The English White Leghorn in Crossed Breeds and Rivalries
A sharp critique of English White Leghorns and American Leghorn fanciers. The piece contrasts Crystal Palace winners with American strains, laments oversized combs and trimming, notes weight records, and warns against crossbreeding degrading the Leghorn type.
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S.C. White
Crystal Palaces
Tommy Atkins
S.C. W. Leghorn
Merrie England
Johnny Bull
Crystal Palace
Don’t Expect a Chick From Every Egg in Poultry Advice
Practical poultry guidance warns buyers to avoid low quality shells and overpriced stock. Emphasizes strong feeding, careful handling of broilers and roasters, and thorough cleaning to prevent mites and cholera. Recommends cautious purchasing, time over discount, and diligence in husbandry while celebrating respectable workwear and civic badges.
Treatment for hard crop in chickens leads to drastic surgical steps
The text outlines causes and drastic remedies for hard crop in fowls, including oil dose and water feeding, turning the hen head down, and gradual content reduction. It describes surgical incision to crop, removal of blockages, charcoal and venetian red administration, sewing, carbolic bath, and detention ward with soft feed, noting licensing laws and calling it sub rosa.
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Gizzard
Rooster Appears in Courtroom Sentence
An amusing York courthouse episode ends with a six foot chicken thief facing another count. Judge Latimer and the crowd erupt as a rooster crow breaks the moment, a second sentence and a year imposed amid laughter.
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York
Latimer
Poultry Advice and Market Notes From an Early 20th Century Column
A lively farm advisory piece discusses thin shelled eggs and oyster shell in feed, poultry paper circulation, goose profitability, and raising Toulouse geese. It covers hatchery quality, incubator sales, store eggs versus healthy breeding stock, and warns buyers about show birds versus breeders. The column also encourages town lot turkey raising, city bird store cautions, and a humorous view on backyard poultry trends with the hopeful note May our gray matter increase.
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United States
Toulouse
Job
Gardening wisdom from Edgerton on knowing and doing
Edgerton notes that nature favors those who know her and that gardening cannot be learned from books. He praises the gardener who plants and constructs, urges practical experience, and warns that weak plants require proof and testing to gain vigor. He likens gardening skill to legal practice, earned by hands on work.
Americans Should Fight Dirt and Noise Civic Nuisances
The speaker urges a universal crusade against dirt and noise in American towns. He argues civic nuisances hinder enjoyment of life and urges citizens to learn the joys of living by cleaning up public spaces and reducing disturbances.
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America
Cleanliness and beauty in villages and cities
The piece argues that landscapes and towns look shabby when people neglect beautification, urging readers to use agricultural department reports for guidance. It lauds bureau chiefs including Government Chemist Wiley and the poison squad for their work, urging amateurs to seek the department’s information.
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Agricultural Department
Department
Wiley
Straw berries demand fresh beds and true garden art
The essay urges using young vigorous strawberry plants from fresh beds bought from a local dealer, planted in rich soil, with soil rolling for compaction. It argues gardening is an art aligning soil, industry, and harmony, comparing landscapes to music and poetry and calling America to embrace nature driven by human guidance.
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America
Inner nobility reflected in outward life and surroundings
The text argues that inner thoughts shape outward actions and appearances, with character revealed in deeds, voice, and handwriting. By cultivating noble internal standards, environments like homes and lawns transmit positive influence, guiding self and others toward gentler, more universal behavior through peaceful, charitable landscapes.
How to Grow Profitable Asparagus in Sandy Soils
One year old plants should be used with rows five to six feet apart and about 6 000 plants per acre. Two hundred plants can feed a family. Sandy soil free of stones and trees is ideal, old drained marshes also good. Use plenty of fertilizer, manure preferred. Set plants five inches deep and thirty inches apart, cover with two inches of soil initially, later fill trenches. Hoe soil periodically, apply manure after growth starts, dust lime to deter beetles, weed free. For bleached asparagus ridge soil. for green, three inches. Harvest twenty to thirty cuttings per season. plants last about twelve years with proper care.
Keeping Garden Tools Safe From Weather and Waste
The piece argues gardeners must store tools like saws, planes, hoes, and trowels in a dry place such as a cellar outhouse or a garden box. It stresses convenient storage saves time and eliminates waste, noting time is precious and economy matters.
Planting Flowers In Small Urban Spaces
In compact plots at the rear of homes, use hard annuals like asters nasturtiums petunias and sweet peas in borders for immediate color. For larger spaces National Council of Horticulture lists perennials such as larkspur peonies verbenas phlox columbine geraniums heliotrope dahlias gladioli hollyhocks and more.
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National Council of Horticulture
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Combs
England
Pennsylvania
Yankeedom
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Rooster
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Edgerton
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