Learn to Teach the Lambe and Field Notes on Crops
A collection of farm guidance covers teaching orphan lambs to drink from a basin, using fresh milk, and odor concerns. It also notes tobacco use against sheep parasites, crop succession planning, sparrow control experiments, tree trimming cautions, poultry fattening recipes, adulterated seed concerns, and Illinois corn yield research with seed testing and breeding efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Home Journal
Reece
Illinois
Building a hotbed in a sandy well drained site
The article explains locating a hotbed on a sandy well drained knoll with a long east west trench, framing with boards, lining to prevent caving, and stacking soil and manure to heat the bed. It covers sash construction, glass securing bars, storage, and temperature guidance using a thermometer, dated advice from Rural World.
Convict road camps in several states with strict guards and odd amusements
The article details road camps in states including Washington Oregon North Carolina and Georgia where convicts labor in tent camps under five officers with eight hour days and no badges. In Colorado eighty eight men work the roads. in Washington a remote rock quarry tests the system with dynamite moving rock and earth averages of 2.42 cubic yards of solid rock per man daily. The Washington camp uses a stockade and guardhouse with up to thirty convicts under five officers.
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Cone
Washington
Oregon
North Carolina
Georgia
Colorado
Lack of Judgment in Road Grading Widths
The author criticizes excessive roadbed widening when rounding curves. Water drainage gates are too close to fences, causing poor discharge. Road graders accelerate grading, tempting more spoilage. Proposed fix: maintain 42 to 45 feet between ditch edges for a proper roadbed distance.
Bad Roads Hurt Farm Value And Settlement
The text argues that bad roads reduce farm usefulness by five months a year and lower intrinsic value by about three percent. It says poor roads deter settlement, hamper population growth, push youth away from farm life, and fuel pessimism about rural life and marriage prospects.
Water from breakfast cream folk song origin claim
A fragment notes water from breakfast cream on an Irish farm linked to an authorial claim. The text is unclear and reads as a partial reference to Zork Press without full context or verifiable details.
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Zork Press
Poultry Culture Advice and Trap Nest Plans
An article excerpt outlines chick rearing steps from two weeks to maturity including feed stages, mash composition, and timing for broilers and layers. It also details a simple trap nest mechanism by C M Hayes, using a door hook and cross piece to trap hens entering the nest.
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A. C. Hawkins
Worcester County
Mass
C. M. Hayes
Nest Box Hygiene for Poultry FYI
The nest is a key site for lice when warm weather begins and hens seek cooler or warmer nests. Clean nests weekly by removing material, burning old contents, and replacing with fresh material. Dust with insect powder, sponge boxes with kerosene lightly, then place in a cool secluded location in the poultry house.
Dry Mash at Noon.
A brief fragment notes feeding or farming context with reference to fowls having access to all. The readable portion is limited and lacks clear event or named entities for a fuller summary.
Practical Poultry Points
Practical poultry notes discuss feeding skim milk to flocks, noting it tends to whiten the fresh. The text cites three work measures per individual and then averages for the flock.
All Who Would Enjoy Health and Living Well
A promotional note promotes right living and timely use of remedies. It extols simple health practices and states that medicines can be dispensed with, but when needed a wholesome remedy is valuable. The California Fig Syrup Co. lauds Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as the genuine laxative sold by leading druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
Hotel Celts and the value of inner wealth
A terse philosophical piece contrasts prison psychology with social security through valuables. It satirizes locking doors while suggesting civility rests on intangible assets like mind, character, and fellowship. The author notes fear of loss shapes behavior and urges a society valuing moral goods over material security.
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Abe
Eny
Succopa Magazine
The Aesthetic Oysterman Narrates Rough Oyster Opening
An oysterman recalls seeing two boys attempt to open oysters with loose stones on a restaurant sidewalk. They threw shells and oyster remains onto stone steps, leaving splinters and wrecked shells. He laments the careless method, hoping they did not choke on shell fragments.
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Som
New York Sun
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana
Charles Mitchell
Department of Agriculture
Galloway
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States
Illnois
Hopkins
Fornfeld
Atlanta Constitution
Srr
Fernee Peat
Harvard Lampoon
Warlick
United Water
Reig
Oysterman
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