Draft Horse Essentials for the Clydesdale Breed
The article describes draft horse standards for Clydesdales focusing on color and markings, weight, quality, and action. It emphasizes sloping pasterns, large well-shaped hooves, strong backs, muscled quarters, and properly set hind legs, noting that essential draft qualities must not be sacrificed for flashy style. Princess Goodwin is cited as the first prize champion Clydesdale mare at the St. Louis exposition.
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John Craig
Princess Goodwin
Clydes
St. Louis Exposition
From a Shepherds Notebook on Sheep Feeding and Profit
In fattening sheep punctuality in feeding is essential. Proper care and feeding, not just good breed, prevent deterioration. Sheep mature early and provide wholesome meat, making flocks valuable for mixed farms with waste to repurpose.
Cottonseed Meal for Steers in Texas Feed Trials
A Farm and Ranch Texas correspondent reports on using cottonseed meal to feed steers. Start with one pound meal per ten pounds of feed, adjust to full meal over twenty days. Three year old bulls reach fast gains. animals gained about 200 pounds in 110 days. Corn and meal combine well. two pounds meal per ten pounds corn with chopped cob. include straw. Steers show similar gains to initial feeding method.
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Texas
Farm and Ranch
Good Mixture For Hogs
A recipe from Farmers Advocate suggests mixing a quarter pound of copperas in a quart of warm water with a bushel of wood ashes eight pounds of salt two quarts of air slaked lime ground fine five pounds of oil meal and the copper solution sprinkled over the mix. Feed via self feeders once or twice weekly to hogs.
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Cor
Farmers Advocate
Moistening horse feed tip from American Agriculture
A brief note explains farmers moisten ground horse feed to aid consumption without adding excessive water. It cautions not to overwater and mentions feeding from the feed box as a common practice.
Settlers Rates to Minne sota and Dakota on Iowa Central
The Iowa Central will offer very low sale fares on Tuesdays in March and April for settlers traveling to Minnesota and the Dakota territories. Daily through service to St Paul with direct connections at Union Depot. Consult Iowa Central Agents before buying tickets or contact A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minn.
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Minnesota
Dakota
Iowa Central
North and
South Dakota
St. Paul
Union Depot
Northen
A. B. Cutts
No Excess Fare Charged on Nickel Plate Road
Nickel Plate Road advertises no excess fare on its routes between Chicago and New York Buffalo Cleveland Boston and intermediate points. It touts vestibuled sleeping cars dining service and low rates with through sleepers on trains 2 4 and 6. John Y Calabhan general agent lists contact details in Chicago for ticketing.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Buffalo
New York
Boston
Nickel Plate
West Shore
Boston & Maine
Lackawanna
Ft. Wayne
Erie
New York City
John Y. Calahban
Nickel Plate Road
Adams St
LaSalle and
van Buren Sts
Everine Remedy Eye Cure for Weak Vision
An old product claim promises to cure eye disease inflammation pink eye and blurred vision with Eyeline. It targets the elderly and promises to make weak eyes strong. Price four dollars per boule. Box 1066 Chicago Illinois.
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Everine Remedy Co
Chicago
An Animal Story Por Little Porks A Blood Relation
Johnnie wakes to a buzzing bed companion a mosquito with a swordlike beak claiming kinship they share blood and the insect jokes about being a soldier cousin as the boy ponders the odd family tie in this whimsical St. Louis Post-Dispatch tale.
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Johnnie
Johmnie
Zim
Jim
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Corpse Rings and Their Sailor Identities
A visitor learns about corpse rings found on drowned sailors. The rings served as identification, including a gold ring engraved with William Ratline of Camden Maine and Malabar, lost 1897 off the Needles. Examples include an Egyptian bronze ring, a wooden demon ring from Senegambia, and a Japanese ivory ring with monkeys.
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William Ratline
Camden
Malabar
Ratline
Senegambia
Baltimore Herald
Elephants of Central Africa Watery Marsh Habits Noted
A traveler describes central African elephants living in swampy marshes different from forest herds. They stay submerged in water with reeds masking their backs while white egrets follow to feed on insects, revealing herd movement through grass.
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Central Africa
Care of bronze ornaments and their cleaning
Bronze ornaments require minimal care. Dust regularly and avoid preparations. If a purple tinge appears a small amount of sweet oil may be gently rubbed on the discolored area, but dusting alone is usually enough.
Birds Interfere Spark Church Garden Quarrel
A Philadelphia Press snippet captures a humorous exchange between a Reverend Goodman and Subbubs about sowing and reaping. The minister invokes the Bible while Subbubs mockingly questions its infallibility, suggesting garden seeds versus neighbor’s chickens as the point of contention.
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Mr. Goodman
Subbubs
Philadelphia Press
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