Agriculture and allied fields offer strong future prospects
The article argues for intelligent, scientific farming as a top career, highlighting the value of agricultural education, state schools, and federal forestry opportunities. It notes how modern machinery, education access, and demand for skilled workers create broad prospects for young people choosing agriculture and horticulture as independent, rewarding livelihoods.
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Forestry Service
State Agricultural School
Butter Storage Experiments and Timber Money Notes
A Washington dairy bulletin reports butter storage experiments in Kansas and Town over the past year. Findings: low salt content preserves butter longer. full cans fare better than partially filled. sweet cream butter stores better than sour. Also discusses timber pricing and cottonwood planting as future lumber supply, noting a central Town farmer with cottonwood plots yielding substantial value within decades.
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Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Kansas
Cliffs of Ballybunton Burn From Salt Sea Fire
Reported in the Minneapolis Journal, Ireland’s Ballybunton cliffs were described as catching fire from oxidizing iron pyrites and alum in sea water. The sea’s action allegedly produced yellow flame and bitter smoke, drawing onlookers from far away to witness a volcanic-like blaze.
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Italy
Ireland
Casey
Ballybunion
Atlantic
Erin
Thallybunion
Ballybunton
Creey
Minneapolis Journal
Tamed by Kindness The Elephant Hunter’s Far East Method
A historical account describes taming elephants in Ceylon by luring them into fenced clearings, blinding torches, and restrained entrances. Once trapped, elephants are fed with coconuts and leaves and calmed by patient, kind handling until they become obedient servants to the handler.
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Far
Ceylon
White Ants of Africa and Native Reactions
Native residents along Africa's east coast tolerate great white ant colonies. The insects fertilize crops, with maize and corn near ant hills doubling in size. The bush country nearby hosts large native populations. ants spare green crops to a degree.
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Africa
A Twaste For Dows
Mark Twain once joked about war and sieges. A Frenchman visited a woman with two dogs. she questioned his fondness for dogs. He replied he had eaten more than twenty during the siege of Paria.
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Dows
Mark Twain
Paria
Patient Man in London Opera Crowd Remains Enduring
A Scots farmer in the balcony of a London Wagner performance quips that “Twas a patient man that wrote all this” after surviving three long acts. The remark underscores the audience’s endurance of the Ring cycle.
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London
Lake of Acid near Sulphur, New Zealand
A fifty acre lake of sulphuric acid lies at Sulphur near New Zealand. The acidic water teems with hydrochloric and sulphuric acids, hissing and bubbling at 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Extreme caution is required to approach the lake to avoid suffocation.
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New Zealand
Man carries private theater under his hat
A concise meditation framed as a quote about a man concealing a private theater under his hat, where a grand drama unfolds beyond any stage, ending in eternity per Carlyle.
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Carlyle
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