Simple Rabbit Trap and Irrigation Plans Highlight 1890s Article
The article describes a homemade rabbit trap with a box, trigger, and lid, plus notes on wind powered irrigation plans. It discusses using artificial irrigation across Illinois and other states, citing the Kankakee irrigation success and plans for pumps, reservoirs, and canals. The piece also mentions plow swivels and farm equipment topics of the era.
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Illinois
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New Grey
New York
New Hampshire
Mssachusetts
Maine
Wiscosia
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
North Dakota
Kankakee
Plowing Tips And Fertilizer Mixtures For Farms
A rural notice discusses plow techniques for furrow placement near ditches and around fields. It reviews mixing fertilizers using cottonseed meal, nitrate of soda, dissolved rock, and potash to achieve 3 percent nitrogen, 6 percent phosphate, and 7 percent potash. It cites Maine experiments, warns about overpricing swindled soil packages, and describes a barn cupboard made from boxes for storage. It also covers cranberry bog care with flood irrigation to protect crops from frost.
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Jenkins
A Farmer's Horse and Alphas Clever Feats
A feature describes a farmer's horse named Alpha with a blaze face, taught to pick alphabet letters, play a harmonium with his lip, and perform card-choosing tasks. The piece argues horse intelligence can surpass expectations with patient training and suggests breeders train horses to understand spoken words. It highlights admiration for Alpha and calls for broader equine education.
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Alpha
South Carolina Hog Contest and Prize Details
The Charleston News and Courier outlines prizes for the best hog raised in South Carolina, plus a new award for the best sugar of red hams. Winners include W. J. Richardson and J. M. Leech, with costs and gains noted. The piece includes reprinted guidance on hog care, lamb dressing, saltpeter use in curing meat, and livestock feeding.
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Charleston News and Courier
News and Courier
South Carolina
W. J. Richardson
Abbeyle County
J. M. Leech
York County
Young Richardson
English in use and sports language in daily speech
An essay notes that while Kafr corn is valuable in drought regions it is not worth cultivating where rainfall is reliable. It critiques college athletics for harming good English by grafting sports slang, arguing great men use language of the common people and vocabularies evolve with usage. Shakespeare would borrow from football fields today.
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New York Times
Oxford Degrees And The Burdens Of Learning
A Blackwood's Magazine excerpt critiques Oxford's vast degree system with hundreds of professors and boards. It quips on elaborate examinations, costly operations, and ornamental nomenclature while questioning student attendance and the value of certain lectures especially in Lit Hum.
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Oxford
St. Peter’s
Blackwood's Magazine
Dairy science lecture praises John Gould and dairy reforms
A lecture by John Gould Akron O on modern dairy practices highlights selecting cows with strong hereditary traits, comfortable housing, and clean, well lit stables. It stresses winter milk production, proper feeding, ventilation, and careful handling of milk to avoid overripe or adulterated products, with notes on cheese and pork in dairy contexts.
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Madison Square Garden
New York City
John R Gentry
United States
New Jersey
John Gould
Akron
Bensley
J. W. Robertson
Ottawa
Dean
Denmark
Pabiow
Philadelphia
O. H. Smith
New Yorker
Importing Swiss cheese methods for American dairies
A historical irrigation of dairy notes discusses Swiss cheese ripening and handling, from mold use and weekly washing to temperature 70 degrees and three month curing. It contrasts American milking hygiene and the need for cleaner practices to improve flavor and safety.
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Montreal Herald
New Woman in Fiction Says She Is Not Real
Jeannette Gilder argues in a critique that the so called New Woman persona in novels is a fictional, degenerate construct. She condemns the sensationalist trend toward erotic and moral decay in yellow literature and praises traditional clean fiction by Kipling and Ward as more popular and healthy.
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Gilderives Bor Idene
Max Nordsa
Moss Pender
Mie
Grant Allen
Nordsn
Loubrono
Erder
France
Rudyard Kipling
Abrs
Humphry Ward
Mary L
The Jesuit Father in China and Other Nations in Brief
A patchwork of 19th century notes on religious life in China amid Western contact. Descriptions of Jesuit duties, daily routines, and the mix of worldliness with cloistered study, followed by a terse political aside on royalty and church authority. Mentions Napoleon, Sloane, and an eccentric anecdote about a Glasgow man seeking a missing wife. Three brief vignettes close with a Somerset county tragedy.
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W. M. Sloane
Napoleon
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Roche
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Corfeas
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China
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Pat Alexander
Shirigy
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William Chambers
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London
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