Air Mail Pilots and Christmas Deliveries Across the Nation
A festive look at how United States air mail and its pilots handle Christmas deliveries. The piece notes how crowds gather at airports to watch planes land, how perishables and gifts travel by air, and the evolution from early 1918 routes to private contract services, with pilots guiding routes by navigational aids and radio beams.
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United States
Santa
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Donder
Blitzen
Pratt and Whitney
Curtiss
Fokker
Boeing
Corsair
Ile
Los Angeles
Illnois
Santa Claus
Air Express
Harry S. New
United States Postmaster-General
War Department
Washington
New York
Es Waldorf
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Silage Feeding Question Answers for Dairy Ration
A Town subscriber asks if corn silage should replace ground corn in feeding. The answer: yes but with no advantage to saving ears. Silage with grain and stover yields more total digestible nutrients than stover alone.
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Toard
Dalryman
Rations With Little Hay for Midwestern Cattle
Farmers facing hay shortages can feed economical rations using limited high grade legume hay and low value roughage. Grind ear corn for bulk and add 1 to 3 pounds of cottonseed soybean linseed or crushed soybeans to supply protein.
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Wallaces
Fertilizer units and cost per ton explained
A unit equals 7 percent of a ton or 20 pounds of plant food. A ton of 45 percent super phosphate has 45 units and a ton of complete fertilizer 4-16-4 has 24, 16, and 4 units for nitrogen, phosphate, and potash. Cost per unit = cost per ton divided by units. example 20 percent superphosphate at $382 per ton yields $1.60 per unit. When comparing fertilizers with the same constituent, unit cost shows the cheaper option.
George Wins Sweet Corn Honor In Pickaway County
George from Pickaway county earned the Sweet Corn honor by growing four tons of Country Gentleman corn per acre on five and a half acres this summer. He was the sole successful entrant in the state university Sweet Corn club. The field had previously grown potatoes in 1930 and soybeans last year. Commercial fertilizer at 600 pounds per acre was used. corn rows were spaced 380 inches apart.
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George [Itel
Pickaway County
State University
Ohio
Soybean acreage surge noted in early 20th century
The article highlights rising soybean importance as a high protein grain. It cites rapid acreage growth from 1926 to 1930 in Iowa and substantial expansion in Illinois, reflecting shifting balance with corn barley and oats.
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Towa
Illinois
Wallaces
Farner
Ground Roughage Often Unnecessary for Livestock
A report by B A Silver from Ohio State University reviews findings from 15 major livestock states. It states roughage generally need not be ground except for swine, with hogs sometimes benefitting from grinding soybean and alfalfa hay. Grinding is costly and yields little palatability advantage. if ground, use coarse grind with screens no smaller than one and a quarter inch when using a hammer mill.
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B.A. Silver
Ohio State University
VNU
Losses When Manure Is Piled In Barnyard
Wallacest Farmer notes manure left piled in the yard for long periods loses nitrogen through fermentation and phosphorus and potash through leaching. Incorporating organic matter builds humus and soil fertility, while level land absorbs leached plant food better than hilly ground that delays mixing with soil.
Harlequin bug outbreak reaches northern vegetable fields
The harlequin cabbage bug, a native of the South, overwinters in larger numbers after a mild winter and now spreads across Maryland Virginia West Virginia and southern Ohio. The United States Department of Agriculture says it is the first serious northern outbreak in a decade. The pest attacks cauliflower kale turnips radishes and cabbage.
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Cotton Belt
South
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Ohio
United States Department of Agriculture
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United Air Lines
Elmo Scott Watson
San Francisco
Sweet Corn
Harlequin
Lewis & Walker
P. O
North
Wyoming
Butte, Mont
Richard McCarthy
East Granite
Butte, Montana
Land Office
Pearl I. Smith Title Building
Dillon
Montana
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