Landscape gardening styles and vivid plant portraits
A Dayton native writes on natural and architectural landscape styles, contrasting English and Italian approaches and stressing harmony between buildings and grounds. The piece discusses lawn shapes, shrubbery, and the value of variety, plus a photograph from Denison Tex of a wild dewberry crossbreeding with cultivated types.
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America
England
Italy
Senpor
Louisa K. Miller
Dayton
Back Yard Geraniums Prompt Rivalry Says Florist
A New Jersey florist recalls an Italian buyer purchasing two dozen geraniums and later a neighbor sought extra plants to outdo him. The neighbor demanded four dozen geraniums to beat the other’s display in the yard.
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New Jersey
Green Manuring and Alfalfa Value in Soil Improvement
The article discusses green manuring with rye buckwheat and especially legumes like clover and alfalfa. It notes nitrogen fixation from the atmosphere, humus formation, soil moisture retention, and improved soil texture. Ottawa experiments show alfalfa as the top performer for humus and nitrogen per acre, with deep roots boosting nutrient access and soil improvement.
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FT. Shutt
Canada
Ottawa
Silo Oats Sprout After Wetting, Forming Protective Mat
A Country Gentleman correspondent notes that two seasons of oat packing in the silo with unthrashed oats six inches deep, then thorough wetting, caused the oats to sprout and form a mat that keeps the ensilage in good condition.
Potatoes and Grains Grow in Harsh Conditions
The piece notes a looming potato crop crisis in Colorado unless relief comes by expanding safe territory east of the Mississippi. It also reports Michigan station yields with Irish Cobbler at 367.64 bushels per acre and Coos Early at 816.18. Maggie Murphy barley yields exceed 200 bushels for eight years. Emmer and spelt resist rust and tolerate drought, thriving on light soils.
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Colorado
Mississippi
Michigan Experiment Station
Maggie Murphy
Disease Remedies for Fowls and Preventive Tips
The article prescribes home remedies for fowl diseases including a lard ginger cayenne mustard dough for roup and turpentine glycerin wash for swollen head. It lists causes of wet disease such as indigestion impure air dark damp quarters poor exercise and filthy conditions and suggests diet changes light nutritious food and worming with entomel and max vomten. It notes leg weakness from heat heavy meat and starchy foods and recommends moist air shallow water in the brooder and feeding charcoal with a rusty iron in drinking water.
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Drinking Water Farm Journal
Hens should hunt for food to stay active and lay
The Feather advises constant foraging for hens to ensure laying. Provide a dry floor in the henhouse with six to eight inches of dry earth or sand, cover with straw, and scatter winter grain so hens dig for it. Use small grains to keep them working, dust protects against pests.
Feeding poultry with wheat oats and corn mix from Home and Farm
The article recommends a scratching grain mix for laying hens using wheat hulled oats cracked corn and millet seed with proportions adjusted for shelter and cold. It notes oats reduce fat loss, advises avoiding light chaffy oats, and stresses scatter feeding and extra grit.
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Perth
Ground oyster shell and grit aid fowl digestion says poultry experts
Western Poultry Journal notes ground oyster shell sharp grit helps fowls grind food in the gizzard and prevents indigestion when shells are scarce. Farm Journal advises fattening turkeys on boiled cornmeal oatmeal and suet, keep birds in closed coops, provide light, feed every three hours, and market readiness in twenty days.
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V. Marshh
Western Poultry Journal
Farm Journal
Winter hen care for steady egg production
The Poultry News advises keeping hens warm in winter and offering a variety of foods. Do not overfeed but learn the hens wants. A varied diet yields eggs at lower cost than a grain only diet.
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Poultry News
Feed Corn In Winter Says Dr Woods
Dr Woods argues that twenty five percent of the weekly ration in winter should be corn or corn products, with a smaller share in hot weather as a guideline for poultry feeding.
A Century Ahead in Chicago Chronicle Verse
A poetic note from the Chicago Chronicle imagines a century hence when the town and its tunnels cable cars city hall reform and a smoke free era bring the city greatness and art. It speaks of hope for a modern updated Chicago.
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Chicago Chronicle
The Matter of Drinks
In H. G. Wells Utopia he argues utopians cannot sustain their order on ginyver ale and lem onade, noting that temperance is essential to their society.
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H. G. Wells
Temperance Talk Debates Drinks and Health Claims
The Chicago News quotes critics denouncing sugary gas drinks and alleged brain harming effects of coffee while praising water as the sole suitable temperance beverage. It notes tea harms digestion, with a preference for lightly impure water for better flavor.
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England
America
Chicago News
Anita of the Range: A Cowboy’s Daughter Story
Anita grows up on the range as her father proclaims she is the best cowboy he has. She defies expectations by riding hard and living freely, sipping water from a trough after long rides.
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Anita
S.S. S
SWIFT
Atlanta
Anit Averts Cowboy Shootout On The Trail
Anita rides to stop a sheepman firing on cattlemen and saving a man from danger. She disarms the attacker with bold moves, then returns to her carriage with the Vicomte de Tabie, reflecting on the daring rescue.
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Denison
Tex
Furti
Texas
Strager
Vicomte de Tabie
Anit
Porland
Oregonian
Mis
Geneva Briggs
S. Seventh Street
Minneapolis
Minn
Urbana
Ohio
Cc. Orto
Foley
J. N. Patterson
Nashua
Columbia
Southeast Corner Square
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