Experiments In Corn Culture Results Reported From Stations
Experiments in corn culture by Professor J W Sanborn at Missouri station and by H J Waters show early varieties yield less grain and fodder, with short stalks, while medium maturers yield most corn and late maturers yield more fodder and tall stalks. Manure boosts crops more than salt or lime. deep plowing under and shallow tillage improve yields, with shallow tillage best. Clover hay worms attack old hay. hay mows should be cleaned annually. Poultry keeping devices illustrate space saving and catching fowls. Beekeeping college opens in Ontario. Georgia agricultural policy favors sowing good soil for oats. New York State Fair details.
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J. W. Sanborn
Missouri Station
H. J. Waters
Ilinois
Clarence M. Weed
Ohio
Bradstreet
United States
New York State
Syracuse
New York State Agricultural Society
Albany
Beekeepers’ College
Guelph
Ont
Agricultural Commissioner of
Georgia
Late Grazing and Turnips in Stock Feeding Practices
Agricultural notes discuss how overly rapid grass growth reduces forage quality, suggesting linseed and cotton cakes mixed with grains for added nutrition. It covers turnips as stock fodder, with varieties like strap leaf, White Egg, Norfolk, and Pomeranian White Globe. Additional items note hay packing, European rye drought signals, and crop estimates across Britain, Russia, Austria, Kansas, and Colorado.
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Norfolk
Footlight Flashes and Theater News
Great Prais, Mon. plans a Rou opera house while Milan experiments with a free theater. Ellen Terry’s daughter Ailsa Craig will pursue acting. The German Hebrews of Philadelphia seek a theater on Front Street. Monk Meyer, an Australian musician and composer, gains recognition in Europe. Israel Pleishman, former manager of Philadelphia stages, helped usher theatrical work. Cheago urocer backs Mrs. Welie Carter’s second tour with advances. Mrs. Mary Wray, 87, likely the oldest actress in the U.S., is English. Ada Wild is married to comedian John Wild. Sardou’s first comedy failed. he was 23 and once a math teacher. Rumor links Miss Lillian Russell to Carl Streitmann. Rose Coghlan and Robert Mantell leave Pitou. Pitou renews with Scanlan and tours with a stock company and The Power of the Press. A French observer notes Sarah Bernhardt has earned 6,516,000 francs in 25 years, with a 600,000-franc profit on her first American tour and an expected 200,000 francs on the current tour.
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Praiis
Mon
Milan
Ellen Terry
Ailsa Craig
Philadelphia
Forhih Street
Lombard
Monk Meyer
Europe
Israel Pleishm
Walnut Street
Park
Cheago Urocer
Welie Carter
Mary Wray
Rose Coghlan
Robert Mantell
Augustus Pitou
Scanlan
Sarah Bernhardt
Flower and Tree Observations Across Regions
The report highlights a Philadelphia rose seventeen inches wide, a four inch orange tree at Yuba City bearing a currant-sized orange, and tropical plants growing suspended from limbs. It notes Britain’s dwarf willow on Ben Lomond, Khuskhus grass yielding a perfumed scent, and Sequoia gigantea’s destruction only by dynamite. Indian rubber cultivation thrives in Trinidad with imported varieties. US forests grow at a natural rate surpassing gold and silver outputs, valued far higher than mineral and coal production.
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Philadelphia
Yuba City
Cal
Tropics
Ben Lomond
Great Britain
India
Henry C. Dillon
Kaweah
Trinidad
United States
FISH AND FLESH A CURIOUS NATURAL HISTORY LIST
A Provincetown fisherman claims mackerel migrations form with the front line of females and the rear as males. A New York parrot has over twenty owners, repeatedly shouting fire at dawn to alarm households. German beliefs tie crickets to death warnings while frogs and snakes avoid food unless it stays alive. A tarpon surfaces to breathe, its air bladder reaching eighteen inches. Scorpion stings mimic rattlesnake fangs, and the Mojave grass-eating turtle grazes like a horse.
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Germany
Mojave Desert
New York
Provincetown
Mass
Isherman
Oddities and Local Wonders From a 19th Century Ledger
A mix of curiosities and small-town notes: farmer Yeazel of Waynesville has eleven children with ten six toed boys and one six fingered girl. Ostyaks of Siberia swear by a bear’s jaw while hoping speakers are devoured if false. A Washington museum holds a parchment copy of the Lord’s Prayer in fifty-four languages. The sentence Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs uses every letter of the alphabet with five extras and repeats no consonant. Indian railcar etiquette frustrates Brahman-Pariah proximity rules. Near Dayton Georgia a well known as the well of frozen air vents gusts audible two hundred yards away. A bucket of water left over its opening freezes solid in hours.
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Farmer Yeazel
Waynesville
Ostyaks
Siveria
Museum of the Dead
Washington
India
Dayton
Golden Cure by Secret Tea Coffee Additive
A purported treatment claims to be mixed into tea or coffee without the drinker’s knowledge to rapidly and permanently cure drinkers, including alcoholics. It promises guaranteed cures and asks readers to request circulars from the Golden Effect? Electric Co. at 165 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Goldenerectric CO
Race Street
Cincinnati
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Farm Journal
Odt
Kansas
Colorado
Anodyne
Straus
Price & Ety
Johnson & CO
Dius
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
New Chamberlain Institute
Randolph
N. Y
Muse
Business College
Edwards, L
Nev
Rae Sik
Nestay
Beyl
Balape
Atu Rilyy
Kopf & Henry
Warren, PA
Wyman & Davis
Wm Tite
Jewelers
Water Street
Carver Horse
Warren
C.&e.bartsch
Id Waeerey
J. K. Ronne
Merchant Tailoring
Hickory Street
C. B. Hamlin
Pevember
Geo, S. Davis
Basa
Keng Bator
Streuts
WeHrrub
Corner Second
Liberty
Theel
North Fourth
Eel Green
Philadelpia
Vega
France
Austria
Sears
Hovrac
Gelg
Laney
Dinguis
Allegheny
F. & Fowler
Moodus, Cony
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