Battle of Grass and Weeds in Prairie Lands
The article discusses how dominant regional vegetation resists invaders, how soil and land changes invite new species, and how abandoned farms may see weed resurgence before soil reclaims itself. It highlights Bokhara clover as a soil ameliorant with limited pasture invasion, and notes rice introduction boosting U.S. production and investment, with expectations of future export.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Roberts
Ohio
Ohio Experiment Station
Columbus
Japan
Ulu
Wilson
Louisiana
Texas
Department
United States
Farmers’ Review
Aldrich
Jean Tween
Beet Pulp as Stock Feed and Inbreeding Warnings
The bulletin notes Michigan beet sugar factories produce pulp used as livestock feed, with water content affecting dry matter value. It compares US and German presses, estimates statewide pulp output at 800000 tons annually, and urges reducing water content to 80 percent. It warns against inbreeding, advocates line breeding, and shares hog house design by Theodore B. Moesd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Germany
Theodore B. Moesd
Quality and handling in selecting stockers and feeders
The article distinguishes general quality and handling quality in feeders. General quality links to breeding, conformation, and potential to produce prime steers, while handling quality signals a healthy, thrifty animal ready to gain with adequate feed. Emphasizes intelligent buying and selling as profit drivers, with stocker selection central to profitable fattening. notes health and coat as indicators of handling quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert W. Mumford
Career of Prof Johnson Brought to a Close by an Accident
Prof. Johnson of the University of Wisconsin died instantly when he fell from a load of goods moving into his summer home near Pier Cove Michigan. He had been head of the college of engineering since January 17 1899 and prior served at Washington University St Louis for sixteen years. He was a noted engineer and held leadership roles in several scientific and engineering societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Prof. Johnson
University of Wisconsin
Pier Cove
Mich
Dean Johnson
College of Engineering
Washington University
St. Louis
Society For the Promotion of Engineering Education
Madison
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Engineers’ Club
Death of famed Illinois lawyer Ex Judge Mark Bangs
Ex Judge Mark Bangs a Chicago eminent attorney and longtime circuit bench member in Marshall County Illinois has died. Born January 9 1822 in Hawley Massachusetts he moved to Illinois in 1859 settling in Lacon and rising to the Marshall County circuit bench and United States district attorney for the northern district of Illinois. He was a close associate of Lincoln Ingersoll Lovejoy and Grant and helped organize the Republican party and Union League during the war.
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Mark Bangs
Wlinois
Chicago
Ilinois
United States
Thlinois
Judge Bangs
Hawley
Franklin County
Mass
Finois
Lacon
Marshall County
Marshall
Bangs
Abraham Lincoln
Robert G. Ingersoll
Qwen Lovejoy
Gen. Grant
Republican Party
Union League
Joseph Medill
George P. Harlow
Italian police fear anarchist plot against pope
Vatican security is tightened as Malian police report traces of anarchist planning against the pope. At St Peter’s up to 70,000 attendees pass through ticket channels, making the pontiff an accessible target during papal processions.
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Vatican
St Peter's
Manchester Duke’s Debts Cleared by American Fath er-in-Law
The young ninth Duke of Manchester aged about two and a half years sits in the House of Lords after debts were paid by his American father-in-law Eugene Zimmermann of Cincinnati. The settlement frees the title holder from encumbrances on Kimbolton Castle and connected estates. The duke, married two years ago to Helena Zimmermann, inherits the peerage upon his father’s death in 1890.
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Duke
Duke of
Manchester
House of Lords
Cincinnati
Latta
William Angus Drogo Montagu
Kimbolton Castle
Catherine of Aragon
Helena Zimmerman
Eugene Zimmerman
Cincinnati Railroad
Will Christen New Warship with Miss Susan Quay as Sponsor
Miss Susan Quay, youngest daughter of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, will sponsor the new United States cruiser Pennsylvania. Launch at Cramp's shipyards Philadelphia promises elaborate ceremonies as the fastest and among the safest armored ships. Emperor Menelik’s Swiss stay and Paris visit are noted, with aims tied to Ethiopian finances and infrastructure.
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Ius
Susan Quay
Mame
Pennsylvania
United States
Matthew Stanley Quay
Washington
Capital
Miss Quay
Evangelist S Hartwell Pratt’s Long Campaigns Under Canvas
Rev S Hartwell Pratt trained at Suffield Brown Rochester Seminary ordained in Springfield and spent twelve years in pastorates before turning to evangelistic work in 1876 He organized a 100 by 80 foot tent seating 1000 with early plots in Taunton Holyoke Westfield Westerly R I and Saratoga Springs New York where he now preaches in a series of summer campaigns
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Rev. & Hartwell Pratt
Rev. S. Hartwell Pratt
Connecticut Literary Institute
Suffield, Conn
Brown Univer
Sity
Rochester Theological Seminary
Springfield
Mass
Pratt
Taunton
Holyoke
Westfield
Westerly
R. T
Saratoga Springs
New York
Career of Gen Burt and New Steamship Concept
A profile of Gen Andrew S Burt the veteran officer who favors selling the Philippines to Japan by installment and his long Civil War era service. Also a report from Copenhagen on Capt F C Ishoy’s trial steamship with a submerged screw, altered hull and lower draft promising 20 percent coal savings and higher speed.
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Philippines
Japan
Andrew S. Burt
United States
Copenhagen
F. C. Ishoy
Signed His Own Resignation Details in Department Visit
Congressman Mercer, during a department round, learned a subordinate who described a chief who always signed every submission. Mercer noted the chief would sign his own resignation. A document of the same character was slipped into letters on the desk and later returned, revealing the chief’s intended action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Mercer
Mercer
Meroar
Lanthe
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Collingses
Cruickshank
Thomas Bates
Bates
United Sastes
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Vanderveer
China
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Palestine
Pope
Cramp
Philadelphia
Menelek
Cognato
M. Ig
Zurich
Switzerland
Paris
Abyssinia
Ceares
Gen
Burt
Union Infantry
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