Building a Cheap Poultry House With Simple Materials
G R France describes a practical poultry house for about 25 hens with a connected design option. He details rough hemlock costing about 10 dollars per thousand feet, notes alternative flooring at 16 percent extra, and provides an itemized lumber list totaling 14.45 dollars plus minor materials. Implementing the project requires two days of labor by a carpenter with one helper.
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G. R
France
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Milk and Beef Plucks For Poultry Feeding
Milk is praised as cheap versatile poultry food suitable for hot weather, with daily milk and meat twice weekly. Beef plucks are highlighted as a cost effective meat supplement cheaper than bone, best prepared by grinding, boiling, and drying to keep for weeks in a cool dry place.
Sell Matured Stock For Market Profit
The article advises farmers to sell cattle and hogs when fat and ready for market to avoid losses from holding, notes local buyers profit from consignments, and urges shipping stock to larger markets to secure higher prices. It emphasizes prudent marketing and coordinating shipments to form full carloads.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Farmers Voice
Future of farming and the push for expanded cultivation
The Agricultural Epitomist argues that rising population will outpace current farming capacity within 25 to 30 years. It predicts need for 700 million bushels of wheat and 3.45 billion bushels of corn, requiring 150 million more acres, though only 108 million acres are newly available.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
A Swinging Trough For Fowls Or Swine
A swinging V shaped trough for pens works with stout end bars bolted to the pen sides. It can be iron or wood and tilts up against the wall when not in use to keep the pen clean. An Indianapolis News note highlights its utility in preventing stale food odors. A scientist questions corn cobs as nourishing feed.
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Indianapolis News
Cincinnati
Heer
New York
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Louisville
Ouis
Aixed
What a Gentleman Is Definition Across Time and Culture
Aline Gorren argues in Scribner's that the modern gentleman is defined by adaptability, restraint, and quiet conduct rather than strict personal standards. He adapts to prevailing circumstances, avoids intrusion, and carries silent courage without forcing his own view, reflecting the Anglo-Saxon idea of social harmony.
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Aline Gorren
Scribner’s
Rustic observer earns sly quip at royal ceremony
An old farmer type at a Queen Anne era event peers at the courtly crowd and quips to Cromwell, Never since I sat in her chair, a joke recounted in Youth's Companion. The piece also notes a Mississippi senatorial campaign gag attributed to Congressman John Allen from the Memphis Scimitar.
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Richard Cromwell
Westminster Hall
John Allen
Mississippi
Mr. Allen
Fur Office
Memphis Scimitar
Counterfeiting and varied notices in a late 19th century paper
A miscellany of items includes secret service upheaval over counterfeit bills and fake medicines, a comic anecdote about a professor and a botched gas gag, Catarrh Cure advertising with a money back claim, a wagging cat joke from Indianapolis Journals, a long description of the Alton Limited train with technical details, and short quips about dropsy treatment, dyes, vegetarianism, and a Huntington Ind. testimonial. The piece blends sensational alerts, humor, ads, and rail history.
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Swanson
Mrs Pinkham's Medicine Restores Vitality to Women
Letters recount life changing relief from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. Mrs E B King of Germano and Mrs M L Spears of GuN Marsa credit the remedies with curing womb trouble, fatigue, nervousness, and insomnia, enabling them to work full days again and recommend the preparations.
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Deear Murs
Pingsuamm
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mars
E. BE. King
Germano
Ono
M. L. Spears
Gun Marsa
Micu
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