Keeping Chickens in Small Backyards Rearing Tips and War-Aided Poultry Drive
Advice on separating chicks by breed and sex at weaning to maximize growth in small flocks. Guidance covers coop space, stable quarters, feed changes to a cracked corn and oats ration, and supplementation with greens, milk products, and grit. Notes wartime poultry extension work across 35 states, 11 club agents, and 15,000 youth in poultry clubs to boost production.
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Poultry and Agricultural Press
Poultry Departments
State Agricultural Colleges
United States Department of Agriculture
Poultry Club
Agricultural Colleges
Alice of Information
Department of Aericulture
Chickens Kept Comfortable Through Proper Coop Ventilation
The article stresses keeping coop ventilation sufficient for comfort at night. It emphasizes preventing lice and flies on chickens as a top priority for healthy poultry care.
Need More Poultry In 1918 Demand Driven by War and Feed Shortages
A report from the United States Department of Agriculture explains two major factors boosting the need for more poultry in 1918. First, wartime needs push for larger stocks of productive fowl. second, many firms reduced flock sizes due to high feed costs, transportation issues, and drought impacts in the West and Southwest.
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United States Department of Nericulture
Natian
Enat
The Housewife and the War Special Information Service
A United States Department of Agriculture unit offers guidance to households on wartime food management. The special information service provides tips on rationing, menu planning, and preserving meals to support the home front and maximize resource use.
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Special Information Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Potatoes Take Center Stage In U S Diet Plans
Experts from the United States Department of Agriculture offer menus and recipes to use surplus potatoes efficiently. The guidance outlines two day meal ideas and a week long plan including Potato Omelet Potato and Corn Chowder Browned Potatoes with Roast Beef Potato Cakes and Potato Soup with step by step instructions and tips to maximize potato use for breakfast lunch and dinner.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
War era potato rallying message urging patriotic eating
A wartime health note promotes potatoes as energy storage and urges Americans to eat them for endurance. It directs readers to use potato energy for work, stay slender, and stay patriotic, calling to write the Department of Agriculture for new potato recipes.
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Percy
Substitutes for Sugar Promote Conservation and Home Cookery
The article urges using substitutes like sorghum corn and cane syrup maple sugar and syrup and honey to conserve sugar. It notes maple syrup and sugar are produced in 10 states with over 14 million pounds of sugar and 4 million gallons of syrup annually and calls for expanding production. It highlights sorghum syrup growth in 1017 over 1016 and the goal of boosting supplies for soldiers, also suggesting practical dishes and sweets.
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Union
Children would invent their own toys in wartime
A Chicago News columnist argues that war shortages would force children to fashion homemade toys. He laments consumer toys as unnecessary during conflict and predicts simple, self made playthings would stimulate imagination, returning children to creative play.
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Dame Nature
Chicago News
Treaty Echoes At Olympia Protest By Yakima Chief
In Olympia Washington a 90 year old Yakima chief named Samskin protests a state game law ban on fishing during the closed season. He travels with others to challenge enforcement while an interpreter notes the district attorney cannot alter the law.
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Olympia
Wash
Samskin
Yakimas
Indiana
Saluskin
Coul
Woman Frozen to Ground in Cold Snap Incident
During a severe cold snap in Downsville Mrs. John Baker used hot water and a broom to clean a concrete pavement. She became immobile as the water froze, her shoes freezing to the ground until her husband pulled her free and carried her indoors to warm her feet.
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John Baker
Downsville
Filipinos Play Flute With Nose in Curious Talent
An account describes nose flute players among Filipinos who can perform regular tunes using only their nostrils. They handle ordinary melodies with ease though rapid ragtime proves challenging, a spectacle noted as unusual in their country.
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Alute Fe
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