Greenland and Norse Roots Come Alive In Arctic Study
The MacMillan expedition under the National Geographic Society bases in Greenland at Btah and uses navy planes to map interiors and study Norse ruins. Greenland, the world’s largest island, hosts a massive ice cap and a sparse population, with Norse settlements fading after 1300 and now under Danish control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Seepsome Society
Washington, D. C
Spitsbergen
North Polar
National Geographic Society
Greenland
Btah
Australia
North Pole
Mercator
Map Fame
Great Northern
North Dakota
Rio Grande
Texas
New York
Chicago
New York City
Scandinavian Peninsula
Scandinavia
Iceland
St. Greenland
Europe
Angmagsalik
Florda
America
Erik the Red
Atlantic
Cape Farewell
Julianehaab
Setlement
Godbank
MacMillan
Denmark
Norway
Peary and Greely
United States
Danish West Indies
Godhaven
Godthaab
Aly
Upernivik
Etah
Improper Feeds Cause Big Loss in Sheep
A USDA study links three quarters of range sheep losses to improper feeding. Better feeding methods cut digestion problems, reduce disease, and save the Intermountain region about a quarter of a million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Idaho Board of Sheep Commissioners
F. F E. Mufray
Bureau
Salt Lake City
Intermountain
Raising Chicks on Clean Soil to Prevent Gapes
The article explains gape control in chicks noting parasitic worms in the windpipe cause labored breathing. Purdue advises clean ground to prevent infection and plowing infected soil before restocking. West Virginia recommends creolin in water for affected birds. prevention is emphasized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purdue University
West Virginia
Save Wheat by Burning Grasshoppers at Night
Grasshoppers roost on tall weeds near wheat fields and burning at night destroys large numbers quickly and cheaply. If burning isn’t possible, watch newly sown wheat and apply poison when hoppers attack. Young wheat with one leaf may be eaten once or twice. after the second leaf starts, danger to the plant is minimal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Entomology
Kansas State Agricultural College
Cause of Bowel Trouble in Hens and Chick Diarrhea
Digestive disorder from feed often causes bowel trouble in hens. Dry mash helps. White diarrhea in chicks is carried by older birds with no signs. Do post mortems on dead hens and note unusual conditions.
Feeding Fowls Prevents Crop Interference
Farmers can stop birds from disturbing newly planted grain by keeping fowls well fed. Hungry hens will follow and dig up seed, but a morning feed of shelled corn will halt scratching and stealing grain.
Eradication of TB Making Big Progress
The nationwide drive against bovine tuberculosis reports 25 163 reactor cattle found in April after testing 815 386 head. By May 1, 10 794 910 cattle were under supervision across the United States, with 59 counties in 14 states now nearly free and hundreds more qualifying for accredited status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Tinos
Michigan
Missouri
New York
Wisconsin
Indiana
Minnesota
Kentucky
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Washington
California
Georgia
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Vermont
Protein Makes Cheaper Eggs Declares Kempster
H L Kempster of the Missouri Agricultural College concludes that hens cannot profitably lay on rations made from grains alone. Ten years of Missouri station trials show meat scrap, tankage, and dairy by products raise egg output and cut feed needed per pound of eggs, with six pounds of meat scrap or tankage per hen yearly ideal for White Leghorns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Kempster
Missouri Agricultural College
Missouri Station
Farmers’ Notes On Poultry, Crops And Manure Value
Sweet clover should be cut six to eight inches high and spinach praised as easy and profitable. Manchu soy beans yielded well last season while well-bred chickens and clean hens drive poultry success. Lice and mites can be controlled easily. Sow soy beans after corn for maximum hay. Lactic acid in buttermilk seeds helps chicks thrive and fend disease. National poultry exposition discussed. Manure value: $3.45 a ton when freshly hauled, $2.92 after three months in barnyard. figures from 21 years at the Ohio station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Station
Saving a Life Melba Miller Finds A Bird Then Gives It Away
Melba Miller aged three from Letts Indiana found a baby bird and brought it home asking to keep it as a pet. After discussing its likely fate with her mother she reluctantly gave the bird to the cat fearing it would die. The exchange was reported by the Indianapolis News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melba Miller
Letts
Ind
Melba
Mother
Indianapolis News
Sweet Clear Skin Promotion for Cuticura Products
Advertising copy urges use of Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness and itching followed by Cuticura Soap with hot water. After bathing dry and dust on Cuticura Talcum for fragrance. Priced at 25 cents each.
Dead Failure Senator and the mercantile marine tale
Senator Cameron spoke at a luncheon on strengthening the mercantile marine, warning business leaders to hurry. A fable within the piece describes a physician whose horse stops before a house, the doctor grimly deciding someone is dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Mercantile Marine
Are You This Man Selling Honest Merchandise to Farmers
An advertisement from H. F. Reiss vice president of a New York firm invites men over 25 to join a nationwide sales program. The company trains novices to sell its Colt Lighting and Cooking System and asks interested individuals to write or drive to their address at 36 East Forty-second Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colt
H. F. Reiss
East Forty-second St
New York
English Forestry Commission Replants 80 Million Trees
The forestry commission planted 80,000,000 trees covering 16,000 acres to restore English forests depleted by war. The program will be doubled next year and continue thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forestry Commission Bar
Good counsels observed are claims of grace
Quote attributed to Thomas Fuller noting that prudent advice reflects moral grace and restraint. The line frames good counsel as a form of grace acknowledged in reflective wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Fuller
Woman’s back ache cured by Pinkham’s remedies
Mrs Price of 147 W Summit Ave St PaulMinnesota reports years of back pain bearing down dizziness and monthly sickness resolved after taking Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She says she can do housework and cares for her child and offers to answer other women about the medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkam
Mrs. Price
Summit Avenue
Minnesota
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Poesia
Kempster
Poultry World
Man
Perea
Allen
Allens
le Roy
N. Y
George
John
Green
Rogers Family Products CO
Dee Moines
W. F. Young, Inc
Lymas St
Springfield
Mass
Sitios
Dr. Thompson
Tre
Des Moines
Northwestern Yeast Co
North Ashland Ave
Chicago, Il
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