Practical Farm Tips From An Old Rural Column
A long list of farming advice covers pruning, soil, seeds, weed and pest control, orchard management, livestock care, and farm maintenance. Tips include ammonia for rubber rollers, adding birds to fight insects, dusting currants with hellebore, planning fruit rows north to south, testing seeds for germination, keeping fires accessible on roofs, gradual turning out cattle, avoiding cheap fruit trees, reviving weak lambs with warm milk and whisky, building and maintaining fences, and notes on oats, tomatoes, hornets, and dehorning calves with caustic potash. It also includes methods for whitewashing, meadow sowing, and insights on bud opening from a New Jersey experiment showing top temperature affects flowering times.
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G. &. Warren
New Jersey
Hollow cement posts prove strong and easy to make
Wisconsin experiment station tests hollow posts from 1 2 4 mix of cement sand and stone under 3 4 inch screen. Standard 4x4x7 foot forms use four corner 1/4 inch steel rods bent at ends for anchoring and 2 inch core cambered by four wood pieces to form the hollow center.
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Wisconsin Experiment Station
Gambrel Roofs Gain Ground in House Building
William A. Radford explains gambrel roofs, once linked to barns, now popular for homes. The design sheds rain on the upper part, resists water damage, and is strongly braced for structural integrity. It permits lighter materials and extra attic space with careful planning.
Compact small house plan advocates practical layout
The article praises a 24 by 25 foot house with stairs placed to maximize upstairs space, a convenient kitchen connection to the front hall, a rear pantry with a swinging door, and a bright airy second floor. It notes the value of light, heat flow from the hall register, and easy pantry access for daily meal service.
The New Cycle Skate for the Road Gains Notice
The article notes rising interest in road use skate devices driven by treadles, contrasting with earlier roller-skate fashion. It mentions a past cycle-skade and describes a horizontal enlarging camera prism setup for teaching via moving pictures, enabling repeated demonstrations in medical settings or physicians offices.
Out of Date Play Described as Too Clean for Stage
A manager laments returning a promising but too wholesome script to a young dramatist. He explains the work is hopelessly clean and wholesome, making it unsuitable for production despite its hopeful, well written nature. The exchange captures tensions between artistic ambition and commercial tastes.
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Gloyoland Plain Dealer
Fire alarm saves crippled man in Sunnyvale hotel
George Campbell of Sunnyvale Cal congratulates himself on being a cripple in both legs. A fire breaks out at the American hotel and the proprietor’s daughter wakes the sleeping man in night dress and barefoot, sounding the alarm. The volunteer fire dept arrives to find his wooden legs burning but he is unconscious as the blaze is confined to his room.
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George Campbell
Sunnyvale
Cal
Campbell
A New View for Medical Students in Surgery
A projectoscope is designed to project an operation from above onto a glass screen between the operating room and student seating. It uses a large lens and surface mirror mounted about 4½ feet above the patient, with a 5 foot diameter, lighted shield to provide shadowless, uniform illumination of the surgical field.
Egg tester device monitors freshness by water test
A new aluminium air chamber device with a graduated stem and two spring loops holds an egg for submersion. Depth indicates egg quality from fresh to cooked, with 0 as fresh and 12 as decomposed. useful for kitchens and poultry raisers to judge nutrition and incubation progress. Inventor: Dr. E. C. Waldorf of Buffalo, New York.
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Dri. EC. Waldorf
Buffalo, N. Y
Uniform Sparking Plug Standards Proposed by AALAM
The mechanical branch of the American Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers has worked on standard sparking plug dimensions. The agreed form features seven-eighths inch diameter threads, 18 pitch, a shouldered seat of 1 1/8 inches, no minimum length below the shoulder of 1/2 inch, and a hexagon across the flats of seven-eighths inch.
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American Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
Maxim’s silent gun demo shown to reporters and scientists
Hiram Percy Maxim demonstrated his silencing device for rifles before newspapers and scientific publishers. A seven inch long tube attached to rifle barrels reduces noise by about 90 percent by creating a rapid rotary gas flow that delays escape, while a central passage lets the bullet through. Demonstrations used rifles from 22 caliber to Springfield 30 caliber military.
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Hiram Percy Maxim
Mr. Maxim
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