Parcel Post Marketing Merits and Examples
The article highlights parcel post as a growing direct marketing method for farm products. It cites Oregon fruit sellers and Kentucky poultry and produce sellers achieving annual sales around eight thousand dollars and expanding by word of mouth, while stressing quality, reliable packing, guaranteed satisfaction, and prompt correspondence as keys to success. It notes New England egg sellers, planning their own containers to cut costs, and urges readers to obtain further literature from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Oregon
Kentucky
Nashville
Teen
Jevela
Qnlean
New
Washington, DC
Shortage of baling wire hits hay growers nationwide
The United States Department of Agriculture reports a wire shortage for bale ties driven by strikes and transport issues. Production is rising as one factory resumes at capacity, with other manufacturers willing to boost output to protect the hay crop and direct distribution to hardest hit regions.
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Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets Hias
Department of Agriculture
Harrowing Alfalfa After First Cut Reduces Foxtail Weeds
A farm note advises harrowing alfalfa immediately after the first cutting to control foxtail and bluegrass. The practice aims to reduce weed pressure and improve forage quality for the stand.
Candling and Water Tests for Egg Freshness
The article explains two common freshness tests for eggs used in trade. Candling detects air space growth as eggs age, while a water test observes egg buoyancy to distinguish good from bad eggs. Fresh eggs lie on their sides. older eggs stand upright or float.
Turkeys Feed On Grasshoppers And Nuts For Market Readiness
Turkeys forage mainly on field insects from June until frost and consume many grasshoppers in meadow and pasture. In wooded regions mast becomes a key diet item as insect stores dwindle. They fatten on acorns chestnuts and beechnuts and require more grain than chickens to reach market weight, but they utilize waste forms hens cannot.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Turkey
Dodson’s Liver Tone Ad Claims Harmless Calomel Alternative
An advertisement touts Dodson’s Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable remedy that replaces calomel by promoting a gentle liver boost without causing sickness or salivation. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury and asks readers to try Dodson’s product for health, digestion, and energy.
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Dodson
Tomorow
California Syrup of Figs Ad Slogan
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for children. It highlights a fruity taste and states full directions appear on each bottle. The copy emphasizes certainty in giving a safe remedy and ends with a quoted slogan California.
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California
Ady
Lofty Duty Idea Haunts School Principal
A city school principal with a young admirer remains in the building after hours to escort her home. The janitor finally leaves, but the principal insists on staying to avoid leaving the building to a stranger. He invokes board responsibility as his reason. The piece closes with a wry musing on aging and marriage.
Allow Turkeys Free Range After Early Rled Rearing
When warm dry weather follows late hatchings poults may thrive with no shelter. Keep them in a fenced area for 3 4 days to let them gain strength before following the mother. Separate keep for cockerels and pullets for robust growth and better development.
Dispose of Roosters Breeders Advice
A farming note advises disposing of unwanted male birds by sale or humane removal. It suggests selling roosters with value and age to breeders and maintaining feed quality to benefit breeding season outcomes.
Cull Weak Chickens For Health And Stock Quality
Officials advise killing weak chickens promptly as they rarely become productive stock and may spread disease, reducing flock health and future yields.
Leaving gift brings tears and a shy farewell in class
A Terre Faute graduating class presents a teacher with a parting gift. In the ceremony a boy weeps and the teacher praises the emotion. Another boy explains Jim cried not for the teacher but to bid farewell to his last 50 cent gift and a final chance to see the present.
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Terre Faute
Miss No
Jim
Becaves
Belle and Nell Enjoy a Four Act Play
Nell reports a perfectly lovely time at the theater with four continuous acts. The dialogue recalls spiritualists and table tipping as a minor aside to a broader evening of performance.
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Belle
Nell
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