Potato Patriotism and The Woodcraft Potato Clubs Plan
Ernest Thompson Seton and the Woodcraft League urge boys and girls to grow potatoes to feed Europe and reduce home shortages. The program frames farming as play through team led clubs with points for digging planting cultivating and harvesting. It promotes adult leadership and nationwide enlistment of schoolchildren with a focus on lasting effort over mere patriotism.
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Europe
Ernest Thompson Seton
The
Woodcraft League
America
Woodcraft League of America
Seton
New York
Mr. Seton
Black Wolf
Sewanoy
Jack
Jim
England
Woodcraft potato club invites youth seed potato project
The program offers twenty four dollar seed potatoes funded by a prominent New York donor. Adults receive instruction materials while youths compete for prizes including a silk American flag and a Woodcraft pennant. Winners have names engraved on a brass plate. additional prizes to be announced.
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New York
Rabeera
Woodcraft
Woodcraft League Potato Club
Woodcraft potato clubs urged to plant nationwide
Monmouth county New Jersey leads a movement to plant potatoes on every spare piece of ground with guidance sheets for farmers. Mrs. Lewison and a long list of supporters organize county associations to boost seed potato planting, with governors and railways backing the effort to save the country from want.
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Botbie
Rockefeller
Monmouth County
N. J
Philip Lewison
Fifth Avenue
New York City
West End
James Willett Cunningham
K. T. Frelinghuysen
Elberon
Kk. Guggenheim
Studolph Erislob
Rumson Road
Jefferson Seligman
Long Branch
Hamilton Fish Cane
Led Bank
Thomas Patten
Seabright
Monmouth County Woodcraft Potato Clubs
Mra
James Seligman
Lewisoln Tas
Banner County
New Jersey
Union
Woodcraft Potato Clubs
Seton
Woodcraft League Calls for Potato Club Members
The Woodcraft League invites individuals to enroll as potato club members pledging to plant at least twenty four hills and report results. Members may donate proceeds to a war fund and form clubs locally with guidance from Ernest Seton and Philip Fagans. Prof Paul W Thomas prepares lessons in Alliance ahead of Chadron normal summer program.
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THE
Woodcraft League OF America
West Twenty-ninth Street
New York City
Ernest Thompson Seton
Philip D. Fagans
Woodcraft League of America Potato Clubs
Woodcraft League Potato Clubs
Urges Raising More Baby Beef
In ten days of cattle receipts a large share are yearlings or baby beef. Demand for light, tender cuts grows as feed costs rise. Farmers in the corn belt like Iowa Nebraska increasingly raise calves for fattening, economizing feed while preserving breeding stock.
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Corn Belt
West
Farma
Towa
Nebraska
Fivery
Tee
South Omaha Journal-Stockman
PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM PROMOTES FORAGE GROWTH IN NEBRASKA
In response to winter killed alfalfa, the Omaha Hay Exchange and Union Stock Yard Co announce red white and blue posters titled What About Forage. They urge increased hay and forage production for next winter and seek guidance from Lincoln Agricultural College on crops, seeding rates, timing, and planting methods. Mrs. D W Kenner visited Heminghamford and returns home. T A Westover traveled from Lakeside midweek.
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Nebraska
Omaha Hay Eachange
Union Stock Yard Company of
Omaha
Agricultural College
Lincoln
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Isaac Russell
New York Evening Mall
I. Ac
Mt West
Twenty-cloth Street
Ernest Thompson Beton
Woodcraft Teague Potato Clubs
Paul W. Thomas
Chadron Normal
Chadron
D. W. Kenner
Hemingford
A. Westover
Lakeside
Nebraska Stock
Growers Association
Valentine, Ne
Braska
Northwestern
Chas. C. Jameson
H. B. Brand Saddlery
Harpham and
Fremont
Aineworth
E. C. Ballard
Alliance
Rhein-Rousey Co
Anselmo
W. W. Bass & Co
Ansley
Comstock & Milla
Ashby
J. Halloren
Lbr
Co. Bayard
Henderson & Franklin
Belmont
Reisdorfer Bros
Berwyn
G. C. Stanto
Bridgeport
H. C. Burke
Broadwater
J. R. Minshall
Broken Bow
H. H. Squires
W. 8
Gillam
Chappell
Cody
Stotts & Jarebow
Crawford
Crookston
Holmes
Dalton
P. M. Cramer
Dix
Phil Nelson
Gordon
Jos
Kocer & Co
Harrison
B. Johnson
Hay Springs
Parsons Holw
Hagard
C. W. Trumble
C. A. Shindler
Hyannis
F. M
Lewellen
Rohlfing & Berquist
Lisco
Lisco Mere
Lhichfield
H. L. Nelson
Lodgepole
E. Fenske
Long Pine
M. J. Potter
Melebia
Dutton & Sons
Merna
A. J. Read
Merriman
Lesert Holn, Co
Minatare
C. B. Clough
Mitchell, Riley & Tyler
Morrill, Logan & Catchpole
Mullen
J. L. Roseberry
E. C. Brown
Valentine
T. L. Evans
Whitman
G. WrigHt
Whitney, Whitney Supply Co
Wood Lake
Lbr. CO
Kansas
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
South Dakota
Harpham Bros. CO
Lincoln, Nebraska
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