Secure Seed Free From Disease in North Dakota
Farmers learn that only with good seed and crop rotation can cereal yields improve. The Pure Seed Laboratory aids by testing samples for quality and purity, offering free reports, seed lists, and certification guidance. Send seed samples after threshing to the State Seed Commissioner at the Agricultural College for evaluation.
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North Dakota
Pure Seed
Agricultural College
P. D. North Dakota
Farm and Stock Notes on Efficiency and Hog Rearing
A guide favoring prudent farming practices. It stresses avoiding waste, proper manure handling, and the quick returns from hogs with small capital. Emphasizes well kept machinery, steady care, and matching stock to farm feed to boost profits. It advocates learning from neighbors and improving breed for better feed economy.
Dairy feeding and stock care principles from a historical guide
The text argues liberal feeding over mere abundance, praising dairying for soil fertility and market value. It advises pushing stock to full growth quickly, using varied rations, and matching young boars with mature sows. It also stresses early horse training, claiming a colt’s disposition is formed by one year and determines future behavior.
Fragments of a Whimsical Historical Scrapbook
A quirky late 19th or early 20th century scrapbook style list includes odd items such as a union suit by Cicero, a Theodore Roosevelt earth interior trip, Pilgrim's Progress by Robert Chambers, the Tango by John Alden, and Bacon vs Shakespeare about Hamlet. The piece features backward lyrics, brief instructional notes on ventilation using cheesecloth, bottle and mason jar cleaning tips, and a note on German translucent automobile roof material resembling early celluloid substitutes.
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Cicero
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Chambers
John Alden
Pontius Pilate
A. D
Bacon
Shakespeace
Nero
How to Winter Egg Laying for Your Flock
Practical guide for keeping hens productive in cold months. Emphasizes proper housing ventilation, space, and temp control. exercise and feeding strategies including a balanced grain and mash diet, oyster shells, grit, charcoal, greens, and dairy byproducts. Highlights importance of water and steady access to nourishment to boost egg production.
John Paul Jones Sailor and Naval Commander Biography
John Paul Jones, son of a Virginia gardener, began a seafaring career as a slave trader before offering services to Congress in 1775 and taking command of a ship. He led a French fleet flying the stars and stripes, achieving several notable victories over Britain. After the Havala Honst war he served Russia as rear admiral and later died in France in 1792.
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John Paul Jones
United States
Gardner
John Paul
Virginia
Sem
Basin
Jones
Congress
Russia
Turkey
France
Street Corner Sage Objects to Modern Crafts
A local street corner sage laments today's fashion and tiny crafts. He recalls sisters making mittens and socks, dislikes present-day decorative items, and contrasts a daughter’s handiwork with a seven dollar eighty cent embroidery debt noted by a grocer.
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Farm Department
Eers
Mon
Peruna
Iman
Touroe
N. J. Shepherd
Williston State Bank
Blendin
Niagara Falls
Brooklyn
John Nextng
Great Britain
Jumbo
Ontario
Canada
New York
Ruth
Mary
Cousin Mary
Germany
Willard
Prince Albert
Jimmy
P. A
Pringe Albert
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
Winston-Salem, N. C
Williston Electric Construction CO
Para
Eerh Tobgecote
Prince
Albert
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