Country Cottage Five Room Dwelling on Narrow Lot
A five room cottage designed for a narrow plot features a side entry hall a bright parlor dining room and kitchen with a porch to the yard a ventilated lavatory and two second floor bedrooms. Balloon framing stone foundation brick chimneys and blue stone caps define the build with yellow pine finish and plain interior walls the plan notes a 15 by 96 foot footprint and a total cost around 1000 pounds.
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C. H. van
Twenty-fourth Street
New
Aisla
Low Cost Hexagon Poultry House for City Lots
City readers seek practical plans for a low cost poultry house. An illustrated hexagon design fits crowded lots, with a floor plan showing interior arrangement and a 10 by 10 foot footprint. The piece also notes grain prices rising this winter push for balanced rations and mentions alternative feeds like ground meat and bone, cut vegetables, mangels, cabbages, and clover hay as ways to keep hens productive amid higher costs.
Equines Cross Seas as European Powers Buy Heavily
The Breeder's Gazette notes Americans export more horses and mules than ever before, driven by European demand. British, German, and Italian governments purchase cavalry and artillery stock, with mules also flowing out. Royal buyers scale up shipments to aid campaigns in Africa and beyond.
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United States
Breeder's Gazette
British
Germany
Pacific
John Bull
South Africa
Texas Fever Immunity Through Tick Exposure Findings
Bulletin No 116 outlines Texas fever transmission via southern cattle ticks. Immune cattle lose immunity if tick-free for years, while sucking calves can acquire immunity through natural tick inoculation or defibrinated blood injections. Best entry period for northern or foreign cattle is Nov 1 to Mar 1. mortality drops from 50–0% to under 10% with inoculation.
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Cary
Alabama
Texas
South
Feeding Green Cut Bone for Hens
Guidance from Farm Poultry on using green cut bone or meat in hen rations. Feed two to three times weekly, at noon after a light grain meal, with hens consuming all they will eat. Regular animal protein reduces grain intake on animal-feeding days, and overall appetite improves when the diet includes bone or meat every two to three days.
Idle toils of a horse bring grain and body repair
A fragment notes that idleness harms a horse and that regular grain is needed to keep its body in repair. The line underscores the value of work and sustenance for the animal’s health.
Tuberculin Tests on Herefords Before Export
Dr. Gedden of the United States department tested 249 Herefords in England with tuberculin over the past year prior to export. Only seven reached the destination, and he deemed three of those seven as suspicious cases.
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Gedden
United States Department
Ture
England
Critique of Poultry Score Cards by The American Fancier
The American Fancier pursues modern poultry journalism accusing advertisers of stock bias and inflated scores. It argues disqualified Cochin winners show flaws in a biased system and blames dishonest judges rather than the event. H I Ballard discusses these claims in Fanciers Gazette.
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H. I. Ballard
Fanciers’ Gazette
The Female Jester in Medieval Society
The piece notes the dullness of society in the middle ages and cites historical examples of licensed jesters. It highlights Erasmus and Hornby’s accounts of female jesters in Europe, including a young beguiling figure at Constantinople and a court jester at Montezuma.
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Christendom
Cortes
Montezuma
Erasmus
Elephantine Nerve and a Pet Elephant in Ceylon Tale
In a Miss C. F. Gordon-Cunming book about Ceylon a pet elephant is shown as humble and intelligent. The creature, Kurunegalla Jack, accompanied a medical officer on hospital rounds and learned to administer pills by dropping them into a Malay soldier’s mouth.
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C. F. Gordon-Cunming
Ceylon
FouNs
Kurunegalla
Jack
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