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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1918
Page
8
Fresh killed turkeys cleaned for Christmas orders. Candy and Spitzenbergs Rome Beauties Grimes Golden winesaps offered as holiday fruit. Prices listed for pounds, dozens, and extra large sizes. Include holly mistletoe red bells wreaths roping and syrups as seasonal items. Only limited quantities. order early.
Prof J H Frandsen of the Nebraska university dairy husbandry department leads a state wide gathering of milk producers and editors to address rising costs and efficiency. The session at the university dairy building will discuss labor saving devices and methods to boost production for growing global demand.
Ottawa plans new legislation when parliament meets in January to let the government purchase abandoned eastern farms and resell them to settlers on twenty year payment terms. The move aims to reclaim land long left idle after early French Canadian emigration to the American west.
Local shop advertises mince meat and everything needed for a delightful Christmas feast. Also offers strictly fresh ranch eggs and a full line of car goods and produce.
Fruit and nut sale offers N W Stayman Winesap boxes at 3 50 N W Roman Beauty boxes at price per box N W Winesaps box 3 75 and Spitzenbergs Washington Delicious and other fruits 10 in various packs Bananas grapefruit figs raisins mince meat and fruit cake advertised Also celery cucumbers sprouts cauliflower nuts and tobaccos include cigars and old stock noted for Christmas shopping
The government plans to list idle farms in Ontario Quebec New Brunswick and Nova Scotia for sale under a new reconstruction and development net. If prices deter settlers the state will buy and resell on easier terms with a twenty year repayment plan. Buyers pay 10 percent down and make staged improvements and interest payments.
The College of Agriculture will offer a four week course starting December 40 on automobiles tractors and trucks with practical instruction in operation and repair. A second four week session begins January 27 and repeats the course with added classes in general agriculture and dairying open to all over 15 years old.
Principal H. B. Bradford of the University Farm in Lincoln is cited as the state leader. The Nebraska extension service provides a home made hominy recipe: soak corn in hot water, simmer in an iron kettle with warm water, add baking soda, hulls slip off, rinse until alkali taste is gone, then boil until concentrated. Lye may be used as one to two quarts of corn.
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