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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1905
Page
3
Rural New Yorker reports a 28 by 28 barn owned by Indiana resident J. M. Catshall. Built with cement blocks, walls 17 feet high, and a full Portland cement door. Interior finished with modern conveniences and careful workmanship. The project is praised as durable and lasting.
A long list details building with hollow cement blocks, costs over 500 dollars, and comments on block design. It also covers feeding-stuff guarantees, protein content in cottonseed meals, and a note on seed preparation crushers. Also mentions a Welshman in a trade dispute and a joke about bartering debt.
At the forty fourth annual convention of the National Educational Association held in Asbury Park New Jersey elementary agricultural instruction was highlighted. Dr William H Maxwell New York City superintendent praised rural school farming training as essential like manual training for cities. The industrial education committee urged rural schools to provide specific technical training for farm life while noting difficulties in teacher availability and proper implementation.
A Crabtree article analyzes how a horse’s disposition is tied to physiognomy and head measurements. It notes the width across the head signals horse sense and courage, with various facial outlines indicating temperament, courage, and endurance. The piece references government studies and a trotting bred stallion, detailing conformation features and praising overall substance and action.
A fragmented description of the Bering Sea shore near St Matthew’s and the Be Finz area. The narrator notes southeasterly winds, volcanic fragments rising from white foam, and a stark, desolate landscape that blends awe with danger.
Critinas of entrants and sober Ties should now be taken. 3% them alan. foot leng eid from wooed as the Present Fears growth Citines should be if any remain and either pl. in the eutting bed or tied in bundles and buried in a cold cellar or in a sandy, well drained, high situation outside. Weekly fence rows should be cleaned out and brush and refuse turned to do away with breeding places for insects, nets and rabbits. Fruit trees may be set in September and October where they will not be exposed to strong winds and the land is well drained. Broreoill, cabbage of all sorts and lettuce may now be sown in old frames, the plants to be wintered, with protection. in the frene and planted out as early inc spring as the ground can be worked. Bay you saw it aw it in The News.
A farmer recalls moving from Merino and Southdown stock to Lincoln crossbreeds to improve weight, wool distribution, and lambing. He argues crossbreeding with honest males of the desired breed yields hardy, large bodied sheep with early maturing lambs and better mutton value. Early castration and tailing are noted, ticks are a concern and require diligent tail and shearing, with water supply deemed essential for sheep.
In winter 1904 at the experiment station sixty beef cattle were split into three groups of twenty. Silage fed cattle gained about 0.146 pounds per head per day more than the timothy fed group and 0.29 pounds over the shredded corn stover group, finishing with higher quality meat. The report argues silage can equal or exceed dry feeds in profitability and quality, noting continued prejudice against silage is unfounded. Other notes discuss stick-to-one-breed strategies, breeding tendencies, and the poor economics of scrab cattle, with brief market observations on southern Missouri peaches and general stock-raising insights.
National Sheep Notes reports three feeding tests on fattening steers, two in barns and one in an open dry feed lot, showing better results for barn feeding and outside grazing when conditions are dry. Professor Mairs notes dryness is more crucial than shelter, with broader stockkeeping implications. American Sheep Breeder argues sheep farming yields strong returns when managed as a systematic business. Also included are humorous snippets from the Cleveland Leader and Papagallo.
This piece treats the domestic fowl as both wise and foolish, noting half wild ancestry and half tame habits. It observes instinct, learning, and perception through episodes with corn versus gold, nest stealing, and reactions to humans, dogs, and predators, while pondering whether hens can reveal hidden mental processes.
The article notes meerschaum is mined like coal in Asia Minor and remains a key industry. Crude blocks, yellowish white in color, are enveloped by red clay and priced 325 to 200 per cart load. Blocks dry in sun in summer and a heated room is used in winter. finally the material is sorted into twelve trades, wrapped and packed for shipment chiefly to Vienna for pipe making.
Charles Lamb quips about meeting a man he dislikes by saying he would rather not know him for fear of losing his hatred. The anecdote, framed as a playful exchange, illustrates Lambs wry wit about personal enmity and social introductions.
A scattered exploration of etymology links words like elbow finger and wrist to ancient roots, with notes on vertebrae and tendons. It touches on Latin and Anglo Saxon shifts, and casual mentions of mugging up terms tied to anatomy, speech, and historical shaving customs.
A Leslie's Magazine excerpt discusses wheel stability with high speeds, noting centrifugal forces surpass centripetal forces as rim speed nears three miles per minute. It cites safety limits for solid iron wheels, explosive rates, and the impact of wheel size on destruction while mentioning a modern writer’s misgivings about enumerating variables.
In a puzzled exchange the CathoNr Standard and Times comments on Dumler’s rapid rise and Wiseman’s quip that haste may have caused him to slip a rung on the ladder of success.
A Sunday school lesson on Daniel and his companions in Babylon frames the study around God’s sovereignty and human obedience. It notes Daniel’s refusal of royal food, the blessing from God, and the call to temperance and faithful living, with references to scripture and the example of seeking wisdom from God.
A fragmented note argues people buy what they know they want and that stores should advertise attractive stock to inform buyers. It suggests banning goods to reveal items for sale and urges using timely weekly news to attract attention and drive sales.
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