Rural Life Program aims to lift small town living nationwide
The Rural Life movement seeks broader action to improve living standards in small towns and rural communities. It emphasizes local planning, aroused citizenry, and tailored responses as farming changes with mechanization. The program notes wage gaps, migration to cities, and calls for federal and agricultural support to prevent rural decline.
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Rural Life
Eable Hitch
WIU Features
America
Rural America Needs New Occupations and Industries
Rural America requires development of new occupations to diversify away from farming. The text cites Farm Bureau federations cooperatives Farmers Union National Grange and church networks through town and country departments as avenues to create employment locally.
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America
Farm Bureau Federations
Cooperatives
Farmers’ Union
National Grange
Rural income gaps prompt nationwide community program
Income from farming is unevenly divided with the top third reaping more while the middle third earns about $900 yearly and the bottom third no more than $100. The broad rural improvement program aims to create better living, health, recreation, and local cultural outlets across towns, not just farms, with future articles detailing successful small community efforts.
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Loo
Department of Agriculture
Seamstress Cuts Police Uniforms And Tax Outlay
In Charleston West Virginia Mrs Adana Summers uses a sewing machine to alter and remake rookie trooper uniforms. Her work reduces state costs with Captain Harry C Meyers noting six months of alterations and mending saved about 2000 dollars for taxpayers.
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Charleston
W. VA
Adana Summers
West Virginia
Harry C. Meyers
Doctor Includes Cows for Medical Equipment in North Carolina
Eureka North Carolina Dr Henderson Irwin calls himself an old fashioned country doctor and keeps 34 cows as part of his practice He lends a cow if a patient lacks one The arrangement yields milk for patients and calves as the doctor’s return quoting a $150 cow yielding a calf sale of $35 He also notes couples should show a bed a stove and a cow before marriage license approval.
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Eureka
N. C
Henderson Irwin
Irwin
Midnight Snacks Fund Student Education at KU
Elmo W Geppelt a 24 year old married KU engineering student started a late night snack delivery service for students. Five student owned cars deliver to about 50 housing units with two men per car. Geppelt and his wife run the operation with six helpers and four part time workers preparing most food in two kitchens.
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Lawrence, Kas
Elmo W. Geppelt
University of Kansas Engineering
Geppelt
Betty
Kansas University
Savvy Meat Savings by Adding Vegetables
A guide urges smaller meat portions and broader use of vegetables to stretch budgets. It offers a vegetable based main dish recipe using onions peas string beans carrots and leftover roast or meat loaf, with a butter flour milk sauce and a baked finish.
Lynn Chambers Kitchen Secrets and Stretching Meals
Lynn Chambers offers a menu of Vegetable Pie with Peanut Butter Crust and Molded Pear Salad plus a bacon topped meat dish. Recipes cover Macaroni Stuffed Peppers Broccoli with Cheese and aids to spreads with safety tips for home appliances and equipment care.
High soil fertility boosts farm yields says Wisconsin professor
Emil Trung of the University of Wisconsin argues that higher crop yields per acre cost little more in seed and tillage but deliver far greater value. He notes alfalfa and corn costs per ton or per bushel remain low while fertility losses and erosion are mitigated by better liming and fertilization.
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Emil Trung
University of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Mechanized Hog Farm Boosts Pig Production Efficiency
Dr. Waldo Semon of B F Goodrich explains a modern hog farm can be run by one man for 100 sows and produce 1500 to 2000 hogs yearly, about half a million pounds live weight, using conveyors and chutes. Rubber tires cut pull power on plowed ground to 40 50 percent and shorten plowing time by 25 percent with 25 percent less fuel.
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Waldo Semon
B. F. Goodrich Company
Deep Litter Benefits for Dry Laying Houses
Deep litter will help keep laying houses dry and well insulated this winter says Kansas State College. It reduces cleaning frequency as litter stays dry and develops heat, aiding flock health and increasing egg output.
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Kowa State Tallege
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