Curious Trees and Their Odd Properties Around the World
A travelogue notes various remarkable trees. It describes rain trees that stay green year round and fill cisterns with moisture, a witch tree with luminous leaves, and other notable species: butter tree, mains tree, tallow tree, and a sap-bearing oat or oap tree from Japan. The piece blends folklore with anecdotal uses and curious legends.
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Central
Africa
Calabria
Malabar
Japan
Shields for the police and exotic tree wonders in 1911 notes
In the 1911 Liverpool riots a constable devised a shield with a viewing slot to protect officers. The piece gains approval from Lancashire constabulary. The article also describes Venezuela’s cow tree producing a milky fluid for butter and other trees yielding tallow and edible gums on Fierro in the Canary Islands.
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Liverpool
Lancashire
Venezuela
Malabar
Fierro
Canary Group
Yield of strange trees in Madagascar water tree noted
A man fond of trees describes a Madagascar traveler’s tree that provides pure water on demand. The tree grows about 90 feet tall with long leaves on stalks and a distinctive stem radiating from opposite sides, offering a water source for thirsty travelers.
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Madagascar
Beersheba Wells and the Abraham Abimelech Pact
In Beersheba Palestine two circular wells supply pure water, one called Abraham's well. Beersheba translates to Well of Oath or Beven Wells, and a story ties the name to an alliance between Abraham and Abimelech of Gerar, sealed by seven ewe lambs from Abraham.
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Beersheba
Palestine
Abraham
Abimelech
Gerar
Much Pleasure From Bees and Profits of Beekeeping
The article discusses beekeeping as a popular pastime that also yields profit. It stresses locating hives away from wind with sun exposure, early morning activity, and shade to reduce nuisance. It covers hive placement, pasture for sheep, hive spacing, and options like roof tops or city lots when ideal sites are unavailable.
Beekeeping: A Highly Profitable Farm Venture
Beekeeping promises profits with little input as bees provide their own pasturage and multiply rapidly. It can be run by farm children or women, complement poultry or fruit farming, require little labor, and offer steady cash returns without ongoing feed costs.
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United States
Handy implement for a one horse dump cart
An Ohio farmer describes a simple bed cart built from wood and drill wheels. The 28 inch wide bed stands 10 inches high and 42 inches long, with shafts bolted on and a removable bed. The design uses 10 inch hinges and wooden blocks to catch the bed, with a 3 inch by 10 inch block on each shaft to aid dumping.
Danger In the May Fork
Advice warns readers to avoid leaving forks scattered in the yard to prevent injuries. Suggests placing a wooden strip across a corner to store all forks together, keeping them visible and out of reach to prevent accidents.
Farm and garden notes on crops and soil care
Agricultural guidance covers seed corn, lima beans, and tomatoes, stressing warm dry ground, manure as fertilizer, and avoiding wet soil. Advice includes shoring sheds, rotating alfalfa plots, potato planting after peas, and managing clover and timothy growth for better grounds and garden appeal.
Lawn Fertilization Rate for Weedy Lawns
If the lawn is weedy and growth is poor, apply nitrate of soda at 160 to 200 pounds per acre. Scatter broadcast just before a rain or before watering to help uptake.
Hopper Feeding System Benefits Poultry Ration Balance
Agricultural note describes a Corneil hopper with six divisions for wheat bran meat meal sunflower oyster shells and grit plus corn on the ear and table scraps. Ten White Wyandotte pullets laid 1594 eggs from March 1911 to February 1912 with minimal labor, despite extreme cold.
Not Hard to Raise Turkeys by Mrs Jones
Mrs Jones urges turkey keepers to start with vigorous stock and proper care. Do not overfeed and keep birds lice free and dry to prevent losses. If lice appear paint a deep box with lice killer, place birds inside briefly, cover top, vent fumes, then dust with heel powder. Continuous vigilance is key.
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Turkey
Conditions Affect Productivity on Poultry and Farm Animals
Readable fragment notes that conditions impacting the comfort of poultry and farm animals directly affect their health and thus their ability to produce eggs milk and wheat outputs.
Keep Little Mites Away Takes On Farm Pests
A short note describes using remedies to ward off mites from oats platform woodwork and fowls. The text mentions pests named Miche mites and other nuisances causing misery on the farm.
Poultry Housing and Incubation Tips from Historic Manual
The text warns against crowded chicken coops and mixed age flocks, urges clean, well ventilated housing, and stresses avoiding lice on hens. It notes that warm weather requires space and proper separation of ages, and that turkey raising demands attention beyond a hands off approach. It also mentions incubator moisture as a key factor in chick hatching and briefly links abdominal pouch size in geese to age.
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Florida
Khorasean
Persia
Iman Riza
Gon of Ali
Shields
Police
Beershebs
Phillips
California
Catalina Leland
Ohio
Drees and Farm Nores
R. G. Weatherstone
DR. Jones
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