Angora Goats Hair Study Eyes Better Ranch Profits
A livestock study on national forests examines Angora goats raised for hair to cut brush, improve range and prevent fires. Officials note goats thrive on undergrowth in the West, need careful management, sheds during kidding, and water access. Improved methods aim to boost profits while protecting forest ranges amid varying local impacts.
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Southwest
Weat
San
Fares Service
Forestere
Kim
Home style sweets and savories from the kitchen cabinet
A long list of dated home recipes and pantry notes covering stuffed sweet potatoes with bread crumb stuffing, fruit salads with grapefruit and pineapple, honey cakes and various cakes, pies, puddings, and fried bread items. The text mixes cooking instructions with light moral lines and guidance on honey uses and keeping cakes moist. It references potatoes, peppers, apples, oranges, and numerous spice blends, offering step by step methods and oven times.
Fight Foe of Fowls To Rout Them After They Gain Foot Hold
Poultry expert from Minnesota University Farm warns the poultry mite is a deadly enemy attacking day and night. He urges movable furnishings for semi annual disinfection and a proactive regimen using broom, hoe, shovel, and an efficient sprayer. Use kerosene soapsuds and emulsions, then sweep, wash, spray roosts and ailing areas weekly through hot weather for peacetime in the hen house and better profits.
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Chapman
Minnomta Universty Farm
Bess
Salt use in pasture and winter for cattle
The Progressive Farmer notes cattle should be salted more on pasture than in winter. Best practice is to provide granulated salt under shelter with optional ashes coal or phosphate rock mix. If mixed with feed, give one half to three fourths ounce daily for 700 to 1000 pound animals.
Improper Feed for Calves Causes Indigestion
The most common friction affecting calves is indigestion. Causes include overfeeding, cold or sour milk, dirty milk, high fat milk, improper housing, and sudden temperature changes.
Rescuing His Brother on the Western Front
Two English brothers on the western front scene the elder helps the younger to safety after he is wounded. The injured brother clings to his captured German helmet as proof of the encounter and survival.
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Western Front
Rigid Morals and the Poker Lie Lynching Tale
A terse old joke shows Broucho Bob asking about a tenderfoot who claimed he did not know how to play poker. Piute Pete responds that the man was lynched not for winning but for lying, exposing a grim punchline on moral policing and frontier humor.
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Broucho Bob
Piute Pete
Hot in Her Set
A witty exchange from Stray Stories features a woman recalling a poem while noting the rarity of inviting men to their card parties. The dialogue conveys social humor about guest lists and literary references in a lighthearted vignette.
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Horatius
Diverse Bits From 1914 Headlines and Oddities
Patchwork items report values of Philadelphia manufactures at 784 500 dollars Kingston Ireland plans 274 model worker houses New York hosts a federal employees union of 300 members A Spanish family counts seven with 144 bags and odd hand counts A Chicago inventor seeds a metal curtain to shield windows from burglars Wilmington plans a new free library building The bird’s hooded neck shield invention spurs a police bench remark A 200 year old baptismal font is used in Milwaukee at Nay Gustave Boynton’s baptism The font, heirloom of Judge Barlow, connects to Doctor Boynton’s family lineage
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Philadelphia
Kingston
Ireland
New York
Chicago
Wilmington
del i
R. D. Boynton
Wisconsin Veterans Shome
Milwaukee
EB. Erle
Gustave Boynton
Barlow
Doctor Boynfee
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Onthly
Ee Aes
Militia OF Mercy
Boston
Iservice
York City
Anita
Brooklyn
J the Fimens
Mitchel
Curley
Little Elon Anderson
Hn Hag Han
England
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