Selling Milk Lambs For Better Market Returns
Investigations by Prof. Thomas Shaw show lamb growers should market young. Milk lambs fetch best prices at 50 to 60 pounds alive, typically at 70 to 90 days. Early market favors February or March sales, especially if dams are good milkers and fed well. If selling later, target not after October 1, fattening on rape or green feed to cut costs. Markets favor 80 to 90 pound lambs over heavier weights, though breed differences affect optimal age.
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Thomas Shaw
New York
Revolving trough for easy cleaning and mobility
A historical note describes a trough design that can be cleaned by quarter turning and rolled to time the dry trough. It outlines a main board 13 inches wide with six inch boards nailed on each side, starting over the center line, to form a circular, rotating trough mechanism.
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Ohio
Ing to line trough a clever poultry feeding device
A Kansas farmer shares a method for building a labor saving trough with precise steps for nailing and assembling square boards, allowing rotation between upright posts to control use. The piece also includes Coburn of Topeka praising hog fattening by feeding corn, likening hogs to a self regulating machine and freight saver.
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Kansas
F. Coburn
Topeka
Kay
England
Skimmilk for the Pigs and Winter Feeding Outlook
Skim milk is praised as the best weight-building feed for pigs while oats bran and shorts aid muscle. Farmers doubt profitability of two litters due to slow growth in cold weather, but dairymen insist winter cow care plus pig care yields steady pig growth from November to April.
Abyssinian King Questions Missionary Aims
King Menelek of Abyssinia rejected Christian proselytizing, saying his subjects already follow orthodoxy. He challenged a Swedish missionary on where his converts came from and advised converting Hebrews and pagans in Germany first. A frontier escort followed the exchange.
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Menelek
Abyssinia
Christiaity
Exchinge
Germany
Egypt
The
Soudan
The Woman Peddler
A New York Times based account recalls a female door to door peddler who gave up book selling after finding women more receptive to labor saving devices. She now trades in egg beaters, potato peelers, can openers and stove lifters, cultivating regular customers who commission items for their kitchens.
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New York Times
America's Tobacco Bill Shapes Cigar Boom
The American Cigar Company, a young trust now in less than two years, produced about a billion cigars in the last year as part of a booming American tobacco industry. Total U.S. output nears 7 billion cigars and 3 billion cigarettes, with tobacco products valued around $500 million annually, signaling a fierce fight for control among producers.
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American Cigar Company
Leslie’s Monthly
America
Marriage Statistics From Indianapolis News
Worldwide marriages average 3000 daily. Among 1000 men who wed, 332 marry younger women, 570 wed women their own age, and 98 marry older women.
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Indianapolis News
Two Pacific submarine cables redefine ocean links and stakes
A century of undersea cables prepared the Pacific challenge as two Asia to North America lines emerge after Dewey cut Manila Bay’s cable. The sprawling network, valued at 275 million dollars, tests profits though its strategic aim dominates.
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Straits of Dover
Pacific
Asia
Nature
North American Review
Dewey
Manila Bay
United States
Island marriage customs described at a psychology club meeting
A Wall Street journalist recounts a Philippine high caste wedding observed by a psychology society. The bride, age 14, and groom undergo a formal rites sequence led by a priest, a token gift exchange, then a celebratory feast and a dramatic wedding dance. Dowry negotiations follow between families as the tale closes.
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Psychological Society
Philippines
Wiegirk
Islands
Too Precious A Parson and the Parishioner’s Daughter
A village clergyman, summoned by Mrs Johnston in illness, visits a parlor where he chats with the daughter. He remarks her mother’s regard for him, asks about Rev Hopkins, and the woman is shocked by the insinuation about contagion and risk. The tale appears as a quaint, morally edged anecdote from Youth’s Companion.
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Mr. Hopkins
Fragmented quote from Chicago Daily News mashup
A garbled excerpt shows Mrs Wederly reacting to headlines about her husband. The text includes an editor’s mock remark and misread phrases, yielding no clear event or names beyond obscure references and a stray number.
Witch Hazel Salve and Cole’s Carbolic Cream Ad
A Victorian era advertisement extols DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as the cure for blind and protruding piles, burns, eczema, and skin diseases, claiming it leaves no scar. It also urges Cole’s Carbolic Salve for burns and sores, promising rapid healing and relief from itching, with prices listed and druggists as sellers.
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B.C. DeWitt & Co
DeWitt’s
Brothen
Cole
Cole’s
Bottineau County Land For Sale By Stewart Land Co
For sale by Stewart Land Co Ltd 200 acres of the best land in Bottineau county black sandy loam on a clay subsoil 60 acres under cultivation frame house and small frame stable 4 miles west of Souris priced at 16 per acre on easy terms. See Stewart Land Co Ltd.
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Bottineau County
Souris
Stewart Land Co, Ltd
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Wandard
Bottineau County Bank
Bottineau, North Dakota
Chamberlain
A. G. Burr
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