Egg Producers Work Together To Cut Losses
The article notes egg producer associations urged by the U S Department of Agriculture to unite to reduce losses from careless handling. It highlights a 12 000 egg incubator and receiving room operations, graded eggs, dividends, and a steady trade with hotels restaurants and grocers. It also discusses methods to locate turkey nests and prevent theft via controlled confinement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ege Eireles
United States Department of Agriculture
Eye Producers
Eas
Organizing Community Egg Circles in Farmers Bulletin
Farmers Bulletin 656 offers guidance on organizing and managing egg cooperative associations. It presents problems of production and marketing and provides suggestions and forms to aid cooperative development among farmers.
Prevent Egg Losses and Better Poultry Care
Advice on selecting pure breeds like White Leghorns and Orpingtons to Rhode Island Beds and others to increase yield. Emphasizes care, food, shelter, vermin-proof nests, confinement during breeding, regular eye checks in heat, dry storage, home use of eggs, frequent marketing, cash sales, attractive packaging and combining shipments for economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nymouth
Rhode Island
Keep Brood Coops Clean for Healthy Chickens
Guidelines urge weekly coop cleaning and mite control with kerosene. Spread sand or dry dirt on the floor and rotate coops to fresh ground with new BTARS. Provide ample shade in warm weather and let chicks range in cornfields for bugs and fresh ground.
Backyard Hennery and Beanery: A Quirky Backyard Tale
A fragmented note describes a backyard hens setup as a beanery with little equipment. Mentions a boy or girl, garbage inspired fare, and odd phrases like whale and weeds. It hints at a quirky, improvised project named by Mra or Lien tite emma and iivat.
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Mra
Lien Tite
Emma and
Iivat
We Do Not Know What War Means We Do Not Know What War Means
Chicago report on war reality and sacrifice urging American unity. Oswald F. Schnette, veteran war correspondent, calls for full realization of war demands and economy as a civic duty. He cites Europe’s hardship, food rationing, and the need to back troops, with a warning against complacency. In St Louis Lieut Frank Tomaszewski warns he may face brothers in arms if war splits families.
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Chicago
Oswald F. Schnette
Chicago News
Press Club of
Republic
Europe
Switzerland
New York
Pershley
France
Germany
Berlin
Daily News
Bertin
Associated Press
Berslin
St. Louis
Frank X. Tomaszewski
No Man's Land
Woman Wins Rank of Chief Yeoman in Navy Armed Guards
Helen E Brooks rose from yeoman third class in 1917 to chief yeoman, aiding the armed guards program and keeping vital records. She helped assemble the navy roll of honor and secure photographs of heroic servicemen while supervising two male stenographers.
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Washington
Armed Guards
John J. Eopoluce
Farley
Helen E. Brooks
Hall
Miss Brooks
Moreni
J. L. Lackenbach
Germany
Campiona
Navy
Eco
Brooks
Tidewater mill owner ignores daylight saving rules
Kennebunkport Maine James D Perkins proprietor of a tidewater mill on the Meusam river says his hours are set by the tide not clocks. He closes gates to hold water during high tide and opens them as the tide falls, following the tide schedule for many years.
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Kennebunkport
James D. Perkins
Meusam
Porking
Wisconsin inventor patents pivoted skis
A Wisconsin inventor patented skis featuring pivoted footpews that propel the wearer forward as he presses his toes down against the runners, enabling travel over snow or ice.
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Wisconsin
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Special Information Service
Egus
Department of Vericulture
Turkey
Kaiser Vor Hindenburg
Yeoman Brooks
McGowan
Maine
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