Agricultural Movies Planned by Department of Agriculture
The department of agriculture experiments with motion pictures to educate and inform the public and officials. A staff of experts has produced about 50,000 feet of negative film and printed roughly half that as positive stock for potential public projection. Subjects include testing cows in Vermont, raising pigs in the South, grafting trees, canning vegetables, road building, and forest fire fighting.
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Agricultural Department
Vermont
National Museum Receives Jawbone Of Prehistoric Cat
National Museum assistant curator AMES W. GIDLEY returns from Cumberland Maryland with a jawbone fragment from an extinct prehistoric cat dated about 160000 years. The deposit lies 125 feet down in a Western Maryland railroad cut beside a limestone ridge and ancient cavern. The fossil suggests a large feline, akin to a mountain lion, that prowled with saber tooths mammoths and giant sloths in a prehistoric landscape.
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Ames W. Gidley
National Museum
Cumberland
Western Maryland
Gidley
Government creates large new department in Willard building
The United States Department of Agriculture Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering has moved into the eight story Willard building on Fourteenth Street. Washington notes the size signals a major push for a nationwide good roads program with vast anticipated road and harbor improvements costing hundreds of millions.
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Ashington
Willard
Fourteenth Street
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Roads Bureau
United States
Smithsonian Nature Wonder Room Adorns Child Centered Exhibit
A Smithsonian Nature Wonder Room crafted for children showcases live fish and turtles in an aquarium and low wall cases. Curator Langley supervised the project for nearly two years, presenting groups such as Largest and Smallest Birds of Prey and Some Curious Birds with vivid specimens like condor, pygmy hawk, toucan, and umbrella bird.
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Smithsonian Institution
Samuel Pierpont Langley
Andes
Calyx Spraying Timing for Apple Orchards
The article explains calyx spraying during apple blossoms, detailing how calyx lobes form, spray coverage challenges, and the need to target inner cups while protecting outer surfaces. It notes variation in bloom times across varieties and emphasizes timing the spray for the most advanced central flowers, with readiness and a suitable pump capacity for large orchards.
Proper feed for dry cows by W F Purdue
Article explains dry cow feeding aims: rest for digestion, build up for next lactation, and fatten for stamina. Recommends light bulk feeds in summer, silage in winter, alfalfa or clover hay with bran, and corn with other grains plus oats to boost energy and endurance.
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W. F. Purdue
Much Depends On Spraying In Orchard Work
In an orchard near Columbia Missouri one hundred trees sprayed by the Missouri experiment station produced more marketable apples than the remaining 3400 unsprayed trees. The owner said spraying substantially influences orchard profitability when disease and insects become serious, making fruit growing heavily dependent on spraying.
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Columbia
Missouri Experiment Station
Need of Soil Inoculation for Legume Crops
Teeming with guidance on inoculating legume crops such as clover peas beans and alfalfa to fix atmospheric nitrogen. It explains nodules on roots indicate bacteria presence, differences among crops, and two delivery methods including field culture transfer and USDA free culture to treat two bushels of seed.
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Bell
Incubator Hints and Plant Soaking Instructions
Practical guidance on operating an incubator includes testing on day seven, maintaining 103 degrees, filling lamps nightly, cooling eggs after day four, turning eggs every twelve hours, and keeping the device level and in shade. It warns against overheating, recommends disallowing cooling during hatch, and advises using new wicks each hatch and keeping doors closed. Separate advice instructs soaking celery or tomato plants before transplanting to retain soil with roots.
Good Seedbed for Alfalfa and Soil Preparation
A mellow compact soil creates a good alfalfa seedbed. Restore capillary action of subsoil and topsoil, firm land with light top layer not more than a small amount of dirt to cover seed. Early plowing and thorough disk and harrow work prepare soil for a reliable stand.
Country Living Brings Cheap Eggs and Veggies
A humorous exchange compares city life to country living with the speaker noting fresh eggs and vegetables at low cost, while a high roller character slowly grasps women and moves to the country for a simpler, cheaper lifestyle.
Restore Natural Hair Color With Guaranteed Hay's Health
Don’t let gray hair age you. Hay's Hair Health restores natural color, is harmless, and prevents new gray hairs from showing. Available from druggists in 5c, 10c, or $1.00 sizes. price back if not satisfied. Newark New Jersey firm advertises this preparation.
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Drugglat
PhiloHay Bpeglubtles Co
Newark
N. J
Adv
Soap and Ointment Claim Cures for Eczemas and Rashes
An advertisement touts a fragrant soap to cleanse and purify and an ointment to soothe and heal, promising relief and sleep for youths and elders when other remedies fail. Free samples offered by mail from Boston. A jibe about an Anglo German knight in London notes a baronetcy resignation irony.
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Cutiura
Dept. XY
Boston
London
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