Soil Fertility Boosts Crop Yields Across Regions
War Food administration data show fertilizer use lifted plantings by up to 57 percent and raised yields with two extra bales of cotton per ton of fertilizer. In West Virginia farms, limestone and triple superphosphate raised forage 57 percent and protein 40 percent, while cover crops improved next year crop yields.
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Christmas Sugar Savers and Gift Cookie Recipes
Simple sugar saving baking guide with substitutes like corn syrups and honey. Includes Honey Crispies Apricot Oatmeal Cookies Soft Ginger Cookies Regal Pudding and orange sauce, plus tips for gift boxes and oven water tray technique.
Fun with Felt Patterns From Sowing Circle Needlecraft
Due to high demand and wartime conditions, orders for felt pattern numbers take longer. Send orders to Sowing Circle Needlecraft Center at 561 W Randolph St Chicago 80. Cut old felt hats into beanies belts lapel ornaments slippers for a seasonal craft push.
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Small Man Defies Crowd Over Crowded Wives
A famed eastern potentate tested obedience among married subjects by ordering those who always obeyed their wives to one side. All complied except a tiny man who explained he promised his wife not to go with any crowd, proving individuality in the crowd.
Faithful Ostrich Life and Nesting Roles
The text notes a long lived ostrich often reaches many years and mates for life. It describes a 40 day egg incubation with both parents taking turns. It mentions daytime mother care and night shifts by the father, and distinguishes retina eggs from oval eggs with male chicks emerging from round eggs and females from oval ones.
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A Bit of Dressing for Salads Shared
Lynn offers simple dressing tricks to vary salad flavor. Use lemon juice and sugar on plain lettuce or mix mayonnaise with beets eggs pickles and relish. For fruit salads sour cream with vinegar or lemon juice and salt and pepper fresh apples bananas and maraschino cherries add color.
How to Keep Poultry Flock in Good Health
Advice on poultry health emphasizes location and housing. A well drained sandy site with shade, proper orientation, clean spacious ventilated houses, abundant nourishing feeds, and clean water reduce disease and lessen need for medicine. If provisions are lacking, medicine cannot fix health. better to cull sick hens.
New Farm Facts and Agricultural Tips
A new apricot hybrid contains 50 percent sugar when dried. Proper winter tractor care and adjustments could save 13 to 26 percent fuel next season. King Tutankhamen era peas grown in Florida by an army officer yielded a good crop. Seed shortages for next year may occur, but careful handling now should secure planting seeds later. When using fly sprays indoors, avoid long fumes as they harm livestock.
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Tutankhamen
Florida
Calf Vaccination Aids Brucellosis Control Efforts
Dr. R. R. Birch of the American Veterinary Medical Association says calf vaccination is not a substitute for sanitation but aids brucellosis control when combined with removing reactor animals. Vaccinated calves should be separated from unvaccinated stock to prevent spread.
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R. R. Birch
American Veterinary Medical Association
Practical Household Tips From A Vintage Page
Wash glass with milk and a little soap to prevent chipping paint. Add starch to floor wash for shine. Do not soak chicken pieces in water. If liquid spills on a book page, press with blotters and a hot iron. Boil kerosene lamp wicks in vinegar to stop smoking. Rotate mattress ends. Dry salt on hot coals reduces chimney soot and creosote.
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