Value of Farm Clubs Instruct Girls and Boys
The Boys and Girls club work, part of agricultural extension, improves farm and home practices by teaching boys proper farming and girls home making. It broadens cooperation, ownership, and leadership, and increases yields, promotes better livestock, and enhances rural life. The program’s motto is To Make the Best Better.
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Meredith
Secretary of Agriculture
State Relation Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Leges
Vegetables and their role on farms highlighted
Prepared by the U S Department of Agriculture, the piece explains the importance of the kitchen garden and truck patches. It notes common crops like potatoes, corn, cabbage, tomatoes, squash and cucumbers, and that vegetables make up about 11 percent of farm food value with Irish potatoes as the major crop. It adds regional notes on sweet potatoes in the South.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Turkey Hens as Mothers in Poultry Practice
Turkey hens sit well and make excellent mothers but farmers break up broody hens to recover valuable eggs and induce a second laying cycle.
Protection for Cows and Shelter Standards
Dairy cows must have good shelter and protection from harsh weather. Welfare guidance emphasizes keeping dairy cows comfortable. Mites are reported as more troublesome and harmful than lice in livestock conditions.
Inferior Salt Ruins Hides in Salting Incident
A report describes hides treated with an inferior salt containing alum causing hair to set and resist removal. Examined portions show 0.8 to 1.25 per cent alumina, with higher levels hindering hair loosening. The incident stresses careful salt handling by farmers and butchers.
Light hearted people seek brighter outlooks everyday
The remark encourages choosing a lighter view and avoiding constant gloom. It suggests that optimism can improve mood and interactions while acknowledging life’s challenges.
Freezone corn remover promises painless quick relief
A brief sales pitch touts Freezone as painless corn removal costing a few cents. It claims instant relief when applied with a drop on the corn and removal by fingers, and notes druggists sell a tiny bottle to treat all hard and soft corns and calluses without soreness. The ad also includes a stray line about Roman Eye Balaam and nightly eye healing claims.
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Cincinnati Realus
Quiet Toy Theft Ends With Honest Salvation
Patricia, forbidden to touch Helen’s doll, secretly takes it from the box in a closet. Helen confronts her, but Patricia explains in a whispered confession that she took the doll because the toy was crying and needed to be picked up.
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Patricia
Helen
Fig culture in the United States progress report
The chief of the bureau of plant industry outlines that the United States may soon produce all the figs it needs. In his report on Smyrna fig culture in California he credits department support, including a caprifig orchard at Loomis providing free caprifigs to growers to aid the enterprise.
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United States
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
California
Loomis
German Captain Breaks Honor Code in Eur war tale
In an Atlantic Monthly reprint of France letters a German captain prisoner jokes about surrender while walking to the rear. A sergeant teases him over gear and offers a quick shot to save honor, noting the captain’s reluctance, but the German remains uninterested.
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France
Atlantic Monthly
Got His Measure
A light exchange between Ferdie and Miss Bright hints at travel broadening horizons. The dialogue suggests a playful critique of wandering and global experiences.
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Ferdie
Miss Bright
Proof That Stone Grows at Champion Farm
A Mercer county tale from Wilmore Cal Enterprise about a 300 pound rock on the Champion farm that supposedly grew since infancy. Veterans of the area recall the rock as a small stone in their childhood and affirm its current size near the old home site.
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James Champion
John Champion
Champion
Mercer County
Wilmore
Cal.) Enterprise
Weary Rhodes-Dat and Dreary Dan in Pullman Names
A fragmentary piece from the Houston Post reflects on Weary Rhodes-Dat and Dreary Dan discussing Pullman cars. It hints at someone claiming skill in pronouncing car names and jokes about laziness when facing setbacks.
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Dan
Weary Rhodes
Houston Post
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