Making the Little Farm Pay
Advice on cooperative farming and direct selling to improve small farm profits. Encourages forming neighborhood clubs to deliver steady produce to city consumers, contracting with grocers, hotels, and restaurants, and marketing waterfowl, fruit, and vegetables at better prices. Emphasizes choosing markets near good outlets and planning for seasonable contracts.
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Fesson
Fecq
Thor
Momer
Ts Gm
Ersteniers
Bell
Eaet
Beautiful Home Grounds for Farmyards
James G. Moore of the University of Wisconsin lays out practical advice for farmers to beautify home grounds. He urges using native plants and shrubs found locally, avoiding dense planting, and keeping borders tidy. He cautions against gaudy or cheap ornaments and stresses thoughtful layout along yard borders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Moore
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
Between Furrows and Better Farming Traditions
Fragmented text discusses child welfare, education, and farming ethics with mentions of hardship and subsistence living. It critiques social mobility and the idea that wealthier lands attract better farmers, citing rural home life and economic disparity as shaping the farming class.
Alfalfa Soil Treatment Inoculation Guide
J G Hutton assistant at State College explains sour soils require specific bacteria for alfalfa growth. Remove top soil, use deeper layers, shield from sun, and inoculate with native soil or sweeten with ground limestone. Avoid diseased fields and use healthy alfalfa soils. liquid cultures are experimental per Nebr. station.
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J.G. Hutton
Assit
Antaebaned State College
Worttia
South
Nebrask
Agronomy Department
State Agricultural College
Notes on Bees Improve Honey Through Careful Beekeeping
The text explains that protecting bees in buildings helps save bees and yield more honey. It advises rearing queens and increasing colonies with the most honey, notes factory made hives are best, and suggests avoiding multiple swarms. It discusses bee varieties, especially East Indian honey bees, and mentions winter hardiness and defense against robbers.
Savory Cabbage Dish From Frugal Household Hints
A recipe from Hints for the Busy Housewife describes Savory Cabbage baked in a deep dish with stuffing. Core ingredients include cabbage leaves, stale bread, sausage meat, onion, salt, pepper, mustard, and stock. The method coats softened bread with sausage and seasonings, stuffs the leaves, ties into a compact loaf, and braises until tender, served hot with the cooking broth.
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Hell
Practical Sewing Hint and Recipe Snippets for Home Cooks
A collection of domestic tips on threading needles safely for the visually impaired, making Mayonnaise Dressing, Italian Fritters with cheese and peppers, Brass lacquer, and Fried Potato Balls. Includes instructions, measurements, and steps for each recipe and craft task drawn from a traditional home magazine.
Flower shop tale of a ministerial bouquet
In a St Petersburg shop Katia and her father sell flowers for a countess who patronizes them. A mysterious gift bouquet for the minister concealed a small glass globe with a fuse, revealing a revolutionary plot. The countess spares Katia, and the lovers evade exposure as the revolutionaries’ aims are foiled by mercy.
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Vivershiys
Wiles
Katia
Whit
Kano
Lam
Aie
Voronkat
Hidieité de Bern
Voronka
Keira
Ike
Kithi
Plow and Plowing Cite Industrial Vitality From Past
A Detroit era reminiscence contrasts a desperate man seeking change with a furious husband. The piece laments the pain tied to a single insult while praising the plow as the cornerstone of civilization, agriculture, and industry, asserting humanity’s progress hinges on farming.
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Wiestiel
Faruyime
Ivan Ead
Shaw
Peisinz
Weyman-Bruton Co
Micago. NA
Weyman. Bruton Company
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New York
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MOYER
O. T. Axness & CO
Sisseton, S. D
Ie Star Dairy
Hanson & Tallarson
Lampert Lumber Co
Sullivan Lumber Co
Julius Aasness
Mgr
Sisseton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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