Water for Stock on the Range and Rural Mail Delivery
The article argues water supply on ranges prevents overgrazing and erosion. It recommends artificial tanks and wells every four miles, windmill pumps, and dam construction to ensure two miles maximum travel for cattle. It notes soil compaction and reduced river flow from overgrazing, and suggests plowing after oats, sowing wheat or rye in fall, and sowing timothy and clover for better spring seeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Denver Field
Rural Mail Delivery Gains Political Support and Expansion
The Pestotrice Department reports growing evidence for free rural delivery, with initial appropriations totaling 50 000, then 150 000, and now 300 000 after Congress increased funding. The program spans nearly all states and territories, with trials of bi and tri weekly service in sparsely populated areas and daily service where farms and mail volume justify it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pestotrice
Congress
Post Office Department
Potato Bread for Horses in Thuringia
Consul Hughes reports natives of Thuringia feed horses with potato bread during hard cold work. Potatoes are stewed and mashed with corn meal, salt, then baked into four-pound loaves for slow country ovens. Four loaves daily plus hay boosts work capacity and dental health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consul Hughes
Co‘burg
Thuringia
Germany
Cement Floors Ideal For Henhouses Says Boston Cultivator
The Boston Cultivator argues against boards for henhouse floors. Cement floors best prevent rot and vermin, allow easy drainage, and reduce litter under roosts. Excreta should be rotted with sifted coal ashes before use as fertilizer, boosting early pea growth and potential profits.
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Boston
Winter Grain After Oats Critique of Oat Seedling
The oat crop proves hard to seed well as roots spread widely and leaves are narrow causing oats to extract much grain from soil. Oats ripen later than other small grains, delaying harvest.
Lean pork gains from T'am-Wworth hog breed and varied feed
A gradual shift toward leaner flavored pork emerges with the T am Worths hog breed noted for rapid growth and lean meat. Farmers report that mixed diets with boiled potatoes crushed oats and peas yield more weight and higher quality pork, fetching 1 to 2 cents more per pound than corn fed meat. The famed Irish bacon sells 20 to 30 cents per pound and relies largely on nitrogenous feed rather than corn.
Manuring Pear Trees For Better Growth
Late summer is best for applying stable manure as top dressing to pear trees. Avoid excessive manure to prevent root diseases and blight. Use mineral nutrients with potash phosphate lime for overall soil health.
When to Sow Bluegrass Seed
Bluegrass seed can be sown year round with adequate moisture. Best times are autumn in mid September or early spring after frost. Sowing with timothy aids establishment. if sowing alone, prepare a well-turned seedbed and keep weeds down until a sod forms.
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Orange Judd Farner
Cows Seek Straw Stacks For Fly Control
Farmers note cows rub against threshing stacks to chase flies. Build a fence to protect stacks from damage. Cows eat straw and chaff, reducing milk flow. chaff mixed with grain meal or bran can serve as winter feed when moistened. Feeding straw dry helps dry cows off.
Trees Grow Very Rapidly in One Summer
A silver fir measuring 2% feet high showed 585 new shoots from early spring. Shoots ranged 4 to 6 inches, averaging 2 inches and totaling 9 feet. The 39,814 leaves and aggregate shoot length imply a growth well over half a mile if laid end to end.
Uniform Milking Practices Politicize Cow Behavior
The article notes cows react to new milking hands with stress and reduced milk flow. It argues that changing milker personnel disrupts routine due to each milker’s unique magnetism, causing cows to withhold milk. Consistent milking staff is recommended to maintain steady output.
Sweet Corn Fodder For Stock Feeds
Proper care makes fodder from sweet corn superior to grain for stock. Since corn is not harvested all at once, farmers leave stalks standing to dry after ears break, allowing air to reach the stalks. The small third ears and nubbins add value for cow feed, more than selling or cooking them.
Saving Lettuce Seed And Its Practical Challenge
The article explains lettuce seed quality depends on plants that form large heads and then bolt. Seed from such plants is clearer and more valuable than seed from varieties bred mainly for large seed crops, which reduces leaf yield and overall quality.
Farming Looks Pleasant to a Lawyer
A humorous old saying notes that farming seems pleasant to lawyers as law practice feels to farmers, reflecting a playful view of cross trades.
The Woman in White Becomes Mrs Sternberger of Cripple Creek
Minnie F. Murray a former editor from Nashua Iowa and Democrat who helped Horace Boies at the 1896 Chicago convention is described as the Woman in White after marrying S. Sternberger of Cripple Creek. Her dramatic balcony shout boosted Boies with delegates.
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H. & Sternberger
Cripple Creek
Iowa
William J. Bryan
Chicago
S. Sternberger
Minnie F. Murray
Miss Murray
Boies
Fair Partisan
Horace Boies
Trolley Car Funerals In Chicago Promised Cost Savings
A Chicago article notes trolley car funerals threaten to replace the old style hearse processions, arguing the new plan would reduce costs. The piece highlights expense savings as a key argument for the change.
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Chicago
Funeral car service expands on Chicago Electric Traction line
Undertakers resist but public demand drives a new funeral car option. The Virginia on the Chicago Electric Traction line seats twenty and costs 11 dollars plus 3 dollars for each extra car, with caskets in a vestibule and heavy curtains for privacy. Calumet line uses an adapted motor car with pallbearers beside the casket and relatives in back seats. The service runs across a broad southern stretch beyond 63rd street, sometimes drawing five funerals daily, with suburban undertaker arrangements through the line.
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Chicago Electric Traction Company
Virginia
Calumet Company
Calumet
63D Street
Proud to Know Him Snore Joke Echoes in Atlanta
A humorous exchange is recalled where a generous stranger, after a shared night with a loud snorer, gives the speaker a silver half dollar and urges him to spend it on drinks. The stranger praises the snorer as the best he has ever seen and notes the speaker outsnorings him.
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Atlanta Constitution
Color Your Own Pictures Method For Amateur Photographers
A simple coloring technique for photos is described. After printing, hold the photo to a window with the picture side toward the glass and sketch clearly on the back before mounting on cardboard.
How to Color a Photographic Portrait by Transferring Color
The article explains outlining the areas to color on the photograph then placing it on a blotter and applying colors from the back. A mix of ten parts benzine to one part vaseline is rubbed into the paper on both sides until transparent, then left to stand, dried, and mounted on cardboard for a clear color result.
Holy Man of Benares Dies After Self imposed Suffering
Swami Bhaskarananda a Brahmin hermit of Benares dies after years of naked self denial. He lived in a cave, sought emancipation of the imprisoned spirit through austere bodily mortifications. Tourists including the Prince of Wales visited his cell seeking spiritual reunion.
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Swami Bhaskarananda
Benares
Prince of Wales
India
Dr Joachim Celebrates Sixtieth Anniversary Of Debut
Dr Joseph Joachim recently marked the sixtieth anniversary of his debut as a violinist and was honored in Berlin. Born in Hungary, he studied in Vienna under Boehm and later with David and Hauptmann. By 1850 he led Paris concerts at age 19 and held major titles in Weimar Hanover and Berlin. He earned a Cambridge doctorate in 1877.
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Joseph Joachim
Berlin
Joachim
Rubinstein
Hungary
Vienna
Joseph Boehm
David
Moritz Hauptmann
Paris
Weimar
Chapel Royal
Hanover
University of Cambridge
Schumann
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Arts
Oxford
Witty Parlor Gossip and Classroom Quips Across Papers
A collage of light jests and social quips from various newspapers. Vignettes include a teacher and pupil exchange, a cash bill joke, and playful cartoons about courtship, marriage, and everyday manners.
Hustling Hoosiers notable Indiana happenings
A long list of Indiana items includes Evansville water pipes electrolysis. a Franklin public hospital opening. deaths of Susan Fullen Bedford 90. Columbus drowning Henry Meier in White River. Montpelier widow Lucas pension. new Columbus church. Martinsville elevator wheat spill. Greenwood power plant start. Muncie diamond loss by Lavina Corn. Guy Kable horse theft spree. Jeffersonville Mormon meetings. bee sting death near Anderson. Kokomo face injury in wife dispute. Vigo County road trestle contract dispute. Peru beetle cloud disrupts business and trains. Terre Haute Lord Mayor discuss英 England visit. Connersville 12-year-old fatal horse accident. Mitchell rheumatism cure dispute. Fontanet powder mill explosion. Union City bicycle crash. northern Indiana soldier seed sales. Valparaiso mustard crop. Kokomo temperance leaders. Hartford tramp weed pulling. Pigeon Creek rattlesnake tale. multiple Indiana patents issued.
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Susan Fullen
Bedford
Henry F. Meier
Columbus
White River
Conrad Lucas
Montpeliar
Martinsville
Greenwood
Indianapolis
Lavina Corn
Muncie
Guy Kable
Jeffersonville
South Indiana
Greely van Winkle
Anderson
Gottlieb Koehner
Greentown
Kokomo
Vigo County
Peru
Robert Bucknell
Terre Haute
Oxford
England
Terre Haute Commercial Club
Connersville
Charles Campbell
Mitchell
J. W. Randall
Fontanet
Matt Maiser
George Barber
Mabel Skidmore
Union City
William ]Fisher
Winchester
Indiana
Porto Rico
Valparaiso
S. EE. Nicholson
Battle Ground
Lafayette
Laurelia Simmons
Terre Iante
Oy Simmons
Richard Compton
Brazil
Hartford
Frank Werry
Pigeon Creek Bottoms
Grass Township
Spencer County
Alphege Burke
William
Shelbyville
Valentine Kelley
Clarksville
Pennsylvania Company
Silver Creek
The
Loop
The Minister's Mistake in a Rural Parish
In Mearns a Aberdeen minister visiting by hired carriage found only his driver at the pulpit service. He apologized for the long discourse and carried on as the sole audience member. The incident prompted reflections on stubborn prejudices.
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the Mearns
Aberdeen
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Franklin
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