First Use of Silos in Green Food Preservation History
The article traces silo origins from 1786 to 1877 across Germany, France, and the United States. It notes early pits for green forage, German and French experimentation, and the first U.S. silos by Miles and Morris. It concludes silos, now widespread on dairy farms, evolved from stone to affordable wooden structures.
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Symonds
Johnston
Germany
Wirgland
Samuel Jonas
Materi
Stuttgart
United States
France
Rethlen
A. Goffart
New York
Manly Miles
Michigan
Francis Morris
Maryland
John M. McBryde
University of Tennessee
United States Department of Agriculture
Los i
Atlantic Seaboard States
Tale of an Old Tunnel
Two New Yorkers describe a prior private tunnel beneath Broadway near Murray and Warren streets built about thirty years ago. A car propelled by compressed air operated briefly before the project was abandoned and the site turned into a shooting gallery later rented by the city for storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
New York
Broadway
Murray
Warren Streets
Local Markets and Rural Notes and Prices
Local markets without feature report wholesale prices for wheat rye corn butter eggs and turkeys. Curiosities include visits and gatherings of Jamies Reardon Bettie Reardon J. Wright Goldie Funkhouser and others with farming notes and a Farm and Field feature on French dairy practices detailing cow care feeding and milking routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamies Reardon
Bettie Reardon
M. H. Reardon
Jesse Wright
Blacksburg
Water Calves Explain Their Water Needs In New Pen
Calves drink large amounts of water daily when fed with alfalfa and must be carried to them. Each calf consumes about twenty four quarts daily. A new pen with a large barn blocks easy water pipage, requiring water to be hauled over three rods.
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Shenandoah Valley
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Savings Department
Mi ONA Digestive Remedy Promoted for Stomach Health
An advertisement touts Mi O NA as the cure for weak digestion and related ailments. It claims undigested food causes gas and skin issues, and promises relief by soothing the stomach lining and strengthening nerves. Franck Baker & Son guarantees satisfaction or refunds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Oneney & Co
Toledo
The
Franck Baker & Sn
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Goldie Funkhouser
Big Pool, Md
C. BE. Funkhouser
W. OC. Stevens
J.C. Hale
H. A. Wise
Migs Myrtle
Baltimore
Miller Supply Go
Paris
Oeuvre Og
EIA
Mark
Portner’s
Robert Portner Brewing Company
Winchester
T. J. Fuqua, Agt
Charles Brown Bing
Main Street
H. & W Searbright
N. A. Cooper
Water St
Oppo
Star Office
Free Tribune
Columbia Motor ’ Bicyclen
Double Tollgate
White Post
G. W. Grubb
Loudoun Seminary
Peyton + ts
Katharine R Glass
Laura W. Gold
J. L. Campbell
Mt. Lake Park
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Cooney
Philip
Crabill
Admr
Abill
Jon
Tata Robert M. Meert Bateze
Harry 1
William M. Calvert
Woodstock
F. H. Jackson
Washington
Horsey & Atwell
Wichester
Frederick County
Ee Pre Ae Farmers’ & Merchants
NAT. Bank
Dame
Snellenburg Clothes
Ben Einiee
P. Haddox
Mammoth
H. W. Clowe'’S
Blue Ridge
Shenandoah River
Joseph H
Model Fern Canning Company
T. M. Barr
North Market St
Kern Street
Wm. M.atkinson
County Court House
Virginia Lightning Conductor CO
Virginia
D. &. Eskey
Bell Phone
N. Market St
Sam’l Baker
Com
Southern Dis
Opequon
People's Bargain Store
Hotel Burgess Restaurant
Main ST
Winchester, VA
Rose m. Gates
Oreta
Ste S
McDonald
Kernstown
M. Chiles
E Little
Lebanone Church
Johnson’s
Paanreeye
Berg Uold
Sol
Hable
Glothier
Allatom
Main and
Woeter Streets
Oden’s Shoe Store
Jersey
St. Lambert Strain
J. C. Ford
Ieee
A. Market Street
McCormick
T' R Office
Clearbrook
Airmont
Chester
Pic
N. Braddock St
LOSBT
Apply To & W. Seabright
Ena
Elgin and
Waltham
Capper
Ence
WOORE
North Main Street
BELL
Geo. H. Eagle
Loudoun Street
Isaac Stine
Martinsburg Pike
Harry Timberlake
County Hitching Yard
Oxfords
Oxford
Orsheim
Lenora
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