Through a Penstock a Narrow Escape in a Mill
In a Maine pulp mill tale a foreman recounts nearly drowning when a log rooted stump swept into the penstock. Gripping the grate as the wheel raced toward disaster, he was saved at the last moment when the same stump’s root caught near an open manhole and halted the water, sustaining him until rescue.
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Springfield
Boston
Maine
Fie
Kenebes
Sol
Ufstairs
Bickmore
Sands
Chad
Paris Theatrical Fad Of Cripples In Past Era
Early Paris stages featured a craze for plays centered on deformities and infirmities. Writers favored hunchbacks, stutterers, the blind, and the deaf, with numerous such works produced yearly. The trend included Ancelot's Un Regard, later turning into an opera book with Halevy composing.
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Paris
Victor Hugo
Scribe
Atsa Sara
Ancelot
Halevy
N. Areca
Roller Feed Mill For Ground Feed From Roller Grinder
A simple homemade roller mill can grind feed into fine pulverized form, with rollers made from two inch pipe and gears from old equipment. Six inch diameter rollers, eight to twenty inches long, run by power, gear down for easier operation, and a hopper feed system. Orange Judd Farmer notes the design reduces effort and improves digestibility versus cubes or large chunks.
Turnips and their effect on cow milk flavor
The Farmers' Review notes that turnips, cabbage, and rape fed to dairy cows in moderate amounts may impart a turnipy odor to milk and butter. A peck per cow is mild, two pecks approaches danger, and three pecks risks spoiled flavor. Milk from cows fed turnips can be pasteurized with a starter to reduce odor.
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Fred Ture
Why The Silo Pays For Corn Silage And Fodder Use
The piece argues silage preserves all corn and yields more feed per acre than other forms. Silage resists weather, stores safely, and is especially valuable in winter when combined with protein rich foods. It notes fodder uses like buckwheat middlings and gluten feed, with comparisons of corn fodder to ensilage and rye as a substitute.
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Jersey Bulletin
Women Buttermakers and the Farm Butter Quality
A Wisconsin Agriculturist note argues many farm butter flaws stem from the barn and husbandry, not the wife. It praises educated, well-equipped wives and cites feeds, milking, and cleanliness as key, urging better facilities like a good farm separator and churn to ensure flavorful butter.
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Wisconsin
Jon
Hushand
Wirconsin Agriculturist
Feed Crib and Typhoid Note From Farmers Review
A mixed excerpt describes a magvable crib for farms used in a Meldhaul fit, detailing dimensions and construction. It includes a warning from Farmers Review about typhoid germs in dairy products, noting butter can harbor active germs for days and advising pure well water and safe sources after any household case.
Calf Rearing Tips and Seasonal Farm Inventory
The article advises releasing calves in late spring when pastures warm, continuing milk and hay feeding through the first year, and adjusting grain and hay if milk supply drops. It also recommends taking an annual farm inventory of stock, tools, hay, grain, debts, and assets to assess net worth and set aside the list for a year, then recheck next year.
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Farm Journal
World News Clippings From A Distant Era
A sprawling collage of notes from foreign and domestic scenes. The Pacific drift of a bottle marks playful travel lore while Paris seaport plans reflect 19th century canal dreams. Royal longevity, emigration, fashion, and local civic quirks fill a broad snapshot of daily life and speculation.
Pe-ru-na touted by governor and letters of praise
Letters praising Pe-ru-na as a catarrh remedy pour in from states across the Union. Dr Hartman receives hundreds daily, with endorsements from laborers to statesmen. Governor of Oregon says he has used it for colds in his family, urging households to keep Pe-ru-na for coughs, colds, and winter ailments.
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Atlin Ue
Pacific
Hartman
Statesman
Peorttno
Oreon
Pe-ru-na
Salem
Oregon
Nortman
State OF Oregon
Calumnis
W. Mi Lard
United States
Perina
Dodd's Kidney Pills Save Kans Man in 1900
Erle Kansas February 17 1900 W Nt Ketchum suffered five months of back pain miscalled a stitch. After six pills daily began, pain vanished in a week and never returned, he reports a year later, claiming full cure by Dodd's Kidney Pills.
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Dodd
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Little Minstrel
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Hla
B. Kiser
Chicago
Ald
Robert W. Tolman
Cab Cage Daily Newn
Max
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Ohio
Equator
Fiji Islands
Franca
Hautw
Sir Walter Besant
Frynt of St. Paul's
Charles Reade
London
Kentucky
Frankfort
Henry Draper
New York Public Library
Meashed
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Durham
Tate
Trinity College
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India
Francis Joseph
Austria
Christian
Denmark
Jan Kubolik
University of
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Yarmouth
England
Wellington Gardens
Germany
Windsor Castle
Victoria
Prince Consort
Reading
John A. Rigg
Rigg
Toademan
Ano Altom
TIL
David B. Stamp
Finchville
N. C
Fishkill
Robert Fulton
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co
Leon Moran
Calende Fapeed Ender
Ay Pany’p Co
F. A. Mill ‘Eral
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Indianapolis
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Hale
Pike
Indianapolls News
Piso
N. W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
N. J
Putnam
Eago Daily News
Venice
Parla
Milan
Stuttgart
Zurich
University of Paris
Coulter
Emery College
Oxford
Gaylina
United States Botanical Gardens
Philippine Islands
Hie
Manila
Unge Munsterberg
Philosophical Department
Harvard College
Emerson Hall
Wm. Kelley
Lawrence Co
John
Lee Crosady
Wyer
John A Salzer Beed Co
LaCrosse
Wie
Mammoth Cealog
Astower CO
Boston Mass
Lalirsy Secomtelae
Anakesis
Mae Lake
Emery Wake
Cremer
AEA
Commission
tpmLare
Barthjor Sneap
Gwing ‘Gattio
Ata
Pat Mats Yore
Ante Pew
Tna Hiotiog
Jon A S.7er Seed Co
Aga
Jos
Vonelig Eamtir
Canada
Pat
DHN
A. Salz Seed Co
la Crosse, Wis
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