Purdue Winter Course Students Shine At Purdue
Nearly two hundred winter course students at Purdue University in the School of Agriculture come from across Indiana. They bring practical farm experience and push the school toward practical improvements. The Indiana Commission on Industrial and Agricultural Education met at Purdue January 31 to study how well schools meet farmers needs and to consider new educational forms.
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Purdue University
School of Agriculture
Indiana Commission On Industrial and Agricultural Education
Marshall
Indiana
Efficient hog pasture with quick growing crops
The article argues that drought and clover shortages threaten hog pastures and promotes using rape, oats, peas, and soybeans to create effective, low land pasture. It notes rape sprouts quickly, yields ample forage, and can replace clover with less acreage, plus how to grow oat sprouts as bird feed.
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Canada
Symptoms of Liver Trouble in Fowls
A fowl with a bilious look and signs of dysentery and costiveness indicates liver trouble. Purplish red edges on the comb and wattles signal indigestion, while healthy fowls exhibit a bright red comb.
Persuading Balky Horse Takes Sugar Over Whip
A balky horse often moves again with a lump of sugar or an apple. These gentler aids are cheaper and more printable than resorting to a whip or harsh language.
Breed Chickens for Profit in Market Driven Selection
Article advises profit through market aware breeding of medium sized plump birds with yellow skin and legs. Emphasizes choosing hens with high winter laying rates and sires from productive ancestry to transmit strong egg production traits. Warns against breeding from unselective flocks and low laying lineages.
Breeding Sires For Strong Egg Production In Poultry
Discussion on selecting a sire from strong lineages with good conformation to improve egg production. Emphasizes separate breeding pen with 10 to 12 hens, careful housing, cleanliness, and regular disinfection. Stresses nutrition including grain, bone, greens, grit, and constant water.
Good sized eggs from selected poultry breeds
Lay Good Sized Eggs. Hens that produce not only a goodly number of eggs, but eggs of moderate ly large size, (eggs weighing two ounces each on an average) are Ply mouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Is land Reds, Orpingtons, Minorcas and some strains of Leghorns.
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Plymouth
Poultry care and conditions for fertile eggs
The text discusses feeding hens to improve fertility and egg quality, stressing ample feed and hard work for hens. It notes guinea fowl meat is white and tender, often served in city restaurants, and compares poultry farming to mining in requiring science and labor. It also warns against lice and mites on sitting hens and notes pests do not affect wood and metal.
Lesson on Mark Two Calls Sinners for Jesus
The lesson centers on Levi Matthew who leaves wealth to follow Jesus. Jesus answers critics about mingling with publicans and sinners, declaring I came not to call the righteous but sinners. It contrasts fasting with feasting, portrays Jesus as physician, and urges renewal through him.
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Levi Matthew
Matthew
Jesus
Luke
John
Great Lawser on Work and Choice of Effort
Rufus Choate championed hard work and struggle. He rejected claims that achievement was accidental, quipping that one cannot drop the Greek alphabet and pick up Vlad, underscoring deliberate effort over luck.
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Lawser
Rufus Choate
Bard’s cigar grip promise for sleeping smokers
A quip notes a cigar held between the second and third fingers will not drop from the band if the smoker dozes. The line humorously observes a steady grip and is framed as a curious mechanism of the bard.
Speaker Champ Clark Rejects Government Car Use
The article notes Champ Clark refused a government auto, despite a prior provision during Speaker Cannon's term. Clark enjoys riding with Cannon and sometimes uses the ex-speaker’s machine. He walks to the Capitol when possible, rides the streetcar when not, and recently jostled by a crowded car after a midnight caucus.
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House of Representatives
Champ Clark
Congress
Cannon
Joseph G. Canon
Speaker Clark
Washington
Capitol
Clark
Wild student recalls his father’s college record
The dialogue notes that Biffers the younger is very wild at college while Old Biffers delays reprimanding him. It mentions Old Biffers attended the same college and that the son looked up his father’s record after matriculation.
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Young Biffers
Old Biffers
Reform judge confronts divorce motive in humorous exchange
A reform judge questions a wife about her reason for divorce asking if freedom from marriage is the sole motive. She replies with a hesitant “soul mate reason.” In a separate remark, a curious Curative Agent wonders if an ice cold plunge helps coughs after a skating fall.
Physician Claims Teething Causes Eczema Cure Report
Mrs Freeman Craver recalls her eight month old daughter developing eczema on face neck and back. Doctor blamed teething and ointment failed. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment per the Cuticura booklet the child was cured by age one and remained eczema free at three. Free sample offer details accompany the notice.
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Freeman Craver
Lewis St
Syracuse
N. Y
Dept. L
Baston
Nothing Hard About That Quote and Remedies Listed
A San Francisco Chronicle quip notes a marriage criterion about blushing. The piece also promotes Garfield Tea as a corrective for indigestion and system regulation. An anecdote about women keeping secrets and remarks on pink eye epidemics and Marine Eye Remedy appear in a blend of humorous and advertising text.
A Big Touring Car Whizzes by Uncle Hiram
Uncle Hiram notes a big touring car speeding up the boulevard leaving bluish smoke from its oil choked engine. He dismisses city visitors as smokin humorous see gars in a sly, tongue in cheek moment.
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Hiram
Judge’s Library
Arbitration meaning in Persia quote echoed by Life
A brief quotation contrasts two powers dividing a small country after arbitration. The line frames the idea as taught by a father to a child, noting equal strength and division as the outcome. The source presents a concise reflection on imperial practice in a historical setting.
Garfield Tea advertised as natural herb regulator
A playful exchange mocks medical advice about avoiding cheap restaurants while promoting Garfield Tea as a remedy. The ad claims the product is for sale at all drug stores and suggests a long life and a merry one for users.
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Purdue
J. D. Harper
Pardes
Pardes University Agricultural Extender
F. G. King
Purdue Experiment Station
Pardue University Agricultural Extension
Plymouth Rocks
Wyandottes
Plymouth Rock
E. O. Sellers
The
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
John the Baptist
Pharisees
Ing
San Francisco Chronicle
Persia
Satan
Sea
Prof
Munyon
63Rd & Jefferson Sts
Philadelphia
Sodol
Food and Drug Act
Sodol Medicine CO
P. O
Cincinnati
Ohio
National Sanitarium
Freeport
U.S. A
Mexico
Sune
Continental Investevent Co
Gunter
Sam Antonio
Texas
Able Co
N. Grad St
Central Normal College
Danville
Ind
Dr. Pierce
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company
State Street
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