Farm Machinery Care and Corn Nutrition Tips
The article urges farmers to store tools and equipment dry and well oiled to prevent rust and prolong life. It notes that weatherproof sheds and regular maintenance save time next season. It also discusses corn growth, digestion efficiency in animals, and optimizing fodder with thicker planting and deeper cultivation. It mentions a sheep rack for inside feeding.
Chutes Open Directly Into Rack At Center Passage
A brief description notes chutes from the left above open directly into the rack as the system runs through the center. The observation highlights the direct alignment of chute exits with the central storage rack.
Inventor Showcases Horseshoe With Corrugated Grip
The sketch displays a horseshoe with parallel ridges on the toe and transverse ridges on the heel. The corrugations form recesses to trap snow and dirt, creating a bearing surface that helps horses grip slick streets and prevent slipping. The design acts like a brake as the hooves move in opposite directions, aiming to keep footing secure.
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Reducing Chickens Overcrowding With Simple Boxes
The piece warns that overcrowding causes thousands in losses and offers a remedy using piano boxes with two guppy partitions to house hundreds of small chicks. It advises keeping chicks in small groups, culling half the flock, maintaining clean quarters, and avoiding confinement with older birds to prevent illness and stunted growth.
Misunderstood Silage Value Claims by Scientist’s Study
Professor at Minnesota station notes a misapprehension about silage quality based on stalk phase. He says silage gains value when ears form, not just a large growing core. The stalk with an ear yields more feed nutrients overall.
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Cornstalk Paper May Cut Costs of Wood Pulp
Chemists of the Bureaus of Forestry and Plant Industry report that paper can be produced from cornstalks by a process similar to wood pulp. They expect future machinery will reduce cost to about half the current wood pulp price, with two grades of cornstalk paper already made.
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Feeding of Dogs Advises Balanced Diet and Measured Servings
The Journal of Agriculture recommends not feeding dogs meat alone. A mixed diet with greens, bread, potatoes, and small meat scraps is advised. Two meals daily are suggested, one after midday and one in the evening, with portions limited to prevent overfeeding. If leftovers occur, reduce or omit the next meal.
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Journal of Agriculture
Box Trap For Gopher Hunting
Instructions describe a simple wooden box 8x10 inches and 2 feet long with a top-hinged door and leather hinges. The door opens inward to trap a gopher, using a nose-sized A-shaped opening in the door so the animal enters and the door falls behind it, preventing escape at the hole mouth.
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Fuarm Und
Census of Our Horses Reports Twenty Thousand Plus Breeds
Government census records more than 20,000,000 horses in the United States and nearly 4,000,000 males. The total exceeds prior estimates by several hundred thousand, signaling the end of the horseless age.
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United States
Beets Power Half of Sugar Output Now
Beets now supply one half of total sugar production, up from about one third twenty years ago, reflecting a major shift in agricultural processing and supply dynamics.
Life of Freedom Through Simple Work and Patience
Reverend Junius B. Remensnyder urges readers to seek a life of ease through trusting God like birds that are fed, loving work, practicing neighborliness, and avoiding imagined sorrows. He warns against excessive worry, extols patience, and concludes religion should enlarge life and awaken aspiration for a fuller, divine purpose.
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The Religious Motive by Henry F Cope
Henry F Cope argues religion should not be driven by fear or superstition. He criticizes past tithes and mindless conformity and urges a practical, duty based faith focusing on ethics and social relations rather than dogma. He warns against intellectual stagnation under rigid religious control.
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Henry F. Cope
Sermonettes On Faith And Self Reflection
A collection of aphorisms urging moral discipline and personal growth. It contrasts faith with bigotry and promotes action, endurance, and generosity while warning against laziness, envy, and self deception. The pieces advocate facing hard truths, bearing pain for strength, and seeking communal happiness over self indulgence.
Do Not Let Your Heart Dry Up Lest Religion Leak Out
A moral exhortation urges restraint in pride and power. It warns against using strength to oppress the weak and calls for supporting those in need while maintaining faith and courage through hardship.
Service to God by Rev Ernst Tappert
A preacher argues that true service is a living sacrifice of body and spirit, not mere temple worship. He urges holiness, self mastery, and faith in human goodness, urging that health and virtue arise from choosing the good and resisting evil signals in daily life.
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Ernst A. Tappert
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Inner struggle between good and evil in human nature
The piece argues that both good and evil impulses exist within people and that blaming an external devil risks ignoring the equal inner forces. It contends that no heart is wholly evil and that salvation lies in recognizing the constant tension between virtuous and base desires.
Sermonette Reflections on Duty and Charity
A collection of short religious maxims stressing service to others, selflessness, and humility. It warns against self serving piety and urges acts of kindness as true path to happiness and spiritual growth. The text contrasts easy sentiment with meaningful deeds and community uplift.
Donts for churchmen and seekers of virtue
A didactic piece cautioning churchmen to avoid anger through love and to resist greed. It urges facing aches by acknowledging them, building a strong backbone, and embracing possibility rather than fear. It promotes sparking joy in others and enriching the world with goodness over cleverness.
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