Ames State College roosters targeted in Rooster Week campaign
The agricultural extension department at Ames State College designates the first week of June as Rooster Week to promote eliminating roosters and reducing egg losses. Suggestions include selling or confining mature roosters, keeping nests clean, separating broody hens, gathering eggs daily, storing them properly, and candling eggs to ensure quality.
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Agricultural Extension Department
Town State College
Extension Department
Farm Scales Pay Off For Large Plots And Livestock
Farmers' Review argues that modern farm scales on 200 to 250 acre farms recoup their cost within years. They say scales ensure accurate weighing of hay and stock, enabling profit calculations, feed cost control, and weekly checks on animal gains, preventing losses from unmeasured feeding.
Egg storage for hatchery use in cool moist rooms
To hatch eggs keep them in a cool moist room such as a basement that is not too damp. Ideal storage temperature is about 45 to 55 degrees. Fresh eggs show higher fertility and hatch stronger chicks than eggs ten days old or more.
Sloan's Liniment Offers Rheumatism Relief
Advertisement claims Sloan's Liniment relieves acute and chronic rheumatism headaches sciatic rheumatism and lumbago by penetrating to the troubled site. It promises instant relief with two or three daily applications and sells a 25 cent bottle for emergencies.
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Sloan
Spare the Calves in Wartime Farming Demand
A wartime farming column urges farmers to avoid slaughtering calves of beef and dairy breeds. It argues calves grown on good pasture and fodder can stocker or feeder, support soil fertility, and hedge against postwar price drops, warning many will be forced to reassess profitability when war ends.
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Wallaces’ Farmre
Corn Belt
Two Farms Compared by W. D. Neale
A visitor contrasts two adjoining farms owned by Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith. Jones’s property is well kept with painted buildings, a clean yard, orderly fences, and a fully equipped barn. Smith’s farm shows weathered, damaged structures, broken gates, trampling, and neglected machinery.
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Mr. Jones
Mr. Smith
W. D. Neale
Pyrethrum and kerosene emulsion vs poultry mites
Farmers report insect powders fail to kill red mites on fowls. Pyrethrum powder kills mites when dusted into feathers after roosting, though it dulls birds briefly. Kerosene emulsion labeled best exterminator. lice outbreak expected as spring opens and requires vigilance.
Best on Earth Barker's Antiseptic Ad
An old newspaper ad touts Barker's Antiseptic to remove odor in 15 seconds and make feet feel finer than silk. Sold by John G. Schimming and R. A. Engbretson with Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil also advertised in two sizes 25 and 50 cents at all stores.
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Barker
John G. Schimming
R. A. Engbretson
Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil
Skim milk aids growth in growing chicks study finds
Indiana experiment station tests show that adding skim-milk to a grain diet for ten Plymouth Rocks and ten Houdans increases weekly chick gain from 2.62 to 4.46 ounces and raises grain intake, suggesting skim-milk improves digestion and growth in growing birds.
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W. B. Anderson
Indiana
Sorghum in the Corn Belt
The Wallaces advise sorghum as a secondary crop after corn, noting limited market value unless for own molasses. They cover sowing methods for forage or seed, drainage, harvesting after frost, silage use, and feeding with alfalfa, plus cautions about poisoning cattle on regrowth sorghum.
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Kansas
Decorah City considers resolution of necessity for sewers
City of Decorah Iowa will hold a council meeting at 7 30 p m June 16 1915 to consider a proposed Resolution of Necessity for sewer construction along specified streets with multiple main sewers laterals and a disposal plant described in detail including pipe sizes and routes. The plan includes sewer lines along South Avenue Riverside Avenue Henly Street Julian Street State Road and Fifth Avenue with connections to Park and Curtin's Additions and the Upper Owa river area.
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City of
Decorah
Iowa
Decors
Dry Run
Owa
Park and Curtin
South Avenue
Riverside Avenue
North Mill Street
Henly Street
Julian Street
State Road
Water Street
Sumner Street
Main
Sumner Streets
Day
Main Streets
Broadway
Day Streets
Fifth Avenue
East Street
Ohio Streets
River
North
East Streets
Center
High
North Streets
North Ohio
High Streets
Center Street
West Street
Western Streets
Spring Street
Sumner
Fourth Streets
Winneshiek
Fourth
Center Streets
Decorah Streets
Riverside Street
Mill Street
Mill Streets
Court Street
River Street
Water
Grove
Water Streets
Grove Streets
Montgomery Streets
Locust and
Oak Streets
Pearl and River Streets
Pearl and
Mechanic Streets
Sanford and
Mill and
Sanford
Grant and
Grant Streets
Vernon
Washington Streets
Rural Avenue
County Road
Ravine Street
Winnebago
Vernon Streets
Winnebago Street
Winnebago Streets
River Streets
Grove Street
Alley
Maple and
Vernon Sts
Maiden Lane
Vernon and
Mechanic Street
Franklin
Mechanic
Pearl Streets
Pearl
Broadway Streets
Montgomery Treets
Locust
John
Lloyd
St. Lawrence
Washington
Railroad Street
Maple Street
River and
Grant Street
Lf Grant
Division
Winneba Street
Vernon Street
Court and
Jefferson Streets
Court
Aakiin
Runni West
Franklin Street
Chamberlain's Liniment Advertises Pain Relief
Chamberlain's Liniment touted for rheumatism lame backs and sprains with a testimonial from Mrs. Charles Tanner of Wabash Indiana praising its long use. It is sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles by Engbretsen's Pharmacy. The note ends by urging farmers to seek local industrial community and educational leadership.
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Charles Tanner
Wabash, Ind
Chamberlain
Engbretsen
Whooping Cough Cures Quickly Says Crooksville Mother
Mrs Archie Dalrymple of Crooksville Ohio reports her three boys recovered quickly from whooping cough after using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. For sale by Engbretsen’s Pharmacy. Adv. If there is any dog in a man it is apt to growl when his food is not to his taste.
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Archie Dalrymple
Crooksville
Ohio
Engbretsen
White Man with Black Liver and New Life Pills Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr. King s New Life Pills as a cure for biliousness headaches dizziness and constipation by cleansing the liver The copy claims the liver can become dark from impurities and promises renewed vitality for 25 cents at the druggist.
Decorah sewer project plans reach city council hearing
A detailed city resolution outlines extensive eight and ten inch vitrified sewer lines, flush tanks, and outlets through Decorah. It specifies manholes, pump houses, and disposal plants with costs by private assessments and city bonds, plus a June hearings notice for property owners to object.
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A. K. Bailey & Son
Ames State College
Mites
Pearl Street
A. R. Coffeen
Iowa Engineering Company
City of Decorah
State of
35Th General Assembly
33Rd General Assembly
Iowa Engineerin Company
File May Ltd
W. F. Baker
R.m. Hughes
Winneshiek County
Day & Paine
Orp
Court House
Said
H. A. Warner
Said County
Swenson Valve Company
D. Ellingson
N. Willett
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