Shenandoah Valley Farm Tour and Its Agricultural Prospects
A USDA report visits Virginia's Shenandoah Valley from Harrisburg to discuss its rich farming heritage and ongoing potential. The article notes neglected corn fields, the region's corn and wheat emphasis, fruit prospects, and a Pekin duck farm yielding about 16,000 dollars on 25 000 birds plus pasture gains from wheat fertilizer. It highlights terrain between the Manasson spur and Blue Ridge, old antebellum chimneys, and the Valley’s mixed agriculture including sheep cattle and horticulture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Harburg
Mansacton
Blue Ridge
Alleghanies
Crop practices and official changes noted in Virginia era
The piece discusses corn as a key Virginia rotation crop with yields around 11.55 dollars per acre and compares with Illinois yields, notes worn lands and Shenandoah Valley orchard potential, and reports on Dr. D. EB. Salmon resigning as chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, with Dr. A. D. Melvin taking charge amid ongoing reforms and dairy inspection expansion.
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Virginia
Illinois
Shenandoah Valley
Experiments at State Stations Improve Farm Practices
The Department of Agriculture releases a free bulletin detailing farmer experiments from State Experiment Stations in cooperation with Washington. Topics include top dressing grassland pea nuts as forage crops winter killing of fruit trees cranberry culture lime sulfur wash for scale insects clean milk poultry houses and more across six to a dozen short articles. The bulletin is part of the Experi ment Station Work series issued several times yearly.
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Department of Agriculture
Washingon
Repart
Access to No 227 booklet via Congress or Agriculture Dept
Details indicate that the item referred to as No 227 is available upon application to members of Congress or Senators or to the Secretary of Agriculture. The notice directs interested parties to contact the appropriate authorities for access to the document.
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Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Orange maggot traces found in Mexico threaten California
An agent reports traces of the orange maggot in six or more Mexican states. The pest endangers orange orchards and could enter California. Mexican efforts to eradicate the maggot have destroyed thousands of orange and mango trees, with its multiplication described as enormous.
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Department of Agriculture
Mexico
California
Japanese Paper Plant and Its Leatherlike Paper Makers
Secretary Wilson's men tout mitsumata a Japanese shrub whose inner bark yields a versatile paper usable as note paper waterproof garments and leatherlike pocketbooks. Explorer Fairchild believes it could grow across the Appalachian region. Japanese wall papers and legal papers are already produced from it, while Europe ships raw rags for U.S. mills.
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Wilson
Egypt
Mitsumata
Japan
Fairchild
Department of Agriculture
Appalachian Range
United States
America
Mannheim
Rhine
Europe
Levant
New York
Japanese Teach Russians The Secret Of Japan’s Strength
A wartime feature notes Japan held about 75 000 Russian prisoners near Himeji many illiterate. It argues Japan’s success stems from both mental and physical training with soldiers educated prior to combat, highlighting disciplined preparation over sheer numbers.
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Japan
Himeju
Port Arthur
Appon
New Money Needed to Meet Demand at Treasury
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington faces a limit on funds production. United States Treasurer Charles H. Treat says the treasury struggles to keep up with demand for new money as old currency pours in for redemption and replacement during the busy business season.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Charles H. Treat
United States
Treasury
Currency Needs Drive Faster Money Supply Expansion
The country must have the currency it wants and avoid delays in issuing new money as old notes are redeemed. National banks are boosting circulation, with about 60 million dollars added in the past year and 118 banks awaiting new currency. Washington considers expanding the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to meet this growth.
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Washington
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Uncle Sam
Briefs From Everywhere
The honey bee is a foe of the bumble bee and will kill him on slight provocation There were imported into the United States for the last fiscal year 3 658 131 447 pounds of sugar The product of the poultry industry in the United States was worth last year 280 000 000 The value of hog products was 186 529 000 Salt is a government monopoly in Italy and people living on the seacoast are forbidden to evaporate sea water to obtain salt Iced whale was one of the delicacies served by the Emperor of Japan at his dinner to Taft and Kilpatrick who gave to New York its first apartment house in 1853 was ridiculed as a man who built five houses one on top of the other The fact that malaria was caused by mosquitoes was known to Cingalese physicians in the sixth century The harassed Sultan of Turkey never sleeps in a dark room His chamber and the nearby apartments and gardens are brilliantly lighted all night He is read to sleep each night usually The Michigan Central Railroad will tunnel the Niagara River Fifty million codfish are caught in the waters of Norway annually.
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United States
Italy
Japan
Taft
Thomas Kilpatrick
New York
Turkey
Michigan Central
Niagara River
Norway
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United States Department of Agriculture
Harrisburg
Sheridan
Early
Winchester
128Th
Wasinia
Bureau of Animal Industry
D. EB. Salmon
Departmnt of Agriculture
Department
Dairy Division
Salmon
Department of Justice
A. D. Melvin
Free Farm Bulletin
Japan Daily Times
Russia
Credit Due Japan
Kobe
Cunard Line
Oscar
Sweden
Bjornson
Lima
Peru
Meissner
Peter Henlem
Orange Tree Foe
KentUcky Wagon Manufacturing Co
Louisville, KY
Kirk
James S. Kirk & Company
Chicago, Snk
BOOKS
Webb Publishing Co
St. Paul Minn
William Bros
Ithaca, WN. Y
Marlin PireArms Co
New Haven
Conan
Remington Typewriter
HAY Press
Main Street
Sandwich, Il
Eagle Tank Co
N. Green St
Chicago, Il
Costain
West Hydraulic
Watson-Stillman Co
Dey St
The
Missoula
Express
Missoula Nursery CO
Missoula, Montana
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