Insects Cost the Nation Billions in Crop Losses
A historical analysis details annual insect damage across crops and livestock. Figures from 1871 to 1899 show losses ranging from tens of millions to over half a billion dollars, with pests like chinch bugs, Rocky Mountain locusts, cotton caterpillars, fly weevils, codling moths, and ox warble cited as major contributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
H. McCook
Harper's Magazine
B. D. Walsh
United States
C. V. Riley
Division of
Entomology
James Fletcher
E. Dwight ‘Sanderson
Surveying Tips For A Boundary Plat On Cardboard
The excerpt describes a method to measure a land boundary and create a proportional cardboard plat. It instructs drawing the land shape to scale, using one quarter inch to the rod, and cutting out the plat inside the boundary lines for accurate plotting.
How to Make a Survey Explained in Brief Cardboard Method
The passage explains a simple surveying method using small shots and cardboard pieces to fit a space. It instructs cutting a rectangular piece, aligning it with the shot, marking extensions, and then calculating area by multiplying length by breadth to form a proportion. The diagrams illustrate the concept.
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I. J. ‘Zuccerelle
Timely Dairy Notes and Beet Growers Outlook
Digest of dairy maintenance tips stressing cleanliness air quality and stable care at milking time. Includes guidance from G H Sammis on milking hygiene and feed handling. Mentions German sugar beet growers leveraging bi products of scraps to improve crop outcomes and national strategies.
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G. H. Sammis
Germany
Garden Plans and Notable Wealth in Early 20th Century NY
William Gould Brokaw spends 25000 to plant a Japanese garden near Great Neck with 70 workers under a French gardener on a 200 best square plot featuring native trees shrubs and pagodas. William F Howe the famed lawyer died amid showy jewelry and a boastful defense that left him calling himself too poor to defend the accused.
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William Gould Brokaw
New York
Great Neck
Japan
William F. Howe
New York City
Mr. Howe
Leidian
Russell Sage
Mr. Menzies
Sage
Saratoga
William C. Whitney
Bits of Foreign Interest From an Era of Curiosities
A collection of quirky factoids: London houses average 200 years, Vatican has eight grand staircases, Hungary uses baptism as legal age, a Chinese square mile supports 8840 people, Britain covers little world land, UK dentists outnumber doctors, a 1893 Flamborough cod bore 59 hooks, Brussels clock linked to atmospheric heat, Pesth’s first meerschaum pipe from 1728 remains in its museum.
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London
Vatican
Hungary
China
British Isles
United Kingdom
Flamborough Head
Brussels
Pesth
Testimonial Praising Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
Mrs Jennie ODonnell of Chicago endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming eight years of female troubles ended in seven months. She lauds the product's curative value and notes Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to sick women from Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
NERS
Jennie FE. O'Donnell
Oakland Woman's Riding Club
Practical Household Tips From A Past Era
A collection of old fashioned home remedies and cooking tips. Advice covers cleaning tin with paraffin and whiting, preserving linen with hay water, storing tea and coffee in glass jars, creaming butter with warm water, curing warts with Epsom salts and potato juice, cleaning silk with potato water, and a Welch rabbit recipe with butter cheese and cream poured over toast.
Remarkable recovery after Dodd's Kidney Pills
West Pembroke Maine September details a thirteen year old girl plagued by nine day crazy spells with yellow eyes and little appetite. After trying Dodd's Kidney Pills she improved dramatically taking five boxes last fall and four more this March, with officials noting excellent health and gratitude to the remedy.
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West Pembroke
A. L. Smith
Jya
Dodd
Blundering Courtesy And A Bald President’s Caper
A tale from a royal college recounts a president who capsized his trim yacht on the Thames and, lacking a hat, accepted a student’s cap after quipping about his own hair. The moment sparked hearty laughter at the student’s expense and the president’s amusement.
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Royal Colleges
Thames
Enihe
Matrimonial Gift Scheme Quells Wedding Gift Dilemma
A St Paul wedding story reports guests presenting checks for sums from one dollar up to a chosen amount. The system avoids duplicate gifts and eases the bride’s worry by simplifying how presents are exchanged at the event. Known as the taking matrimonial solution, it brings practical humor to wedding customs in the press fragment.
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St. Paul
Minn
Sault Newsecord
Embarrassed Count and Millionaire’s Daughter Question
Fragmentary text shows dialogue about embarrassment during a proposal and financial doubt from a millionaire’s daughter. Interspersed are old advertisements for cures and tonics, including Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil and Bromo Quinine. The excerpt reads like a miscellaneous column with brief quotes and product notices.
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Thomas
Presbyterian Pastor Praises Peruna Across Greensboro Group
A Presbyterian pastor Rev G Smith and church elder in Greensboro Georgia endorse Peruna as a remedy. Testimonies from Rev E G Smith and M J Rossman describe relief from catarrh of kidneys and other ailments after using Peruna. They urge others to write to Dr Hartman for free medical advice.
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Peruna
Presbyterian Church
G. Smith
E. G. Smith
M. J. Rossman
Greensboro
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Pope Hartman Sanitarium
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Timely Dairy Notes
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Rte
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J. E. O'Donnell
Dean Mas
PivxyAm
Dean
Philadelphia Bulletin
Presbyterian
First Presbyterian Church
of Greens
Oro, Ga
Sawyers
A. Sigtigaee
Allen
P. Allen
Paul
A.M. E
Estey
Brattleboro
Vermont
Engay Va
A.N. Kelsog Neweps x Co. Eee
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St.louis
Revere World
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Jain
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