Nesting Tips For Turkeys At Montana State College
Turkeys begin laying from late March to early April according to poultry experts at Montana State College. Provide clean attractive nests near buildings, use boxes or barrels, and cover with brush to attract layers. If birds roam, confine hens until afternoon to speed nest finding and consider tethering a bell to track birds. Do not disturb nests during egg collection. keep eggs fresh and store at 50 to 60 degrees with minimal handling grease. Eggs should not be kept longer than fourteen days.
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Montana State College
State College
Popular Bologna Sausage Easily Made on Farm
Farm recipe explains a bologna style sausage using 60 pounds beef and 40 pounds pork with water salt mace colander and pepper. Steps include curing 24 to 48 hours then grinding mixing stuffing smoke cooking and chilling until firm and well smoked.
Straight Furrows and The Truth Of Self Reflections
A reflective prose piece discusses honesty in mirrors and the nature of perception. It suggests inner sympathy from a trusted doctor and notes how a friend mirrors one’s own image. It warns that internal hatreds can break any house and commends the value of good intentions under adversity. It observes that many men stay single because women were taught to say no.
Labor Hours for Agricultural Crops
The text compares labor requirements per acre for crops. Hay needs ten hours of man labor and ten hours of horse labor. Silage corn needs five times as many man hours and six times as many horse hours as hay. Potatoes and cabbage need ten times as many horse hours. Small grains like oats wheat barley rye and buckwheat need twice as many man hours and three times as many horse hours as hay.
Orphans Should Be Given Lambs and Ewes
Dr. W Joseph of Montana State College outlines handling motherless lambs. Pair orphans with ewes that lost lambs or use a twin with no lamb. Hand raising starts with the lambs feeding two tablespoons of milk every two hours, body temperature milk, clean utensils, and gradual diet expansion.
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W . Joseph
Montana State College
Silage Reserves Aid Farmers in Bad Years
Extension economist Wilson of Montana State College notes silage can be stored indefinitely in pit silos but trench silage yields uncertain keeping time. In western Nebraska and eastern Colorado multiple pit silos serve summer and reserve winter use, offering a hedge for cattle and milk stocks in hard years.
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Wilson
Montana State College
Nebraska
Colorado
Triangle
Silage essential for cattle feed through winter
A silo saves feed and provides succulence. Silage will carry stock cattle through in better shape than hay alone, and for winter dairying silage is an absolute necessity.
Flying Chaff Uncertain Musings on Love and Character
A fragmented passage muses on love, memory, friendship, and social behavior. It cites fame, humility, harmony, and resilience, noting how time softens fears, how appearances affect perception, and how personal virtues underpin real character.
Child Labor Amendment on Farm Work Advances
Washington reports that adoption of the child labor amendment aims to apply federal standards to rural labor. The proposed law would fix minimum ages and maximum hours for farm work, addressing gaps in prior federal rulings and state laws.
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Ashington
Congress
Supreme Court
Nebraska
Comptroller Dawes Urges Safeguards for National Banks
Comptroller of the Currency ENRY M. DAWES calls for preservation and protection of the national banking system in his annual report. He urges Congress to decide whether to keep an independent comptroller or abolish the system, arguing for clear separation from conflicting interests and a federal control reserve system.
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Congress
Mr. Dawes
Mary
Soviet Move to Raise Red Flag Over White House
President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes rebuke Soviet plans after publicizing Zinoviev’s Instructions to the Workers’ Party of America. The State Department quotes Soviet and Communist leaders linking the Soviet regime to the Communist International and urges the W P A to intensify revolutionary work with the goal of raising the Red flag over the White House.
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Russia
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Russian Communist Party
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Soviet Russia
Worker's Party of America
United States of North America
Coolidge Grants Amnesty and Frees 31 War Law Violators
President Coolidge commuted the sentences of 31 wartime violators, freeing inmates at Leavenworth. The group includes two Kansas City 1919 convictions linked to the T. W. W. and nine Chicago cases with William Haywood. A disinterested clemency committee led by Baker Harbord and Bishop Brent recommended the move.
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Chicago
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Big Bill) Haywood
Sacramento
Horticulurist Freeman Schermerhorn Fielding 400 Varieties
On the Freeman Schermerhorn farm near Chatfield Minnesota the farmer is gaining prominence as a horticulturist. The collection includes 150 gladiola varieties 80 calla lily 75 peonies 50 iris and many tropical plants with 20 melon varieties and 30 plum apple and cherry varieties.
Paid Fine in Pennies in Grand Rapids Ball Club
Pathy Wells was fined $10 by the umpire and paid the amount in pennies. The next day, before the game, he collected more pennies to settle the fine.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Pathy Wells
Standard poultry flock efficiency through monthly egg averages
Poultry keepers improve flock efficiency by using a 160 eggs per bird per year standard. Track monthly egg production per bird to prevent winter melt and lift yearly profit, noting state college figures: November 8, December 10, January 10, February 10, March 12, April 41, May 20, June 18, July 16, August 13, September 7, October 6.
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New Jersey
State College of Agriculture
Different Meat Breeds and Winter Eye Layers
A poultryman advises three main meat breeds for a meat and winter egg market Light Brahmas Plymouth Rocks and White Wyandottes with Leghorns as summer layers for non broody traits. If large roasting fowls are not needed remove Brahmas or keep Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes only one breed if broilers are scarce. Other fancier breeds like Rhode Island Reds or Orpingtons may suit the keeper better.
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Irhode Islands
Meat-Scrap Ration Safe for Egg-Hatching Feed
Ohio experiment station tests show meat-scrap in hen rations does not change egg hatchability. Rations with 2 18 and 24 percent meat-scrap yielded about 70 percent hatch. Heavy meat-scrap feeding did not reduce hatchability. some poultrymen claimed inferior hatching from such hens.
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Ohio Experiment Station
Poultry Terms and Care Tips for Beginners
Thirteen eggs form a setting though many prefer fifteen. Three comb and wattles denote a good layer. A mature male is a cock. females are hens. Young birds have two to three finger pin bone spacing for laying. Gander drake and atom turkey are male names. poult is a turkey in its first year. Cool drinking water in warm weather helps chicks. A two pound and under six to twelve weeks old bird is a broiler. over two pounds is a spring chicken.
Prospectors Crandall and Williams Flee Blackfeet Quest
In 1868 on the Blackfoot reservation in northern Idaho Lew Crandall and George Williams faced a Blackfeet pursuit after losing rifles. Crandall disabled a pursuing warrior with a rock and later felled another with a dead limb, guiding Williams to safety. Crandall fled through woods for three days and nights, went blind, and was found by Fort Lapwai soldiers who were themselves lost.
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Blackfoot
Idaho
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Crandall
Fort Lapwal
Tom Smith Tamed Abilene in 1869 Frontier Town
Tom Smith, new Abilene marshal, disarms a two-gun crowd led by Hank Hawkins without firing a shot. He had tamed Green River before, and his quiet demand for order forces cowboys to surrender pistols at the mayor's office, ending Abilene’s wild reputation.
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Smith
Green River
Wyo
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Hawkins
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