Agricultural training courses for employed teachers set
Nineteen states require agriculture instruction for teaching certificates, spurring more normal schools and colleges to offer summer and evening courses. The Department of Agriculture details inuid letin No seven how employed teachers can gain training through summer schools, correspondence, and reading courses, with lists of participating institutions and bulletins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Ariculture
Office of Experiment Stations
Agricultural and Mechanical College of North Carolina
Columbia University
New York City
United States
Department of Agriculture
Onatts severely tax a woman's strength TT
A terse note reports a situation where a woman's endurance is tested under harsh demands. The fragment hints at social or personal strain but lacks specific names or places for further detail.
Tuberculosis Hazard Highlighted in Dairy Herds
In Farm and Fireside the Tuberculosis note warns buyers cannot judge cow health by appearance. A healthy looking cow at Ontario station produced 10,000 pounds yearly yet was tubercular on autopsy. The Bung isolation method cleared disease from herds after three years using tuberculin testing and strict separation.
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Ontario
Wade
Farm Tuberculosis Control Debate Cites Bang System Limits
The text discusses maintaining herds with strict quarantine and lime carbolic acid spraying. Diseased cattle are isolated and attendants barred from healthy stock. It argues the Bang system suits large stations or dairies but not farms, urging farmers to eliminate tubercular cattle.
New Columbia to Stage Gorman Merrymakers For Week at Bath
The New Columbia Theatre presents Gorman's Merrymakers for a seven day run next week with matinee and evening shows. Ben Loring Blanche Parquette Goldie Pemberton Charles Solarder headline a gifted cast plus a chic chorus. The first half features The Missing Miss followed by My Girl with the New Columbia Orchestra providing concert selections all week.
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Columbia
Bath
Burt
J. Ww. Gorman
Gorman
Merrymakers
Ben Loring
Blanche Parquette
Goldie Pemberton
Charles Solarder
New Columbia Orchestra
New Columbia
Utilized grape seeds offer new uses for waste
Farm and Fireside notes 8000 to 4000 tons of grape seed waste yearly in raisin wine and grape juice industries. Department of Agriculture studies show a seed meal with 12 percent protein for stock feed, plus syrup for alcohol and an oil usable by soap-makers or as linseed oil substitute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Dangers in eating meat and holiday charity in Bath
Farm and Fireside warns that undercooked meat may harbor tapeworms from measles in cows. The Colonial Club plans a Christmas program for Bath’s poor, meeting with approval and receiving broad community support. Congratulations to the Colonialites.
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Colonial Club
Bath
Colonialites
Castoria Ad Pitches Pigs For Sale In Maine
The classified ad promotes Thoroughbred O. I. C. pigs six weeks old in both sexes for $8.00 each including registry. Contact J. F. Upton in Winnegance, Maine, phone 268-5, listing date 9-201f.
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J. F. Upton
Winnegance
Tax Notice Bowdoinham 1918 Summons and Tax Sale
Notice to taxpayers in Bowdoinham Maine warns a summons will be issued and unpaid taxes will incur costs plus real estate taxes to be advertised and sold the first Monday in February 1914. collector George H. Hackett requests payment within ten days. Also seeks Erastus W Maxwell address or heirs with a small recovery claim possible via Edwin W Spalding in Washington DC.
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Bowdoinham
Maine
George HH. Hackett
Erastus W. Maxwell
Stfe
81St
Maine Infantry
Bowdoin
Edwin W. Spalding
Pacific Building
Washington, D.C
Pinklets Laxative Advertisement Highlights Gentle Constipation Relief
An advertisement promotes Pinklets as a safe laxative for obstinate constipation. It claims gentle action that aids laxish bowels and torpid liver, with no gripe or stomach upset. It stresses safety for all ages and urges purchase from druggists at 25 cents per bottle.
Knife Prunes Closely Apple Production in New England
Clarence M. Weed argues in Garden and Orchard that in the East over production of apples is unlikely due to pests like the brown-tail and gypsy moths. He notes reduced orchard planting, ownership changes, and rising losses from borers mice and caterpillars, urging care for remaining trees to reap fair rewards.
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Clarence M. Weed
New England
United States
Timber value rising as timbered land grows scarce
A Farm and Fireside note argues timber is worth more as land values rise. A. J. Legg cites 19th century Virginia as an example where timber gains transformed land value, warning that timbered areas will become scarce and valuable even if rough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Gasolene Tips for Spot Removal Stains
A guide notes that using gasolene on clothing can leave a ring around the treated area. A small amount of petrol will remove the ring and leave no trace of the stain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm and Fireside
Bad flavors from air tainting farm fruits and wines
A note from BAD FLAVORS Farm and Wireside warns that fruits absorb bad flavors from tainted air near chemical works. Grapes may pick up airborne chemicals spoiling juice and wine flavors, affecting product quality.
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Farm and Wireside
PUBLIC HEARING CALLED ON POTATO IMPORTS AND QUARANTINE
Secretary of Agriculture Houston calls a December 18 public meeting in Washington to probe allowing inspected foreign potatoes to enter despite disease risks and to discuss extending the potato quarantine beyond January 1 to Canada and Europe. Nursery stock remains allowed, under the plant quarantine act.
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United States
Sec. of Agriculture
Houston
Washington
Sec
Canada
Europe
Pain Around the Heart Misdiagnosis Indigestion Remedy
An advice item claims heart region pain is due to gas and indigestion, not organic heart trouble. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a tonic to strengthen blood, restore digestion, and provide permanent relief, urging readers to start treatment now.
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Dr. Williams
Farm Economies: steam tractor efficiency in flax field
A steam tractor with thirty two horsepower plowed cultivated and sowed sixteen acres of flax in one day at $1.87 per acre. A horsepower unit did the same work in the same time at $6.50 per acre. The engine burned coal and plowed twenty four acres per day at eighty eight cents per acre using flax straw as fuel.
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Canada
Money in Blueberries Grows From Selected Cultivars
Readers asked about blueberry cultivation and profits in Indiana. A 2.5 acre patch yielded about 360 dollars annually in 1911 1912. USDA experts say the berry shows promise with selected strains and proper cultivation.
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Farm and Fireside
Indiana
United States Department of Agriculture
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Washington, D. C
Scott
Scott’s
Springfield
Ohio
Catghey
Mce
Fletcher
A. J. Legg
Garden and Orchard” Department
Gasolene
Castoria
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Ty Iyan Products
Rewicking
Standard Oil Company
New York
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Boston
Mass
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