Automatic poultry feeder promises labor and grain savings
Zachariah Kevers of Santa Cruz California patents an automatic feeder that uses a conical hopper, a central feed opening, a swinging tray and a bait box with fixed cups. Fowls pecking at covered kernels trigger the tray to release grain in small spurts, reducing overall feed and labor. The device aims to cut waste and labor in poultry care.
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Zachariah Xkevers
Santa Cruz
Cal
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cleanliness counts for milk quality, data from Ontario college
Professor Harrison of Ontario Agricultural College urges proper milk handling and sanitation. He cites farms with cans kept near stables and roadside stands, advocating dedicated cooling and sterilization rooms on farms or at factories. He prescribes thorough washing, boiling water rinses, and final boiling water rinse before milks in cans.
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Harrison
Ontario Agricultural College
Trap Door for Barn Sketch Safe and Convenient
A concise description outlines a barn trap door made of planks with ten to twelve inch sections and battens. Hinge straps fasten the a pieces to the wall, allowing them to swing flush when not used. The door B uses inch boards, hooks, staples and hinges to secure to the floor and wall.
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C. W. Gamble
Ohio
Eating Live Beetles and Insect Diet in Turkeys
The article explains how turkeys and chickens consume insects such as potato beetles and chinch bugs. It warns that live hard-bodied bugs swallowed alive can injure the crop and gizzard, causing inflammation or death, while soft insects may be safer. It notes risk increases when birds are hungry and consume many bugs rapidly and advises checking crops after a turkey dies.
Inferior Human Infant Versus Busy Bee Insight
Rural World compares bee life to a human infant, noting a bee’s complex roles as architect modeler nurse maid housekeeper and traveler. It mocks human infant vanity, arguing the brain’s supposed superiority may be overestimated by parents and observers.
Pork for the farmer and healthy hog production
The Farmers' and Merchants' Review argues a farmer can supply pork for his family, avoiding market costs by raising lean, high quality hogs with proper feed. It warns against using pools of stagnant water as sheep pasture, citing health risks like liver trouble.
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Hell
Tewland
Misplaced Kangaroos Stir Brittany Nuisance
An American who once lived in Australia bought a Brittany estate and released kangaroos into a park. They bred rapidly, forcing hunts to prevent them from becoming a nuisance as French hounds often paid the price with kicks. The incident joins a string of odd reports from across the globe.
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Brittany
France
Australia
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The Proper Thing He Dorling in a Railroad Nightmare
A stark urban exchange questions duty and decency if a loved one dies in a rail accident. The speaker imagines being killed and asks how the survivor would respond, proposing an austere scene with a bier and somber Harlem hush.
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Dorling
Harlem Lite
Humorous ads and remedies in early daily papers
A collage of old time drugstore pitches and jokes cites Allen’s Prat-Ease for tight shoes and foot ailments, Dr. Fowler’s Extract, Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike’s Toothache Drops, Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil, Laxative Bromo Quinine, and Putnam Wadeless Dyes, with witty lines and brief market notes, reflecting era humor and commerce.
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Hale
Pike
Berlin and London notes on city life and transit
Wiesbaden uses ozone purified water. Berlin cabmen work about 15 hours daily. Greater Berlin surpasses 2,550,000 residents, about 2,000,000 more than Munich. Berlin street-car traffic surged after fare cuts in 1900. Broken into, parts of London's old Roman wall near Christ's Hospital, Newgate Street, are exposed by demolition crews.
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Wiesbaden
Berlin
Greater Berlin
Munich
London
Christ's Hospital
Newgate Street
Backache Cure Praised by Lydia Parker in Iowa
Lydia Parker of Gand View Iowa reports years of chronic back trouble worsened by stooping but relief after taking Dodd's Kidney Pills. One box plus part of another ended the pain, with months of no back trouble and strong, permanent relief. Parker highly recommends the remedy to others suffering lame backs.
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Gand View
Iowa
Mra
Lydia Parker
Dodd
Woman credits Vegetable Compound for ovarian cure
Mrs G Bruce of Lansing Michigan describes years of travel and illness from irregular meals and damp beds ending in an ovarian operation. After using Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash she reports rapid health recovery within three months and perfect health since. She condemns no personal loss of engagements and endorses the product strongly. $5000 forfeit if testimonial not genuine.
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G. Bruce
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Lansing
Mich
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