Rabbit fur replaces costly pelts in new industry
The United States moves to develop a domestic rabbit fur and meat industry. U S Department of Agriculture fur resources aims to breed rabbits at a Saratoga Springs farm with 100 breeding does. The chinchilla rabbit from France and England is prized for natural undyed pelts and fur trade appeal.
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Ashington
United States
Biological Survey
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Monroe Green
Saratoga Springs
N. T
Green
Australia
New Zealand
Belgium
France
England
Rabbit Breeders’ Exchange
National
Rabbit Breeders’ Association
New York
Los Angeles
Akins
Florida
Rations Fed Ewes May Affect Lambs
A ration fed to ewes in late pregnancy and nursing period directly influences lamb birth, vigor, and the ewe’s condition. Experiments show this timing bears on economic production, reports PD Bell, head of sheep investigations at the Otto Experiment Station.
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Warag
Bell
Otto Exppriment
Growers Margin Analyzed At State Horticulture Meet
At Columbus meetings the Ohio horticulture society examined grower margins from overhead and maintenance. Overhead averaged 54.89 per acre yearly. total overhead per acre with maintenance reached 94.50, meaning growers must cover that before profit. Discussions covered taxes, grading, packing, and marketing strategies.
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E. BR. Wallace
Agriculture Department
Ohio University
Stats Jorticulture Society
Columbus
Varied Requests and Anecdotes From Will Among His Mail
A fragmented letter page from Will presents assorted notes about editors authors and presidents. It mentions an editorial from the Arizona Republican joking about Will’s qualifications and references postcard images of a church in Hampton Virginia and a cuban pony shipment to Los Angeles. A cat color query and a donation note from General Bullard about the National Security League appear amid the miscellany.
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Arizona Republican
Virgina
Hampton
Virginia
Express Company
Algiers
Los Angeles
Chapman
Heras
General Bullard
National Security League Fa
Albany High School completes poultry care course
A vocational agriculture program at Albany high school finished a poultry raising and care course attended by eleven students Clyde Hooper Chester Enlow Ernest Barrows Clarence Green Richard Enrow Emmet Clark Carl Holsington Herman Cordray Boyd Potter Harley Saylor and Chester Throckmorton Seventy five community members attended the special meetings where Ralph Said of Athens and Ralph Stansbury of Marietta spoke and the group played basketball after each session
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LBANY
Department’ of Vocational Agriculture
Albany High School
Clyde Hooper
Chester Enlow
Ernest Barrows
Clarence Green
Richard Enrow
Emmet Clark
Carl Holsington
Herman Cordray
Boyd Potter
Harley Saylor
Chester Throck
Cull Ears Now For Best Summer Crop Says Agent
County extension agent T. H. Johnson urges farmers to select ears by strict culling. Remove old, poorly germinating ears and those with red brown discoloration or kernels that twist easily from moisture. Sample 100 ears and test kernels in moist medium to ensure viability.
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T. H. Johnson
Ohio county poultry class by correspondence
Ohio County agent James St. Gilkey opens a poultry correspondence school the first in the state. The course includes 12 lessons with eight meetings required and features talks by Ohio State specialists, lantern slides, and farmer demonstrations. Enrollment reaches about 66 participants with 27 in the county.
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Ohn St. Gilkey
Richland County
Ohio
Smith-Hughes
Gilkey
Sponkry Department
Ohio State University
Guy Miller
P.B. Zumbro
Poultry Department
Book of Herman Cordray Sent to Columbus for State Contest
Herman Cordray and Wallace Gillogly entered the Ohio Penn sylvania Joint Stock Land Bank contest based on farm accounts kept by boys in vocational agriculture. Cordray’s book was chosen as best and forwarded to Columbus for the state contest. The farm shows 122 acres with inventories and receipts totaling $2,283.98 in income and $978.67 expenses outside investments, yielding $1,186.81. labor income is five percent of investment, $639.50.
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Lbany
Herman Cordray
Wallace Gillogly
Vocational Agriculture Departments
Ohio-Pennsylvania, “Joint Stock , Landbank
Cleveland
Columbus
Four Hs Apply to Poultry Raising
A boy recalls purchasing Single comb White Leghorn chicks from Karlin's Grand View Poultry in Center Hall Pennsylvania. He details hatching on April 13, feeding schedules, growth, losses, and eventual sales of fifty-four birds while noting the Four Hs clubwork applies to poultry raising and the importance of healthy parent stock and incubation.
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Grand View Poultry Warm
Center Hall
Pennsylvania
Young 4-H Clubgirls Learn, Lead, and Create Aprons
Miss Harriet Jacoby of Athens Ohio organized a Junior 4-H group for five younger girls Dorathy Barker Ruth Barker Eileen Jacoby Anna Jacoby and Kathryn Cowan. They made handkerchiefs and aprons with duck appliques and earned a prize chosen by their leader. They also explored nature by gathering wildflowers and wading streams under supervision, elected officers, and learned poultry care and humane treatment to prevent indigestion.
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Harriet Jacoby
Athens
Dorothy
Ruth Barker
Eileen
Anna Jacoby
Kathryn Cowan
Jacoby
Matt Bryan
Ohio
R. Fld
Mary Sheridan on Club Work and Home Life Balance
Mary Sheridan describes her role in the Mothers Helpers' Cooking club of Rock Riffle with Mrs. P I Beal as teacher. She recounts reorganizing in April 1927, the Loyal Daughters sewing group, club meetings every two weeks, member demonstrations, and summer events. Six members attended the Stewart camp and she notes 4 H clubs broaden girls views of country life and community service.
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Mary Sheridan
Mothers Helpers
Rock Riffle
P. ‘I. Beal
Loyal Daughters
Thomas Johnson
Niente
Thelma Beal
Thelma Walker
Mary ‘Sheridan
T. F.johnson
Betty Francey
Stewart
Country Lfe
Potato Plots Listed Among Glass Plans at Albany High
Albany high school vocational agriculture classes include potato plots with 38 bushels ordered from WN. E. Milla. Plots are allocated to Throckmorton Lash McVay Fagan Reeves Porter testing Cook's 75 corn, and others to grow Fulghum oats and seed projects. Mary Sheridan writes about club work fostering responsibility and community, Athens M E D No. 4.
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Department of Vocational Agriculture of Albany High School
WN. E. Milla
Farm Bureau Office
Herman Throckmorton
Arthur Lash
Stanley McVay
Ohio
Walter Fagan
Matthew Reeves
Sidney Porter
Basil Curtis
Loren Parker
James Wood
Cook
Edward Green
Edwin Grerg
Kenneth Saylor
Burton Ed
Everett Elliott
Carroll Elliott
Albany
Pruning To Control Green Apple Aphis
RUNING helps to control the green apple aphis by removing water sprouts which harbor overwintering and feed the hatched aphids. C R Cutrizh associate entomologist at the Experiment station presented this at Farmers' Week Wisconsin State Horticulutural story.
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C. R. Cutrizh
Horlicultura
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