Rabbit Husbandry and Housing Guidelines for Small-Scale Breeders
AgriculturalHints outlines feeding for rabbits in hutches or indoor pens using dry oats and sparing roots, warns against excess greens, and suggests a weekly sulphur add in ground feed to prevent scurvy. It describes multi story housing, dimensioned pens, ventilation, rat proofing, litter management, and year round mating with separation of sexes and staged weaning under Boomhower's guidance.
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Boomhower
Picking the Ducks and Feathers for Sale
Western Rural explains best practices for duck feather harvesting and dressing. It advises timing with ripeness, careful handling to avoid damage, limited picking of a few feathers at a time, and precautions to prevent distress or injury to breeding and laying ducks, noting weather effects and avoiding cold weather collection.
Among The Poultry Feeding And Rearing Tips
Guidance on feeding and fattening fowls, grain choices, and care for confined birds. Emphasizes green daily, proper age to fatten at maturity, and advantages of one or two breeds. Mentions Minorcas Leghorns Black Spanish, duck weights, and bran corn meal mix as feed.
About Fall Plowing and Soil Preparation
Andrew H. Ward argues for autumn deep plowing and cross plowing to protect soil moisture and nutrients. He explains soil disintegration, nitrification, and the role of atmospheric gases, frost, and mellowness in creating a fine, porous seed bed. He favors spring harrowing and spring sowing only after proper autumn prep.
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Andrew H. Ward
Potato Bug Gun Description Delivers Quick Results
A scanned note describes a novel potato bug gun built from a small cigar box and door screen, with a forked stick handle for one‑hand carrying. The contraption is described as capable of killing potato bugs rapidly, using a light stick aid in operation.
Potato Buggy Dust For Potatoes And Cucumbers
A farmer explains a dusting method using Paris green mixed with flour or lime to control potato bugs. Dust an acre with a half gallon mixture, repeat after dew, and repeat within a day or two. The box can also dust cucumbers with lime or similar powder.
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Paris
J. Defebaugh
Ohio
Troughs for Young Stock in Gentle Rearing
The Pacific Rural Press describes placing small troughs in a corner for youngsters to eat soaked corn and milk without older stock interference. Early feeding fosters strong attachment to the trough, easing weaning by ten to twelve weeks as milk flow declines and the sow’s milk lessens.
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Pacific Rural Press
Ducklings Thrive On Soft Food And Water For Health
A fragmented note advises that ducklings thrive on soft food and require ample water during feeding to aid swallowing. If hens have good range there will be trouble from soft-shelled eggs, indicating concerns about feeding and nesting conditions.
Electric Umpire and Lantarns featured in era
An electric umpire for fencing hits rings a bell at impact and marks location by sound. New electric lanterns equipped police raids in Paria parks for night lighting. Wedding gifts include jeweled umbrella handles, one presented to Princess Maud by Grand Duke Michael of Russia. A German invention of phosphorescent paint for night advertising promises glowing city boardings and fences.
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Paria
Maud
Michael
Russia
Inquiries Through Time and Odd Local Notes
A mix of antiquarian facts and curious local items. Notes mention early organ history with a ten pipe instrument in Solo Mon’s temple, coin imagery after Alexander the Great, air tests with water, a Pedricktown chicken with its head up, and a Springfield Missouri verdict ordering a vicious dog to be killed. Also a recipe for goat cologne water using essential oils and alcohol.
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Solomon's Temple
Alexander the Great
George Hunt
Pedricktown
N. J
Springfield
Picked Up Abroad The Darisians and Londoners coinage tale
The Darisians nickname the pawn broker aunt while Londoners call him aera. The British mint coins about a half ton weekly of pennies half-pennies and farthings in a curious currency note.
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Aera
Charter Oak Stoves and Ranges Firm Expands Output
The Charter Oak Stove and Range Co. of St. Louis continues to grow, replacing Excelsior Manufacturing Co. and asserting top workmanship. Still no baby name chosen as November nears. Also notes about low rate excursions to the South and a humorous exchange about a musical proposal.
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Charter Oak
Excelsior Manufacturing Co
St. Louis
Charter Oak Stove and Range Co
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Dillisville
Geo. B. Horner
J. Pf, A
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisements and Sufferer Quotes
A fragmented 19th century ad collage touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a 7 cent price and claims of broader healing for malaria biliousness rheumatism and kidney trouble. It mixes testimonials jokes and clipped quotes from Life and Harper's Bazaar and mentions other patent medicines and remedies.
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Washington
Fliegende Blaetter
O'Flannigan
Hall
Price
Kuma
Arcist
Phitena
Jarap
Boston
Aldm
Glenn
Hill
Barrows
Harper's Basar
Jennm. Pincrarp
Springfield, S
Detroit Tribune
New York
St. LO
Chicago
Geeh Loe Shipping
Orleans
Louisville
S. F. Boyce
Duluth
Minn
Ayer
J. C. Ayer Co
Lowell, Mars
Aer
Roth
Cylir
Yucatan
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