Seed Selection and Its Value for Maine Farmers
University of Maine lecture by Professor Simmons on seed selection stresses that choosing seed shapes future crops and raises profits. Data from Iowa corn tests show high yielding seed yields and stands far above low yielding samples, with germination tests guiding selection. Potatoes and oats from high quality seed outperform low quality seed, suggesting seed selection can boost yields and profits across crops.
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Farmers’ Week
Orono
Simmons
Agronomy Department
Iowa
Othe
Maine
Towa
Ohio
Orchard Renovation lecture guides Maine fruit care
A Farmers Week Course feature covers Prof. Hitchings detailing orchard renovation in Maine. He argues most orchards need renovation, outlines timing from early spring, tree thinning, trimming, surgery, dehorning, topworking and fertilization to restore health and yield.
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Prof
Hitchings
Maine
Incubation Tips For Raising Healthy Chicks
Poultrymen should start with fresh eggs and clean incubators. Maintain moisture in the egg chamber by adding water via sand trays or sprinkling eggs with warm water. Start incubating promptly, keep machines level, test thermometers, and disinfect thoroughly before use. The process spans about 19 days with careful turning and moisture management. Bath’s Cosmopolitan club notes progress and Helen Keller lecture next week.
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Bath
Cosmopolitan Club
Helen Kellar
March April May Take Hoods Sarsaparilla
A fragment notes visits to the stor mers parents Mr and Mrs John H Mavers and plans to move into a house once owned by Asa Miay ers. It mentions a Grange hall dance Saturday night with Mayer's orchestra performing despite bad travel.
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Mroo
Matthew Greenleat
Mr Greenleat
Abbie Lewis
R Ph.d
Wiscasset
Win
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Grange Hall
Mayer
Farm and Fireside notes fur farming and grange loss
The article mentions Paele Sam planning a fox fur farming venture in Idaho and notes private breeders success with foxes and marten. It also records the Sagadalov Grange mourning sister Janie Potter with resolutions asking for sympathy, records entry, and thirty day charter drape.
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Grange
Janie Potter
Sagadalov Grange
Bath
Dinner Night Duties Teach Young Girl Kitchen Skills
A fourteen year old girl plans and cooks a weekly dinner while her mother avoids the kitchen. Her father provides a set sum for marketing, and the family eagerly anticipates the meal. The fish dish and overall dinner impress the household and the young cook gains confidence.
Spring Poultrygrams From Farm and Fireside
The column offers poultry tips from Farm and Fireside. It advises stoneware drinking vessels for sanitation, balanced egg baskets with wheat oats and corn, using warm water at night, boiling scraps with bran for feed, avoids cold water for egg laying, and warns that three drops of carbolic acid in water sterilizes it to prevent throat troubles in poultry.
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Shielsi
Kansas
Luis
Ontario Agricultural College
Dresden
Frank Cate
John Cate
Avistall
Boston
Mass
Wilbur F. Cate
Ray
Mro
David Cate
Don
Clifton
William Hondlette
Robert
Joseph Hondlette
Edwin
Frank Don Cate
Edwin Hondlette
Winfield Mavers
Lawrence Gahan
Bates College
Mills
Adts
Leslie Bailes
Longfellow School
Charles McDonald
Middle Road
Lelia S. Call
Lower Road
Ralph Chenes
West Dresden
Margaret Pushard
Cedar Grove
Carolyn Sheldon
Herbert Getcehell
Jon, Herman
Concord
N. H
Clayton Mayers
Westport
Order of the Times
Lenora Knight
Colly College
Charles Knight
J. Moore
Leys
Thomas MelLaughtin
Greenleaf
Hoos
Shea
Robinson
R. P Cop Eee R, AO
Cromwell
Ter Harbor
Robert Greenlent
Asiabel Gove
Earl Lewis
Glewett
Warren Hodgdon
F Red Whitten
GG. Judkins
Horace Lewis
Alfred Hiesins
Geo. Cromwell
Corso Grog
Fidelity Trust Company
Portland, Maine
Uncle Sam’s Fur Farm
Idaho
Chester M. Marshall
Fanny J. Marshall
Florence J. Merryman
Committee
D. T. Felix Gouraud
L. A. Sayre
Haut Ton
Wwf
Gouraud
United States
Canada
Europe
T Hopkins
Jones Street
April Woman's Home Companion
Chichester S
Chichester’s
Druggis
Maine Central
R. R
Skowhean
Belfast
Bangor
Bucksport
Augusta
Waterville
Calais
Washington County
Vancebar
St. John
Skowhegan
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Foxcroft
Greenville
Mattawamkeag
Eastport
Bar Harbor
St. Stephen
Portland
Montreal
Quebec
West
Bridgton
Fabyans
Lancaster
Lewiston
Brunswick
Woolwich
Rockland
New York
H. D. Waldron
Morris McDonald
General Manor
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady, NY
Fletcher
Ida Adams
Winthrop
Wi. K, Harding
Hanscom Hospital
Country Village
Depot
W. H. Jones
Hanover
J. R. Knowlton
Bath Trust Co
London & Lancashire Company, Limited
England
Fire Insurance
Liverpool
Edward W. Hyde
Ith
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