Bigger Fowl Contest Extended for Year
The national Chicken-of-Tomorrow contest will run through 1948 to improve farm flocks and increase meat yield. States and regions join a three year setup with finals in Delaware under agriculture supervision. $7,000 in prizes from A and P stores. Poultry experts urge breeders to boost meat on the bone and wings while noting roosters waste feed unless used for breeding.
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Delaware
Department of Agriculture
A & P Stores
Quality Chicks Help Offset High Feed Costs
Poultry producers can reduce feed expenses by buying quality chicks. Extension service data show feed costs now comprise 60 percent or more of total egg and chicken meat production costs, up from about 50 percent in normal times.
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Boyd A. Ivory
Wyoming Agricultural Extension Service
Ivory
Extension Service
Tree trimming sparks blame for untrained pruners
The article laments that improper pruning by untrained workers can ruin shade trees. experts note good pruning exists in public grounds, but many streets show telltale signs of tree butchery, with 50 to 75 years needed to grow a strong tree versus minutes to ruin it.
First sleeping car on Cumberland Valley line
The world’s first sleeping car operated on the Cumberland Valley railroad between Harrisburg and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania in winter 1836-37. It used a remodeled day coach with crudely built bunks along one side.
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Cumberland Valley Railroad
Harrisburg
Chambersburg
Oily skin treatment using lemon juice and water
An old health note recommends washing the face once daily with clear water and the juice of one lemon to treat an oily complexion.
Water Sparks Life in Early Tobacco Sprouts
Thirst drives young tobacco seeds and sprouts. with water they live, without it they perish as roots form.
End Goal of Fat Salvage Program for national economy
If every American home cooperated fully with the fat salvage program more than 400 million pounds a year of vitally important industrial fats and oils would be returned to our national economy.
Railroads Use Water Amounting to 600 Billion Gallons Annually
Railroads require about 600 billion gallons of water each year to quench locomotive thirst and meet other railroad needs. The quantity could fill a channel 600 feet wide and 9 feet deep from New York City to San Francisco.
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United States
New York City
San Francisco
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