Sled Dog Teams Save Mankind in Arctic Service
The Gaines Dog Seeker Center notes sled dogs remain essential for land and sea-ice travel in Arctic regions. The article recounts trainer methods, four breeds, and the 1925 Nome serum run led by Balto, highlighting Balto’s statue in Central Park.
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Arctic
Icgns
Gaines Dog Seeaerch Center
New York City
Eskimos
Army
Weesther
Zai
S.ze
Stemma
North
Nenana
Nome
Alaska
Sameken
Gunnar Kasson
Balto
Central Park
Curing Fido of Pursuing Cars A Center Advice Card
The Gaines Dog Research Center in New York City offers methods to stop dogs from chasing moving vehicles. It suggests using a helper, a car, and a whistle to teach “Go home” or, if needed, a ammonia water squirt gun to deter the habit. The goal is to link car pursuit with an unpleasant cue to prevent repeats.
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Gaines Dog Research Center
New York City
Medicated Poultry Mash Shows High Deworming Success
Government trials using nicotine phenothiazine and bentonite in chick mash expelled about 99 percent of cecal and round worms under experimental conditions. In field use over three days every three weeks it kept parasitism low in treated birds. The formula mixed nicotine sulfate, phenothiazine and bentonite with ordinary chick mash.
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Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Dry salting method for treated fence posts at Lake States
A new technique called dry salting from the Lake States forest experiment station uses copper sulphate and sodium dichromate as a powder coating on freshly peeled green timber. The humid air carries the chemicals into the wood for deep, fixed penetration, concentrating at ground line and top to resist decay. The posts gain a blue surface color and show low corrosion to staples and wire.
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Lake States Forest Experiment Station
Golden Silence at Sandy Mactavish Golden Wedding
Sandy Mactavish celebrated fifty years of marriage at a gala party. Angus arrived with a dilapidated alarm clock that neither rings nor ticks, prompting Sandy to lament the useless gift as Angus quips that silence is golden.
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Sandy Mactavish
Angus
Sandy
Oldest townsperson’s birthday joke and farm kid quip
In a Southern town a gala marks the age of the oldest inhabitant who is said to be a hundred and one. A visitor asks who the sad man is and learns he’s the life insurance paying son in law. Eggard Charles recalls farm chores and a boy’s complaint as secretary to old hens.
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Eggard
Charles Charles
Charles
Father asks why January marks lower after holidays
A school report to Santa Claus Father shows January grades lagging December as the boy explains that after holidays all marks drop. The father questions the drop, while the boy defends it as caused by holiday fatigue and resumed study.
Encounter on the Road: Knight Accosts Woman Over Food
A knightly figure asks for a handout from a passing woman who offers a sandwich. He reveals he has only one job offer ever, otherwise facing only kindness. The exchange paints a stark glimpse of poverty and social interaction in a roadside scene.
Wood feeders aid waste prevention for chicks
A Washington State college design enables easy construction of wood chick feeders at low cost. The units serve 100 chicks for their first 10 days, helping reduce feed waste.
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Washington State College
New Insect Poison Synklor Proves Potent Against Pests
A new insect poison named synklor is reported four times as potent as DDT against roaches ants moths carpet beetles and grasshoppers. It shows effectiveness on German roach weevils aphids lice and ticks, offering a powerful option for household pests.
Salt fed freely to hogs boosts growth in tests
After years of trials, the Missouri experiment station found hogs with free salt access consume only a fraction of an ounce per day yet showed markedly faster gains than pigs without salt. Results suggest best practice is free choice salt within mineral mixtures.
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Missouri Experiment Station
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Aimuin
Fiock
Call OF the Outdoors
COOK
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Peoria
ZEMG
John John
John
Father John
Christian Science Monitor
U. S
Christian Science ‘Publishing Society
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Mass
PONY
Universal Clean
Universal
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Elmwood
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Pho
Emry & McLouth
Bimfield, Il
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