Old Jimmy Chambers Recalls a Remarkable Morning Hunt
In an oral reminiscence, Jimmy Chambers recalls a hunt in Pennsylvania using a muzzle loader. He describes shooting a deer and a fish, honey pouring from a tree, and seventeen quail killed by a rabbit he released. He recounts loading a sled with game and a stubborn groundhog skin graft joke about his willful mare. The story ends with a note on the common pimpernel and its weather-sign role.
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Jimmy Chambers
Pennsylvania
Value of Silage for the Steers
High corn silage interest grows as an economical roughage for fattening cattle. Indiana experiment station reports cattle fed only silage plus corn and cottonseed meal show strong gains and good returns. Seventy five cattle at full feed test various mixes while Illinois sheep study finds even heavy silage rations yield favorable results with low mortality.
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Iis
Indiana
Chicago
Illinois Experiment Station
Deadly Insult Sparks Fashion Hat Reference
A brief exchange in Lippincott's Magazine features Mrs Brooke asking about a new hat and Mrs Lynn answering with a remark about a similar hat being in style, implying a fatal insult theme without graphic details.
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Mrs. Brooke
Mrs. Lynn
Lippincott’s Magazine
Feeding and management tips from an agricultural column
The column advises feeding dry uncooked corn for hogs, delaying pasture for flocks until sturdy grass is ready, and warns horses against both sides of barbed wire. It notes water timing for horses, and prescribes aggressive feeding for pork, with a calf ration of corn meal oats bran linseed meal and a feeding rate per 100 pounds weight.
Draft Stallions and Sired Horses Description
Draft Stallions BEN J 9589 and ROY 45641 are described with sires and dams. BEN J is a bay five year old by Dexter 4980 out of Som ershamr 7292. ROY is a Sack grey four years old by Le vain 40583 out of Bell 34200.
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Ben J
Pembridge
Somershamr
Dexter
Roy
Levain
Bell
Draft horses BEN J and ROY to season near Canyon City
Two drafter horses, BEN J and ROY, will season at different farms near Canyon City with shifts to Leslie Crowley and W. T. King places on Mondays and Tuesdays near Happy. They are large heavy boned, of fine quality and good dispositions. Season price is $15 to insure a colt.
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Ben J
Canyon City
Roy
Leslie Crowley
Happy
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The
Canyon National Bank
of Canyon, Texas
J. M. Black
Pres
R. H. Wright
V-Pres
I. L. Hunt
Cashier
L. G. Conner
North Side
Texas
John Hutson
Canyon City, Texas
Smitil & Monroe
Elkhart Carrage & Automobile Company
A. H. Rife
Elkhart
J. E. Rogers
Thompson Hardware Go
Maitland
Panhandle Steam
Roy S. Taylor
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