Lincoln Museum Opens to Public in Petersen House Collection
Osborn H. Oldroyd, who spent 60 years gathering 3,000 Lincoln mementos, sold the collection to the government for preservation. The Petersen House and relics will be a Lincoln museum open to the public in perpetuity. He paid $175 for Lincoln’s last writing, later valued at $5,000, after a long pursuit and multiple offers from admirers.
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Washington
Lincoln
Osborn H. Oldroyd
Petersen House
Lincoln Mauseum
Oldreoyd
Oldroyd
Hig Npewa
al Wiys
White House
Famus Oldroyd
National Soliders
Dayton
Springfield, I
Peterson
Uncle Sam
Stackleford
Egyptians Knew Much of Modern Medical Science
Chicago reports Prof James Henry Breasted Egyptologist returns from Luxor explorations near the Nile valley. University of Chicago scientists have studied the Armageddon fields for some time. Breasted plans translations of the Edward Smith papyrus dating to the Seventeenth century B C, showing ancient brain localization and anatomy insights now echoed by modern medicine.
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Chicago
Armageddon
James Henry
Edward Smith
Breasted
Peach dispute ends with jailings in Georgia and Virginia
In Miami a quarrel over which state makes better peaches led to a fight after a Georgia man died. A Georgian and a Virginian are jailed following the melee in which a timber stick was used.
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Miami
Helium Tested as Possible Cure for Bends in Divers
Navy and Bureau of Mines test helium oxygen mixtures to replace air for divers to prevent caisson disease. Early animal trials suggest reduced nitrogen in the bloodstream may stop dangerous bubbles forming as divers move to the surface.
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Washington
Navy Department
Bureau of Mines
Steady Increase in Pure Breds
The United States Department of Agriculture reports a steady rise in pure-bred sire use under the Better Sires Better Stock campaign. During January to March, 450 livestock owners joined, bringing total enrollment to 16 560, with 48 counties listing over 100 participants and three counties exceeding 500. New Haven county dominates activity, while state agents and extension workers drive progress nationwide through educational literature and county programs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
New Haven
Connecticut
United States
Department of Agriculture
Plan for Success With Caponizing Operation
Plan discusses preparing chicks for caponizing by eliminating vermin, ensuring vigor, and timing May to June for best results. It outlines target weights by breed, fasting chicks 24 to 30 hours before surgery, and keeping heavier capons until late winter or early spring for optimal results.
Farmers improve soil and pasture with clover and tidyups
The piece notes sweet clover as a top pasture and soil improver. It advises lightweight work by teams of horses, a clean-up day to tidy farms, and practical baby chick self feeders for efficient feeding. It mentions gopher control as a rising farmer effort this spring and a shift from youth-driven to farmer-driven pest control.
Candle Market Eggs Advise Shippers to
United States Department of Agriculture urges candling eggs before shipment, especially in warm months, to reduce spoilage in distant markets. Federal inspectors monitor interstate shipments for adulterated eggs and may seize contaminated consignments. Candling helps separate viable eggs for distant sale from those suitable only for local use. a bulletin from the Bureau of Chemriculture explains how to distinguish.
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United States
Bureau
Chemistry
United States Department of Agriculture
Ian
Bureau of Chemistry
Washington
I G
Wide variations in cost of producing pork across farms
A Department of Agriculture survey of 44 Iowa Henry county and Illinois Warren county farms shows 100 pounds of market hog cost ranges from 3.07 to 13.55 dollars per year with averages around 5.49. A separate Illinois spread for 1921 and 1922 ranges from 4.86 to 10.02 dollars, highlighting care and management as key cost drivers. Details are in Bulletin No. 1881, available free while supplies last from the department in Washington.
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Department of Agriculture
Henry County
Iowa
Warren County
Ilinois
Corn Belt
Department
Illinois
Washington, DG
Sudan Grass Emerges as Best Emergency Hay Crop
Iowa Experiment Station finds Sudan grass superior as a nonleguminous emergency hay and pasture crop. Seed rates range 15 to 20 pounds per acre broadcast or drilled, seedbed same as corn, and it is drought resistant. Plant after corn, not usable for grazing until July 1, stops after first frost, with optimal cutting when seed is in soft dough stage. Two cuts yield better hay but drying is hard. better to graze after cutting. Mixing Sudan grass with soybeans works well.
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Iowa
Sudan
Scours in Lambs Driven by Carelessness in Feeding
Observations say lamb scours stem from mishandling milk and excess grain after lambing. Feed sparingly until the lamb can consume the ewe's milk and remove surplus milk to prevent digestive issues. Early care determines outcome, with about 90 percent of a sheep's condition tied to the master’s management.
Determining Dairy Sire Value Through Daughters' Records
United States Department of Agriculture Circular 368 explains that a dairy bull's true value is best measured by his daughters production records. A study of 2,182 dams shows daughters surpass dams by 377 pounds of milk and 19 pounds of butterfat, with variation by dam quality and sire popularity among purebred bulls.
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United States
Deps of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Dairying
Washington, D. C
Best Dairy Farmers Try to Raise Winter Feeds
Dairy specialist J W Linn of Kansas State Agricultural College says farms that grow most or all of their winter feeds profit per cow more than those purchasing feed. He notes profitability comes from cultivating the right feeds, with substitutes possible if alfalfa or roughage exists, but no grain replaces bulky roughage as a carbohydrate source.
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J. W. Linn
Kansas State Agricultural College
Linn
Not Good as Dairymen
A fragment discusses how farmers with cattle or sheep backgrounds struggle to fit into dairying. It notes dairying pays when properly conducted but warns that pushing the above line into dairying does not guarantee success or profits.
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