Horn lamb wool is valued for whiteness and softness, with meat yield higher in lambs than adults, while practical livestock gear includes a self-balancing sliding stable door design.
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Robert Kent Adams
Ike
Crystal Palace
New England
Sahara
Sudan
South Africa
Fragmented notes on a circular barn construction plan
Readable scraps describe a circular barn with six inch pine boards and beveled edges. Foundations use concentric rings. iron hoops about nine and a half inches diameter are to be strapped at intervals. Two men are mentioned, details vague and partial.
Simple silo construction and apple trade notes
An 1890s description explains a tight hoop method for assembling a silo with oak wedges and wooden staples, plus removable wagon wheel like doors. It then surveys apple exports to Europe, listing varieties, barrels shipped, and prices, citing Mars Potash action and soil lime interactions.
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Quaasy
Comedian Proposes Pool Game At Family Party
A comic at a family gathering proposed a shilling pool game. Each person, including himself, would stare a shilling and the pool would go to the holder of the required article. After bets of 20 to 30 shillings, the comic added his own shilling and asked who had the most false teeshi, triggering a moment of deathly silence before a burst of forced laughter.
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Sasad
Potash and home gardening hints from a seventeenth century note
The fragment outlines safer potash sources for manor gardens and practical advice for frost protection and pruning. It mentions simple makeshift tools, preserved fruit trees, and turning old boards into usable implements, reflecting rural domestic science and self reliance in historical horticulture.
PrunLag G4 Amateur Saw Patented Adaption
An old advertisement describes a Prunlag G4 for amateurs using a fog hickory or white oak pate with a curved top, a wire nail through both ends of the saw, and a natural spring to keep tension. It touts usefulness for cutting off high frit and ornament tread and claims firm tension for efficient work.
Fall Sowing Techniques and Farm Notes from Rural Journal
Agricultural advice covers fall clover sowing to prevent future hay shortages, field prep with stubble burial and thorough harrowing, and fine seedbed preparation. It cites experiments on lamb, geese, and cowpea trials for northern orchards, plus phosphate rock and rock phosphates as fertilizer sources.
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Bailey
Cornell
Ithaca
N. Y
Butter Rancidity Tactics and Dairy Notes Across Markets
A long excerpted dairy article outlines butter rancidity causes from oxygen and microbes, and reports a method by Dr. Jean Coumergt and E A Gutter to neutralize butyritamines and fatty acids. It covers milk heating for summer tests, rennet timing, curd cutting, whey management, matting, milling, salting rates, and temperature control. It also mentions Norman Jersey calves crossing with classic Jerseys to reduce tuberculosis risk, highlighting the crossbred offspring and birth weights.
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Jean Coumergt
E. A. Gutter
Kaya
Hilerty
Guiter
Suiry
New York Herald
Herald
Unclear Fragment on Music and Pisa Origin
Fragment discusses lizards drawn to music and a Pisa monk linked to a medieval time reckoning in France. The passage is garbled and preserves few clear facts or stakes. Local names, places, and dates are fragmentary, offering minimal verifiable details for a full news item.
Governor Altgeld A Life From Farm to Chicago Power
The article profiles John P. Altgeld detailing a rise from farm work in Ohio and enlistment at sixteen to become a prominent Chicago lawyer and later governor. It notes his 1876 election after a vigorous campaign, his national attention for pardoning an anarchist, and his image as a labor ally. It also highlights his wealth from real estate speculation and ownership of a Chicago skyscraper, plus interests in street railways.
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Chiege
Witnest
Menez Mades Fortans
la Real Estete
John PB
Aineid
Democrats
Lines
le Lejther
Hue
Azul
Altger
Pres A
Bis Paras
Jimis P. Autoeld
Howee
Ohio
St. Louis
Savannah
Afr
Artgu
Chicago
Altgeld
Res
California Pampas Plumes in Campaign Emblems
A radical proposal by Republican leaders to use California pampas grass plumes dyed red white and blue as party emblems. Chairman Hanna favors three plumes with decorative use in public spaces and campaign halls, aiming to symbolize sentiment ahead of the election.
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Hanna
California
South America
Pampas
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Michigan Agricultural College
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Michigan
W. 4. Henry
Breeder's Gazette
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Europe
Great Britain
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Tompkins County
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Northern Spy
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Samuel Cushman
South Carolina
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Nice
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Ireland
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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