Up-to-Date Social Snippets and Travel Talks
An assortment of brief items notes two high school girls with short skirts and bob hair, downtown chatter, doctors in London debating a pink list of patients shifting between doctors, and Jesse Lasky commenting on postwar foreign travel woes. Paris bars feature an American guest paying lavishly, while a teaching on charity urges giving away unused items and hints at borrowing money.
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Ung Faller
Ater
Booters
Itack
London
Jesse Lasky
Paris
de Luxe
Crowded Garden Fault Warns Against Overcrowding
An agricultural note urges farmers to space transplantings properly to avoid crowding. It emphasizes thinning seedlings, using tape measures, and transplanting when true leaves appear to prevent stump growth, root damage, and plant loss. The piece highlights bush lima beans as a lesson in ample spacing.
Herbs For Mellow Soils And Flavoring Use
The passage explains herbs prefer rich mellow soils and should be started after the ground loosens. Dried foliage flavors foods and should be cut on dry days before full bloom. Hang or dry on paper, rub when dry, then seal in dry cans. Empty baking powder tins work as storage. Sage plants are limited to about six per batch. Multiple leaf harvests possible from each plant when cut before blooming.
Cutting Soy Beans for Hay in Winter Markets
The article explains optimal soy bean timing for hay, noting pods should be about half full to maximize yield per acre. Early cuts reduce feeding value, while late cuts produce woody stems. Leaves are the most valuable part, so advise drying and curing before leaf loss, with growers in Winola and Indiana allowing full cure in the awath while raking to protect leaves.
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Winola
Indiana
Aggie Named Champion Grade Cow For Year
Aggie, daughter of a purebred Holstein, is declared the world’s champion grade cow for a year by the Wisconsin College of Agriculture. In five years she produced 10,012 gallons of milk and 4,002 pounds of butter, earning about $2,180.49. owner D W Hue nink of Cedar Grove, Wis, credits cow testing association work for her success.
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Aggie
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Cow Testing Association
United States
D. W. Huenink
Cedar Grove
Wisconsin
Meaning of economy as a life practice and virtue
A compact reflection on economy defined as a high human office and a sacrament of restraint. It describes economy as prudent simple living, practiced for freedom, love, or devotion, echoed in Emersonian phrasing.
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Emerson
Building Up Chicken Flock Through Special Matings
Guidance from J. J. Warren of Iowa State College on using special matings to quickly and economically raise flock size and quality. Emphasizes selecting strong egg producers, matching color and shape, favoring birds with heavy egg production, and introducing new blood only if it clearly improves stock.
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J. J. Warren
Iowa State College
Tile Making in Mexico And a Wakeful Husband
The article sketches the long running colored tile making industry in Puebla tied to Dominican Fathers, noting persistence through wars and revolutions while a humorous aside recalls a woman’s anxious husband, and a surreal line about Shane drifting into a deep sleep after getting into bed.
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Mexico
Puebla
Dipping Follows Shearing to Fight Sheep Ticks
After shearing, sheep growers dip flocks to prevent tick losses. Prof. C. G. Hickman urges dipping lambs as well as ewes since ticks migrate to younger sheep. Any standard creosote dip works. ensure every part is wet and recheck after two to three weeks for a possible second dipping.
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CG. W. Hickman
University
Proper Duck Mating Ratios for Breeders
The guide explains duck mating practices with one drake to five or six ducks in early matings and one to eight or ten later. It suggests using two of the best drakes alternately, one day with one drake and the next day with the other.
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Secceente
Western
Canada
Acre
Seana Erste
Rma
Jonésome
Nona
Aggis
Northwestern Yeast Co
Ashland Ave
Chicago
Adam
Morpheus
Shane
ATTA
Utility Express
Chevrolet
Flint
Michigan
Chevrolet Motor Co
Detroit, Mich
General Motors Corporation
Dealera
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