Purdue dairy stock judging course yields skilled young judges
Purdue University ran an eight week stock judging course for winter dairy students focusing on score cards, cow demonstrations, and breed comparisons. Twenty students enrolled from several states with nine joining farm dairy work. Frank C. Meeker of Muncie won the contest with I. D. Shortridge and C. E. Zarth placing second and third.
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Purdue University
Jersey
Florence Melrose
University Dairy
Frank C. Meeker
I. D. Shortridge
C. E. Zarth
Frank Meeker
Purdue
Muncie
Ind
Winter Course Stock Judging Contest at Purdue
The 1912 winter course stock judging contest held March 5 at Purdue awarded the silver loving cup to R. W. Lantz of New Palestine Indiana for a top score of 1180 points. Ralph Test took second with 1150 and a three-way tie for third at 1135 among R. W. Carter C. H. Lisman and C. F. Nesbitt.
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Purdue
Poland
J. Crouch and Sons
R. W. Lantz
New Palestine
Ind
Lantz
Ralph Test
R. W. Carter
C. H. Lisman
C. F. Nesbitt
Interest Boys In Poultry
A short feature by Katherine A Grimes encourages boys to raise poultry, noting farming value and low start up costs. It highlights simple, buildable coops and fixtures as accessible entry points for youth.
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Katherine A. Grimes
Dairy Prices Drive Dairymen Toward Better Value
Dairymen are urged to think and compute, aiming to improve both product quality and price. The idea is that thoughtful calculation can lead to superior outcomes for producers and consumers alike.
Choosing a Hen Breed for Small Poultry Ventures
The passage guides ambitious youth on starting with a Wyandotte or other breed with minimal investment. It emphasizes market demand as the main factor in breed choice, noting layers vary in meat weight and egg production. It affirms Wyandottes Leghorns Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds are sound options.
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Rhode Island
Pack Chickens for Market
The article advises packing chickens for market with just enough fat to keep flesh tender while avoiding over fat. It warns that over fattening is objectionable and recommends crate feeding over loose feeding as buyers prefer crate fed birds perceived as superior.
Old Fashioned Heroine and Hero in Distant Dreams
Poem laments modern fiction for action and brutish heroes. It longs for a quiet, introspective romance where the hero sighs, frets, and grovels for love, sparing melodrama for tender devotion and waiting arias. The speaker rejects loud bravado for genteel yearning and poetic restraint.
Handling and Preparing Chickens for Market
The guide notes that feeding largely does not affect quality and stresses proper fat distribution. It instructs killing with a brain cut for free bleeding, hanging by the feet head down, plucking while warm, and shaping on a board with weight on top to firm the carcass, avoiding hanging by legs after plucking to prevent a thin appearance.
Prison Visit Policy Revealed In Quirky Exchange
A visiting-prisoner discussion features a lady asking about weekly wives visits. The spokesman notes inmates are allowed only one weekly contact, describing it as a small comfort that reconciles them to jail life.
Success with poultry hinges on careful husbandry
Clean hen houses in summer and winter, strong eggshells for safe shipment, and lime to disinfect yards. Use five ducks per drake, about thirty per pen. Feed warm mash of corn meal and skim milk three times daily. Incubators and brooders sold to all. good stock yields high prices despite surplus. Old standard breeds remain favored by conservative raisers and dealers.
The Rejected Models
A cartoon features three figures named Labor Capital and the cartoonist. The artist throws down their headwear to strip Labor and Capital of identifying hats, leaving other characters unlabeled as well.
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Labor
Capital
Moral Suasion Gone Wrong in Punishment Plan
Witherby-Blitherby devised a scheme to punish his son by making the boy strike him with a heavy whip. Each misdeed would earn a blow from the child, but the father's hand grew so sore he could no longer spank the boy, undermining the punishment plan.
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Witherby
The Age Limit Joke Sparks Humor Authority Talk
An authority on humor discusses an old joke about age limits. The expert notes the quip is ancient enough for an almanac yet not aged enough for a congressman to claim as original.
Leading Up to St Robbs Mint Julip Exchange
A brief dialogue hints at money making as intoxicating with one participant proposing a question about motives and the other mentioning a mint julep. The fragment suggests a social exchange centered on wealth and drink in a casual setting.
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St. Robbs
Dobbs
Quotes and Fragments on Happiness and Human Nature
A collage of quips and snippets on conduct and joy. Observations range from social habits to wit with a brief anecdote about a huntsman and Mrs Hodge in a casual, humorous tone. The piece reflects casual magazine style humor from a historical newspaper page.
Sunshine and Cheer For Children In All-Year Nurture
A column extols constant care for children, urging abundant sun, happy activities, music and pictures, to fill years with cheerful occupation. It quotes Luther Burbank on tending plants and ties this to consistent kindness in parenting and family harmony.
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Luther Burbank
Parrot Curses Leads to Wet Chickens Scene
A family anecdote describes a parrot cursed during a swearing episode and was dunked. The bird, drying above newly hatched chicks indoors, lapsed into a profane exclamation revealing the weathered habit of swearing.
Woman quits coffee. Postum improves health in Apple Creek
A Apple Creek woman details four years of heart trouble and nervous exhaustion cured after quitting coffee and using Postum. She reports energy return, steady nerves, no pain, and ability to do housework. Her sister-in-law also gains five pounds in three weeks after switching to Postum.
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Apple Creek
Putty-Head Put Down By Sun and Red Cross Ball Blue
The passage dismisses liquid blue and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening garments. It mocks Putty-Head with a grim metaphor about denting the skull by blows and suggests cleansing the mind only by sun exposure for a century, recalling Napoleonic warfare imagery.
Marine Eye Remedy and Paxtine Antiseptic Promotions
Marine Eye Remedy Co promotes Murine eye salve and marine eye remedy in aseptic tubes with claims of rapid relief for red weak or watery eyes. Paxtine Antiseptic from The Paxton Toilet Co offers a free trial box by mail to women. Promos sit amid miscellaneous quips and product blurbs in a period advertisement style.
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Marine Eye
Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mass
Lydia E Pinkham Remedy Reports in Personal Testimonials
Platea Pa and Walcott ND women describe relief from nervousness backache and crying spells after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. One зов Mrs Mary Halstead reports calmer nerves and better sleep. another Mrs Amelia Danl notes pain relief and improved mood. Confidential advice offered by the company.
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Platea
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary Halstead
Walcott
N. Dakota
Amelia Danl
Walcott, N. Dakota
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R. E. Caldwell
Purdue University Experiment Station
Purdue University Agricultural Extension
Roberts
J. D. Harper
Pardee University
Pardee University Agricultural Extension
Sliver Wyandotte
Wilbur D.nesbit
Bryan
Keats
Kiddo
Sir Arthur
Spoonleigh
Hodge
Mrs. Hodge
Langwidge
Napoleon Bonaparte
Egypt
Desert
Ella
Stella
B. Groy
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Carter
Bowman
Bodling
Depe
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