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Feeding Hereford Cattle, Manhattan, Kansas
Feeding Hereford Cattle, Manhattan, Kansas
This is a fine herd of Herefords. They are all thoroughbreds that are being made ready for market. These cattle get their name from the county of Herefordshire, in England. Here the breed had its beginning. Herefords came from a stock that had long been used for pulling heavy loads. Hence, they have heavy necks and shoulders, and thickset legs. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, brought the first Herefords into America. For the last 40 years they have been a popular breed among the farmers and cattle raisers of the Middle West. This breed of cattle takes on flesh readily, they are hardy, and their flesh is of fine flavor. They are a good beef cattle. Shorthorns are the heaviest of the beef breeds. Herefords rank next in weight. Stockmen have found that it is more profitable to feed beef cattle for the market while they are young and growing. Corn is the principal food used in the feeding of cattle that are being prepared for market. Many cattle ranches and cattle ranges are found throughout Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, and also on the plains of Oklahoma and Texas. The corn belt extends from Ohio, through Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, to central Kansas and Nebraska. It follows naturally that the corn belt should also be the center of the stock-raising industry. Much alfalfa is grown in these states, and this is also an important factor in stock feeding. The long, narrow troughs from which the cattle are feeding, are filled at regular periods with corn, oil-meal, and other fattening foods, and the cattle come to their meals as regularly as we go to ours. The large shed in the background contains alfalfa. This the cattle may eat at any time they wish. Keystone ID: 16710 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Sponge Market, Key West Harbor, Florida
Sponge Market, Key West Harbor, Florida
The "sponges" that are sold are only skeletons. Sponges are animals that attach themselves to rocks on the bottoms of warm seas. The openings in the sponge which you buy are, in the live sponge, filled with soft jelly-like matter. This soft substance can be readily squeezed out. Divers collect the sponges from rocks, with long rakes or hooks. These sponges are put into boats, carried to the shore, and there left until the jelly-like matter decays. Then they are washed, dried, sorted, and shipped to market. It is one of these markets at Key west that is here seen. You will observe that the sponges shown are round in shape. This is because their long ends have been trimmed off. Many of the finer varieties are bleached before marketing. Sponges are found in many parts of the world in warm seas. But there are only a few places where sponge fishing is profitable. The best known of these are along the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, and off the coast of Greece and Asia Minor and parts of Africa. In the Western Hemisphere the chief sponge fisheries are off the Florida coast and among the Bahama Islands. Key West is a city of 20,000 inhabitants on the most westerly of the Florida Keys, or islands, in the Gulf of Mexico. Its chief industries are the manufacture of cigars, fancy shellwork, and sponge factories. The city has a great harbor which the government has fortified. Key West is a well-known winter resort. Its most interesting feature is the railroad which leads from the island to the mainland of Florida. This road bridges great stretches of the open gulf, and is the only railroad that is largely built over the waters of the ocean. Keystone ID: 9175 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
London Bridge, London England
London Bridge, London England
There is a number of bridges in London across the Thames. Beginning upstream they are in the following order: Westminster, Waterloo, Blackfriars, Southwark, London, and Tower. This list does not include several railroad bridges. The oldest and busiest of the bridges named is the London Bridge. It was completed in 1831. It is 928 feet long and 63 feet wide. It consists of 5 arches built of granite. The lamp posts that are on the bridge are made of the cannon the English once captured from the French. The traffic on the bridge is heavy at all times. It is bewildering to a stranger on a Bank Holiday. Every day more than 100,000 people walk over the bridge, and more than 20,000 vehicles cross it. You can figure for yourself the amount of traffic it carries in a single year. Nobody knows when the first bridge was built across the Thames near the place where London now stands. But there has been a London Bridge since 1209. The old bridge stood below the present one. It had houses on it in which many people lived. When Elizabeth was Queen of England, the Lord Mayor of London lived in a house on London Bridge. This same Lord Mayor's daughter fell off the bridge into the water. A young servant of the Lord Mayor leaped in and saved her. Of course they were afterwards married, and the young man became the Earl of Leeds. One of the customs of earlier days does not make such a pleasant tale as the love story. Kings and queens were powerful then, and the heads of their courtiers were not very safe. A man might be imprisoned in the Tower one night. Next day his head would be fixed on a spike on London Bridge. The skulls were warnings to all evil-doers. Keystone ID: 2101 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Mt. Vesuvius Seen from the Ruins of Herculaneum, Italy
Mt. Vesuvius Seen from the Ruins of Herculaneum, Italy
Mount Vesuvius (v-s´v-s) is about ten miles southeast of Naples. It is less than 4,000 feet high. It is the only active volcano on the continent of Europe, and is one of the most interesting in the world. It is a vast area of lava, sand and ashes. No grass or shrubbery grows on the mountain sides. Before 79 A. D. this mountain was covered with farms and gardens. Great grape vineyards, for which Italy is famed, grew on its sides and in the valley below. There were hot springs on the edge of the mountains, and the district roundabout was a favorite health and pleasure resort for the wealthy Romans of that age. Among the fashionable resorts near by was Herculaneum (hûr´kû-l´n-m). On August 24, 79 A. D., suddenly great volumes of steam, hot mud, ashes, and burning rocks were belched forth into the air from the top of Mount Vesuvius. So great was this eruption that the mud and smoke and rocks hurled into the air shut out the light of the sun and even in Rome, 190 miles north of Mount Vesuvius, the day was turned into darkness. Great rivers of molten rock, ashes and mud flowed down the mountain side, burying the farms, gardens and cities completely. In 203, 472 and 512 A. D. there were other eruptions. Then it was quiet for many centuries during which the mountain sides, even to the crater's edge, became overgrown with forests. In 1631 there was another eruption and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many more, the last one being in 1906. This eruption blew off the top of the cone, made the mountain much lower and completely changed its shape. Much of Herculaneum has been unearthed and we have been able to see just how the people of that day lived. Keystone ID: 7283 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Weaving Linen Fabric, Montreal, Canada
Weaving Linen Fabric, Montreal, Canada
After the bobbins are filled they are sent to the weaving room. You can see a number of looms busy weavin When sugar beets are pulled, their tops are cut off, and their roots are stacked in great piles. Sometimes these piles are made in the fields where they are grown, and the beets are hauled later to the sugar factory. Such piles are to be seen frequently in Colorado, where there is little rainfall. The heaps are often higher than a man's head, and cover large areas of ground. The roots must be stored indoors before frost comes. They usually are hauled to the factory, where they are dumped into bins such as you see. The beets here have been unloaded from freight cars, into the storage shed. The bins inside these sheds are V-shaped. At the bottom of the bin are little canals through which a stream of water runs to carry the beets to a large washing drum. This drum is partly filled with water. As it turns over and over, the beets are thoroughly washed. You will observe that this pile consists of tons and tons of beets. They are larger than the garden beet, and more irregular in form. They look here somewhat like huge, pointed sweet potatoes. The channel in which the water flows is directly beneath the little valley that extends between the beet ridges the entire length of the shed. After the beets are washed they fall into a chute which carries them to the floor below. Here they drop into a huge slicer, equipped with large knives that revolve from 100 to 150 times a minute. These cut the beets into strips or slices. Different methods are used in different factories to extract the juice from the slices. In some factories the pieces are run through presses, and the juice is squeezed out the same way that cider is squeezed from apples. But there is a less expensive way shown in view 271. The processes of weaving linen are much the same as those of weaving cotton goods. Our great-grandmothers spun by hand many fine pieces of linen for dress goods, and for great-grandfather's pantaloons. The spinning was done on spinning wheels run by the foot. Cloth was woven on hand looms. The methods of weaving in our large factories to-day are much the same as those our great-grandmothers used. One set of linen fibers runs to the loom length-wise. This is called the warp. It is the threads of the warp that you see coming down from the floor above. Each of these threads passes through an eye fastened to a pair of heddles. Each thread then runs between fine wires, set in a narrow, oblong frame. These wires are called reeds. The eyes and the reeds prevent the threads of the warp from becoming tangled. Linen is made as other cloths are made, by shooting the threads of woof cross-wise through the threads of the warp. As one of the heddles lifts its set of threads, the shuttle bearing the threads of the woof travels across between the layers. Then the first heddle drops, and the second rises. The threads of the woof are again shot across. In this way, the fabric is woven very smoothly and very rapidly. They are some linen factories in the United States and in Canada, but the greatest of these are in Europe. Throughout the Netherlands, France, Austria, Great Britain, and Ireland are large linen mills. The linens of Belgium are especially fine. Here are made laces and handkerchiefs. France excels in cambrics and lawns. Keystone ID: 20932 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Poland China Hogs in an Alfalfa Pasture, Kansas
Poland China Hogs in an Alfalfa Pasture, Kansas
Hogs are extensively raised in the corn belt. Corn and hogs are linked in most farmers' thoughts just as coal and iron ore are with men working in minerals. In seven of our Middle Western meat packing centers, 20,000,000 hogs have been marketed yearly. Chicago is the largest hog market in the world. More than corn is needed to fatten hogs and to keep them healthy. They thrive on red clover. In recent years alfalfa has been more and more used as a forage crop. It is rich in the food that cattle, horses and hogs need, and grows much more rapidly than red clover. It can stand more dry weather, and is, moreover, a good fertilizer for the soil. Alfalfa is raised for hay as well as for pasture. It is cut, dried, and put into barns or stacks for winter feeding. It makes excellent cattle feed in this form. The view shows a fine herd of Poland China hogs enjoying a feed of alfalfa. The Poland China is one of the best varieties of lard hog. That is, its meat is largely fat. It fattens rapidly, and responds well to feeding. It is quiet by nature, and attractive in appearance. Its color is black with white markings. The breed was started in the Miami Valley, Ohio. It is a cross between many kinds of swine, one of which was from China. Another was supposed to have been from Poland, hence the name. For a long time the breed was built up by crossing with other strains, and was spoken of as the Warren County (Ohio) hog. It is now known only as the Poland China. What other breeds of hogs do you know of ? If you wished to raise bacon hogs would you select Poland Chinas? Keystone ID: 16736 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Mosque at St. Sophia, Constantinople
Mosque at St. Sophia, Constantinople
Everyone who visits Constantinople goes to see this great mosque. It is a wonderful example of Byzantine (b -zn´tn) architecture, although its appearance has been greatly changed by supporting walls, and minarets which have been added. St. Sophia, at first a Christian church, was begun in 532 A. D. and was dedicated in 538. Seven years were spent in gathering together the materials for the building. Columns and carvings from pagan shrines in Greece, Syria and Asia Minor were brought to make this the most beautiful church known. The outside does not even suggest the beauty and charm of the interior, which is lavishly decorated with costly marbles, alabaster and porphyry (pôr´f-r). Its walls were inlaid with stones which gleamed like jewels. In 1453, after a long siege, the Turks took Constantinople. Thousands of Christians took refuge in St. Sophia, expecting a miracle to save them. No miracle occurred. The Turks turned the church into a Mohammedan mosque, built the four minarets and destroyed or covered up the symbols of the Christian religion. Every Friday (for Friday is the Mohammedan Sabbath) a priest reads the Koran is St. Sophia, holding a drawn sword in his hand to show that this church was taken from the Christians by force. The Turkish rule has been cruel and destructive. Constantinople, once the center of the government and learning of the world, became one of the most backward of cities. The Turks were allowed to remain in control because no modern nation was ever willing to allow any other to have it. With the defeat of the Central Powers in the World War, these conditions are changed and Constantinople will probably be internationalized. What is the meaning of internationalized? Keystone ID: 10977 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Wash Day, Nice, France
Wash Day, Nice, France
Nice (ns) lies on the Riviera (r-vyâ´ rä) or that part of the Mediterranean (md -tr-´ n-n) between Cannes (kån) and Genoa (jn´ -å). It is a noted winter resort. It is a city of 150,000 population, well situated on a broad bay. It is divided into two sections by a stream. On the one side is the old section of the town. The new part, on the other side, is called the Strangers' Quarter. Here are the homes of the winter comers. The Old Town is of more interest to us than is the fashionable section. Most of the streets are narrow. You would call them alley-ways or narrow lanes. Here dwell the natives of Nice. Here was born the famous Italian patriot, Garibaldi (gä´ r-bäl´ d). The stream that flows through Nice is one of its interesting features. In dry weather it is only a slight creek with a broad stony bed. But it is a treacherous bit of water. It rises in the mountains back of Nice and flows down the slopes to the sea very rapidly. Heavy rainstorms often occur in these mountains. Immediately the creek becomes a torrent. Woe then to the boatman who pays no attention to weather; or worse yet to the dozens of women washing clothes in the creek. The flood sweeps over everything in its path. Many women have thus been drowned. Now there is a watcher who signals a rise in the river. When the danger signal appears, there is a scramble for the upland. You might think this scene an unusual one even for Nice. It is not. You are not visiting here on a Monday! Any week day is a washday in Nice. The peasant women carry their bundles of clothes to the side of the stream, and proceed with the washing. Great clothes lines are set up on the banks, and these lines are usually filled with garments. Keystone ID: 11766 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed. -
Peat Peddlers, Killarney, Ireland
Peat Peddlers, Killarney, Ireland
Ireland has some coal fields. But by far the most of the Irish use peat for fuel. It is not nearly so good a fuel as coal, but fortunately Ireland has no severely cold weather. In this view you see the little donkey carts piled high with blocks of peat, topped with bags full of peat. It would appear that the donkeys have heavy loads, but peat is very light so that a cartload pulls easily even over the rough Irish roads. The picture here shown was taken in the village of Killarney near the lakes of the same name. Familiar Irish names can be seen on the signs. The Irish carts are usually built after the style of these you see. Both ends have shafts so the donkey can be hitched to either. Ireland has large boglands. It has 1,500,000 acres of swamps. In these the mosses, reeds, and other marsh plants grow rapidly. They die and are covered with water. This goes on year after year till thick layers of vegetable matter is piled up. The Irish drain the swamps, and cut the layers into slices of peat or turf. Cutting peat is an art that nobody knows so well as the Irish. The top of the peat layer has not decayed enough to be real peat. It is sliced off with a spade, and not used. Then is the time to use the peat knife. This is somewhat like our straw or hay knife. It has a long blade and looks like a spade and knife combined. With it a skillful workman can rapidly cut slice after slice of the soft peat from the layer. The cutting is done in the spring, and the pieces are stacked up to dry in the summer. In the fall they are carted into town or to the country houses. Explain how coal is formed. What is the difference between coal and peat? What other substances are used for fuel? Keystone ID: 6110 Note: All titles, descriptions, and location coordinates are from the original Keystone Slide documentation as supplied by the Keystone View Company. No text has been edited or changed.
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