Mother Nature Visits The Greenhouse In Gentle Lesson
In a greenhouse tale, a cactus and fern discuss protection, then meet Mother Nature who appears as a loving guardian. She explains her care for all beings, noting she watches over every child and embodies natural love and protection. The friendly fable ends with gratitude for her gentle guidance.
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Mother Nature
Violet
Environment shapes achievement and self mastery
Barrett argues that environment is created by the individual and not dictated by wealth or heredity. He cites Lincoln as an example of triumph over adverse surroundings and Burr as a cautionary case, urging active confrontation of one's environment to reveal inner strength and goal attainment.
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Abraham Lincoln
Aaron Burr
Western Newspaper Union
Ed Howe On Courage, Criticism, And Duty
Ed Howe muses on public gullibility and learning from criticism while urging personal effort. He recalls a barber’s joke comparison to a governor, notes vanity and discipline, and narrates an after dinner moment with Elsie Janis and Stribling detailing a WWI soldier tale about a German spy.
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Elsie Janis
Stribling
Miss Janis
Uncommon Sense Y You should label people to avoid thinking
The passage argues labels like immoral unpatriotic and un-American curb thought by dismissing ideas or people without examining them. It notes how society uses labeling during war and in everyday critique to avoid engaging with complex arguments or works. It warns against overreliance on labels and urges liberal use only with careful thinking.
Tankage boosts pig growth and lowers feed cost on alfalfa
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station tests show pigs weight 90 pounds on alfalfa pasture. Pigs fed corn and tankage gained 1.84 lb daily vs 0.85 lb without tankage. feed per 100 lb gain dropped from 441 to 360 lb. cost per 100 lb gain fell from 6.62 to 6.02 dollars. Tankage fattened hogs worth 12.50 per 100 lb versus 12.30 without tankage. pasture returns were 6.78 and 2.22 per head respectively. A ton of tankage worth 138 dollars at 84 cents per bushel corn.
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Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Send a Ribbon Reveals Love Or Farewell Message
A playful couplet motif appears in a McClure Newspaper Syndicate line where a sweetheart asks for a blue ribbon to show love and a green ribbon to signal rejection. The verse plays on color coded signals in romance.
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Jane
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Difficulties in Raising Healthy Pigs on Filthy Hog Lots
Farmers struggle to raise vigorous pigs as hog lots left uncleaned year after year create unsanitary conditions. Early life diseases, runts, intestinal roundworms, and swine typhoid spread where same pens and wallows are reused, with warm eggs and sewage bacteria ready to attack young pigs.
Ration quality affects birth weights in Iowa study
Iowa experiment station results show yearling sows fed only corn produced piglets averaging 1.85 pounds at birth, while adding tankage with lime and protein raised birth weight to 2.42 pounds. Gilts fed corn alone averaged 1.74 pounds, versus 2.29 pounds with alfalfa hay. The findings suggest poor prenatal nourishment may lead to runt pigs.
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Iowa Experiment Station
Feeding practices for livestock and herd management
The notes advise caution with sweet clover hay and mold risk, exercise for brood sows with distant alfalfa, and placing ewes on light grain about six weeks before lambing. A half pound daily of oats and corn mix is recommended, with beef calf costs tied to herd maintenance. Winter older cattle on cheaper silage and legume hay.
Atwater Kent radio ad touts convention season sales
A collaboration style ad urges listeners to buy Atwater Kent receivers before conventions. It highlights radio as a growing political and entertainment factor in American homes and promotes the modern set for use at concerts and campaigns with nationwide distribution and pricing notes.
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Underwood
Tunney
Atwater Kent A.C
A. C
Atwater Kent
Atwater
Family pays income tax debate echoed by child
A discussion on Income Max unfolds with Mr S arguing his tax burden while Martha, his youngest, comments on his luck. The text notes severe experiences are not amusing until one must endure their effects.
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Martha
Bell shaped glass covers used over garden vegetables
In an English vegetable garden bell shaped glass covers are placed over each plant. They outperform hot beds in most respects and require no permanent structure to be built.
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England
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